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Butterflies in my stomach.

Probably the best description of my current situation. Which was why sleeping soundly last night came as a surprise, taking into consideration the fact that I haven't been eating nor sleeping well for the past week.

The big deal being recruited into NS. National Service. No Shit!

Ah well, frankly, I've always been looking forward to it. But this time, it seems to fast. The last time I got a letter from them, 'we're pending your request...', they said.
A few days ago, Mum got a letter telling me to report to camp Miri by the 11th. Yeah, came as a shock to me, since I won't be anywhere in the area until the 14th. Boy, am I screwed...

I'm not so much bothered about the 'excellent' reputation those 'death camps' put up. The only thing that bothers me is 'will I make it out alive?'

'A soldier's duty is not to complain with what little he's given but to use what ever he has to fight the enemy quietly and gallantly.'

- as said by Lieutenant General Kuribayashi on Iwo Jima, 2nd World War.

Funny. Well, not really, but I don't understand why some people rather laugh at those sent to these camps. I mean, in a sense, it's a previlage to go there. What're the odds of some computer picking your name, sending you to camp and later allowing you to hold and train with a rifle? I'd rather buy a Toto, seriously.

They say the easiest way to feel big is to make someone else feel small. We'll see about that.

Not a bad movie, not bad at all.

This is for heads up.

So after successfully enquiring yet another uni, I made a rather impromptue decision to watch that kungfu movie, Ip Man. Pronunced Eep Ma'n, and not 'I Pee Man', as I first assumed. Hey, can't really blame me though, the caps'ed the text as such: IP MAN.

Anyway, it's a nice movie about a historical figure, you've guessed it, Ip Man. On how he regained the town's (Fu Shan) honor by beating the shit out of the then Japanese General (General Miura) in a kungfu/karate duel during the Japanese occupation in 1938.

But mostly about the peacetime duels as the opening part. It's quite good with a number of comical points such as the part where a northern chinese master arrogantly challenged Ip Man to a duel, after trashing the rest of the town's masters.
Since Ip Man practices a style called 'Wing Chun', which was thought to be a woman's fighting style, I guessed it was more of a defensive, agility based fight.

Funny part was when Ip Man was cooly defending himself, and the opponent breaking almost every porcelainware in the house, Ip Man's kid comes into the room on his tricycle saying:" Mum says that if you don't start fighting back, you'll break everything in the house."

Pro... to have said that during a duel. Indeed it made me laugh out loud.

But what actually made this guy so famous? Well, after beating up the Jap General, the 2nd in command was annoyed at the fact that an 'inferior race had beaten a superior race', whipped up his pistol and shot Ip Man.

But unlike most kungfu masters being shot at or poisoned by the superior races, he survives the seemingly fatal wound and escapes to Hong Kong, where after the war, if sets up a Wing Chun martial arts school, became the grandmaster there, had about 2 million disciples (so says the film) and teaching other famous actors such as Bruce Lee.

Sweet action film, in a nutshell. It's rare to have an action/historical/factual film of this scale. One of the best so far.

First flu of the year!

Pretty ironic story actually and quite a high chance to make you go facepalm too!

While accompanying sis to a nearby clinic to get a growth on her face checked out, that's when I got these range of shit symptoms. Headache, fever... Basically everything that was meant to go wrong did.

At least it's a first, I went to the doctors to get a flu instead of getting cured! Dumbass irony.

And since the flu is still getting to me, might as well lay out my resolutions for the new year **coughcoughohshitohshitcoughcough**

Well, lets see. Since I've got to much free time on my hands, maybe I'll take a picture of my... uh.. Oh shi-!

Okay, maybe. But the focal point of it all would be to hold an 'expedition' to cycle around town in the dead me night, sometime like 1am? Yeah, already gotten all the destination and gear in check... Now is anyone kind enough to lend me a bike for the night?

...Then again, all good things must come to an end

Yeah, more like part two from the previous post but two different completely different things, nonetheless. I have this nagging (much worse than mum's) yearning to post this post. Which hopefully, I pray will see the light of day just this once. For truth. Goes somewhere along the lines of 'love life'. *smirks*

This year is coming to a close and in just 2 days, it'll be a completely different year. Time for some cliche new years resolutions? Not just yet though, not just yet. I can breathe easy and say that, "Shit, this year has been an emotional roller coaster ride for me, if people didn't already know". This I say with reference to my own love life then.

I like- rather, I liked this girl once. Turned out to be neighbors. Shit, didn't know how the hell it came about but a couple (couple=5 years+) years ago, her brother did say she had a crush on me, but me being the idiot had set my sights on someone else and failed miserably. I admit I am an idiot for not changing targets.

But even when I learn of that news, I was being the most retarded not to get the hint, yet again setting sights for other girls. Ugh. Really, up till now I keep thinking, "What the fuck is wrong with me?" I have yet to discover the reason.

Due to my short sightedness and blindness, I have lost some one I truly considered very dear. Who have I to blame? None but me. Really, I tried making up for the losses these past 5 years. Trying extremely hard, very much a futile action I must add, to win her back. I grew on it eventually. Everyday, getting myself worried sick for nothing.

"Is she okay? How's she doing? Oh, today's, her exam- better encourage her."

All these sort of shit, anything to make her think,' hey, he's not a bad guy after all'. Thinking back, it's laughable, not to mention pathetic. 5 years I tried so hard and for what now? Nothing but memories, and hell, were they very sweet ones. At least I can still reminisce on them, maybe even feel a tad nostalgic, shed a quite tear before moving on.

Hell yeah, that killer line : "I'm sorry, but the time when I liked you is now over.", was like a stab through the heart. Got me up in bed the whole night. Haha. Oh well, there are many more fishes in the sea.

Hypocrisy much? Yeah, just so you know, I hate that line very much. So much so that they should make it a crime punishable by execution. Question yourself this, even if there are other fishes in the sea, are they others as great as your previous one? What is left over are those not to your taste, probably. By now, all the good ones have been taken. What choice are you left with?

I thought that I should start anew, not to dwell in the past. And another one, just recently, it seems to be going along smoothly, but that maybe just my imagination. Oh. what the hell. I'll just admit defeat to self doubt and move on.

Breaking off a couple of days ago, I decide to try my luck. After a bit of chat and facepalm jokes (probably insipid on my part), we went out once. I had my hopes high then. Could this be it? Yatta!!??! Of course, I had my doubts in between, but now, I more or less have a clue that she's back together or with someone new. Pointless much?

I hate all this, I really do. I just wish to forget that all of these even ever existed. Guess I'll be growing old and dying alone huh? What a sad joke.

If by the end you're still asking why the heck am I typing this out? Call it 'cannon fodder' to some extent. That, and I can rub my chest and breathe a big sigh of relieve. I will forget everything that is typed down here. Doesn't it take the green eyed monster in you out for a joy ride to see couple holding hands in the streets? It does. For me.

Tomorrow is a new day, I shall not bother anymore about insipid piece of bullshittery such as romance and love life, seeing that I'm failing at it and it's very much pointless to go on about it now. I shall just give my ears an audiophile session, raping them with hardcore loud techno and rock. As said by almost everyone, 'Ignorance is bliss'.

To those who still wish to see the light of day and yet give me a piece of encouragement, I beg of you, for your own sake. Please, don't. For you who have a heart bold enough and dare to challenge this slight request to shut up and piss off, may I be so kind as to extend a big fuck you, and a middle finger to go with. Grow up and see that the world is not so innocent anymore, you naive prick.

Quoted For Truth. (Good! I'm feeling damn fucking relaxed now!)

What a night it was and a good one at that

Last night was a freaking awesome night. No shit. It was good to see the old gang again, but due to the lack of meeting up frequently, I somewhat forgotten most of their names. Somewhat. Well, my apologies then! It was just Mun Yi Jie jie, or was it Ah Kit... Or something else? Yes, this is how bad I am with names. Oh, shit.

But anyway, what a night it was. No, actually, I didn't know there was going to be a sort of family reunion dinner that night, and was happily DoTA-ing away. And THAT is in itself unusual, since I'm not an avid fan of DoTA. Hacking and slashing away for the past 3 hours and not bored? Epic. i was just about to get addicted to it, when mum, in her usual nagging way, urged me to "please hurry up" and change because "we're going out for a dinner with daddy's relatives".

Apparently, my ears do not deceive me this time. Going out with dad's side of the family is a godsend. They are the group I look to meeting up most, and merely because of their humor and openness. Not being a 100% 'urang KL', this place seems to be a maze of buildings that look the same not matter where you are. I am, of course, referring to those shop houses and coffee shops. Eventually, we did reach our rendezvous point, Jambu Restaurant or something along those lines. Have I mentioned that I was bad with names? Anyway, this is the time where I got myself high over drinks and probably will be the only time to do so. Note: Not drunk- just high.

I never expected it in the first place. My aunt presented me with a glass of red wine and hollered over to my mum if I was legal to drink. Playing chances, I argued I was already 19. That was the correct answer, obviously as I reached for the 'holy, godlike presence' of that glass. If my mind weren't playing tricks on me, I could have swore the background faded into darkness and a light from heaven shone down on that glass of red wine (which seems to be floating in mid air, too).

Just one glass, initially. That was it. Along with the ride or drinks came Jer's humor show. Got introduced first hand into the very twisted world of YouTube icon 'mychonny'. Yeah, yeah. I know I'm slow and outdated. Shut the fuck up, will you?

Yeap, one of the more hilarious videos that immediately burned into my memory was the stereotyping of Angry Asian parents. That cracked me up most of the time, along with his other vids. Ah but well, the chat was making me a tad thirsty, so I downed my wine quite fast. And since we're having dinner at the same time, I'll attempt to use that as time reference. If I can remember correctly, it was about a glass per dish.

What would that be then, when I actually downed 3 glasses of red wine? Was about to move on the fourth, when I was abruptly stopped by mum. You can bet your shit, I got a hell of a lecture that night. But of course, since I was already banned from wine and with a face redder than a cooked lobster, that still didn't stop me from sneaking in a glass of brandy... or two. I can't really remember.

"Okaaaay....What the Fah'k?"

Can't remember a thing afterwards. I know pictures were taken because I recalled lots of flashes and 'colorful dancing lights' through heavy eye lids. Will attempt to dig out and post the pics taken that night too.

As if that social gathering weren't enough, we ended up gathering at Jer's bro's place again. Who the hell is fate to put a semi drunk/high person and a joker in the same car? Rambling garbage is what we did throughout the journey, but I can recall parts of it because I was passing out frequently. That was until we had a small chat on tactics in Monster Hunter. A Short course on how to take out a Rathian Wyvern. Damned good/useful information. "Just squeeze until she screams", he says.

At a meeting of families this large, it wouldn't really be one without cards right? Played Dai Di for a couple of rounds, but only managed to win once. It's been a while since I played that and sure as hell a good reliever. I think we got bummed out y the 6th round and we then switched to Black jack. Can't really blame them, but it would have been a lot more interesting if money were involved in this. Gambling much? Na'h, I can't wait til' Chinese new year. (I need to win back some B$50+)

At the end of it all, it was nice to see all of them again, especially that joker, Jer. And that's the end of that. Or was it?

Sort of reenacted what happened on Christmas day two years ago, only this time, it's on DoTA. Ever heard that Driving under the influence is extremely dangerous? Going online and playing games is just as dangerous. But for reasons beyond my ability to reason rationally (LOLwut?), I took up against 2 Expert AIs. And won.

Yeah, next time we go out for a DoTA session, I shall remind myself to bring a bottle of wine along.

Come again?

Walking along a crowded lane at a near by pasar malam in Cheras, I came across this interesting character. No, of course, everyone here is interesting. We've got what? Beggars, Limps, Sorry Asses, and of course, not forgetting this guy who's amputated at the hands and legs so he 'shows off' his 'talent' by writing calligraphy with his mouth. Pretty damned awesome if you ask me. And damned neat too.

Well, this character, stood out from the rest. Obviously, not your average DVD hawker. Was browsing around at his stall (and obstructing the flow of traffic), when he said in Cantonese:

"Helo, Leng Zhai! Oi mai mou? Hai san lei gheh. Ngoh beu lei dizcaunt lah!"*

*(Hello, handsome boy! Want to buy? This set just arrived, it's new! I'll give you a discount lah!)

Of course, I pretended not hearing him, already knowing the horrible reputation that animes in M'sia have the worst subtitles translation one can ever get.

Anyway, that was when my sis came along and tugged me on the sleeve while eating her 'Fried Ice Cream'. Seeking an opportunity, the hawker tried again.

"Wah, kom hou ah? Mai lah! Hoi yi yat chai sek yeh, tai DVD."*

*(Wow, how sweet. Buy one set then! You'll be able to eat something together while watching DVD.)

I was about to tell him off, that's when my dad came in and politely said,

"Hei thei hai tai ko, sai mui lei gheh. Nghum hai pak toh."*

*(They are siblings. Not dating.)

Now, that was epic. His embarrassed face was priceless! And it made my day. No longer pissed!