You'll Never Blog Alone

How's Life?

2011-08-21T14:51:00.003+08:00

I have the sequel a childhood game that brings back many great memories.

I have the King inpiring Liverpool to some much needed optimism.

Some pretty challenging stuff to study. :(

Increasing numbers of edible food. (with plenty of failures along the way)

And friends who make sure life is never dull down under.

Man blogging is getting difficult, maybe I'm getting old. :( Twitter ftw

I don't know how to resize pictures anymore LOL. oh well.

Hiatus

2011-04-17T15:15:00.003+08:00

It's been more than a month since I last posted so err yeah, won't probably update this much anymore. Spam filled cbox is full of crap so I thought Imma just remove that stupid thing. Comment in comments section if you must.

How has life here been? Well, uni is okay, tests so far have been good, but a result yesterday was uber disappointing. Perhaps it wasn't too bad but I made a point to be more kiasu this year teehee. Food is becoming a problem because I'm kinda lazy to do washups so I just don't bother cooking myself. Plus they don't have Asian Food Channel here to inspire me. D: Football (or soccer here) has been mostly positve since I came here, with most, wait, ALL locals I've met so far being Liverpool fans, I did meet an interesting fellow from Mauritius who supports Arsenal though. Tonight is Arsenal vs Liverpool, hoping for a good match although I have a feeling we might lose. :(

I suppose the biggest problem here is really just having a much smaller group of friends. Not that my friends are not cool, they are, but you know lah, the more the merrier and the less the smellier..........? Ahem, so yeah, life does make you wanna swear and cuss a lot more. I think I've been way more foul-mouthed when I'm alone. :X This void even prompted me to get myself a Nintendo 3DS, which has been fun so far. How can Mario not make you smile? Moustache man is happiness. I like how video game shops here have mostly adults in them, not like in Malaysia where adults generally stereotype all games to be childish and kiddy.

So yeah, that's it for now. More updates in the maybe distant but not too distant future. :)

1st Post from Melbourne

2011-02-27T16:54:00.003+08:00

Hello all! Haven't touched my blog much since I came here, Facebook has been my medium for showing off photos and stuff, so yeah, if you're bored and wanna stalk what I eat and shit, just head over to my facebook profile.

That said, I don't exactly have amusing photos to post here now that everything is in my Survivor: Melbourne album. lol fail? So.......... this is awkward.

Aiyah I'll just express everything in words, boo. The first few days were difficult obviously. Parents tend to worry a lot and I honestly thought a few times, 'shit, how to handle myself alone next time?' Not their fault of course, only parents who care would worry. And having been alone for more than a week, I think I'm starting to settle in and not get lost as much, thanks to my cousin too. If still cannot, I always have my bro Wen Shi and the Candice clones to help me out I'm sure. :)

On the other hand, uni hasn't started. I'm lucky enough to meet a few Malaysian friends who were kind enough to show me around RMIT and teach me some selok-belok of Melbourne. My class, from what I see were FULL of locals who definitely looked older than us. FMFL. No Asian girls in sight too. D: No matter, I'll use this chance to.... sharpen my sharpen my madz seduction skillz!!1. So I can take over Malaysia when I come back. Woots.

Like many of my overseas friends would say, yes it does get lonely being alone and adapting to a new country, and of course I miss a lot of people and stuff in Malaysia, I'm not Voldemort. But being more optimistic.. Sometimes getting some alone time isn't all bad. I like it in a sense that when you make mistakes, there won't be people around to go 'LOL YOU SUXORZ!!' It makes it a whole lot more easy to just laugh at yourself, move on, and a learn from that mistake.

Next week onwards, uni will start. 16 hours a week isn't too bad I think, compared to the awesome people who're doig 20+ hours a week. No excuse to slack though, I've performed mediocrely for these past 2, 3 years and hopefully, this will *finally* be the year where I feel good about myself in this regard.

For now, it's West Ham vs Liverpool tonight and all the best to the Red Men! YNWA. :D

Because I'm lazy..

2011-02-12T01:47:00.002+08:00

Read this facebook note I made if you've missed it. Clicky on the link.

woohoo~

Tuesday Blues..

2011-02-08T18:09:00.002+08:00

Walk On

2011-02-01T22:56:00.003+08:00

So, if you've been following me on Facebook or Twitter, you're probably sick of all my bitching regarding Fernando Torres. Hehe, I'm sorry, but I don't think a transfer of a player has ever affected me so much.

But this Torres Saga has only reminded me how much I've grown as a Liverpool FC fan. I've supported this club about 5 years ago. If a player had departed then, I'd probably be like, 'Meh, screw him. Let's move on.' As you see on Twitter now, 5 years on, my responses are more like, '!@#$%^&*& He's an dumbass, he smells like feet, he's a traitor, mangkuk, jia sai lah, eff him, we don't need him. Let's move on.'

See the added enthusiasm?

I still remember the transfers the absolutely gutted me over the years, Peter Crouch, Robbie Keane, Yossi Benayoun sorta, the awesome Xabi Alonso.. and now, I never thought I'd say this, Fernando Torres. Alonso's loss was particularly painful, but we had such a fantastic season that I didn't think one player would make such a massive difference. Boy was I wrong.

Alonso and Torres

The 2 seasons following that fantabulous season have been for a lack of a better word... bad. Horrible, terrible, veggietable. The worst part is that I don't know many Liverpool fans, hence with every losing match the mocking I get only gets worse, with Liverpool redefining 'rock bottom' match after match. But, football has taught me many things for sure, and loyalty is one of them. No matter how bad the team gets (and I don't believe it can get much worse), I will stick by them, and what better club to stick to, than a club with the motto 'You'll Never Walk Alone'.

I suppose football does in a way mirror friendships or relationships too. Hear me out here before glaring at me for being compared to a ball. Yes, Fernando Torres has left us for a rival club, but the manner and timing of his departure could not be worse. You see, Torres' departure is different from the rest in a sense that Nando' has been hugely influential in his early years here at Liverpool FC, 33 goals in the first season anybody? Only C. Ronaldo topped that with a xiao 42 goals. Douche.

Ahem, back to Nando, he's also special because he developed a bond with Liverpool fans. Yes, despite never meeting each other person, he has in fact formed a friendship with us. He scored us goals, we celebrated with him. He gets injured, we stick by him. Even when the club was in turmoil because our horrible. horrible ex-owners, he stick by us.

Now, I don't think this season has been particularly positive, but surely, as of late, I see nothing but optimism. John Henry looks like an owner who genuinely cares for Liverpool FC, whereas the appointment of Kenny Dalglish as the manager has united not only the fans, but also the players. Results are thus far, not painful to the eyes, and this month we even captured the services of renowned striker Luis Suarez. If that ain't positive than you best watch Malaysian Football. Heh. (I kid of course, we should be patriotic and support local leagues)

He did the Hand of God in last year's World Cup. ;D

So with all that optimism, I say, even if Nando wanted to leave, leave lah when the season is over. At least have the honour to see out the season with us, push for an European spot and finish as high in the table as possible. Instead, he handed in a transfer request, on DEADLINE day, giving us less than 24 hours to find ourselves a replacement, and decided to jump ship to one of our top 4 rivals. I can't help but feel like I've just been betrayed by my best friend.

But King Kenny has said some wise words: No player is bigger than the club, and if he does think so, that is just stupid and irresponsible. And so, life goes on, we're now 50mil richer, and have captured the sevices of our new number 7, Luis Suarez and number 9, Andy Carroll. I welcome them to Anfield, and hope they wear those numbers with pride. :)

Andy Carroll. He has a ponytail. :/ And apparently he's worth 35 mil wtf.

I'm leaving for Aussie soon, and will probably be only watching 2 or 3 more Liverpool matches before disappearing. But I know Liverpool FC are in good hands, and with or without Fernando Torres, we will walk on. Adios El Nino, I wish you good luck, but less luck than LFC will have.

Sumimasen Hokkaido Watashiwa Oishi Nandayo Honda City Chicken McPork

2011-01-26T18:25:00.008+08:00

Lucky you readers, you only had to wait 19 days for me to decide to post this. Tee hee.

Well yeah, sorry I'm a little late. Blogging really isn't as hot as it used to be. (May I sugest following me on Twitter instead?) I blame my venture into the Final Fantasy universe that has cost me so much time. Totally worth it though! I've played number, 1,4,5, and 7 and am currently playing through 6, 9 and 10. Magical stuff.

Anyway, I'll answer the major major questions first. Yes, there is snow. A LOT of snow. This is snow just outside the hotel window.

Yes, it is cold. Like -5 degrees celcius cold. I think on the first two days I was so cold that I honestly prefered to just hibernate in the hotel room. But like I said that's only for the first two days. By day three I was a freakin' hero.

Alright I'll be honest, that's just how I was on the outside, this is me on the inside:

Please don't judge me. D:<

Really though, it was THAT cold, so cold that even one of the uncles decided to utilise the cold to cool his beverage.

To me the highlight of this trip to Hokkaido would be the views. The scenery there is truly som of the best I have ever seen in my life. The photos I took probably don't do it enough justice.

Kinda just make you wanna plump yourself into snow to make a snow angel. And that's exactly what I did. :D

Ya la ya la it's a little bit cacat but since when do stuff look as good they do on tv. Speaking of snow activities, you're probably wondering if I made snowmen. Yes indeed, I made an epic snowman.

Ok maybe I didn't make this one. This one was already outside the hotel I went to. Geez which Godlike person could do that? The one I did was more like that:

Some shop owners were rather creative, especially the ones selling seafood, and evidently they put spare parts to good use.

Kids might think twice before going to the market if they keep seeing stuff like this!

Moving on to food, I must say that 80% of the food I had was absolutely stunningly omgwtfbbqkickassawesome good. Just to highlight a few, here're some porn for the stomach.

Sake and abelone!

Ramen!

Yes, a double chocolate fountain, which I utilised to make myself diabetes on a plate.

Alright that's it for now, if I find more witty photos I'll do another post on Japan, but I'll leave you with one of the most interesting bits I saw. Japan still sell boobs!

Apparently they sell these in Genting. Hmm, I gave it some thought and wondered, are these stress balls?

The fun doesn't stop there. My tour guide gave me boob candy. Apprently it's very sweet.

No, I didn't get to try it.

Because by the time I wanted to try it, the boob was sagging already. :(

A little teaser yo.

2011-01-09T17:30:00.005+08:00

About two weeks ago I went to Hokkaido! (That's in Japan for the less geographically knowledgeable ones).

Now a few lucky ones have already seen all my pictures, but for those who haven't, here's the first picture I took in Japan. (well actually second but I assume y'all don't wanna see the modern toilet).

hehehe, yeah, snow EVERYWHERE. Full post to follow soon. Soon here could range from tonight to next month to next year.

S'long Roy

2011-01-06T23:01:00.002+08:00

It has been an emotionally difficult week, and you'd think that some football would be a good remedy to take your mind of the negativity.

No such luck. If anything it only intensifies the negativity. I want to back the manager, I want to have faith in the new signings, but time and time again Liverpool have imploded. A loss to Manchester United? Fine. A loss to Spurs? Okayyyy. But losses to Wolves? To Blackpool? To Blackburn? To Everton?? This is Liverpool Football Club. We should not be losing so frequently to mid-table Mickey Mouse Clubs.

I'm tired of this. I want to trust Roy Hodgson. But after each match, he is starting to look more and more clueless. Notice how he's always rubbing his chin during matches, desperately looking for ideas.

I wrote till there 2 days ago when I was so so pissed at everything. As of now, Roy has been sacked and replaced by Kenny Dalglish. King Kenny is adored by Reds fans all over. Unfortunately I wouldn't understand as I'm still a young fan, but at this point, I'm hoping he'll be able to instill some optimism in the players.

To be fair to Roy, sometimes they players look completely out of it. Torres has flashes of brilliance, but it's nowhere near consistent enough for champions league football. Then again, Roy also brought in Konchesky and Poulsen, both who have been some of the most woeful signings I've seen.

There're plenty of things I want to complain about, but best not complain too much I suppose. I'll keep the faith in Joe Cole and Meireles. At times like this, Liverpool need to stick together, because unity can easily triumph over Moneybags ManCity.

All the best to you Roy, and even more so to King Kenny. You'll Never Walk Alone.

Loss

2011-01-04T14:29:00.003+08:00

Not very comfotable posting this on facebook so I think I'll do it here.

Yesterday morning I lost a good friend whom I've known for more than 10 years to cancer. To be completely honest I was lost for words as it was pretty damn sudden. I'll always remember how she just could not frown in pictures, specially when we were trying to do a horror movie poster in Pangkor two years ago.

If memory serves me correctly, she was the tallest in primary school, even taller than me. And as we became classmates from standard two, right up till form five, I was lucky enough to know her better thanks to Huey Jean. Without a shadow of a doubt, she is probably one of the nicest girls I know. Sometimes, it just feels cruel that fate had to take her away.

My deepest condolences to her family and her friends. We have lost a good daughter, a good sister, and a good friend. At the very least, she does not need to suffer from any more pain as a result of the cancer.

Low Hui Yee, we all miss you. Rest in peace.

2010 year in review

2011-01-02T15:59:00.007+08:00

It doesn't even feel like 2011 yet does it?

For the very first time in my life, I celebrated the new year in a plane. I thought it was pretty cool how the captain did the countdown with us through his speaker. Anywayyyyy I thought I'd post about 2010 to look back upon years from now.

I think there's a lot to talk about so I'll start with cats. This year 2 cats stalked my house, constantly begging for food and shit. Through a series of events which I forgot, we decided to adopt them and we named them KB and KK, Kuning Besar and Kuning Kecil.

Stop saying the name is weird, think of it as Kay Bee and Kay Kay if you must. Sadly KK disappeared one day, never to be seen again. I can only hope he got taken by someone else and is doing fine and dandy now.

But as they say life goes on, and I can happily say that KB is healthy, fat and cute as of now. :)

Not forgetting my other cat, who's 10 this year of course. If fatness indicated how healthy a cat is, Telon may well be immortal.

Telon and KB means that I have the two cutest cats in the world! No, don't argue with me, don't say dogs are cuter, don't say your cats are cuter than mine, don't argue with this fact. My cats are omgbbqkickassawesome. Dot.

Moving on from cats, I'll do a quick summary of studies and games, since they're both topics I've posted before in this blog. In SAM I struggled throughout the year, I think I only did well towards the end of the course when all the tests were no longer counted. Fortunately, I worked hard enough to get a 95.0, which is *just* enough to put me in the top tier and qualify for the awards ceremony. Basically, I'm the dumbest of the smartest, as I like to say.

None would have been possible without help from my good SAM buddies of course, which I have mentioned many, many times. I'm glad to have the dudes help me out whenever the going got tough and mock the girls together when they were being.... girls. Fist bumps all around yo.

(Girls, don't kill me. The class would be as dry as my jokes if it weren't for you lot.)

Credit to the likes of Ian, When Shee and Hsing too for teaching me stuffs despite being occupied with trying to get crazy xiao achievements themselves. (And they did btw, just look read today's papers). If Ian wins the nobel prize or something I hope I get a shoutout!

Here's a picture of him just because it attracted many readers. :)

As for games, well I posted about the notable ones before, but I'd like to give a shoutout to Angry Birds. I think that was the game that my classmates liked, and no doubt I gotta thank them for helping me win some insane levels. Now, I am semi-independant and can win them on my own now, sorta!

My favourite game I played in 2010 though is definitely Final Fantasy VII, truly an excellent game. Yea yea I'm outdated but it's a classic.

Oh, before moving on, a quick mention about how iOS became such a good gaming device in 2010. We've seen some excellent graphics like Infinity Blade.

And game file sizes skyrocketed. FIFA 11 was almost 1GB large. Then you get some super realistic football.

Torrressss! Moving on from gaming, I think I'll talk about football. I've been a Liverpool FC fan for about 4 years, and unfortunately I've never seen LFC win any silverware. Sad, I know. Fortunately, I have seen them play some excellent football, especially in the 08/09 season when we finished second. This season 10/11 , by golly at times we have been absolutely woeful.

I can only hope that 2011 will be a better year. Don't tell me to switch teams, it doesn't work, my soul has already been bounded to LFC and I will be a Red forever. Gotta support the team through thick and thin. Hopefully we'll see more of this, this season. YNWA. (You'll Never Walk Alone)

That's a 240x320 wallpaper. Use it if you like. :)

Also hopefully when we start doing better, I can proudly make more football jersey birthday cards again! See if I made this one for you.

JANUARY 2011 EDIT: SCREW TORRES!

The next topic would be the small screen. Chuck is a show I recommend everyone watches. For some reason G8 doesn't really like it. Sigh. It's an awesome show. Read my old post about it.

NOW.

There're plenty of other shows I recommend. Here're a few.

Lost! Start from season 1. Fine everyone hates it. If you like this show, add your cool points for me yeah?

My favourite series though is How I Met Your Mother. It has humour, heart-warming moments, a show stealing womaniser who reminds all of us single dudes why it's awesome to be single, and an arc running 6 seasons long thus far. Definitely check this one out.

Last week I started watching Big Bang Theory. I'm loving it so far. And especially if you're a nerd/geek, you MUST watch it. Ian Teng would adore this show I think.

From the small screen, let's move on the big screen. Now, due to stupid studies I didn't watch many movies, but eventually I did watch my most anticipated movie ever, Toy Story 3. This movie meant a lot to me because it brings back a lot of childhood memories. I have the original,first Toy Story on tape, and I watched the second in the cinema. The third one didn't disappoint. It was fantastic seeing the fun characters again, no doubt I'll let my kids watch these movies too. :)

However, I don't consider the movie of the year. That award goes to

I'm a huge fan of Christopher Nolan films, and this is potentially his best work to date. I won't mention anything about this because if you haven't watched this, you DON'T want to be spoiled. The soundtrack is pretty damn awesome too. :D

K then, I'm tired of typing so I think I'll stop here. Much like Liverpool, It has been a difficult 2009 and 2010 for me too. But hopefully, we can stop the rot and well, start doing better. Here's to 2011 being LEGEND-wait for it

(Can I have a fist bump?)

-DARY!

LEGENDARY.

Happy new year everyone. :)

Merry Christmas!

2010-12-25T00:45:00.002+08:00

Because the reindeer this year have balls.

hohoho!

A tour through my room

2010-12-24T15:00:00.007+08:00

Hellooo all, have been having writter's block and post-examination laziness syndrome so I haven't been going crazy over blog posts. I got my SAM results last week and I got a 95.00, a fairly respectable result I think! Overall I'm happy my efforts in the external examination paid off for a decent result, but I'm disappointed I couldn't salvage an A in chemistry and physics, probably since my internal brought it down too much.

Anyway! Today I was doing my last minute packing for my trip to Hokkaido tomorrow, and discovered lotsa (mostly) fond memories. Moreover next time when I go to Australia, I won't be seeing much of my room so may as well have a post like this.

Here's an overview!

Spot the sleeping cat. =D

Speaking of cats, you all know how I love cats. Heck way back in Form 3, I made a batik picture frame and put my cat there for my Pendidikan Seni class! Guys always have pictures of their girlfriends and such, I'm no different, only I don't have a girlfriend, I have 2 cats!

She's even posing like a porn star.

Moving on, there's another window you can't see to the left. It gives a good view of my neighbour's house, but I don't do stalking (much).

To the left, I also have a mini football I got from my good Kadet Polis friend Lai Yoong Chieh. I think people pitched in to buy this, and it's pretty darn awesome, for obvious reasons. When I'm pissed after a Liverpool match, I just kick it. =)

On a Kadet Polis related note, I kept the box we won as the marching competition runners-up last year! Damn, I remember feeling absolutely gutted that we lost. But it's a nice box! There're some pencils in there that no one bothered taking lol.

Way back in primary school, people thought I was a bookworm, which was just puzzling. Ask my family and I'd probably kena marah like mad as I'm not much of an avid reader. I did read a lot of manga last time though, if you read my previous post.

Don't believe me?

Hohoho Doraemon, an an an~ Ahh I miss the days when comics were cheaper.

On the right of my room, I have a shelf that I use to display my old favourite toys. You know, the gang in Toy Story? I have a gang too! But I don't play with them. =/ They don't come to life like Pixar's toys, as far as I know. They could be plotting to kill ne as I type this!

In my room I also keep a file, for all the cards and stuff I get from my friends. I imagine I'll be looking at these many years from now. See if you can spot anything you gave me over the last decade!

The oldest card I have in here was given to me by my cousin in 1999. That's like...11 years ago. Damn. I'm getting old. I don't even look that young in the pic. Nevermind I'm young at heart right? Right?

I think I'll conclude this post with the card I got this year, because it's a funny little collection of photos, pretty brilliant considering I haven't even known these bunch of friends for a year.

According to the girls, creating a wall in football and covering your crotch protects your prostate glands. Hmm... I wonder where girls learn that.

Because obviously even my niece is picking up this prostate gland protection business.

Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X

2010-12-14T15:20:00.010+08:00

Back when I was younger (I'm still young), I used to read quite a lot of manga, that's japanese comics for all you living under rocks. I read Pokemon (not the sucky anime), Death Note, Crayon Shin Chan (RIP author whose name I forgot), Dragon Ball Z, Detective Conan and every single volume of Doraemon. Those days a volume costed RM4.50, now I believe it's RM5++, so I stopped buying them, and moved on to online manga scans. The only manga I currently follow is Naruto, and I read it casually, meaning I don't go all 'OMG DID NARUTO JUST DIE??' Spoiler alert teehee, nah he didn't die, or did he??

Ahem, but that's not what today's post is about, today I wanna talk about my all-time favourite manga/anime, Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki, or Samurai X on TV. I'll save the rest for another time.

The story is about a former assassin-samurai called Kenshin Himura (he's that orange-haired fellow in the middle of the above picture) who became a wanderer to protect people and make up for his sins. I'd love to elaborate more but that would be spoiling the story. Plus I'm lazy and my english writing skills are really bad, so I'm sure my summary wouldn't do this series justice.

The series features a cast of characters, many who are instantly likeable and badass. It is also one of the more mature mangas I've read I think. You'll see cool katanas, you'll see blood, lots of blood, so don't expect any characters to take out magical shit from their pocket ala Doraemon.

Speaking of blood, one of the reasons you should watch the anime over manga is that the fight scenes are probably some of the best I have ever seen. They are top notch just makes you wanna go around punching and stabbing people. Yes these sort of shows are bad influence on kids, but boys need to grow up strong and macho so this will help. ish.

The story too, was engaging enough that I watched all of them, I think. It's been a while so I don't remember, but I remember the Makoto Shishio arc being absolutely epic! In the anime, all the arcs after that didn't make me nearly as enthusiastic as this one. It has a flaming mummy as the big baddy, and the end result of that can only be smokkin hot. Geddit geddit?

The music is awesome as well! Now I'm not that into music whereby I don't understand the language but these are just sooo catchy. I just went over to youtube to check out some of them old songs and I absolutely love the nostalgia. If you've watched the anime before, try listening to them again to get tears of nostalgia. My favourite is in the link below.

Here we go~

Most people I know who know this series watched the anime as Samurai X. If you followed it to the end, you, like me, will probably think the ending is just meh. This is why you must must read the manga, it has one last arc that has a lot to do with the main character's past. Honestly, the final arc gives the series the closure it truely deserves. I even bought the final volume because it's that awesome. See this is the final cover:

So yeah, make sure you read the manga. No need to buy them, just google for a manga scan and you're good to go. It'll be in English too, not the BM ones I read. =/

Reading this manga reminds me of old times when I had much less worries. My SAM results come out in less than 48 hours and I'm hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. Rurouni Kenshin will always be remembered despite being rather dated now, but hey it's still enjoyable, and it shows that you don't need to play a random shooting game like Counter Strike to have fun. Plus you can bring manga to school/college to read in class. You can't play Counter Striker in class.

Or can you??

You start worrying about future generations..

2010-12-11T23:03:00.000+08:00

when your 5 year-old niece wants to play CoD.

Why you should support Liverpool FC

2010-11-26T12:17:00.002+08:00

I think I said before that I'd do a post like this, and I wanted to wait for Liverpool to be in a good run of form to post this. But you know, it's difficult to find a time like that nowadays given how close the league is this season, so I'll just go ahead. None-football fans, I shall make this post as universal as possible so as to ensure you don't feel bagai rusa masuk kampung! ;D (Is that peribahasa used correctly?)

This is the Liverpool FC logo

So, who are (is?) Liverpool FC? First off, FC stands for Football Club, not FAN Club like some of my friends thought. Liverpool is a place in England, in Europe, and Liverpool is in another larger place called Merseyside. Merseyside has 2 football clubs in it actually, Liverpool FC as well as Everton FC, that makes them supposedly our fiercest rivals, but Manchester United is generally the more hated one for historic reasons. Also, Liverpool's home stadium is called Anfield. I dream of going there one day. (ie. I will probably never go there.)

This is Anfield

Here are a few reasons why you should support this club, and perhaps why I support this club:

1. 18 league titles, 5 European cups.
This makes Liverpool England's most successful football club, despite us sucking this season. :( Hopefully, that tally would've increased by the time I'm old and have white hair. Manchester United recently got their 18th league title as well, but you know, they had Cristiano Ronaldo so that's kinda cheating. Plus ManU's nickname is Red Devils and we should never like devils.

Ask any Liverpool fan and they'd probably know about Istanbul 2005. This was the year that Liverpool, when in the Champions League final (this would be the European competition), went 3-0 down to AC Milan (an Italian team) at half-time. Yet at the full 90 minutes they miraculously came back to make it 3-3, and win it on penalties. That's as crazy as having a psychic octopus!

Istanbul 2005.

2. The players

Some of the best players are in Liverpool. I'll just mention 3 of them because I don't want readers to sleep. The first one would be Steven Gerrard, the captain of Liverpool. He's probably one of the most influential players around, leading to people saying that he is the one carrying the team, and that's actually pretty true. Beause a Liverpool without

Plus, he has an one hell of an awesome kick:

Teehee

The next is Fernando Torres, Liverpool's number 9, and star striker. Girls say he has good looks, but more importantly, he is probably one of the best strikers in the world, scoring 33 goals in his first season! Too bad he gets injured a lot..

Last but not least is Dirk Kuyt, and he's definitely one to look up to. He doesn't have the silky skillz of Messi, the swagger of Ronaldo, or even the douchebag-ness of Nani, but this guy works so so hard. I tell you, it's like he's always always running, and his never give-up attitude has proved useful for more than a few times.

If there was a guy to symbolise 'Work hard and you'll do well' concept, I would definitely mention him. He proves you don't have to be smart like Ian Teng to be successful, you just gotta work hard.

3. New owners

A few weeks ago, we arguably had the worst owners a football club could hope for, Tom Hicks and George Gillett. They made us have a debt as high as 300 million, they did not support Rafa Benitez, and they broke promises. We didn't really like them.

Now, we have new owners, New England Sports Ventures (NESV), led by John Henry, has wisely made no promises, but his success with the Boston Red Sox, an American baseball team, indicates a stable, bright future for Liverpool FC.

AND his wife is quite a looker!

4. The Fans

Liverpool is also famous for having some of the most patient, craziest fans in the footballing world. Just look at me!

Ahem... yeah I have lotsa friends who are Liverpool fans.. and some who hate them simply because I like them. That's okay.. It gives me a reason to keep in touch with them, to brainwash them!

Did you know that the women's world number one in tennis, Caroline Wozniacki, is a Liverpool fan too?

And so is badminton's Peter Gade, one of those players I have always looked up to.

5. Because I said so.

I'm lazy to write up a 5th reason so just support them. You'll Never Walk Alone! :D

I got myself an iPad.

2010-11-25T00:44:00.003+08:00

But this one cannot touch in certain places one.

Don't Stress About SPM

2010-11-22T21:08:00.004+08:00

Because there was still time to rest.

Because there was still time to mess around with the quarantine room.

and because you're not facing it alone.

All the best to form fives and sixes for SPM and STPM. Don't screw it up like I did, do your bestest, and have fun...?

Games I've Been Playing

2010-11-14T22:10:00.009+08:00

So I have prom tomorrow and I'm glad to finally have the chance to meet up with buddies this time with no exams or studies-related pressure haunting us. I wish it didn't involve fancy clothes and all though, it's a wee bit kekok. Then again I have no complaints if girls provide eye candy. Hee. *hi5 to all da dudes*

Last year when I was form 5, I was probably known for avoiding all sorts of games like the plague, CoD, DotA, L4D, you name it, I didn't play it. I think this year, and since I got the iPod Touch, that has changed somewhat. My friends pressured me into playing CoD and DotA, (Peer pressure!!11!!) and I find it more stressful than exams. Stupid Dragon Knight.

Apart from that, there were a lot of games I really liked. Chaos Rings for the iPod Touch will always be one of my faves because it's such a pretty game with a great great storyline.

Square Enix did this game, so you know it's gonna be at a pretty high standard.

Staying with the iPod Touch, did you know that Sonic the Hedgehog 4 was released on this platform? Pretty neat-o!

Last level's pretty blardy hard. =( But a super fun platformer. I'm still more of a Mario dude though.

And the other famous one that I played this year would be Plants vs Zombies! Gotta love the MJ zombie! Too bad they removed him. That ain't groovy man.

Heh. Oh, and I realised that I absolutely love RPG games this year. As such I really got into many Square Enix games. The oldest game I played is called Chrono Trigger, and I'd bet you're yawning just looking at the somewhat outdated graphics.

Ain't that frog cute? But anyway, I tried this game because I've heard it's one of those all-time classic that passes the test of time. Yeah yeah go on saying I'm an old fart. Google this game and I guarantee you you'll see loads of postive reviews.

and even though Heroes sucks, this game even got a mention by Hiro Nakamura!

The game that intrigued me even more were the Final Fantasy games. Quite fittingly, since Squeenix released the very first FF on the iPhone, that was the first one I played. Didn't have a super story, but it was more of a solid RPG.

Guess who I named my team after? And guess why Shebby's the black mage?

Pretty cool how they maintained the black mage design for the later games, and even used it for Vivi in FF IX!

I also played FF IV Advance, which came out for the GBA but I played it on the iPod from an emulator. Really great game, felt like the breakout game more than anything

Eat Bahamut!

But I think the first FF game that trully blew me away was FF VII. Loved the characters, love the story, loved a lot about it!

It also shows you how much graphics have progressed since waaay back then, because honestly, Cloud looks like some lego, popeye... thing.

But still, I'm not that much into graphics so I played through almost everything in this game. I even got Cloud's ultimate weapon and his final limit break, which took me quite a while to get. Omnislaaaashhhh!

So that's all I remember right now.. Currently playing FF IX and it's a really likeable game. That Princess Garnet is so cute!

I think one of the reasons I like RPG is because you're playing it with no pressure of people beating the crap out of you at it. I'm not a very.... good gamer so I tend to lose a lot. And it gets annoying when people rub it in your face.

Seriously.

Edit: I feel so much geekier after this post.

Fin.

2010-11-13T22:53:00.008+08:00

Hello all who still makes it through the dust to read this blog. After a year in college, my course has finally ended. SAM is over.

This means I can blog more again! (Crowd cheers.....?)

If one asked me to describe college in one word, it'd be pretty difficult to think of one.

Busy, annoying, frustrating, insane, fun, food, tired, sleepy, gleeful, stressful etc.

Definitely busy I'd say, in the year 2009 I had a staggering 88 posts! Hee hee good number no? As of now in November this year, I have 26 posts not including this one. Conclusion? College makes you have no life, literally.

One of the first few pictures I took in Taylor's. The source of a lot of our suffering this year

The cantonese word I probably used most this year was 'Hou ngan fan~' (So sleepyyyy) Coming back at 3, 4, 5 pm everyday takes its toll on you.

I think the lack of sleep makes you lose your hair, because in my pre-prom haircut, the auntie said I have less hair now. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

It probably has been my most stressful year as well, and although I do not think SPM was easy, I certainly think the bar has been set significantly higher when it comes to SAM, which uses Australian syllabus. You'd think that one should easily get over SPM results, but every success I see in others reminds me of my own failure to achieve decent results myself, especially in SPM earlier this year.

Rafa Benitez was pretty stressed too at Liverpool this year.

SAM exams were even tougher, and throughout the year my results were average at best. The good news though is that I think I did my best in the final exams, the ones that count the most. Yet I'm fully prepared to accept that trying your best is sometimes is not good enough, and if I don't see desirable results in December, even if I'll probably be upset, I think it's important to know that I did my best.

Shifting the tone a little, one of the best things about this year would be the unforgetable friends I've met in college.

These bunch of people were annoyingly smart, but eventhough they had omgwtfbbq crazy supply of knowledge, almost every single one of them were willing to help you out if you had problems. It didn't even matter if it was in studies, sending you a downloaded copy of CoD, or getting porn! (Just kidding about the porn, durh.) It's easy to see why when you have these people around, every class seemed like a party.

ya rly

As for teachers, won't go into too much details but they're super helpful and I'm very thankful to every single one of them for the patience and lessons. And if they're willing to high 5 you (or even the lame high spock), surely they can't be that bad horh?

Yeah, I know, who's that dude with the weird hawaian shirt?

The ONLY two complaints I have for my friends is that,

1. NONE of them are cat people. Seriously dogs smell funny and all, what do people have against cats??

If I don't do well for my exams, it's because my cat peed on my homework.

2. NONE of them like Liverpool.

Yes yes they've been rather terrible lately, but don't lah rub salt onto my wounds. Besides, remember how Torres killed Chelsea with his 2 goals?? =DDDD

Tee hee.

In a nutshell. It has beem a year filled with plenty of ups and plenty more downs. I've grown very fond of these college buddies and this is probably why I'm not looking forward to uni as much as I would like.

I step out of college with plenty to remember.

The last picture I took at Taylor's.

And if I was asked to describe my college year in one word. I think I'd opt for the word, memorable.

My cat(s) is still better than yours

2010-10-27T18:03:00.005+08:00

Remember my very first post in this blog 2 years ago?

I mentioned my cat Telon has uber ninja stealth skills.

Well, my new cat KB has uber ninja skills too.

I guess he still has a lot to learn though.

Competition for mating partners

2010-10-06T21:45:00.004+08:00

Managed to see this happen for peacocks when I went to Taiwan a while back!

If only humans had it as simple as erecting a tail to impress the ladies. Would be easier, and cheaper.

New look, (hopefully) New fortunes

2010-09-29T22:53:00.004+08:00

Not a lot has gone right these few weeks. To say I've been underperforming in college is an understatement. I have been a complete flop. Think Adriy Voronin's time at Liverpool. THAT bad. Unfortunate events happening to others around me makes shit even smellier.

Normally football is a way to get rid of stress. Not this season. As they recorded one of their most embarrasing defeats I have ever seen as a LFC fan. Liverpool 2 Northampton 2, Northampton win after extra time on penalties. Granted, they lost on penalties, but they were playing at Anfield for goodness sakes!

All which leads to me being in the same expression as Liverpool:

But remember my blog policy of 'NO excessive emo posts', I believe that (hopefully), the night is darkest before the dawn, and that at the end of this tunnel, there is light.

Remember that Barney we looked up to? The one who taught us to be happy? The one we apparently outgrew?

Well, fret not, there's a NEW Barney we young adults can look up to.

Barney Stinson

Words of wisdom indeed, perhaps when we get sad, we should stop being sad, and be awesome instead.

And there's more wisdom, the hot - crazy scale! (girls look away now)

Ideally you'd want someone slightly above that line, so as to get a lady who's hot, but not TOO crazy, you know, like a lady who supports Manchester United or Chelsea. The red zone is the danger zone, whereby you find a gal who's really crazy. Stay. Away. From them. They might be so crazy that don't like food. Who doesn't like food??

oh wtf, talk about straying off topic.

I guess it's gloomy times like these where you have to remain positive. I truely believe that even Liverpool can bounce back once the ownership issues are solved and the new players fit in better. Like I always tell me friends, being loyal to a football club is like being loyal in a relationship! I quickly found out later that girls don't like being compared to a football club. Hmm.

And I don't know how changing the template of this blog has anything to do with all of this. But it's nice right? Old one was getting ancient anyways. ;D

The night is darkest before the dawn, but this is one long night indeed.

When cats collide.

2010-09-24T20:58:00.004+08:00

Recently I've had a new cat in the house. His name is KB (Kuning Besar). He's a bit like a Garfield, not as fat I suppose. So, when he meets Telon, you'd think that an epic battle would commence, to be the dominant cat of the house.

Not the case.

Because both of them are too bloody lazy to fight.

Why you should jailbreak your iPhone/iPod Touch/iTampon

2010-09-24T19:57:00.008+08:00

Hello guys I'm alive. Haven't been posting as much since my year so far is comparable to Liverpool's. Life's a bitch.

On to today's post then. If you have an iDevice, chances are I've probably told you to jailbreak it. And today I shall tell you exactly why you should do that.

When you purchase your iDevice, Apple has restricted you to only modify what they want you to. So what you're doing by jailbreaking it is 'freeing' it. In order words, you'll be free to change what you want with it.

Example? This is how your springboard looks like if you didn't do anything, with only the background changeable.

Mine is iPod touch is jailbroken, and this is how it looks like:

Fully customiseable icons, 5 icons in the bottom dock, complete awesomeness. *geeks*

One of the main reasons I urge people to jailbreak is also for its games. Now, I won't promote piracy on this blog. But ahem, you can *try* full versions of games by downloading these games for free.

And there are some seriously awesome games on the iPhone. Old classics have been ported, like Sonic!

There's Pro Evolution Soccer and even FIFA:

And even a big company like Square Enix is supporting games on the iDevice:

Even if you prefer non-iPhone games, there're emulators that lets you play say, GBA games.

Or if you're REALLY ambitious, you can play PSX games. Would you believe I finished playing Final Fantasy VII on the iPod?

So yeah, there're plenty of reasons to to jailbreak. If you're on iOS 4.1, there's no easy way to jailbreak yet. But if you're on iOS 4.0. It's insanely easy. Just ask me and I'll tell you how.

World Cup 2010 Highs and Lows

2010-07-30T21:52:00.006+08:00

Bare with me here people, apparently people are more interested in me blogging about toilets than the biggest sporting event held once every four years. I shall try to make this readable for everyone and not just for footy geeks.

First things first, let's get the most important thing out of the way.

Despite the success of this years world cup, it was still rosak because it seems that none of the great footballing has received due credit.

Not the youthful free-flowing footballing Germans,

Not the hardworking never-say-die Dutch,

Not even the deserving European champions and reigning world cup winners themselves, Spain,

Nope, the true star of this world cup was the only one to get an unbeaten run, to get double the fame, double the glory and heck, it even double the number of our limbs. It's none other than PAUL THE OCTOPUS!

It's pretty tragic actually, Spain played some good stuff throughout the tournament, so to have an octopus hog all the limelight away from the brilliant midfield maestros in Xavi and Iniesta is pretty sad loh.

You'd think that on twitter/facebook, people would be going all "OMG SPAIN ARE AWESOME!!" or "OMG TORRES SO HANDSOME!!"

But instead,

Moving on from the eight-limbed menace, we also had a beautiful albeit cacat world cup ball, the JABULANI.

I got to see it in Taiwan teehee.

This ball imo looked awesome, and had meaningful colours and er, meaning behind its design, but it also flew everywhere.

Maicon was able to score from an impossible omgwtfbbq angle (although he is one of the worlds best to be fair.)

and even NASA has ran tests to prove that the ball is hard to control, it's THAT big of a deal.

Read more about it here: http://yhoo.it/cyAVJv

And finally, let's no forget one of the biggest controversies of the tournament, the goal that England scored against Germany, that never was.

How in the world did the officials miss this??

Such a shame, the ref could have checked freakin Twitter to get that call right. Wouldn't go to England for a holiday forever if I were him.

There ARE rumours however that the ref made the correct call. Those people even included proper footage from the match, saying that the goal was indeed NOT valid.

Hmmm.

Well England did not deserve to win anyway so that's okay.

So I've been sounding quite negative about this year's world cup, but in truth, it's really quite an experience, because even in a class where few people watch football, the atmosphere was still 'waka waka' everywhere. In fact, for one of my friend's birthday, we (the guys) were tasked to make a card, so seeing how creative we were, we made a snazzy World Cup jersey card.

Nice eh? Just shows how celebrated the World Cup really is.

.... although admittedly we didn't start off with the idea very well.

edit: omg i didn't mention Liverpool in a football post!

A look into the girls' toilet...

2010-07-20T17:41:00.005+08:00

Before you people start accusing me of being a perv, let me point out that I DID NOT go into the girls' toilet. It is my policity not to cabuli their kehormatan and stuff like that.

So I asked my female classmates to go in there and take pictures for me. (In my defense they seemed really gung-ho about it!)

K, so let's enter the lion(ness)' den!

First thing guys will notice is the absence of the fountain. It's very practical and convenient for guys who do not have a full bladder but want to free some bladder space anyway. Strangely it seems that very few guys use it in my class. People need their privacy I guess.

The urinal is missing as well, but even Taylor's doesn't have that, hmm. Maybe they'd like the place to be cleaner in case some guys misfire.

Then again, they can copy those Taiwan people and just put a sign:

That way people will know that they have to stand closer so urine doesn't fly everywhere.

Apart from that however, everything looks pretty identical, even the chambers.

Model not included

The hole, the hose, it's all very familar. But one thing that guys have yet to try out would be the capacity of chamber.

Aparrently, a girl's chamber can fit up to THREE girls at once!

We doods ought try out how many people we can fit in there at once.

So that's about it. Oh yeah, if you read my 'more toilet woes' collumn to your right, you'll know that you can see other peoples' heads while you're peeing.

See, for girls this isn't a problem, since they're squating and all,

but for guys...

NO I wasn't peeing while taking this pic.

Why shouldn't you go near swimming pools

2010-06-22T22:13:00.004+08:00

Can't believe I forgot to blog about this. Ivan if you're reading this don't feel bad ya! This is a story I want to immortalise to tell my kids ala How I Met Your Mother (a legendary show I will blog about). Hence I shall write this post, assuming I am an old man! (with kids and all, I'd like to think I'm not single when Im an old man.)

Kids, there is a reason why I used to tell my friends I'm allergic to water, and it happened 30 years ago when I was doing SAM in taylors college. Back then, we had many good friends leaving to pursue their studies in other courses. So, us being the good classmates we are decided to throw them a surprise party.

Now, I'd tell you kids what we did in the surprise party but I'm old and cannot remember so let's skip ahead of all that. Basically it ended with this picture,

See if you can spot me in this picture! =D (hint: I'm in the pool)

Now, normally getting pulled into a pool is fun and all and refreshing, but that isn't the case when you have everything in your pockets, that includes my phone, ipod and wallet!

kids, if you haven't learnt this in school,

WATER+ELECTRONICAL DEVICES=BAD

So naturally, phone and ipod were in coma lah.

Thankfully, after my mom (or your grandmother) hairdried my phone, it suddenly liiived. (Thanks ma!)

Good enough to play Doodle Jump! I promise I'll beat auntie Anna and uncle Calvin's highscore one day.

The problem now was the Apple iPod. it didn't live no matter what I did, and believe me I tried EVERYTHING.

From hair drying...

To putting it in a bowl of rice for days. (Internet say can one)

To divine assistance.

(kidding, no offence to religious parties)

it STILL did not work.

but after a few days, I decided to plug it in. And miraculously, IT WORKED!

Good enough to play Chaos Rings. =)

... and it still works today.

So kids, I don't know what did the trick, the praying, the drying, or the rice. If it's the rice, you see why I never let you waste rice now. Either way, I won't ever forget this day.

Moral of the story: I am not buying you kids Ipods or phones, and Im not letting you go near swimming pools until you're 30.

England 6 - Spain 0

2010-06-19T00:24:00.004+08:00

Yeah, right. That's as likely as Spain losing to Switzerland or Italy drawing with Australia.

oh wait.

For those who didn't know I was talking about this little thing called the FIFA World Cup, bicycle kick yourself in the groin and get the hell out of that rock you're living in.

Yarrrr, anyway getting back on topic, it's the World Cup woooooo! Pretty amazing how 4 years ago I wasn't even a Liverpool fan yet. Heck I probably didn't even know the rules of football. Yet it was from there, I started getting into football.

Which is the beautiful thing about this beautiful game. Even for non-fans, when you're watching a World Cup match, there's this thing about knowing the whole world is watching this match with you, cheering and swearing. It's also kinda funny to see people who don't usually know a THING about football, suddenly start talking as though they've been watching the sport for years.

For those who are bored already (girls and football haters, im looking at you), I URGE you to read my post a while back on....

5 EASY STEPS TO ENJOYING FOOTBALL

These 5 steps have been proven to work 83% of the time!*
*more or less,kinda, sorta, success not guaranteed, blog not responsible for failure, no animals were harmed in these 5 steps

Anyways, I hate pretenders who think they know all about football, so here I shall present to you all some players of the world cup that everyone should know. These facts presented here are completely unbias, fair and do not in any way indicate which team(s) I support for the world cup. Due to time constraints, I'm just gonna do England today.

Note that I'm not that knowledgeable about football.

1. ENGLAND

Now, I'm not saying that I support England here, but I'm just pointing out 3 of their best players who stand out and add the most quality to the team. Without these 3 players, England would suck, England would be shit, England may as well play in the Malaysian Super League.

Firstly, their captain, Steven Gerrard.

This guy is a leader, and he scored England's first goal against the USA. Non football followers, keep an eye on this guy.

The next Englishman Im mentioning is so good, that the manager called him out of international football retirement just to play in the squad, its Jamie Carragher!

and come on, if you called someone to come out from RETIREMENT to play, he has got to be absolute omgawesomekickass, otherwise t'd just be pity. (IT'S NOT)

Lastly, Glen Johnson! He's a right back, a defensive position if you didn't know, and yet he supplies lotsa goal scoring chances and occasionally has a crack on goal himself!

As said before, England is shit without them, so keep your eyes on them! (and only them) England really is a good team, and I believe that these 3 players, regardless of what club they play for, add tremendous amount of quality to the team. Yeah yeah there's Wayne Rooney but he looks like an Ogre so who cares.

NOTE: it is purely coincidential that these 3 players I mentioned play for Liverpool. (sorta. support Liverpool when next season starts btw)

Not saying anything lah, but you know, connect to the dots yourself.

waka waka eh eh! /random

New Kits

2010-05-18T18:01:00.004+08:00

Just so you all know, this blog is NOT dead. Just that lotsa emo stuff has been happening and I stand by my policy of not posting about emo stuff.

So come Thursday I guess I'll be blogging again. But just to brush the cobwebs of this blog a little bit.. let's talk about Liverpool's new kit. (That would be what they'll be wearing next season.)

Back when I was a freshie, one of the reasons I supported Liverpool was because of their awesome looking jerseys. I mean, just look at our away kit last season.

Gotta admit, it looks awesome right?

I mean, even I wear it on a number of occasions, thanks to Huey Jean giving me this last year. (THANK YOUUU!)

ahem, still think its awesome? The hat and flower was forced onto me. Beeing class rep doesn't grant you as much authority as people think. =/

Next season though, instead of having an awesome looking Golen Carslberg on the shirt, we get Standard Chartered Bank. Bllaaaah. What's next? Proton? (No, just no.)

Ah well... at least Liverpool shirts are halal now..

Because rules are meant to be broken

2010-04-10T18:24:00.001+08:00

The secret to staying alert in class

2010-04-06T23:35:00.003+08:00

With college ending at 3 or 4, you sometimes wonder how to not fall asleep in class. Seeing how well my classmates are doing, I did some jr. private eye work.

And a quick look into the class dustbin revealed the solution.

Liverpool Comment: No Beach Ball No Problem

2010-03-29T20:51:00.006+08:00

omg I broke my policy of no emo posts in my last post. Let's talk something happy like football. Ummm girls if you're not interested just look at the pictures of football lengzhais lah hor.

Just when I was ready to write a post ranting about Liverpool's horrific season, they start to show signs of resurruction. Defeat at Old Trafford shouldn't be too surprising, considering they had played many matches that particular week. But their performance against Sunderland showed so many positives. That and how sucky Sunderlad was. Hmm.

A wonder goal and a classy finish from Torres made it his sixth goal in four matches I think, and if he stayed fit throughout the whole season, chances are Liverpool would be in a muh better postion than they are right now.

Even Dirk Kuyt (right) couldn't help but giggle at Torres' awesomeness.

In my opinion Torres dominance sorta overshadowed many positives. Let's start with the other goalscorer that day, Glen Johnson. School buddies should know how much I admire this right-back. A brilliant strike with his left food, and a cool assist for Torres clearly shows that he gives Liverpool another dimension in attacking football. And how could a Liverpool fan forget his acrobatic first goal in a Liverpool shirt?

Then there's the much-critisised captain Steven Gerrard. He set the bar so high in previous seasons that his performance this season just isn't good enough. Last night however, Stevie G played from a deeper role, replacing Lucas Leiva and he did so much better, nearly scoring a goal for himself. Maintaining this sort of form will definitely push Liverpool to European glory and that 4th spot.

Gerro celebrating after being blogged about.

Liverpool took another star from Atletico Madrid this season, the former captain Maxi Rodriguez. I am so glad that we finally have a natural right winger. Early on when he was settling in, he was so anonymous that at times it didn't feel like he was on the pitch. In recent games however he is starting to contribute more and more, already assisting two for Torres, and if it weren't for some omgkickassawesome goalkeeping last night, he would have his first Liverpool goal. Irony is I remember Maxi scoring against Liverpool in the CL last season. ehh.

Finally we have the new 18mil boy Alberto Aquilani. Injuries to illness, it hasn't been an easy road for him, but it looks like he's finally recovered and ready to play. Rafa still likes to play it safe by playing Lucas but Shebby Ew thinks it's time to let him step up! He has some classy first touches, a handful of assists already, and even recently scored his first Liverpool goal with his weaker foot. That's something Lucas has yet to do.

So many more positives like Kuyt's never say die attitide and Babel's rise in form, but readers are probably bored by now, (or didn't bother in the first place) so I'll end it soon. The following weeks prove crucial as Liverpool must win all their remaining league games to secure that 4th league spot.

What's more, the Reds have arguably the toughest draw in the Europa League, Benfica in the quarters with Valencia/Atletico Madrid waiting in the semis. Should we win the quarters, a David Villa vs Fernando Torres clash or Rafa vs Valencia is just plain mouthwatering. Whoever said the Europa League sucks?

For now though, Liverpool fans, let's rejoice at the fact that Sunderland didn't have their star player to sink us like they did last time.

March on

2010-03-26T23:14:00.002+08:00

Hmm. March has been a busy month. So busy that I forget to take pictures of all the interesting things I do nowadays.

This week I had to go to Hospital Kuala Lumpur as a requirement for the JPA Scholarship, which I probably won't even get due to my abysmal SPM results. Nontheless it's a crucial experience as it lets you see just what how much shit you're getting yourself into by doing medicine. From seeing newborn babies to seeing (and smelling) dead bodies, it's certainly an eye opener.

Turning the clock back, Liverpool lost to ManUnited 2-1 despite taking the lead. !@#$%^&*

I also did my first driving lesson after ages of procrastinating. And now I'm less scared of driving sorta!

Going back even further, I got my spm results back. What a rollercoster ride that was! As I forgot to return my SPBT books, Mr Gan decided to tahan our results till 2pm, make us wait half an hour, tell us to call our parents, and THEN give us our results back. And when it was my turn to get the results, he didn't even scold me. pfft.

Not that I'm complaining though, perhaps he knew that my results would be punishment enough. Sure 11A's and 1B looks decent, but disect that further and it's 3A+, 6A,1 A- and 1 B+. Looking at the rest, A+ isn't difficult to obtain, so my results are kinda blah. What sucks even more is that I couldn't even get A+ for BM, a subject I was super confident in. I even recall describing the paper as perfect. pfft. What's worse, no A+ in any of the sciences either, perhaps that's why college is pwning my ass.

To be positive, I got A- in chinese. Normally I'd be happy as !@#$ looking at this result, but then I saw the result below it. EST - B+. And well, you know that feeling had when Liverpool lost to ManU? Multiply that by ten.

Irony of it all is that tomorrow I'm supposed to go to Hari Anugerah Cemerlang, for results that brought me to tears. (not tears of joy, mind)

Ah well, perhaps with March soon to be over, April and beyond will be better.

Poll: What do you like most about college?

2010-03-22T00:40:00.004+08:00

Hello all and welcome to another edition of Poll of the Week/Month/Year/Century etc.

I haven't been blogging as much and clearly I have less readers now. 14 votes only for this poll wtf?? What happened to those days with 30++ votes? I am disappointed.

But that's what you get when you're less acitve in the cybah world. SPM results came out recently, but more on that some other time.

On to the poll then. A lot of us have started college, a new chapter of life. When a new chapter unfolds, there're bond to be awesome stuff. Let's see what the voters thought.

Can Facebook and sleep in library! (0 votes)

Assuming only my classmates voted in the poll, clearly no one slept in the library before.

No pics for this option because I was too busy ~~sleeping~~ studying in the library.

which just shows you how much some people like to study, looking at the next option.

Studying lolz!!!11! (3 votes)

In G8 (my class), there're waaaaaay too many smart people. Heck at times I feel like Malaysia playing in the Barclays Premier League.

I suppose it's because they embrace the prospect of studying, to make studying a celebrated event..

...perhaps a little too much.

Food food foooooooood (3 votes)

I always tell people, the best thing about Taylors, is everything OUTSIDE Taylors. It's food heaven out there yo. Why only 3 people voted for this is beyond me.

Let's just let the pics do the talking hor?

nuff' said.

Awesome new friends like *cough* Gene Wern! (6 votes)

Another thing beyond me is how this got the most votes.

Awesome new friends are friends who back you up even though you've known them for barely three months.

Awesome new friends are friends who laugh at your jokes.

No matter how lame they are.

"SAM, YAT, YI!"

That's YOU G8! =D

btw, I know that some readers may not have started college yet, so I put an option that ANYBODY can choose..

Liverpool rocks! (2 votes)

I'd be more upbeat about this but Liverpool just lost 2-1 to Manchester United.

What a horrid season this has been, it's like anybody can score against them.

Anybody,

Even a beachball.

DIY nature-saving-but-tree-killing-cardboard iPhone dock

2010-03-08T19:28:00.005+08:00

I thought I had a somewhat productive weekend.. Did some solid studying.. progressed in FF1.. Killed Wen Shi in Eliminate Pro and even had time to craft a handy dandy cardboard iphone/ipod dock made from cardboard!

This is probably due to the fact that Liverpool didn't play over the weekend. Meh.

Anyway, while browsing a gaming website I follow, I stumbled upon a guide on how to make one of these docks. So me, being the nature loving, Captain Planet worshipping Planeteer, I decided to give it a go.

Even Captain Planet himself smiled upon this.

After a few minutes of slicing through cardboards with my mighty blade of epic awesomeness etc, it was done, and uuuh I guess it's ok lar, it's functional, at least.

hee, not too "Shebby" eh? Of course, I AM a guy, so naturally you can see a few rough edges here and there. The blade may be mighty and awesome, but the hands are a completely different story.

Case in point:

yeah, my shit hands are back. boo fml. >=(

I suppose I could give it a layer of papier mache (sp?) to make it more solid when I'm free. (ie I'm probably never going to do it anytime soon.)

One really cool (and cute) feature of this dock is its usability with the connecting cables.

Cute riiiiite? Like a little mouse tail waiting for you to chop off with the epic blade of awesomeness. (Don't cut mine ffs, expensive wei.)

Also, if you plan to treat yourself to some mini (and by mini I mean VERY mini) HD movie/TV watching on the idevice, just turn it over into landscape mode and enjoy!

Are your mouths open in awe? Probably not, but if you own an iDevice, and think you could make a better cardboard dock, go ahead and give it a go by going to the link below.

http://bit.ly/7iY29f

Also, new readers to my blog, you'll notice a poll on your left. Please please vote as I use it as blogging materials like this so:

Which doughnuts are the best?

Have a nice day.

Some people are so desperate

2010-03-05T22:55:00.003+08:00

ffs don't vandalise just to campaign your dude lah!

college has been an ass so less updates for now. hi-8-us ftw.

School to College

2010-02-17T00:21:00.003+08:00

When one exits school life to enter the unpredictable world of college, one of course expects change. Change can be good, change can be shit.

To all my juniors reading this blog (do I even have any?), I'm not gonna spoil the surprise of what kind of friends you'll meet in college, how different teachers will be, how much better the food will be, how much smellier the toilets are etc.

Nope, instead I've decided to scare you guys with all the new things you'll be learning so you can get a heads up and do earlier preperation! (and also because I only have these photos to post.)

Let's start of with Chemistry. Remember the days when they asked you for electron configuration of an atom?

and you could just dump 2.8.1 and get awesome possum marks?

Not anymore.

That long piece of crap beside the elements is the true way to write electron configuration. wtf.

Also, do you love how your calculator keeps getting you out of trouble? ok, well not always, thanks to Mr Liang, but still.

In college, if you do SAM, your little calculator will have to meet its stronger tougher and bigger tai kor.

It's not all bad, this calculator can play games one, like Calculator Hero!

haha just kidding,

no wait, actually seriously, it can play Calculator Hero. wtf right.

With all these idiotic changes in college it must really piss you off. Heck, it pisses me off.

It pisses me off so much.

That I just want to stuff my cat on my books to poop on them.

Subway Breakfast Set Review

2010-02-15T01:43:00.003+08:00

oh damn, haven't been updating, lack of inspiration these days blaaaaah.

Fear not though, back I am, with a review of something that actually makes you full. Ya lah I know this is like the second straight food review, but believe me the breaks are the most fun you can have in college. You don't expect me to go blogging about math do you?

Anyway, today let's take a look at Subway's Breakfast Set!

Purchasing this set will give you a sub and a cup of coffee, tea or Milo.

Now, there're a few subs you can choose from, but I don't remember what the choices are since I'm a bad reviewer. Don't worry lah they all look omgwtfbbq smokin good. Shouldn't go wrong no matter what you choose.

Looks damn awesome right? There's an egg in all the variants so don't fret if you want the egg but this stupid reviewer didnt remember the sub he chose.

Along with the sub you also get a hot drink. I obviously chose coffee. Coffeee goooooooooooooood. Plus this alone would make my math teacher buy it.

You can also choose milo or tea if you're into that kind of stuff. You don't know what you're missing when you're missing out on coffee though!

Word of advice: Don't put 3 sachets of coffee mate and sugar EACH into one cup of coffee for obvious reasons. 1 each is suffice actually. Just pointing out to some of my classmates hehe.

Ok, I don't remember what I chose, but there was ham in it! Subway regulars should know the rest. You pick the isi, you pick the sause, you pick the bread. That's what makes it distinctly Subway.

I really like the egg for some reason. When I saw the dude pop it onto my sub, there was just something so blissful about it. The only thing more blissful than that was popping the sub into my stomach. 7th heaven yo.

Still not clear? No worries, this review has taken effort to show you a cross section of the sub.

No knife required to show cross section. I used my teeth to get through the middle. =D

As you can tell, I love Subway's Breakfast Set a lot. But that's not the best part! A normal sub+drink would cost you RM10, minimum, but not this set, with the breakfast set, it's 1 sub+1 hot drink+1 blissful stomach=RM6.50!

School kiddos will say its expensive, but in the harsh world of college, that is a damn good bargain, considering how much awesomeness your tummy's gonna experience. Major yum yum to the tum tum.

So, if you haven't tried this yet, try it! You canNOT miss it! oh yah, this offer is only valid till 11.00am everyday, so school kiddos will have to wait till college to try it regularly. TEE HEE.

Let's end the review with another satisfied customer.

ok I think I seriously need a new dude to advertise the products.

Subway Chocolate Chip Cookie Review

2010-02-02T23:45:00.003+08:00

A lot of good food around Taylors, so let's start with something small eh?

Subway may specialise in sandwiches, but they make cookies too. Today after a cool treat at 100 yen, I got myself a chocolate chip cookie from there. Because I'm random like that.

What makes it so special? uuuuh actually I also dunno, I've never been picky with stuff like these. Unless they contain raisins, i hate raisins.

Thankfully they don't! What they do have is a generous amount of chocolate chips, which you will delightfully discover upon taking a couple of bites.

Texture wise it's good too, as it strikes a good balance between crispiness and softness. I can imagine myself enjoying this even more with some milk. Miiiiiiiilk.

This cookie is bigger than your average cookie, hence the RM1.30 price tag.

Personally, I don't think it's THAT big though, so I'd rather save the cash to buy something like the cafeteria's ice-cream. Then again, I am somewhat stingy lah, and there're some who say that these are top top cookies.

So yes, you should try it at least once, and decide from there if you're willing to shell out RM1.3o per cookie in the future.

Happy customers after eating Subway Cookies:

(from left: Michelle, Vivian, Annabell(a) and Priscilla)

Sorry if i spelt your name wrongly!

I'll post a review of the actual subs in the near future.

In the meantime, here's a preview:

Thank you Ivan.

College Week 1

2010-01-25T19:22:00.007+08:00

Wow. One week of college and I'm exhausted. To the point where I didn't even have time to blog in the weekend. Today is one of those rare days when I didn't get homework.. but the nerd within me keeps telling me to go study. pfft.

Anyway, as most followers should know, I'm doing SAM. (see it's written on the third floor of the above pic) It's as easy as Andy Roddick making it into the semi-final of the Australian Open, meaning to say here that it's freaking omgwtfbbq hard, but absolutely doable.

Hard, but life is made better by the awesome super mega ultra giga food around the campus, like Subway! (I'm using this as my wallpaper now, bizzare..)

I've met some pretty interesting friends.. 30 people in my class, 10 guys and 20 girls hee hee. Most frustrating is the fact that no one watches football. Now I can't complain and stuff everytime Liverpool lose, which is happening A LOT more than it should be this season. wtf.

A quick step into the student's carpark though, and you'll see that truly, You'll Never Walk Alone. =)

That aside, I like my class. I mean, you know the class is more than meets the eye when you see Calvin's calculator.

complete with non-halal KFC rm19.90 alcohol filled etc etc calculator.

Whether or not my class had more guys or girls or pondans, I'm still happy with the people I've met. Calvin who's so tech-savvy that I wouldn't be surprised if he managed to hack the world bank, Wen Shi who so boldly told us what FML meant, Ivan who's er... Ivan, Annabell who likes to eat bread, Candice whose happy energy I really like and many many more. It's a class where you can truly say, "Macam-macam adaa~"

Moreover, I'm just grateful they don't do what they do at my sister's campus.

ok, that's it for now, before I leave, I HAVE to express the awesomeness of the ipod's wifi! That's right! Taylors has free wifi, meaning you can access internet from ANYWHERE!

.... ok, well almost anywhere.

Just so you guys know college hasn't killed me,

2010-01-18T23:23:00.004+08:00

Hello I'm alive!!!!

uuh haven't uploaded my blogging photos yet, so...

Here's a picture of Telon!! =D

More stuff when I'm free.

A New Bab

2010-01-12T22:28:00.005+08:00

holy flying fish I'm going to college tomorrow. With spm and the break over, finally we can leave everything behind and head towards a new chapter in life!

The awesome part about moving forward is that despite the new environment, friends will always be around, as they only a text message, a pm or a fb message away. I'd mention twitter but you twits refuse to embrace the brilliance of twitter! >=(
Point is don't emo because it's not life or death.

I'm semi-excited about college.. should have a better idea of it after tomorrow. The food is one aspect I'm really looking forward to, the prices, not so much. No more bang to give me discounts. =(
Studying, well I know that whichever path I choose, be it A levels or SAM, (I chose the latter). it's gonna be super tough considering the course I want to take.

I hope I don't end up a kera sumbang with the new people I'm gonna meet. But one thing about socialising, I figured out two rules which applies only to dudes: As long as you play online games such as DotA, CoD, etc, (which I don't), you'll be okay.

The other alternative, which I usually take advantage of, is by watching football. Friendship can be triggered within seconds if you see someone wearing a Liverpool jersey. The dialogue usually goes something like this.

Dude1: Liverpool?
Dude2: Liverpool!
Dude1&2: *high 5*

Brilliant. It could backfire though if you see someone in a Manu Jersey..

Dude1:ManU?
Dude2: Liverpool.
Dude1: Go @#$% yourself.

Moral of story: Support Liverpool.

Well, that's it for now. Gotta get ready and all since I have to wake up at 6 and go to college and suffer and study and cry and emo emo emo boo boo life is meaningless etc.

ok that was weird.

zomg this post have no pics!

Apple Ipod Touch Review in 4 Words

2010-01-07T22:02:00.002+08:00

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kadet kadet kadet

2010-01-06T23:49:00.007+08:00

(someone say "polis")

Those who listened to my graduation speech, and not fall asleep like some people, will remember me mentioning Kadet Polis. It got a few chuckles (I hope) but I think that shows how passionate I am about the Police Cadets. (I will call them Kadet from here onwards because I am lazy to type an extra 5 letters.)

We all know how koko develops us physcially mentally sexually yadda yadda yadda.

I had high hopes for the English Language Society (ELS), having been in the club since form one, working my way up the ranks, but a combination of lost members, unfamilliar teachers, and bad leadership on my part really led to a sad sad downfall.

I won't blame the teacher because there was hardly anything she could do about it, and it IS a students club after all. Hence I apologise to the ELS members for being a tahi leader, and I thank the form fivers who stuck to the club, and Sean for making sure I stayed with the club in the first place.

I ain't one bit happy with the job I did with ELS, except maybe Spribena lol! But same cannot be said with Kadet. I think the best I could, working hard although I'm clearly not the fittest around.

I even got promoted to lance corporal in form 4 and corporal in form 5! Yeah! However, Junior Kadets who are reading this, I urge you not to lawan each other over pangkats and shit, because in the end, it's just like Liverpool.

Steven Gerrard may be captain,

but he is a captain with no premier league titles.

So remember kiddos, before fighting over a pangkat, think: which is more important? Competition? or Pangkat? Competition riiiiiiiight.

you gotta admit though, it IS shinnnyyyyy. =D

Anyway, I won't go on blabbering about why you should join Kadet.

Because you SHOULD be choosing Kadet over the other teams.

Because it's like telling you to choose between KFC and KLG.

(Kadet is KFC if you're blur, very blur)

Anyway, I thank the seniors and juniors who made this team awesomely fun, awesomely competitive and man enough to NOT have a woman in the team! Waking up at 7.00 to go to training with 30 sweaty brutes aint exactly motivation for a normal guy right? If got woman at least go eye candy. (kidding! sorta)

Gotta thank Fai Tuck too for leading us to back-to-back Hari Sukan trophies and a runners up spot in the marching competition. Huge kudos to him and I think I speak for all members when I say sorry we could not help you bag johan for the marching competition too.

Juniors, don't be lazy like me. Train hard, have fun, don't be an ass, and the next time you think the kadet uniform us tedious,

Be thankful you don't have my nametag.

Just thought it was funny how in a year where we started off the champs,

We ended up WATCHING the champs.

Final words then.

Even though Kadet made us wake up early, train early,

locked us up like banduans,

Circled that part when we cannot shoot their targets with M16,

Give us shit food,

Don't let us pee,

Even made us eat outside the rosak toilet,

I thank the awesome Kadet Polis for playing a part in my school life.

POLIS!!

(damn malau trophy block my face)

2009 Year in Review

2010-01-01T23:26:00.011+08:00

Early this year I made a few new years resolutions, which I called my VISI 2009. It's amazing how quickly a year passes. The thought of leaving school, the thought of entering college. It almost brings tears to my eyes.

Not.

I'm not one bit emo about leaving school, as no one should be. A fresh start. A new opportunity. No school uniforms. Hell yeah. I will miss the new friends I made this year however. More on that later.

But, before embracing the year of the World Cup (WOOHOO), let's take a step back, and see if I achieved my goals of the VISI 2009!

1. Give it my best in SPM and all exams

I vaguely remember having a flying start to the year, though I was very inconsistent throughout. My form is quite comparable to LiverpooL's (shaddup rebecca D:) this season I'd say, that's not a good thing. As for SPM, I don't feel too good about it, but I'll reserve my judgement till I get my results.

Yet judging by the way our class was before SPM,

I have a baaaaaaaaaad feeling.

Verdict: To be decided in March

2. Wake up earlier everyday

Last year I used to wake up at 7.00 am, naturally I was almost always last in line at the perhimpunan.

Thie year however! I changed my ways and redeemed myself, I woke up at 6.00 AM! YEAH!

After SPM however I started waking up at 12.00 PM. ish.

Verdict: Pass! (sorta)

3. Spend more time with Family, Friends and Cat.

I think I did all I could from a family point of view.

Pass!

Friends wise, uuuh I lost count of the number of parties I turned down this year, I think that pissed off some people.

So sorry I missed out on all the Badmintons, Captainballs, parties, etc etc, but to my credit I went to Pangkor though!

Phail!

As for my dear Telon the Cat, we spent A LOT of time together and we're really close.

Perhaps a little too close.

and perhaps after seeing my true colours,

It's just not the same anymore.

Pass!

4. Get my stupid eczema hand better.

Can you imagine how @!$#@$% my hand was around this time last year?

Future girlfriend may not want to hold hands with me anymore. =/

Don't worry my hand has since healed 100% and is as smooth as a baby's bottom!

that is if you think a baby's bottom is as smooth as a durian.

Verdict: Pass!

5. Read more.

uuuh I don't think Konserto Terakhir counts. Funny ending, but I didn't think it was intentionally so.

Verdict: EPIC PHAIL

6. Physically keep fit

Started the year brilliantly with jogs and tennis in the park almost everyday. Achieved my goal of scoring maximum points in SMK Taman Desa's annual Merentas Desa, finished it with Jian Wei, which i considered pretty good.

After that however, exams started to swarm in and the only exercise I got was from PJK, and let's face it, the guys should know how inconsistently we get PJK. Just ask Encik Roslan. Even after SPM, i had my wisdom teeth removed and the pain ruled me out until just recently. Guess I should start going, with a little over a week left to college.

Verdict: Fail

7. Score a goal and assist a goal

Didn't score one, but scored 4! Got myself a few assists too, some were unintentional lol. Gotta thank Eugene for assisting 3 of the goals, and Ben for the one goal I scored from my first time in Score Arena.

Verdict: Pass

8. Get maximum points in school's Merentas Desa

let's be honest, me actually winning spot in the Merentas Desa is as realistic as Tottenham Hotspur winning the league title. Maximum points is what I strived for, and it's what I got.

Verdict: Pass

9. Widen my social cycle

Compared to the number of people I knew at this point of time last year, I'm quite happy with the number of people I knew since I set this goal. There's Megan who still owes me How I Met Your Mother, Charis who makes me (and everyone for that matter) owe her Starbucks, Melanie, someone I love standing next to, and well, pretty much everyone whom I've known this year, thank you for helping me achieve this goal, and sorry that I did not have the time to know each and every one of you even better.

Verdict: Pass

10. Keep this Blog alive

Finally hit the 1 year and 100 posts mark. And if you're reading this, I thank you again for stalking my blog.

Here's to a year of new beginnings, a year of maturity, a year of facing all sorts of shit,

and laughing in its face.

Things you should NOT do before SPM

2009-12-26T01:42:00.008+08:00

Every year there're always those stupid articles that tell you what to do before spm, sleep early la, dont go online la, don't blog la, study hard la, drink BRANDS essence of chicken la etc etc.

We've heard all that crap before, but this blog will take the road not taken, this blog will tell you what NOT to do before spm. Future spm takers, listen up.

1. Sleep in class

Just to clarify, sleeping in class is okay lah actually. I mean, if you're really that sleepy, take a short snooze, then when you wake up you'll be focused and ready to study!

Of course, when i say, don't sleep in class before spm, what I really mean here is, don't sleep in class before spm, and get caught. So please please please,

don't sleep like this:

2. Discuss Football in Class

Again, actually discussing football is fine. You see, football promotes discussion. Discussion promotes thinking, thinking promotes knowledge, knowledge promotes A+ in SPM, hence football gets you A+ in SPM.

HOWEVER, this rule currently does not apply. You must NOT discuss football in class.

Well, for this season anyway. Why?

Because Liverpool is doing shit right now. 7 losses. wtf. Below Birmingham City. wtf.

Hence you should not discuss football in class. Until Liverpool does better.

3. Play with Handphones in class

This one seems to be very popular these days. Playing with handphones in class is a big NONO.

Unless of course, the teacher just gave you some time to do your own work, to do your own revision. In which case, it's okay to play with your handphones. Because you are revising the method to get through that last level on your mobile game. Hence you are doing revision.

As with case no.1 though, it is important not to get caught, and the students of 5SC1 year 2009 has a method just for you future spm takers!

When playing with your handphones, remember to place a thick book on the table,

Like so:

Obviously, play with your handphone below the book in order to give people the illusion that you are studying said thick book. To make it even more believable, smile and laugh while playing your games (demonstrated brilliantly by Yan Gen) to give the illusion that you're enjoying your study time.

ps: remember to keep your head in line with the book when using this method. Otherwise you'll look like you're laughing at the table and generally teachers find that suspicious.

4. Play with Cards in class

Okay lah, maybe playing with cards is a bit too much.

But teachers like girls because girls are hard working and obedient and guai etc etc.

and all we're doing is following in their steps! =P

The Sun shines upon the truth

5. Take Pictures in Class

Uuuuuh hehehehe. I didn't take ALL the pictures above. ok, maybe I did. But let's be fair to myself. There're so many bloody interesting things to take photos of in class.

I mean, what would you do?

if you saw shit in class?

Merry christmas all!

Do you know how tiring SPM was?

2009-12-24T19:25:00.005+08:00

Tiring.

VERY tiring.

Not to mention stressful.

You are all invited,

2009-12-13T00:00:00.005+08:00

To celebrate my blog's first birthday.

4 days late,

But hey I'm a guy forgetting birthdays is like, my thing. Kidding. (sorta) Speaking of milestones, this is also my 101st post in this blog. lol, yes, i forgot this too.

I've always thought this blog lacked a sort of "personal" feel to it, so here is why I started blogging and you know, a bit of sejarah. DON'T fall asleep yet.

Just last year, I thought to myself how I've had so many opportunities to meet new people, to get to know new people, but for some reason I was timid and held back. I also blamed my lack of uhhh "socialism"(?) to the fact that I'm probably one of the few guys who does not play hardcore online games, be it DOTA, CoD, L4D, CS, PMS etc etc. ok maybe not PMS but I dont think ill ever be able to play that, nor do i want to.

Then I wondered, why aren't I doing anything about it? Hardcore online games are something I'd want to stay away from, so I started with Facebook. Uhhhh everyone should get facebook so I wont elaborate too much on that.

What of the blogging? I was actually inspired to blog because of this very famous blogger in Malaysia. His posts are almost always an interesting read, so feel free to check out his site.

http://www.kennysia.com/

And thus, I started my blog. Did I start blogging to gain popularity? Perhaps, yes, how shallow of me.

But! That was only in the early days of my blogging activities. The more I blogged, the more I realised how fun it was, I'd say its because of the ability to upload pics onto blogs. If you noticed, most of my posts consists of pictures. And really, a picture speaks a thousand words.

right?

ahem, right, back from shock? Good. Anyway writing is fun, sort of. I mean, why do you think Isaac never manages to finish his English essays? It's obviously because he's so good at it that the 2 hour+ limit is simply not enough to express his brilliance!

t(-.-t)

Writing itself is fun, getting to add photos and stuff to your writing is as fun as getting a plate of roti canai when you're insanely hungry along with Milo Ais while watching Liverpool trash Arsenal with goals by Torres and Gerrard etc etc.

And looking back, there'll always be a few posts I liked.

There's the cat with the fat.

Facebook's very friend first message when I signed up.

Why girls will one day rule the world.

and this of course this picture of my hand in January that never fails to amaze me.

fcuk wei.

People should blog. Life shouldn't be and isn't a popularity contest. But blogging is a fun way of expressing thoughts, and keeps us connected to our friends.

(aka you can stalk your friends easier to see what they're up to)

So people reading this, blog more lah wei. You don't have to post insane amount of pics like mine, Sean's blog is funny too and his blog banner is AWESOME. Too bad he rarely updates now. Bah. anyway happy birthday yadda yadda yadda.

Shebby Ew supports blogging!

"Graduation" Day

2009-12-10T18:01:00.007+08:00

A few months ago, we graduated from SMK Taman Desa. Graduation here meaning menamatkan pelajaran,

despite not finishing our SPM syllabus yet, despite not understanding how the hell transistors work, despite not taking SPM yet, despite... you get the point.

But whatever lah, this is SMK Taman Desa after all, so its completely understandable.

The day started off with the majlis doa restu, but that's not exactly good blogging material so moving on...

Right, before the ceremony, we got a packet of nasi lemak. It was suppose to be some majlis thing for us to eat and enjoy each other's company, but let's be completely frank, how are we suppose to do that when we're suppose to eat this monstrosity?

I mean, come on, it looks almost as bad as the monster I made!

ALMOST.

The ceremony started with us marching towards the Arena Wira! Completely with red carpet and a row of prefects staring at us! Normally this would be cool and all, but the prefects line up and stare at us everyday after perhimpunans anyway. (minus the fingernail checking and all.)

After that, it was time for the speeches. Unfortunately, this time I had to give a speech, so falling asleep wasn't an option. I mean, takkan my speech is so boring until I myself fall alseep right? Righ.......zzzzz

ahem. Well I had to do it in BM, and that's no easy task, so I think I did okay lah. As for keeping people awake during my speech..

FISSION MAILED.

Ironically, the most boring part of the graduation ceremony... was the graduation ceremony. Wah lau a sooo boringggg. Except for Qi Long's motto, instead of opting for the usual, "Impossible is nothing, Time is money, Procrastination is the thief of time," etc etc bullshit, he went with something more unique,

"GOSPEL, GOLD, GLORY!"

watch out if Qi Long takes over Malaysia one day.

After graduation, we realised, that after five years of each others company, five years of Bang's food and of course five years of education in this school,

we are more civilised,

more careful,

more mature,

more willing to sweat over hard work,

and finally grown up.

Let's end this post with a series of pictures that shows that even Ben has grown into a more intellectual person.

At the end of graduation day, everyone gathered at the library, waiting to claim the money we deposited. While everyone was sweating and taking pictures, Ben thought he'd read more to "menambahkan ilmu pengetahuan and meningkatkan tamadun", as said in the first wahyu, surah al-........ oh wait sejarah is over. Screw it.

take a few steps in front of Ben however, and you'll see the cover.

And then you truly realise, that despite the graduation ceremony,

we are still not graduated yet.

ATP World Tour: Tennis Malaysian Open Semi Finals

2009-12-06T01:15:00.009+08:00

blablabla SPM. !$#@ it.

Unlike the last time, its been a while since this happened, so I'll just see what I remember.

The semi-final we got to watch was between Fernando Gonzalez:

(The guy on the board, not the posing sakai)

and Fernando Verdasco:

(uh, you know)

On a side note, I also tried to impersonate Gael Monflis:

But I just couldn't capture the essence of him lol. Something was missing. Pardon the starbucks. ;)

Anyway. the match was pretty good, I think. lol honestly i dont remember. But it had graceful serves.

and emo-ness over losing points:

Ok, so whack here whack there yada yada, and eventually Fernando Verdasco won wooo!!

(oh ya but he lost in the final anyway. Haha KILLJOY)

Coming back to the semi finals, he hit some autographed balls into the crowd!

but I couldn't catch any.

Then he kicked a few autographed BIG balls into the crowd.

and CHECK THIS OUT!!!

......

They're not mine. =(

I got the next best thing though!

I took pictures with them!

Back to the depression,

So as Verdasco was making his way to the exit, he got really close, so of course, a stampede followed.

To the point where i couldn't even take proper pics:

The interesting bit happened AFTER this match, during the doubles match. Ironically, that was when my phones battery died. hence no pics of this. =/

During the match, my all-seeing-eye caught Fernando Verdasco being interviewed at a corner, and no one seemed to notice. So my sis and I went over like ninjas, and stared at him, mesmorised by how close he was. When he was leaving, I shouted "VAMOS VERDASCO" at him.

He looked at me, nodded and moved on.

At the same time, the security guard looked at me,

and I moved on.

Why didn't I get his autograph?

I didn't have a bloody PEN.

.....

!#@$#@

Of course, I am the comeback kid, so after the DOUBLES match, I saw one of the players exiting from the same route. I took a pen, took my cap, and ran half the stadium.

then as he was approaching the exit, I called out to him, ala the way I did when I was in Japan with those girls,

"EXCUSE ME!! CAN YOU SIGN THIS FOR ME??"

"oh yeah, sure,"

So I gave him my pen, my cap, and he signed it. What followed was actually a funny scene where he tried to throw the pen back up at me.

I also told him,

"Win the tournament yeah?"

and he responded with a,

"um, I'll try"

Sure enough, he won the the tournament the next day. Hee.

Oh yeah, I haven't showed off yet.

EHEHEHEHEHE.

you guys are probably wondering, "who the hell is this guy?"

and let me tell you all.

I HAVE NO IDEA

TEE HEE. (sorry nigahiga, couldn't resist)

SPM: Week One

2009-11-21T00:50:00.006+08:00

It has finally started hasn't it? The moment we've all been waiting for.

The moment we've all been dreading.

ahem, anyway, won't go into details about the papers but here are some bits from the week with BM,BI and Sejarah.

On monday, all we did basically was "listen" to some speeches and arrange the tables.

After we were done, a whole bunch of girls were crowding around my place! I thought my mojo was finally working with the ladies! *cough*, but evidently not, it was only because of this bugger.

The Fan.

sigh. Mustahil hor?

We were arranged just like any other regular exam, same chairs, same tables. No big difference from the trials we did. This is how a standard seat for SPM looks like:

Some even proposed to use special, VIP seats for the golongan elit.

This idea however, was scrapped due to unknown reasons. (lack of golongan elit in SMKTD perhaps haha)

After the exams, people usually go downstairs to the hall to study, beside the Arena Wira. This is when you truly see the semangat Assabiah or Kepuakan! (eg. various tribes)

But wait! There's more!

Upon zooming in on the same picture, we see a bunch of girls checking out Lai Cheong in certain places!

don't be angry if you're in the pic hor? =D

When it is time to go upstairs to face certain doom, people crowd up the stairs, making it insanely uncomfortable going up.

Which made us wonder why no one just took the other stairs?

Oh, and there's a quarantine room too! You know, if you're sick and stuff.

Won't tell you what the "stuff" here is, but in a nutshell,

Don't get too close.

Redemption.

2009-11-10T19:10:00.004+08:00

I like eggs. Don't you like eggs? We like eggs.

Remember this monster I cooked up many months back?

No, it's not alive.

Well I thought it's about time I tried to redeem myself, but cooking a regular egg is boring. I chose the road not taken, and gave it a go at a sunny-side-up egg!

Snazzy though? Prior to this one I made a regular one, but that turned out a little bit brown. (Not burnt though! I think.) You can see it somewhat in the above pic. Whatever, it's not pretty so I put the sunny side up on top of it hee.

I thought it looked really good with my mom's homemade fried rice too.

Yes, the yolk does look a little raw, but upon bursting it and tasting it, it seemed alright. Besides I'm still alive right?

So, redemption? Gross? Phail'd? You be the judge.

*Also i declare Astro Channel 703 awesome!! License to Grill is like porn for the stomach!

So much to post about,

2009-11-07T18:36:00.003+08:00

So little time.

Looking back at the whole 2009, I have been turning down countless parties and gatherings, hindering my whole "widen-my-social-cycle" goal i made earlier this year. Without a doubt, I am in no way as open or charismatic as many other people, but I think given the fact that I've been "darurating" myself so much, the progress i made, socially that is, is pretty decent. (Anybody reading this, if you've just known me this year/end of last year, give yourself a pat on the back.)

And the purpose of all that darurat-ing? Well, it all comes down to the week after the next. I'm no Michael Jackson, but This is It? Haha lame. =/

Either way, I just hope it's all worth it.

Expect less updates and stuff. Hee. I promise I'll flood you guys with updates when you-know-what is over and done with!

Don't you wish sometimes,

2009-10-14T18:52:00.002+08:00

that you could do a Hiro Nakamura,

and go back and right all the wrongs you did?

I sure do.

*squints eyes*

Yata? Nope, still 2009.

Fortunately, you don't need time travelling powers to change the future.

Poll: Mobile Games: Yay or Nay?

2009-10-10T01:27:00.006+08:00

I've been playing quite a lot of these in recent days so I think I should write this while the er... inspiration(?) is still here.

What's a mobile phone? I write letters to my friends. (4 votes)

Very funny. See that block bulging out at the side of your pocket? The block that you constantly hide from teachers in school? The block you use to make calls with? Yeah that's a mobile phone. (omgwtfbbq-ness)

And when you say you write letters to your friends, I sincerely hope you mean e-mail. Thank you interweb. >3

Huh? You can play games on the phone!? (0 votes)

Now that you know what a mobile phone is, did you know you can play games on it!!??

Since no one chose this option, I'm glad to say that you do know! Give yourself a pat on the back, a pat on the head, a doggie biscuit, whatever.

Games on the phone, Snake, Space Impact, Bounce, these are a few of the iconic ones. Dreadfully simple? Perhaps. But picture yourself waiting for a bus, or waiting for you date, or peeing/shitting with nothing to do, and these games are perfect.

Question now is, apart from filling up your masa lapang, are they a viable source of entertainment?

According to genewern.blogspot.com's semi-reliable poll, it stands at a tie, with 7 people supporting mobile games, and 7 people against it. We all know whose side I'm on, so let's do some not so indepth analysis.

Yay! Fun, cheap and even gene wern pla- ah forget it. (7 votes)

Ok, maybe the fact that I play them isn't such a good reason. However! I have my reasons for liking them.

As I mentioned before, games like Snake and Bounce are there to fill up those waiting times, but honestly even I think that someone who plays those for real entertainment are people with no souls.

But think about it, THINGS CHANGE. Technology advances, phones canggih-fy, developers want money. Wake up, snake and bounce aren't the stapple games anymore.

Don't believe me?

Meet Tower Bloxx.

The game you see on facebook? On the XBox 360? That originated from the mobile phone.

and it's bloody fun. No, not just 5 minutes at bus stop fun, but "I want to go home and beat Jeunn Hao's highscore!"-fun.

Ok, from the screenshot above, the graphics are fairly bland. But that's from the game 5 years ago. It has evolved somewhat.

Last year, Tower Bloxx Deluxe was released.

And, soon, this baby will be released, Tower Bloxx New York.

Stacking blocks too simple you say? Yeah, fully understandable if this isn't your cup of tea. On mobile, there're epics too. Well not console quality epics but when you can get a game that looks as good as this on mobile:

You know you're in for something special. That's Galaxy on Fire 2 btw.

And if you're an old fart, sorry, ahem, retro person like myself, and you like playing old games like tetris, then worry not, because mobile is the platform where you'll find plenty of retro remakes.

Tetris for example, looked like this.

EA Mobile remade it, and now it looks like this.

Pac-Man too, is no longer a stranger.

Now?

Still, the first Pac-Man is more popular thanks to the geniuses at Namco Bandai who added a bluetooth multiplayer mode. Meaning you can play as the GHOSTS. Brilliant stuff.

But there're no big name titles! Ahh.... but there is, FIFA, Need For Speed, Assassins Creed, Sonic the Hedgehog and even Guitar Hero are all available on the phone.

This all sounds cool and stuff, but I suspect many of you will still say this.

Nay, PSP is the way to go hee hee hee! (7 votes)

Sonic Unleashed Mobile

Guitar Hero III Mobile

It seriously pisses me off when they look at a mobile game, and say "Oh PC version is better, Playstation one cooler."

what.

You're taking something which has the main function of calling people (phone), and comparing it with something that has the sole purpose of entertaining you (playstation, PSP,DS). OF COURSE IT'S BETTER. Use your common sense.

Expectations. While I glorify mobile games, perhaps more than they deserve, it's important to remember that they are still, mobile games, and that Gene Wern doesn't play console games. ;_;

So, keep your expectations low. Don't expect something that'll blow you away. Don't expect something that'll get you hooked.

You might be surprised. ;D

I was.

SolaRola

And I never would've though a game with colourful rolling balls would be so entertaining. Have to say it's a very cute game too.

When you leave the house, there's always a list of things to bring, keys, carkeys, and mobile phone. It's always with you, so what do you have to lose?

Every game I mentioned above are Java Games, so generally most phones should be able to handle them.

If your phone it still too old, then sorry, you're stuck with snake. =p

If your phone is too canggih, yes EUGENE you, then I have no idea because I've never played them. But the iphone can play stuff like this.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Go **** yourself. >=(

Ahem, so readers, do at least consider giving mobile games a try before dissing them. Just ask me and I'll be glad to send games to you.

Besides,

Even Isaac supports it.

With such enthusiasm. =D

ATP World Tour: Tennis Malaysian Open Qualifying Rounds

2009-09-30T18:13:00.008+08:00

A lot has happened over the past few weeks. Birthday was rather uneventful, got sejarah/chinese to work on, Taylors interview was shit by my standards, and my graduation speech was too long haha. Bah I hope it gets a good reception. Will probably do an *uncensored* version on this blog soon after the graduation hehe.

Anyways, I'll start with the Tennis Malaysian Open first since it's still fresh in my memory. As with badminton, you get free entrance and free seating for the qualifying rounds, which is really cool since you get to go to the VIP seats.

This event is really awesome since it's an ATP World Tour event, perhaps not as prestigious as the Masters and obviously Grand Slams, but still, this means you get to see the high rank stars. Yeap, we're talking former Grand Slam winners and Grand Slam finalists here.

So, which stars are coming to Malaysia anyway?

You know, the record breaking 155mph serve Andy Roddick?

The former US Open Champion Andy Roddick?

The 2009 Wimbledon Open Runner-up Andy Roddick? (Boo, he so should have became the champion)

..... He's not coming. =(

However! There are plenty of other stars in this tourney.

There's the former US and Autralian Open Champion Lleytton Hewitt! (edit- knocked out already lol)

Robin "Nadal-Slayer" Soderling!

Fernando "Super Mega Ultra Giga Terra Roti Canai Forehand" Gonzalez!

Nikolay "I-am-losing-my-hair-at-such-a-young-age-boohooboohoo" Davydenko!

... and many more!

But those people will only be available for your viewing pleasure once the main draw starts. You won't see them in the qualifying rounds. (that's why its free ma.)

No shortage of good tennis though. These qualifying players maybe ranked 500-ish in the world, but they of course, have the skills that could pwn the average tennis player. Thing is, in tennis, if you're in the top 100, you're considered good, and you probably have the ability to upset any top 20 player.

Besides, the atmosphere is pretty awesome. There's aircon inside if you're puteri/putera lilin.

haha i know it looks really empty but the crowd is at the side, and at where im sitting. As I said, free seating meant that we moved to the VIP section for some temporary "omg im a VIP"-ness, so we could get really close to the court.

This way, you can enjoy some really good tennis.

Reaching for the skies. (and serving the ball too.)

Receiving serve.

If you're really THAT bored and can't appreciate tennis,

They put a shiny car beside the court to distract you. Hey, it's shiny!

Finally, one thing I love about attending Malaysian Open, tennis or badminton, is everything they have at the place. They sell sports good, shirts, rackets, and my personal favourite,

hell. yeah.

Shebby Ew supports personally-going-to-watch-live-event! Bring on Badminton Malaysia Open next year!

Oh yeah and I'm going to this see Saturday's Semi-Finals hee hee hee.

Do YOU want to be a Doctor?

2009-09-26T18:32:00.005+08:00

If your answer is yes, what would you like to specialise in?

Here's a little food for thought for those who want to specialise in Paediatrics.

wtf is Paediatrics you ask?

According to wikipedia,

Pediatrics is a branch of medical care that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. The upper age limit ranges from age 14 to 18, depending on the country.

Basically, these are the doctors who deal with the little monsters we once were lah, you know, like my father if you know him.

Anyways, if you wanna be a paediatrician, you need to study. (duh)

To be specific, you need to study this.

Looks pretty ordinary hor?

Well, for one, it's kinda thick.

It's heavier than my cat, and I'm not even joking here. Perhaps it's a little hard to tell the size from here. So let's use a little comparison. Students out there should be familliar with the SUCCESS series reference books right? You know, those thick-ass books. Such a pain hor?

Well, think again,

Because the paediatrics book PWNS it.

Good luck, future doctors! =D

Poll: Is Twitter Overrated?

2009-09-19T00:25:00.004+08:00

Hehe it's been a while since I did a poll, I forgot how fun they were.

Twitter. Do you know what twitter is? No? Seriously?

Dumbass.

No lah kidding only this blog is here to educate and entertain weeeeeee.

ahem.

Anyways, if you recall I've already blogged about twitter before, so go there if you want a recap. The poll was too find out the general opinion on it. And that, it did. Thanks for voting. =D

As always, let's analyse the results, um, Shebby Ew style?

Twitter? Is that some new bird food? (0 votes)

Luckily no one chose, otherwise I also dunno how to help you already. Seriously, not knowing twitter is like not knowing facebook! It's like not knowing what a friendster is! It's like not knowing the difference between The Jonas Brothers and Sanjaya Malakar! Oh wait.

No. Twitter is awesome and revolutionary. Even gene wern uses it! (4 votes)

It just makes you wonder if the results would be different if I didn't put my name in there hahaha.

But the whole point is, twitter is awesome because you can follow famous people. Yes, real famous people, not fakes. Who you might ask?

There's Andy Roddick!

Serena and Venus Williams!

Ryan Higa! (aka Nigahiga!)

and last but least...

Ew Gene Wern!

Stop laughing! =(

either way, there's more for you peeps out there, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Ellen DeGeneres, even Barack Obama! But his twits aren't exactly interesting hahaha.

But do what do you think?

Hell yes. Only twits use it. Facebook is good enough. (11 votes)

Oh you people are so mistakened. Twitter is specialised for microblogging. It's very simillar to Facebook's "What's on your mind" box for you to share with people, only twitter limits you to 180 characters and twitter only has these "microblogs", nothing else.

You might say, "180 characters!? omgwtfbbq that's less than 181 characters! Twitter n00b!" Well, you blur dodos out there, there's this little thing you can do which does not take a lot of effort. If your message is long, twit again lah! That makes it a whopping 180x2=367 characters! Or if its really long, 180x3=1294 characters! woohoo, my maths rocks!

Another reason twitter is better than facebook in this aspect is because Twitter again, is specialised for microblogging. Here, you will ONLY see what your friends or celebrities are up to, nothing else, no distractions. Just andy roddick's "went for training today" or gene wern's "I like roti canai." good stuff.

On facebook? Yeah, there's no character limit and shit, there is however another problem! You see, in between these messages, there're dumb distractions.

like this:

You have your friends posting results of how gay your friend is, who is your best sex partner, which is your best sex position, etc. You get my point. These are needless distractions when it comes to following your friends. Which is why Twitter is the revolution here, facebook is there for the general socialising via photos, apps and games, but Twitter it is THE way to check out what your friends are up to.

Plus, it has a pretty cute logo don't you think? Come on, the bird is kinda cute. It makes you think,

Liverpool are awesome aren't they? That liver bird should be Twitter's logo. (3 votes)

couldn't agree more.

So, have I convinced you? Twitter is the latest thing-lah. There're a few regulars already on the site. Myself, my sister, huey jean, ashton, eugene, megan, melanie, michelle and, with YOUR help, even more. So don't be a facebooker only and join the world of twitter, believe me it'll be a hell lot more fun if there were more people who use it. I'm looking at you, form fivers.

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step." ~bullshit from random chinese old bloke.

uuh yeah, sure. So take the first step from this very site. Click on the link below, register, add me, username's "genewern", and follow more people from my profile, simple. Alternatively, look at the right hand side of this blog and click "follow me on twitter!"

TWITTER WOOHOO, LET'S GO!

k then, that's another poll wrapped up. New one's up, so be sure to vote! =)

Determination.

2009-09-15T21:29:00.006+08:00

DETERMINATION

... because 1 block is enough to piss you off.

Food for Thought

2009-09-13T23:46:00.007+08:00

Ran out of eggs, and i hate eating plain maggi mee.

I think Bakeroni has something simillar, but anyways, i sliced up a sheet of cheese and dumped it on to the mee after insta-cooking it, looks beautiful as it melts on the surface.

Oh and I added some of them fried onions too because onions are for cool people.

End result was surprisingly decent! Well, for chicken flavour lah. (Ran out of curry too lol.)

Tried it now!

yeah yeah msg will kill you and make you bald yada yada yada.

/end procrastination.

ps, finally a post with no football in it! =D

9.9.09

2009-09-09T23:54:00.006+08:00

Not that big of a deal I guess. I mean, next year there'll be 10.10.10 (which looks even awesomer), 11.11.11 and so on.. But the novelty will probably never wear off. We get excited over dates because the numbers looks pretty. See, case in point is that I'm blogging about it right now. We're such suckers aren't we?

Seriously, remember this?

or this?

Fine then, I won't be a party pooper. I'll make nine nine nine sound awesome!

When we're in deep shit,

what number should we call?

999!

and handsome policeman will come to the rescue!

omgwtfbbq!!11

When Liverpool's in trouble, who do we call?

Liverpool's Number Nine!

or if your brain can't process such a large number,

Number Eight also can lar hor?

lol, damn I posted regarding football again. Sorrryyyyyy.

But perhaps the number nine isn't all that awesome after all.

After all,

WHY IS SIX AFRAID OF SEVEN???

BECAUSE SEVEN ATE NINE!!!!111!

haha i think my lame level just multiplied by 9 after this post.

5 Easy Steps to Enjoying Football

2009-09-07T00:08:00.015+08:00

Girls, this is for you if you wanna join in the football craze. So don't navigate away from the page just yet! =D

Week two of trials gonna start tomorrow morning... Hoping that some blogging will keep my train of thought moving.

Yes yes I know Im posting too much about football but in this case this post is to help those who are interested in the sport, but don't know where to start. For those who already are watching, well I hope this entertains you.

Step 1. Choose a Team to support.

A crucial step if you're a newbie. Without a team to support, you're just watching 22 men chasing the ball and fouling each other. I suppose this could work if you're female, there're plenty of lengzhai's who play football.

Which team should you support then? We'll focus on the English Premier League, which is the league that most people watch, since Spanish and Italian football broadcast very very late at night. Basically there're four teams that people support, people call them the "Big Four" - Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United.

Which to choose? That brings us to our next step.

Step 2. Annoy a Friend who is a Fan

Right, so now we need a friend. If you don't have a friend, er... well, I guess you could see if e-bay are selling any. Make sure this friend has sufficient knowledge in football.

Now make him tell you everything you want to know. Which club should you support? Are you allowed to use hands in football? Which players are awesome and which players are awful? Why does Rafa Benitez keep using Lucas?

A friend is important as he determines which club you will be supporting, for life. Liverpool? Chelsea? Arsenal? ManUnited? Liverpool? Seriously, it is not easy to change once you start supporting one club. So choose wisely, young grasshoppa.

Step 3. Watch Football

You are not a true fan unless you watch football. Period. You can't go along saying "Hey I support Liverpool because of FERNANDO TORRESSSS!!!111! WAIT WHO IS FERNANDO TORRES?? DEFENDER RITEE??"

I'll admit. It's boring at first. Seriously. Which is why I stressed in the first point that you must choose a team to support. Start off by watching your team play. Learn who is who. Who is the manager? Who's the captain? etc. Still can't bear the pain? Watch with your football friend. That way he can guide you along the way. After some time, you'll start enjoying it. The misses, the hisses, the Rooney trantrums.

"WHY AM I SO FATTT???"

Step 4. Familiarise

Once you start enjoying the game, it gets easier. Familiarise yourself with the names of not just your club players, but other clubs too. Why? Because it lets you enjoy the beautiful game even more. Why is Diego Maradonna famous? He is known for the (in)famous "Hand of God", in which he scored a winning goal using his hands. Generally in FOOTball, you don't use your hands, unless you're the keeper.

When I started watching footy, all I knew was Steven Gerrard and Rafa Benitez.

Now?

Rafa Benitez, Aurelio, Skrtel, Caraggher, Johnson, Riera, Benayoun, Lucas, Mascherano, Steven Gerrard, Dirk Kuyt, Torres, N'gog, El-zhar, Nemeth, David Villa, David Silva, Lionel Messi, Christiano Ronaldo, Franck Ribery, Karim Benzema, Zlatan Ibrahimovic...

and that's not even half of the list of players i can mention.

Step 5. Enjoy.

Now all you have to do is enjoy the game. With football in your life now, your life will change. Late nights may be spent watching football. You may feel like kicking every round object you see. (Girls, stop looking at guys' groins) You're willing to break a date with someone to watch Glen Johnson score. (omg!!) Then again, some guys dig girls who are into football. *winks*

And if you wanna learn somemore, play football mobile games. Seriously, From a personal point of view, they helped me learn a lot. Pro Evolution Soccer and Real Football games are two that are fantastic, as they have bluetooth multiplayer. Play with a friend to learn even more! (Friend sold seperately.)

Okay that's about it. Hope more of you peeps start watching football. Wish me luck for the next two weeks!

Oh yeah, well... I've been fairly unbiased in this post I think. But since I'm such a nice guy, I'll point you guys in the right direction for step 1.

SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL. SUPPORT LIVERPOOL.

oh ehm gee

2009-09-03T23:59:00.003+08:00

First week of trials almost done. Just Chem 3 and Math 2 left. Pretty solid so far I think, no train wrecks yet that crush A1 hopes. I'm hoping I get a boost from BM in particular.

Next two weeks are gonna be stressful. Sejarah, physics and ironically accounts are the three I fear the most, "the boogieman subjects", I call them.

Sigh, no footy action this week, no new mobile games, the exam mood makes it hard to enjoy going outdoors for sports even. Need a way to destress. Coffee works but I'm drinking that like everyday now, I *think* that's bad for me.

Either way I'm just procrastinating.

Did you know that Disney bought over Marvel. And that Chelsea are banned from signing ANY new players for the next TWO transfer windows. Haha awesome shite.

ok ok back to stardeeing.

I've been posting too much about football.

2009-08-28T19:01:00.003+08:00

So here is a picture of my niece drawing a picture of her muscular uncle, muscular brother, and twin brothers.

You gotta admit, she's pretty good for her age though!

.....

Fine I'm totally kidding I drew that and put her there. All she drew were the scribbles. =P

The End Begins

2009-08-26T18:34:00.002+08:00

Exams are hereeeee.

There're bad omens everywhere.

Liverpool lost 1-3

My phone died again.

and worst of all,

Evil terminator robots are coming to my house to cause apocalypse. If you don't get the joke then you haven't watched terminator. (any one of them) If you haven't watched terminator, then t(-_-t)

Nah, just kidding, you should be studying.

But seriously, watch it. >=(

Footy Analysis: No Alonso, No problem?

2009-08-25T14:18:00.005+08:00

I know I don't have too many readers who are football fans, but I am so frustrated so please bear with me here haha.

Or you can actually be awesome and WATCH football. (and support Liverpool if you do btw.)

Taking into account Liverpool's final preseason match against Atletico Madrid, The Reds have now lost 3 of their last 4 matches. 1-2 loss to Atletico, 2-1 loss to Spurs, 4-0 win against Stoke, and 1-3 loss to Aston Villa.

This is a side who lost only 2 matches in 38 league matches last season. This year, we're 3 games into the season and we already lost the same amount. What the hell is happening?

Ahem. (Now imagine me talking in Shebby Singh accent for more realism. ;D )

Simply said, They just haven't been good enough in coping with the loss of Xabi Alonso, much unlike the way ManUnited are seemingly doing okay-lar even after losing CR9 and Tevez.

It's quite apparent that Liverpool are now lacking some degree of creativity in the midfield. Our man Mascherano is still good at getting possession, but we're now lacking that killer pass that let Gerrard-Torres combo dominate the league last time around. With that, Gerrard is left no choice but to drift deeper into the pitch, leaving Torres with very little service.

I also believe that we're not doing as well because of the failure of this man to step up:

Currently, Lucas Leiva is the one filling Alonso's position and let's face it, he's just not good enough. For one, if you watched the Liverpool vs Aston Villa match yesterday, you'll know that he freakin he headered a corner kick ball into his own net! I mean, seriously, did the Villans bribe you or something? I breathed a sigh of relief when he got subbed out, only for Andriy Voronin to replace him. Ta ma de.

Sigh, okay, I admit, I've never been a fan of Lucas and Voronin to begin with, so perhaps I'm being a little bias. To be fair, these two were quite stellar in preseason, so I wont be too bitchy and put a little more faith in them.

It's not all doom and gloom though. A lot of crap has happened, but our first summer signing, Glen Johnson, to be quite frank, is fantastic.

I didn't know this guy much to begin with, so I wasn't an instant fan like I was for Robbie Keane. But really, he provides so much on Liverpool's right flank. He's great moving forward and his defending is impressive. Note that he's a right back, a defender, and yet he poses such a huge offensive threat. Sometimes I feel as though he could be more dangerous than Keane in front of the goal.

Nah. ;D

Alas, a right back is a right back, and he can only do so much for the team. The crucial area would be our 4-2-3-1 formation's engine room, the central midfield. Without creativity in that area, we're screwed.

Rafa still has one more trick up his sleeve. Alberto Aquilani.

Currently our biggest summer signing, Aquilani's the one who supposedly going to replace Alonso in providing the creativity. He's injured, but who knows? Could it be too late by the time he's in the team? Could he be a flop like *cough* Robbie Keane? Or could he be the saviour that gives us that Holy Grail Premier Legue title?

Of course, it's far too early to make any conclusions after just 3 league matches, on Lucas, on Voronin, on Liverpool as a whole. I just sincerely hope they step up their game.

Oh, and Sean so kindly reminded me of the two fellows i forgot to include.

When I saw the team lineup yesterday, I was surprised to see that Albert Riera still hasn't started for Liverpool. Perhaps he's still not fully fit. If he is, better give him some playing time, because he was our best signing last season, sorry Robbie Keane. Not only is he a natural left winger with a strong left foot, he also has the height that Benayoun lacks. With the option of him and Benayoun on the left flank, this is the kind of depth we need in a squad.

Another guy who could boost our squad upon return would be Fabio Aurelio. Injured his knee while on holiday, Rafa says he'll be back "very soon". Let's hope so, because he's a solid left back with more experience than Insua. (Though Insua isn't too shabby himself), and he's brilliant from free kicks. Don't believe me?

Here's an image of Aurelio scoring from a wonder free kick past a whole wall of Manchester United superstars:

k, back to studying. If only I could analyse Physics the same way I analyse Liverpool. Damn you Newton, Flemming, Faraday and Lenz!

Here we go, Here we go...

2009-08-11T19:25:00.009+08:00

It's coming.

National Day?

Well, yeah, but we all know what we're REALLY excited about.

It's back.

The Glory.

The Drama

The Misery

and the Downright Awesome

(hides behind flame shield)

This weekend,

The BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE Returns!
(cue theme song)

Life of Telon the Cat

2009-08-09T01:02:00.007+08:00

People who know me well probably know that I have a cat - Telon is her name. In fact, my very first blog post was written about her. Flash back to the past HERE.

Throughout the years, only a lucky few have been able to spot her. She's shy I guess.

But fear not dear readers, for this blogger has made an exclusive article about the life of Telon the Cat. No more secrets. Let's see the cat as she is!

So, what does Telon do in her busy busy day?

Sleep outdoors!

Sleep indoors!

Wait for food!

Sleep in baskets!

Lick her private areas!

Wait for more food!

More sleeping!

And finally...

Sleep while proving cats are more awesome than dogs!

(stolen from http://juvern.blogspot.com)

Goodbye Xabi

2009-08-05T18:34:00.003+08:00

After becoming a footy fan, one quickly learns that the the hardest part of watching football lies in the transfer of players. Initially, a new fan, or "freshfan" would not care if his or her team's player got transfered. This was the case with the likes of Sissoko, Riise and Finnan, when i just started supporting the Reds.

The first transfer that affected me would no doubt be Peter Crouch, though i got over it rather quickly, since we got a certain fellow named Fernando Torres hehe.

Nontheless, it was painful to see him go. I still remember thinking that season that Rafa should've tried pairing him up with Torres more.

And you KNOW this guy is a good striker when he scores goals like this:

British Spider-Man wei. Recently he just moved to Shebby Singh's beloved Tottenham Hotspur. I wish him well. I'd love to see the spurs take out Arsenal, Man City or Everton to clinch that fourth champions league spot.

Which brings me to the first Liverpool transfer that really got to me. Captaining Tottenham now is none other than Robbie Keane.

Few people knew it, but when I first started watching footy regularly, one of the pairings that really caught my eye was the Berbatov-Keane strike partnership. They were phenomenal together up front and when I play Fantasy Football Manager games, I always bought Keane.

So obviously I was a happy chap when Keane was bought.

I'd BS more about Keane, but I just remembered I ranted about his sale before haha. Take a trip down memory lane HERE.

The real talking point now, would be the sale midfield playmaker, Xabi Alonso to Spanish giants, Real Madrid.

Alonso is set to be the second Liverpool transfer that breaks my heart. Because though he didn't score many goals last season, he was the engine of the midfield. Macherano, who is more defensive would get us possession of the ball, whilst Xabi would use his creativity to create chances for the Gerrard-Torres combo to score goals.

When I was a freshfan, all I thought about him was, "hey! he kinda looks like a spanish Gerrard!". How naive haha. Truth is, up until last season, he was a bit of a unsung hero, with Gerrard and Torres getting the headlines.

In the 07/08 season, Rafa tried selling him to Juventus for 18 million, to finance the purchase of Gareth Barry. It did not work out, and thakfully too, because Xabi was crucial in the 08/09 season. If it weren't for him, no way Liverpool would've sat as runners up last season.

Now, Xabi is set to move to Real for around 34 million, that's almost double his price prior to last season. That itself should say enough how important he is to the "Rafalution".

The question now for us Reds Fans, would be, "How the hell are we going to replace him??"

Should Rafa just scrap the 4-2-3-1 formation, go with 4-4-2 and try to purchase David Villa?

Or, will the purchase of "Italian Alonso" but oh so injury prone Alberto Aquilani be the one to replace our own Alonso?

That sadly, is not in our hands. It's in Rafa's.

For now, all we can do is wish Alonso the best as part of Madrid's new Galactico, and pray to god that Liverpool finds a good replacement with the 34 million we will have.

Thank you Xabi Alonso.

Zen Garden

2009-07-30T23:26:00.007+08:00

When I went to Japan, I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the famous Zen Garden!

Now what do you picture when you think of the Zen Garden? Beautiful scenary, birds chirping, clear rivers... Enough to give you inner peace no?

Not so. Here's a dose of reality.

Behold.

ZEN GARDEN

A garden made of rocks. Just rocks. Visitors are only allowed to stand on a platform and stare at it. Staring at it is supposed to let you understand the meaning of life. It's supposed to vary according to viewer. Different viewers are supposed to see different symbolic meanings. And the longer you stay, the more you're supposed to understand about life.

All i see are rocks. =_=

Damn, maybe I'm losing my sense of imagination. Either way, since I'm such a thoughtful friend (cough), I took a picture of the miniature model of the zen garden, so whenever any of you feel like contemplating life, just hop on over to my blog and stare at the picture below! =D

k. Happy thinking about life. I've got better things to do, like not staring at rocks. =)

IU Day 2009

2009-07-29T18:14:00.007+08:00

International Understanding day. It's hard to compare it with last year's one really. Last year, I was so happy with Kadet Polis winning the competition I would've been filled with bliss no matter how sucky it was. (not that it was of course.)

Flash forward to 2009, where we had just lost the competition. So no trophy to give that insta-happiness. Oh well, life goes on. Unlike last year however, I was more involved in the performances this year, where I played an NS trainee who had retarded hands in Yan Gen's, edit-Eugene's, Leonard's and Isaac's sketch. A lot of people liked the sketch, so I'm really pleased. Oh, and just to make it look grand,

"The sketch was the best part of IU Day." ~ Chong Su Wei, No. 1 Student of 5SC1 2009

(I'm the dude in the middle who's about to get eaten by sakai number 2.)

Won't post too many pics since there're like flooding facebook as I type. Anyway, there was latin dancing, a magic show involving umbrellas (ella' ella' eh eh eh), music by Rick and co. and most importantly food. I didn't really eat much apart from a bowl of laksa and 3 cups of Ais Kacang, which isn't as much as it sounds, really!

What'd I like? I liked the ais kacang since the laksa was friggin spicy. I liked the sketch because I was in it lol. I liked the magic show because that huge umbrella looks handy. I did not like the laksa because it didn't suit my taste. I did not like the messiness of the final dance. I did not like the sketch because Lai Cheong fell ON me when i was lying down on stage (DAMN uncomfortable okay!) I did not like the sketch because Ming Yew gives people nightmares.

But ultimately, I enjoyed this year's IU day as a whole. Knowing that this is my last year in this school, I liked the fact that I got involved in some way despite not being a member of the Interact Club. Was it perfect? Hell no. Could it have been better? A definite yes. Is Ming Yew scary? Oh god yesss. But fact is I had fun and that's the whole point of IU day is it not? Kudos to Huey Jean and the Interact team for handling this pseudo massive event. 33!!! =)

One last thing, if this is International UNDERSTANDING day,

why is it,
I feel

like I don't understand my friends even more???

Just Noticed.

2009-07-26T19:52:00.001+08:00

How some people on facebook are sadistic. It's hilarious.

Click to enlarge.

Pride? Pressure?

2009-07-23T18:22:00.004+08:00

You tell me.

The irony here is that my sis hates the Brands Essence of Chicken shit. Oh well, at least she pockets RM1000 from them for advertising it. Money talks.

Kawad Competition

2009-07-20T18:48:00.005+08:00

Yes I'm still sour over the loss, so sour that I took zero photos that day. Grrr.

That aside, congrats to the Boys Brigade as i truly felt they deserved to win. Heck I'd be surprised if the cadets won it based on the shitty errors we made.

Huge credit to PBSM for breaking back into the top three, didn't get to see them sadly, but it must have been good from what I've heard.

And St Johns, what can I say, tough luck. Without a doubt one of the hardest working teams. (WTF TRAINING UNTIL 4PM???) Such a pity that fatigue took its toll on many members, otherwise the result could have been different. No worries Lydia, you did all that you could for the team. You even suffered a nosebleed the other day lol.

Scouts improved drastically this year, too bad for the time penalty. Nvm, a young squad means there's still time to improve. Credit leonard for teaching them.

Cadets, siiiiigh, we may have lost our treble, but at least we have a Hari Sukan win to showoff for 2009, better than nothing right? And er... I suppose... 2nd place isn't that bad... *cough*

Ah, screw that, I feel like crap about being 2nd. Being 2nd is pracically being the 1st loser! But hey, you win some you lose some. Regardless of the frustrations I have for the team and myself, I'd be an ass if I started blaming individuals. One's mistakes is the team's mistakes after all. That's why it's called a team. And on behalf on the 24 duders in the squad, sorry fai tuck we couldn't get you the treble.

k that's it from me, I'd like to post here a hilarious paragraph from Kevin's blog. He says I'm not allowed to steal it but I'm his seniour so I don't give a damn. plus I'm helping him advertise his blog, so nice right?

KEVIN'S BLOG

who say BB very perfect...

having a leg bend like this during examination..
(showed by li lian)

and having such big distance after tutup barisan.
worst then st johns..

Toilets in Japan

2009-07-19T11:49:00.007+08:00

So we lost the competition. hmmph. boo.

But this is no emo blog, so let's keep that away from here.

Japan, known for being awesome in technology and stuff, is of course more advanced than us in toilets. In Malaysia, or more specifically in SMK Taman Desa, the stench of the toilets could probably kill an old man if exposed to them for too long.

Japan's toilets however are a different case.

Take a look at the snazzy buttons beside the toilet bowl. From there, you just KNOW you're gonna get a different toileting experience.

But what do they do exactly? Does it pull down your pants for you? Does it detect any perverts peeking at you? Does it let you play PS3 from the comfort of your toilet seat??

Nah, they're not THAT far ahead in technology, yet.

What it CAN do however, is help you wash your anus. For all you younger readers out there who don't know what an anus is, the anus is basically the part of your butt that allows defecation of faeces, or in simpler terms that Ashton uses to explain to us, "to release shit lah!"

Looking at the buttons, I'd bet you know which one does just that hehe. It's really quite awesome. When you press the anus express washing button, a tube thingy will come out and spray water to your backside. It's tickles so don't be surprised if you walk pass a toilet in Japan and hear some crazy dude giggling away.

You can even control the water pressure, temperature, and there's a washing mechanism for ladies too that I did not try out for obvious reasons. One really cool feature is the toilet seat warming. In Malaysia, don't you hate it when the seat gets really cold on cold days? Well, over in Japan, it can heat up so you can excrete or shit in perfect harmony. =D Seriously, you could just sit there for hours so because of the comfort. (I did not however, I have a life.)

Nontheless, we Malaysians should appreciate the fact that we have "okay okay lar" toilets that do the job, albeit not perfectly. Think about it, if we didn't have any good toilets at all, we'd have a hard time cleaning our anuses and private ares.

Like the deer in Japan.

Universal Studios Japan

2009-07-13T00:14:00.015+08:00

Now that I finally got my supply of photos, time to blog about more japan stuff. On day 1, it was straight to the Universal Studios!

It felt very Disney Land-ish, with much less crowds. Must be the fear of H1N1, heh. With the lack of mobs, we were fortunate enough to get attention from the cartoon characters. (whose names I forgot, or never knew in the first place.)

The guy beside me looks just like Crash Bandikoot, but I honestly don't play enough video games to know that sort of stuff. Oh, we met Shrek too. =)

Looks like my dad really likes him huh?

Anyways, we went to see the parade. The japanese peeps doing the dance had so much energy and enthusiasm, it was so scary, since it was almost HueyJean-like. Can you imagine that? *shudders*

Hehe we got Elmo to pose with us. =) More Japanese girls for Sean since he wanted an encore lol.

Sure, I'm no fan of these childish little playthings, but I must say, Elmo made me a fan.

Seriously.

Well... I won't make this post shite long so I'll use pictures. Remember? Pictures are worth a thousand words?

We went to see the Wizard of Oz!

But the Lion and Tin Can man were so cute that we convinced them not to see the wizard and remain the way they are. And they all lived happily ever after.

I also dangered the seas!

With a stone dude who's probably been there so long that he forgot that the sea isn't even there anymore.

Well, obviously my trip to the sea didn't work very well.

As I nearly got eaten by a shark thing. Those Japanese duders probably walked pass us thinking "Baka =_=; "

Lastly, we went to the souvenier shop, which had lots of fun stuff. Like a Cowboy hat!

Yeah yeah such a poser. Sorry I just couldn't resist okay.

With that, we left Universal Studios, but not before a hug from my best pal. (whose name I still don't really remember)

Well I simplified everything duh, otherwise there'd be much much more. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention about the 4D experience thing. You know, they give you special glasses so everything you see on the screen sort of pops out? Yeah, that. So I went for the Terminator one, expecting to be blown away by awesomeness!

Just one problem. See, when once the people opened their mouths, what you hear is basically,

"ターミネータにようこそ！"

TAK FAHAM!! =((((

Stupid language barrier. Ta ma de.

Alright, I think I'll end this post with a little fun trivia.

Here's the difference between Girls:

and Guys:

Oh, I said I was an Elmo fan? Nah, my sudden affections don't last very long. =P

Japanese Girls

2009-07-12T00:58:00.004+08:00

Since my phone camera is retarded, I resorted to Plan B, my camera's photos!

4 Jul 09, 22:34

Sean: where are the pictures of the jap girls?

11 Jul 09, 22:17

Sean: i love this post but what about the jap girls?

So since I don't want to keep Sean waiting any longer...

There you go. I'm so proud that I got them to pose with me with minimal usage of their language.

Gene: "Sumimasen, kamera? photo?" *points at camera*
Japanese chicks: "Hai!"

It's easy. =)

Don't you think their girls' school uniform just pwns our girls school uniforms? I support Malaysia to copy Japanese Girls School Uniforms!

Next time I'll post about Universal Studios I guess.

Majestic no?

Oishi!

2009-07-10T21:08:00.010+08:00

That's japanese for "Delicious!" I think. You know lah these japanese words, who knows it could mean "F*** off!" but I'm pretty sure its' "Delicious" in this case.

Anyways, Japanese food. One would immediately think of raw salmon, sushi, wasabi, nori, sashimi, kawaii, whatever. I admit, before going to Japan I was expecting to starve over there. Seriously. I just could not acquire the taste for Japanese food.

But Japan has changed me. Now I think Im more than capable of eating Japanese food, save sushi and raw stuff I guess. I'd do a review for each of the food listed below but who gives a shit and a picture's worth a thousand words right?

First comes their rice/friend pork chop combo. You can't see the rice as its covered but I assure you its good stuff. Its sweet and sticky so you can actually eat it with your chopsticks. Add in the japanese sauce and you have yourself a treat.

They even have stuff for MouseHunt lovers too!

Brie! But hey you can find this stuff in Malaysia so let's move on.

They also have lots of bakeries in Japan.

and on sale right now would be the pain lasagna! Bring on the pain!!!

We had a feast of crabs too. No not crap, but crab.

First off we have the boiled crab, served cold. Apparently this preserves most of its natural flavour. And I must admit it's pretty damn good. Don't ask me what the green stuff is.

And then we had a fried crab. This miserable piece, shared out among 4 people in the family. How miserable. There's a japanese word for food fried this way, but i can't effing remember it right now. =(

And claypot crab with rice. Here you can see how sticky the rice is. Yeah, the rice is that good.

Finally, the one we've all been waiting for, RAW crab. *dum dum dum*

I'm so proud of myself for eating it. =D Its sort of like a combination between lai chee and er... I dunno something. Having said that, I'm not going near raw food again tee hee. xD

Alright that's all I have for Japanese food thanks to my retarded camera (phone), but let's take a look at familar stuff that we may not see in Malaysia.

like... MCPORK!

Hahaha the wrapper is so cute. We'll never see this in Malaysia, so if you travel overseas, I urge you to try this. It's really, really nice.

McDonald's also has something called Cinnamon Meltz.

My sister likes this a lot. The name should explain it all. The sweetness of the cinnamon just puts you on cloud nine.

Fingers crossed that it comes to Malaysia.

Oh, and guess what they sell in convenient stores?

Starbucks! In Convenient stores! It's a revolution. Sorry Charis, couldn't bring it back for you. =p

Alright that's it for this post I guess. I guess I can conclude from this trip that Japanese food is pretty damn awesome. For everyone. No matter how unique you are, say, if you like animal food.

WARNING: IT'S AWFUL FOR PEOPLE!