To whom it may concern

It has been brought to my attention that the post ‘Otak off center’ has offended the mentioned lecturers in the post. I’d like to apologize to the affected lecturers regarding the contents of the post. It’s a shame that at the time of writing I did not consider the feelings of those involved and got carried away with the heat of blogging. I admit that the writing is a little too elaborated. I hope there are no hard feelings between us as the entries in this blog are not meant to defame or tarnish the reputation of the said parties. I got too far into the writing and it is entirely wrong for me to involve them into my pep talk. Again, I sincerely apologize to those affected.

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Some of the posts have been removed as they were found to be offensive and/or reflects negatively upon certain parties. At no point was my blog intended to offend and it is deeply regretted that I did not make that clear. Many parts of my blog were written metaphorically, not literally. It is my fault for not making that clear as well. I believe that language interpretation is very subjective. I am very sorry as I have not taken into account what the contents of my blog could be interpreted as by some. I hope the matter will not be blown out of proportion for the said intentions that it did not carry. Again, I would like to apologize for not making things/my language clear. My sincere apologies if I have in any way offended you.

Who wants to be a millionaire?

This woman clearly doesn't. Got this from one of the forwarded mails. (Shouldn't you be putting this kind of things in blogs instead of email? Anyways if it wasn't for the email, it wouldn't be here =P )

I don't think I need to elaborate any further. The picture says it all. This woman, Kathy Evans, used up all her 3 lifelines and still made the wrong choice!!!

The question was:

Which of the following is the largest?
A) A Peanut
B) An Elephant
C) The Moon
D) Hey, who you calling large?

This is the very first question by the way! My bet is she's just out to get fame. No offense but don't you always see Americans do that?

Upon seeing the question, let me quote her (as the person who forwarded the mail puts it):

Hmm, oh boy, that's a toughie," said Evans, as Vieira (the show's host) did her level best to hide her disbelief and disgust. "I mean, I'm sure I've heard of some of these things before, but I have no idea how large they would be." This is so a dumb-blonde-statement.

Evans made the decision to use the first of her three lifelines, the 50/50. Answers A and D were removed, leaving her to decide which was bigger, an elephant or the moon. However, faced with an incredibly easy question, Evans still remained unsure.
"Oh! It removed the two I was leaning towards!" exclaimed Evans. "Darn. I think I better phone a friend." This must be the climax of the joke. "Oh it removed the two I was leaning towards!" Sweat.

Using the second of her two lifelines on the first question, Mrs. Evans asked to be connected with her friend Betsy, who is an office assistant.
"Hi Betsy! How are you? This is Kathy! I'm on TV!" said Evans, wasting the first seven seconds of her call. "Ok, I got an important question. Which of the following is the largest? B, an elephant, or C, the moon. 15 seconds hun."
Betsy quickly replied that the answer was C, the moon. Evans proceeded to argue with her friend for the remaining ten seconds.
"Come on Betsy, are you sure?" said Evans. "How sure are you? Puh, that can't be it."
To everyone's astonishment, the moronic Evans declined to take her friend's advice and pick 'The Moon.' I cannot believe Betsy is friends with her. If I were her I would have vomited blood.

"I just don't know if I can trust Betsy. She's not all that bright. So I think I'd like to ask the audience," said Evans.
Asked to vote on the correct answer, the audience returned 98% in favor of answer C, 'The Moon.' Having used up all her lifelines, Evans then made the dumbest choice of her life.
"Wow, seems like everybody is against what I'm thinking," said the too-stupid-to-live Evans. "But you know, sometimes you just got to go with your gut. So, let's see. For which is larger, an elephant or the moon, I'm going to have to go with B, an elephant. Final answer."

Edited 28 March '07: This turned out to be a hoax. Nevertheless, it's still funny. LOL! The fella who forwarded this must be way too free :) or really hates her guts. Still, it's a source of entertainment. Joyfulchicken gave us the link to the real video here. Kopi, I doubt her reputation is being tarnished. The truth will always reveal itself. Now she's famous. I wouldn't know who the heck Kathy Evans is if not for this.

Elegy

Who knows where I can get my hands on Hirai Ken’s Elegy/Aika? Jeez I don’t know how many failed attempts I’ve had with trying to download it.

One said ‘less vocal’ making me wonder what the heck that meant but I downloaded it anyway. Heck it turned out to be instrumental. OH I SEE.

Then the other one I downloaded was not instrumental. Someone was singing but it was not him. :/

Another 1, the file was damn big, 320kbps song, and it downloaded slowly. Guess what? I turned out to be some other song! You think this is some kind of joke!? It’s not funny! Now give me my Aika! I deserve it!

CSI: Miami's 'Killer' Wave

AXN sucks. I mean, why the sudden screening of Terminator? And why do you have to repeat it at 12.30am and take over the slot of my CSI: Vegas?! I waited till 2.30am to see if they’ll show CSI Vegas but no…They showed Miami. Ugh. Miami again. That episode was an hour and a half. Since I don’t get to watch CSI Vegas, I felt like dissing Miami. Anyway that Miami episode had something to do with the tsunami so I thought I’d give it a try. Again. So…

10 minutes into the show and they already knew who the suspect was. But they didn’t have enough evidence to press him down. Just like the episode which I watched the other day. Predictable.

Balding inspector: You letting him go?
Horatio: I have no choice. *intense stare*

Though, there was one scene which was kinda cool. It demonstrated their power. Whoa super powers. It was a scene where Horatio and Calleigh(yes, I think that’s how you spell Kelly in the Shriek/blonde girl’s case) went to visit this other suspect and were trying to dig information out of him. When he refused to tell, Horatio made a phone call, blonde girl made a phone call, i.e. everyone was making a phone call, and viola! Everything’s settled and the guy went into cuffs. The power of the phone call. Cool.

But CSI Miami being CSI Miami, they soon spoiled the coolness. Horatio fashionably enters the bank with Latino guy and saves everyone from the terrible nerve-wrecking robbery. Hero Horatio then sees the tsunami coming and asked the bank manager,

Horatio: What’s the fastest way to the roof?
Bank manager Riley: The stairway or the lift.
Horatio: We don’t have that time. Where’s the vault?

Heh? How else can you go up to the roof? Are there any other ways? Fly? Wake up Horatio. Just because you’ve got super powers it doesn’t mean everyone else has it too.

Hero Horatio then shooed everyone into the vault. Cool vault. They’ve got TV in it and you get to see what happens outside as the wave throws everything apart.

Somehow I don’t find the idea of the tsunami very amusing. Millions were affected by it and you turn it into a lame CSI Miami episode? Give the victims some respect please. Okay back to the show…

What does every episode of CSI Miami have in common? Catch phrases. And tonnes of them. It’s like reading a story with one too many metaphors. Not nice. It’ll start to seem as though the writer is trying to flaunt his metaphorical talents, which usually just spoils everything. Though I’ll have to give credit to Latino guy because he finally made some above average phrases. If he had zero good phrases out of the gazillion phrases which he had vomited out, then he must have been a real sucker.

Some of Latino guy’s lines:

#1
After they came out of the vault, one of the dead robbers was gone.
Latino guy: That guy is halfway to Cuba right now.

Lame, yes, but funny. HAhahA! Cuba!

#2
Balding guy and Latino guy was checking the vault.
Balding guy: Question is, how they took the gold out of the vault. It’d take a fork-lift to do that.
Latino guy: Or the tsunami.

Okay this would usually pass off as lame but I liked it. Probably because it never occurred to me that the tsunami could have carried it away.

Other lame phrases:

This time Horatio is the big lame ass.
#1
The suspect cannot be found, and Horatio said “He’s in the wind.”
Why don’t you just say he’s on the run or something else? He’s in the wind?

#2
For some reason which I will not explain here, blonde girl and Horatio had to go back to the bank to investigate.
Blonde girl: Back to the bank?
Horatio: The one common denominator.
And he gave that stupid heroic look again.

…..? I don’t get it. You guys are lame!

In another scene, Latino guy was pointing his gun at Riddick (the first suspect which they didn’t have enough evidence to pin down). Riddick was holding the bank manager Riley hostage and threatened to shoot him if Latino guy tries anything.

Riddick: My gun’s bigger than yours! Don’t try to come nearer. *Exiting by the opened balcony door* If I see your head sticking out of the window I’ll kill him.

My gun’s bigger than yours?! It just shows that Riddick is a kidult. It was like a scene where 2 five year olds are playing water gun and the one with the bigger gun is naturally more superior.

I don’t know what happened later in the show. I don’t know if kidult finally got caught or not but my bet is he was. If he wasn’t Horatio will just give the audience a dramatic expression. But if he was caught, Horatio will then display the heroic I-told-you-I-will-get-you look. Whatever it is Horatio will make a foolish look.

Alas, AXN is still the biggest jerk because the next day they repeated CSI Vegas when I was in class. *curses* I don’t know if you can call it a repeat because I don’t know if they had shown it during the original time slot the night before. I hope it had nothing to do with the dollhouse serial killer. I must not miss the dollhouse episodes.

It's closing time!

Finally! Some time to sit down and write! And I thought I’d be free after the tests but turns out it was quite the opposite. But who minds? Busy lepak-ing (loitering) is good. Right after the test we had dinner at Cosmic Leisure House in Krystal Point. The food there is actually not bad. And you have a lot of choices too. (I was blind not to notice that there are actually many restaurants there. And pubs too. Yes! More food destinations!)


I forgot to take the picture of the front so this is all i have of the name. At least you can still see 'cos...' =P

But because we went for dinner elsewhere, there wasn’t much time left to shop in Queensbay. When we reached Queensbay it was already 9pm. One hour of shopping isn’t enough! Since we were there so late, people were leaving already and then I said, “You know, people wanna close shop d but we still go in. They sure think we very kacau (bothersome). Paiseh lor…”

Then the topic of How to Chase Away Customers popped in.

Friend #1: When I wanted to chase away the customers at the restaurant, I’ll walk up to them and ask if they have any last order. They’ll get the idea that we’re closing and leave.

Me: My friend who worked in Starbucks said she would turn off the fans. Sometimes she would take a broom and start sweeping around their table.

Friend #2: Aiyer! Why you all so bad one…

Reality, my friend. Reality. We work for the boss till the closing time and that’s it. No extensions.

Later we met up with the guys in Roti Bakar kopitiam opposite USM. Surprised they were still opened at 10.30pm. When it was around 11.30, people were beginning to leave except us. We were laughing away, oblivious of the surroundings. I think. Friend #2 and I did notice they were closing, don’t know if the others were pretending or were really ignorant.

How to Chase Away Customers – Part II

Waiter: Any last order?

We, 3 girls exchanged glances. “We were just talking about that! Haha!”
The guys, “No, thank you.” And continued talking. Ok maybe they ARE ignorant.

Some time later the waiter came again. This time with the bill. Again we exchanged glances and they guys were again ignorant. I think they’re pretending. They gotta be. Bringing the bill even though the customer didn’t ask for it is a sure sign of ‘we are closing’.

We paid and still weren’t leaving, as though we were glued to the chair. The waiter came out, cleaned some table behind us then turned off the signboard lights.

Okay, time to move.

Chap Goh Meh

This is the probably the first Chap Goh Meh I spent out from home. I wonder why people eat pungat on Chap Goh Meh. It’s nice actually. I never really ate one full bowl before, till yesterday.

And this thing here is nice too. It’s called bee phang. Looks really familiar, like I’ve ate it a million times before, but tastes unfamiliar.

While I ate junk, the middle-aged ate mahjong, totally blocking the TV. :/
Not like I have anything to watch anyway.

And I saw the red car again. I was bored and I have good sight.


What a Chap Goh Meh.