Overdue Raya Posting

Selamat Belated Hari Raya.

Happy Belated Deepa'Oli..

I had fun beraya-ing this yr..

yey..

Had 5 days off, 2 days prior, and 2 days after raya.. but had to change away my London to get the off days though.. which means that celebrating the raya cost me abt a thousand bucks extra..

but takpe.. dapat raya..

Puasa tak nak.. raya je nak.. standard..

Anyway... here are the pics from my Nagoya flight, which I did just before raya..

Got out of the hotel at abt 7pm for dinner alone.. and walked abt 20 mins to get to the 100 Yen shop..

And the horror of horrors..

The whole freaking building was closed to be demolished!

aaaaaaaarrggggggghhh..

MY BELOVED 100 YEN SHOP IS GONE!

Didnt have time to walk to the other 100 Yen shop coz it was a lil too late and if I attempted to go there, I wont even be able to make it in time... so I walked and walked and walked around the city..



the streets of Nagoya..



and another street of Nagoya..



this is called the Koban.. a Police Post.. a typically Japanese concept..

Singapore's Neighbourhood Police Posts are modelled after this Koban system..

Anyway, Japanese police officers are so so so much respected that parents will gladly marry their daughters off to a Policeman..

in Singapore, if u marry a policeman.. ur dad will reject coz it will mean that he would have to support u still..

and ur husband..

and ur kids..



one of those things that I like about Japan are the restaurants..

Even the simplest restaurant are managed with pride.. and most restaurants have a display of their food, made of plastic.. and it looked freaking real..

some Singaporean Japanese restaurants had recently caught up with this idea.. but in Japan, itz everywhere..

and it really look so freaking real..



see?

and of course..

Japan..

the country of Weirdness..

where they sell iPods at 7-11..



and in Singapore, they only sell cup noodles...

here u can even get porn magazines..

gerek kan?

ok.. thatz it abt Japan..

On Hari Raya eve, went out to Geylang Bazaar with Yuliez.. my old neighbour girl whoz flying for Emirates now, whom I had known since she was 6 and I was 13.. her brother, and her close friend, Faizal.. and came back at abt 6am the next morning..

Bazaar open till that late xia.. I didnt know that.. ni orang suma tak tau nak raya ke?

And as soon as I got home.. changed and continued baking some scones.. *ahem.. I now can baked tauuu.. and so far no one had died*..

And my first customer of the day.. my eldest brother who came at 7.30am..

mana ada orang datang raya kol 7.30 pagi dah.. dia sorang je..

Slept till abt 3.. and layan the streaming guests till the last ones, my buddy Wily, and my 3 foreign neighbours from India.. all 3 are new stewardesses.. and we chatted till abt 1.30am..

on the 2nd day of raya.. went out to my brother's place.. Azlan.. and his wife, Yanti..

Yanti.. btw.. I meant it.. u have a nice house.. pandai jugak adik ipar aku ni decorate.. I really doubt that Azlan played a part in the design.. heh.. we guys are not cut out for that..

And that nite, went over to my sister's place.. and to my cousin's place.. one that I have not seen since I was a kid.. from my dad's side of the family..

So basically, thatz it.. I went to Shanghai on the 4th day of raya.. and basically, didnt do anything there coz the traffic from the airport to the hotel was bad and by the time we got there, it was dark..

and went off to Johore right after I landed from flight on Saturday.. to celebrate jalan jalan raya there and visit my Malaysian relatives.. being in 3 countries in a single day.. China, Singapore and Malaysia..



thatz us..

and no.. my nieces are not available.. so u males with raging hormones, dont even attempt to ask..

I'm a hypocryte.. anak sedara aku sendiri korang tak ley tekel.. anak sedara orang lain takpe..

basically.. thatz it.. I had a lot of things to whine abt but coz this is a Raya posting, I shall not whine tonite..

tmrw shall be the whiny day..

Selamat Belated Hari Raya Aidil Fitri..

kuih dah abis baru nak wish..

*P/S: Therez no vulgarity in this entire posting.

Atom Ant

ah.. ok..

me back. me blog now. me got whinings about the world.

As usual lor..

ok.. firstly.. I would have to say that whatever that I blog, came off the top of my head..

so, please.. when I come up with my own opinions, dont ask for statistics..

when I come up with my own statistics, dont take it for real..

THEY ARE JUST FUCKING WHININGS.

*ahem*

kan abang dah marah tu..

coz I was suddenly reminded abt a silly girl who asked me for statistics when I talked abt women and feminism..

if u wanna get real facts, go read the Encyclopedia.. dont even Wiki.. silly girl..

and yeah..

I blog whatever that comes to mind.. so thatz another reason why I always jump from one topic to another.. and whatever that I write, is how I feel.. so for those who wants to get hurt, then too bad lor..

I used to hide things so that ppl dont get hurt.. but since I'm back to my carefree days again.. I dont have such obligations..

ok dah..

letz whine abt other things..

Was reading an article in the papers.. abt the volunteer group, Crime Library, being allowed to pin up their posters at MRT stations and some bus interchanges..

LTA approached SMRT, NEL and SBS to ask them to allow these nice ppl who wants to help families with missing persons, especially kids.. to put up the posters so that more families can have their loved ones back..

SMRT said OK..

NEL said OK..

SBS said NO.

WTF?

They said that they would rather work with the Police to find missing ppl..

In the first place.. how the fuck does a bus company work with the Police to find missing ppl?

Now their Bus Inspectors go around looking for missing ppl? then what? Report to Bus Captains?

Or they call the Police every week to find out whether can they help to locate some missing ppl?

So basically, itz hypocrisy.. they just dont want to help..

so hopefully, the next missing person would be from one of their families, if it was to happen again in Singapore..

But then again.. Singapore is so safe anyway.. no missing Singaporeans get killed..

Maybe some ppl just dont realise this.. our good Police Officers can't do much abt missing ppl.. unless there had been a crime committed and some evidence had been lifted from the scene or some witnesses came up with information, or the missing person is a child..

If u have a sister who is 16 yrz old, and she left home just like that.. therez nothing that the Police Force can do for u except for the fact that they inform u the last whereabouts that she was seen in.. and if she's above 17, TFB.. they dont have the rights to tell u that..

If ur old grandfather lost his way home and ended up in a ditch.. therez nothing that they can do except to cordon the scene while waiting for the hearse to come to send him for autopsy for the cause of death..

Crime Library was trying out to do something good for everyone with someone to love.. then again.. some ppl just have to be assholes..

ok..

next whining..

was watching Miss Vasantham yesterday.. and the question posed to individual contestants was..

Name 2 other contestants that you think should be eliminated..

another WTF..

Obviously.. some of them refused to name names..

Some did.. and basically.. thatz the first step to backstabbing in the media world..

The judges seemed to provoke them further.. and humiliated them further by asking them, why they think they are so good that they dont have the poor traits reflected by the 2 they named..

Some contestants got defensive.. and even one of the judges got defensive..

And one particular girl refused to name any, so one of the judges named 2 contestants that had named her, putting it in a way that it was said with malice and basically, tried to fire up a sense of anger and hatred..

Must do that meh?

Just coz we Indians are nice ppl have to do that to our race ah?

But then again.. 3 of the 4 judges were Indians..

the other is Najib..

I'd rather hear meaningless comments from Jacintha..

ok.. btw... in the last posting.. I forgot to upload 2 pics from a nice place that I stopped by on the drive back from Whistlers Mountain..

We stopped over at a rather deserted, but well maintained lake within a forest area, called Alice Lake..

So somehow.. with the darkness that was falling within the woods.. it looks kinda creepy.. though the serenity made it beautiful..



Alice Lake..

Alice was supposed to be the first White Woman that was there or something.. the lake reminds me of the show Friday The 13th.. where Jason jumped out of the water.. rather a stupid show.. but I was a kid when I watched it so it was scary back then..

And how come they didnt name the lake after the first Native woman eh?



The Woods.. creepy rite?

my tagboard had been changed coz tag-board.com fucked up on me..

and my new roster is out..

the YEYness of the new roster would be MANCHESTER!

hopefully can catch some games from the BEST FOOTBALL TEAM IN THE WORLD..

*NOT* Manchester City k..

ok.. now.. for the ultimate point of blogging today..

I got back from Melbourne yesterday.. and spent time with my brother, sis-in-law.. AND THE KIDSSSS..

YEY!

and of course.. not to forget, my goodest friend.. Radiah Alsagoff..

YEY!

goodest sey..

My bro traded phones with me since he have an extra phone.. he took my O2 XDA II Mini and gave me a brand new $1.4k O2 Atom..

YEYYYYYY..

with built-in wireless and loads of other functions..

and itz nicer to look at.. sleek and black..

just that Atom crashes more than XDAs, but that is expected of Windows anyway.. DOPODs crashes often too.. but I need this platform to write programs for the Windows Mobile..

but the worst thing abt the Atom is the battery life.. itz really draining even though I switched off all unnecessary functions.. just the usage of the PDA will suck out the electrons like.. like dunno what lar..

my beautiful favourite-gadget-of-the-moment..



but of course.. since itz given by my brother.. itz always gonna be my fav..

orait.. Picture Time..

hereeeeeeee..

Miss Radiah and Shasha!



YEY..

Here are the Gap Boys..



My precious nephews..

Yayat, Nain, Mukmin and Wawa..

fitting nicely into the Gap sweaters that I got for them from Seattle..

*phew*

and they fit nicely into the Baju Raya that we bought for them from Singapore.. kalau tak muat macam mana nak tukar eh Zainah eh.. lepas raya boleh?



but they did..

My precious first nephew.. Yayat..



Me and Nain



The two Zulkarnain..

Dedek time bangun sahur..



Wawa



this is Wawa Saifullah..

but of course.. as usual.. my Princess always get more pics.. coz she girl mah..

and so I put her thru a rigorous modelling session..



Shasha with her Gap dress that I bought from Seattle.. and a tweety handbag given by Zainah and Radiah..



Shasha with a white dress, cardigan and even a scrunchie..

for now itz a lil bit big.. so I think they will wait for abt 6 more months for her to fit nicely into it..

but takpe.. to me my Princess is the most beautiful girl in the world..



Shasha with yet another dress.. ShaSha's Spring Collection..



Shasha as Anak Makcik.. siapa bilang gadis Pakistani tak menawan? tak menarik hati? tiada memikat?



my beautiful Shasha with her tudung..



and Shasha with her ice-cream

but of course..

the ultimate pic..

Harimau Shasha



Takut tak?

Bowling For Soup

Was in the crew bus just now heading to the airport in Seoul, and was listening to the song Girl All The Bad Guys Want.. and one line caught my attention..

I normally think that the line is funny..

but for now it makes sense..

[snip]

She broke my heart
I wanna be sedated
All I wanted was to see her naked

[end snip]

for the benefit of those of u who have not heard of that song that came out several years back..

Itz a funny song abt this guy who likes this rocker chic who likes tough guys.. and she dont even recognizes his existence and that basically pissed him off coz he's supposedly a goody lil idiot and he tried to change his ways to make her notice him..

and what does he wants out of it?

LOVE?

wahahhaa... hell no..

He just wanted to screw her..

The Girl All The Bad Guys Want..

Some of my friends falls for girls according to seasonal change.. and they will fall badly..

the girl gives him the attention.. the girl demands attention.. the girl decides that she dont want his attention.. he gets heartbroken.. he sulk.. he gets depressed.. he meet another nice sweet girl and that girl turns to do the exact same thing as her Predecessor..

for girls that complains that guys are Bastards..

Sometimes u have to realize that some guys turned that way coz of the previous girls in his lives..

If girls have the options to choose from the guys that bid their attention and love.. well.. the same goes to guys..

We have the options of remaining after we get THE screw.

We love the chase.. not knowing whether we would get the girl or not..

And some girls, I dare not say MOST coz obviously I had never been a girl.. some girls love the chase coz of the attention that they received..

So from the suitors that she has, she chooses the best man for her and dumps the rest..

The rest of the guys that had wanted to shower her with love (this happens at the naive stage of their life) will get heartbroken and therefore goes thru the cycle one more time.. putting their head into another lioness mouth just to realise that he'll be eaten alive again..

Some guys at certain point will be *THE* Best Man and live happily ever after..

Some dont.. and they goes into a pool in which the female society labelled them as Players/Playboys, Tryers, Casanova and whatever else coz they end up being the ones that had their head being eaten a lil bit too many times..

Of course some of them are like that coz they are damn good looking and therefore they can have a reversed role being the chased ones by the females.. but for most of us.. we are not that lucky..

I grew up being ugly.

I was the ugliest fella in school and no girls would even give me the time of day unless she tells me coz she's in my class and I pestered her coz I dont have a watch at that time..

I used to wonder why the other guys have it so lucky.. they are so stylo milo and here I am.. a nerd.. and having a brother that was good looking didnt help too.. coz he was in the same school as I was and he was so popular among the girls..

The girls that I used to like, have crushes on him..

I had such low self-esteem and walked with my head down.. as in REALLY walked with my head down..

When I was in sec 3, got to know this girl from a friend.. so we chatted on the fone every night and she told me that she loved me...

wahahhaa... now.. that was funny..

But of course at that time I was elated.. we had never met.. just talked on the phone.. and I got a pic of her from a mutual friend, her schoolmate who so happened to go mengaji with me..

And she was beautiful..

And I was CRAZY about her..

One day, she came down to my school for a netball tournament.. and we were excited to get to meet for the first time..

Saw her from far, but after a while, she disappeared.. and we didnt meet at all thru the day..

Got to know from that mutual friend of ours that she said that I was ugly..

ok lor.. another ugly comment.. I just added that to my collection of insults..

When I was in Sec 4.. I started to talk to this schoolmate of mine.. a year younger.. and we chatted on the phone.. and obviously she knows how I look like.. and we got closer every day for the months that we talked daily on the fone..

now I wonder how the hell did I get so much things to talk abt on the fone..

We talked till we both fell asleep so many times..

and finally.. after abt 5 months, I told her that I like her..

And that was the last time she ever talked to me..

ok lor. another one..

So it goes on and on and on..

And finally.. I grew out of that shell.. and became more confident and then over confident..

And therefore was recruited to the pool of Bastards like any other guys..

Subsequently.. thru my life, I dont have much patience for The Chase.

I'd say that I truly had Chased someone since then, only once.. to this girl who subsequently became my gf.. who used to be schooling in Yishun.. *name undisclosed to protect the identity*

so basically.. that was the only real Chase I had done for a girl after my secondary school life..

I had another girl who was schooling in SIM after that.. and she had told me that she had crush on me for ages.. and that started the courting.. but after 2 months, she posed so much problems for me coz of her ex and her parents and all that I lost interest in the relationship and followed thru the course till The Breakup.

And now, I had been dating a girl from RP for a year.. and she didnt seem to plan to give me headaches from the beginning, so I'm happy with that.. coz I dont feel the need to give her headaches too..

I hate The Chase.. when itz unwarranted..

The Yishun Girl got it coz she was L'Oréal.. She's Worth It..

RP Girl didnt give me time to chase coz we like each other already liao..

but for most of all.. I hate The Chase.. so I have a very very very short attention span with girls..

If I ask a girl out, and she said no, that will be the end of it..

If she said.. sorry.. I cant go out with u at this day blablabla.. that will be the end of it..

If she said.. sorry I cant go out with u at this day blablabla.. but maybe we could meet up next week?

then next week it shall be..

I dont spend more than 2 days courting.. and if I dont see signals by then, I move on to the next girl that I intend to ask out..

I dont chase.. coz it think itz a waste of time.. so if u dont mind going out with me, then ok.. if u want a chase.. go get it from someone who hasnt been thru the lioness mouth..

If a girl shows that she wants attention and take it away soon after.. I'll chase for as soon as I get to sleep with her, I'll delete her number..

And if she's a nice girl, I'll call her the next day.. and prolly the next. and prolly the next.

So basically.. we in the Pool of Bastards were not really bad ppl to start off with.. just that it so happened that u girls got it a lil bit too late after ur predecessors had jilted us..

Not so much of being a Payback to the female society.. but just that it had been an evolution of character..

I think I was a really sweet guy when I was 16..*ahem*

but too bad.. time had changed and taught me lessons and therefore I dont intend to be made a fool of anymore.. and my patience level for girls dropped to being close to zero.

if I had asked u out several times before and got rejected, and still asked again, it might mean that I just want to see u naked.

itz a challenge to get the Girl All The Bad Guys Want..

ok.. anyway.. got back from Seoul 6 hours ago..

basically.. went for a 9 days trip to Seoul and Vancouver..

itz a holiday season in Korea now, called the Chusok Festival, or the Korean Thanksgiving.. so most of the shops were preparing to close for several days..

therez a celebration though before the actual holiday-weekend.. and there were lots of ppl flocking to the shopping areas of Seoul..



at Myung Dong..



and the view at night..



at Itaewon, prior going down to Myung Dong..

somehow, according to my Korean friend, local girls dont go to Itaewon coz the place is shit..

therez too many American soldiers there that cause problems, and there had been cases of the local girls being sexually attacked by them..

So only us foreigners go there coz we dont know any better..

Anyway.. so far no one wants to sexually assault me leh..



I hate poverty..

I really do..

Maybe coz it stemmed from the fact that I had gone thru it during my childhood days.. we didnt beg, but we had gone thru days without food..

Somehow, the beggars in Seoul seems to be the worst that I had seen.. in terms of their conditions.. coz a lot of them are limbless and they move around like the poor man in this pic..

One of the non-professional opinions of some of my friends were that these poor souls might have been kidnapped when they were kids and had their limbs cut off so they look more pathetic and can beg.. and a huge number of these kids were killed after they had passed their dues..

Sad isnt it..

Somehow, even in Singapore, we get ppl living in poverty..

not talking abt ppl living below poverty lines like what the National Census states.. but like those old folks who had to go around the hawker centres collecting empty cans from tables.. and some of them are definitely above the age of 80..

like the old lady who collects the cans at Bedok North St 3 hawker centre..

or the old man on a wheelchair at Bukit Merah View hawker centre..

Somehow these ppl were missed by the Census ppl.. and what kinda society will make them work till they are so close to their expired age?

hmm.. the more we look around, the more we can find.. and it seems that therez nothing that we can do about it..

Unless u ppl got ideas lor..

ok.. anyway.. back to the flight..



My Lonely Maple Leaf, pic taken at Whistlers..

went up to Vancouver, Canada 2 days after arriving in Seoul.. and spent 3 days there..

and somehow, now I prefer the Americans compared to the Canadians..

Dunno why.. but they look more genuine.. even when they dont like u they are more genuine in that.. but they try not to like everyone else too..

maybe coz I dunno much Canadians and those that I met in Vancouver the past days wasnt impressive.. which is surprising, considering the fact that Vancouver had been voted for years to be The Most Liveable City In The World, till last yr when they lost to Melbourne, Australia..

Rented 2 cars for us to drive up to Seattle, across the border in United States.. to go to the Boeing plant, at Everette..

For those who doesnt know.. Boeing is the biggest aircraft manufacturer in the world.. the ones that made the 747 Jumbo jet planes..

The other one would be the European one, Airbus, which is making the A380.. the biggest plane in the world, when it finally come out..

wasnt my luck at the beginning of that day though when I got into a stupid minor accident, which in the end, left me with S$360 poorer and a broken side mirror..

And my camera dropped and the lens was totally unretractable and I was so devastated coz it had been my handy companion for so long..



The new 777-300 Extended Range, 2 of them.. painted with the beautiful White Blue and Gold colors of the Best Airline In The World.. for real u know..

*MY* company tau..



Outside the Boeing company.. this is the last pic that I took before my camera fell and went KAPOOOOOOOOT..

damn..



inside Boeing.. pic now taken with my O2 phone..

sad rite..

Anyway, we couldnt take any pics inside the manufacturing plant anyway coz all electronic equipments are banned from there.. so no camera then wasnt that bad after all..

I didnt go thru cold turkey at that time..

Saw how they made aeroplanes there.. can see development stages from the beginning till the end.. and they are preparing to build the B787 Dreamliner.. another impressive plane when it finally gets built..

yadayadayada..

After the tour, drove down several miles back to a factory outlet at a place called Marysville.. called Tulalip..

One word to describe it

FANTASTIC..

damn.. the outlets were really GODDAMNED CHEAP..

a pair of GAP jeans that I got there cost abt S$30, while the same one cost abt S$80 in downtown Vancouver..

I bought 3 .NET books from Borders at US$15.. thatz US$5 per book.

And the amount of shops they have there.. goodness..

therez Gap, Calvin Klein, Coach, Burberry, blablablablablablabla..

except Abercrombie..



Tulalip.. pic taken with O2.. :(

but ok lar.. luckily still got my trusty handphone..

ok.. anyway.. got back to the hotel at abt 11pm that nite.. coz the distance between Vancouver to Seattle is like from here to KL.. so we drove up and down the same day..

Set off early the next morning to go to the mountains..

My favourite place in the world.. Whistlers Mountain..

This is the place that when I first came here several years back.. I felt like giving up everything I have and just live there..

And seriously.. given a chance, I might just do that someday..

beautiful Whistlers.. on an Autumn day..









The view of the mountain from across..









The river that cuts in between the two mountains.. Whistlers and Blackcomb.. from the Lost Lake..



Maple Trees.. BEAUTIFUL RITE??



my 3 Kimchi friends..

heh..

Korean stewardesses on my flight.. very very pleasant girls..

Iris, Yvette and Kylie..

Kylie is pretty lar.. just that she was hungry..

Got back to the hotel at abt 9pm.. and the drive was like 2 hrz each way..

And went off to Seoul the next day..

Didnt do much on the way back.. coz I changed my plans from going to the theme park Everland coz of the overspending due to the stupid accident.. but ok lar.. I spent another $300 for stuffs for the kids in Melbourne.. when I was in Vancouver.. including a dress for the Princess... yey..

Melbourne..

just a few days away..

and I'll get some kids to bite.. yey..