Constipated Ramblings

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Sandimation?

Somethings are impressive, some not so.

Others simply breath taking.

Ukraine's Got Talent winner.

Very amazing sand art/animation people should see.

But since i don't do facebook videos (like everyone else seems to be doing lately)

So i shall stick it here.

Also just read this on the star online.

While the issue generally doesn't concern me much, if anything it'll benefit me (because i'm a chicken that way, so sue me) but nevertheless, i think if horror films are weakening your faith in your religion, maybe, JUST MAYBE, horror films aren't exactly your biggest problems eh?

Need to stop procrastinating and get back to my folio.

Lalala.

Labels: Art, Folio, Procrastinating

pok xian at 8:26 PM

5 Bums Yawned

Sunday, October 11, 2009

"Fukui-san!"

You know what's rare and something i've never seen before and can never seem to find on the internet?

A non dubbed version of Iron Chef.

I don't think there is any other show where chefs wear such ridiculously colorful chef outfits and then pop up from kitchen stadium holding a meat clover while acting suprise when the challenger chooses him.

Then continue to produce crazily amazing dishes with a theme ingredient.

How i wish i had a ridiculously colourful chef outfit now.

I'll like to see Gordon Ramsey try that outfit. Then challenge Chef Chen Kenichi. With roadkill as the theme ingredient.

Or maybe something else.

Labels: Procrastinating, Random, Thoughts

pok xian at 2:17 PM

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The economics of marriage?

An interesting thing happened last night.

I was talking to Dom about drugs at first, then the topic somehow got switched to marriage.

This was likely a response towards my earlier statement about how 22 year olds can get married at this point in their lives.

Since neither of us was anywhere close to approaching the question from a social point of view (sigh?), we took a financial approach instead.

Which was clearly Dom's stronger point anyway haha.

We assumed a monthly salary of 2500 (after EPF) since it was the closest, most realistic number we had.

We started factoring in cost of daily meals, weekly entertainment, tax and petrol opting to exclude housing rental, car loans and some bills (we assumed at this point the general population of 22 year olds stay at home with their parents, a sad reality).

We got a fairly reasonable number actually.

But then we thought to be fair, those things we excluded needed to be included at this point.

Which didn't leave us with much.

Then we started discussing about the cost of marriage. Then there was the cost a honeymoon. And how many years it would take before you could afford to get married instead of seeking the help of venture capitalist (i.e. father mother sdn bhd).

The diamond ring looked like an optional extra at this point.

THEN!

We lost interest and started talking about how his imaginary M5 would kick my imaginary RX8s ass. Which subsequently lead to a gentlemanly discussion about a Golf GT in comparison with a RX8 and which we would choose if money grew on trees and Bruno was never banned in Malaysia.

So while i don't think we came to much of a conclusion, we agreed that 22 - 24 year olds just cannot financially afford marriage without seeking divine intervention (*ahem* father mother)

So, considering the flow of my conversation with Dom, the final conclusion is if you're ever going to consider marriage at 23 or 24, maybe, JUST MAYBE think about that nice car too eh?

At this point we may just stare at Adam morbidly since he's probably the closest to that rather sticky situation.

HAHAHA.

*edit: this may prove insightful when they dig up my remains and conduct a postmortem to find out why i could never get married in the future*

Labels: Friends, Nonsense, Thoughts

pok xian at 1:24 PM

4 Bums Yawned

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

3 and Half Weeks Left.

I can do better than this.
I can do better than this.
I can do better than this.
I can do better than this.
I can do better than this.

*smashes head on table*

Ok, now to do go do something more productive.

Lalala.

Labels: Annoyed, Folio, Panic

pok xian at 10:08 PM

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

So apparently, we are a F1 team now.

I can only wonder why? Let's be honest here, sure we drive very fast at times. Our rempits can also perform quite amazing feats with the cheapest motorcycles, and if there were a race and award for that, we would win that hands down.

But let's be serious here, 1Malaysia F1 team? I can see it coming up on Top Gear top news being poked fun at anytime now. And quite fairly so too.

Remember our last F1 venture? Yeah neither do i.

Because apparently we didn't do very well.

I would really like to have seen what was going on in his mind that eventful day.

"Hmm a better football team? Nah, no hope already that one. Fix our Malaysian crime rate? Aiya, chill we can tackle that later. Corruption? If we curb that then who's going to pay for my coffee every morning? Eh driver, ask the police fellows to go faster on the highway la. 110 is only a guideline la. Go, go, faster.
Waaaaait a minute, i think i might have something here!"

F1 driver, malaysian angkasawan.....

Hmmm how much do you want to bet they are gonna field a good looking driver?

"Hey at least if we don't win, at least we'll get the ladies!"

I remember years ago how our very own Malaysian rally driver Karamjit Singh (who was doing well too) had so much trouble just to get funding for a race where he was actually winning in. Where were the corporate and government fundings then?

Don't get me wrong, i quite like the whole idea to be totally honest. Afterall, no guts no glory. So in that sense, we're putting in a lot of risk with the possibility (however unlikely) of doing well.

But if we have extra money to burn, why not spend it on some more useful things before investing in F1? How much does F1 cost annually anyway? (answer: probably too much.)

Better public transport for example. Najib can go 1Malaysia that all he wants

Yellow and red busses with 14 stripes? Sure.

His awesome grin on each LRT? More trains means longer grin! Fantastic.

Replace KL Sentral as 1Malaysia Sentral and paint a portrait of him on the roof so everyone will see it on Google Earth? Why not? Sounds like a plan to me.

Or education. Because let's face it, are our F1 drivers going to be speaking Malay or English?

"Driver! Rasanya sayap depan kamu yang terlanggar tadi ada masalah teknikal la, lap berikut cepat masuk lubang berhenti!"

"Eh eh, jaga selekoh kanan you! Alonso di belakaaaaang aahh!"

Haha, who am i kidding. Why would Alonso be behind us?

Hopefully, if we do win something. At least we can look forward to an extra holiday.

And well, if we don't win, we might at least be able to modify the shit out of our Malaysian made, Malaysian produced F1 car to look like the Ferrari teams one. Because we do that well, very well.

"Kelisa want to look like mini cooper? CAAAAN. Waja want to sound and look like Mitsubishi Evo? No problem. Bigger exhaust only. You want your car like the Tofu 86 in the cartoon? Sure thing, i'll order the sticker and i'll hook you with up with some extra black paint for the carbon fiber look."

Apparently the government's funding will be through Proton.

So on the bright side, F1 technology from Proton MIGHT trickle down to our very own national car one nice day in the future right?

Maybe we'll finally get rid of the power window problem eh Proton?

No, wait a minute.

Aren't F1 cars windows free?

Fark.

*edit: i don't even know why i bother with coffee sometimes, it doesn't even really keep me awake. It just makes me really hungry, at 2.30 in the morning. Growl.

and there has been a recent 7 billion ringgit proposed extension to the existing LRT system that does seem rather exciting.

Labels: Annoyed, Malaysia

pok xian at 11:09 PM

2 Bums Yawned

Monday, August 31, 2009

Because nothing says Happy Merdeka more than a petrol hike.

Sometimes at this time of the year i do a carefree, fun post about Malaysia, in conjunction with Merdeka.

I don't think i can bring myself to do so this year though.

Either i've become more self aware and cynical about my home country since 4 years ago or things have changed, just for that *little* bit worse.

Recent events seem to suggest we're somehow becoming worse off, that 1 Malaysia is merely a facade behind a very tense underlying problem.

It has almost literally become a rug covering the dirt underneath it.

On a lighter note, this is a very creative video. I especially like how it ends. Heh.

Happy birthday Malaysia. Make a wish.

Labels: Malaysia

pok xian at 1:23 AM

1 Bums Yawned

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Squeak

Many have said that the weather is suggesting that spring is coming, and 2 weeks ago i would have completely agreed.

The weather was fine, there was a tint of lovely breeze just enough that get you smilling. No more rainy, gloomy days.

Then the weather decided to go 'Just kiddding! HAHAHA got you!'

And now it's all gloomy and rainy and cold again.

Bastard.

So this brings me to my next point.

I can't decide if to wear shorts or training pants because of the weather.

Hmmm.

Decluttering my harddisk in the cold is a plus though i suppose, since i suspect it won't heat up as much.

Labels: Perth, Weather

pok xian at 5:41 PM

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