Sesi mencuci

I haven't gotten around to thank my friends for helping me mencuci rumah, secara ad-hoc pulak tu ehehe...
Kejadian berlaku Jumaat, 18/3/11

Thank you girls & boys !!!

Lepas mencuci tu, aku bawak diorang makan mamak & tengok rumah orang2 kaya di pagi hari.
Statement paling tak tahan: Diorang ni kerja apa? Jual dadah ke??!! LOL!!!!


Lady Maslina


Razeif sempat menyanyi, penuh feeling tu fuuuuh...


Tangan camerawoman - Liza. Ni kitorang buat gaya tangan ala Usop


Manto yg kepenatan...

Meet our friendly reporters!

Ah before I post the 3rd day report of our Yogya trip, I must first report on the wannabe reporters! :-p

We had fun reporting ;-)

Host Chak! Jom Jalan2


CNN cum Bernama reporter cum vulcanologist cum archealogist

Professor Jawa cum sign language interpreter


Our very able but shy camerawoman

The Flaming Lips (I Wish!)

Agagagag...I was stuck here in KL due to work and so missed The Flaming Lips' concert in SG last night at the spanking new Marina Bay Sands

The gig was sure as heck mind blowingly epic! There's Zorbing, a bear(!), giant laser-emitting hands, lots of balloons and confetti! Note: Background music of the video is "Do You Realize?"

A friend of mine Nut from SG got lucky to have won a pair of tix to the gig! His winning story is here (find ewoksoldier's entry)

And he got a lucky break again that the tix had to be picked up from Junk's office in PJ (but he's based in SG!) when another tix winner from M'sia offered to pick up the tix for him & met up with him & they had a blast going to the gig! I'm not kidding, here's his account:

On that night itself, some dude named Omar email-ed me about joining him and his friend for the road trip down to Singapore for the show (he must've gotten my email from the Junk website). So I replied that I'm in Singapore and asked him if he can be arsed to help a stranger and get me my tickets from Junk HQ, highlighting the fact that he can run away with them and that I can do nothing about it. In return, I'd treat him and his friend to supper after the show. He replied with a very sincere "yes"!

So this super-duper nice fella did get me my tickets at 10am SHARP thurs morning, and gave me a call right away to assure me that he's not running away with it! Such a nice fella right..

I brought my lucky friend along and we met Omar and his friend at Marina Bay Sands (it was their first time driving into Singapore and kudos to him for finding his way through this extremely confusing place) after work. I think he's the last human being of this kind (helpful, selfless, honest). I received my tickets and he said he'll take a smoke while my friend and I go look for something to eat (but we didn't in the end). Apparently there isn't a single fast-food restaurant in that bloody huge place. Not a big fan of fast-food but we needed to bite into something light just before the show, so we ended up with coke.

Then we went to the exhibition hall and there was a queue. Went to check out the merch stalls and I bought a tee. I loved it. We decided to join the queue but soon after, Omar came and called us to his BIG group of friends who came down from KL too, and they were near the front of the queue!! Then I spotted my colleague (who's a freelancer so I had no idea she was attending the show too) on the other side of the queue, where we were a minute ago and I did the right thing by passing along the good deed, so I pulled her to our huge group of cool people (apparently some of them are in a Malaysian band called Flocks, if i heard correctly... google isn't giving me any result so I must have heard wrongly then). Then it was 8pm and we were ushered into the hall and it was the beginning of a lot of surprises for me.

Moral of the story: Do good unto others. It's infectious :-D

The things we can do at midnight...

I discovered that I enjoyed the task of putting up signages, I find it challenging, especially at busy intersections, dodging passing cars *eeeeeeeeeek* , doing it in the wee hours of the morning. Thanks to my cousins too for making it a riot!

Call me if you need help :-p

p/s: I dread the cutting daun pandan task to small slices though eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ...

Penjahat di tengah malam

Chinese Whispers

I have been getting a lot of Chinese speaking visitors lately, based on their comments left (they wrote in Chinese). Which is rather unfortunate (or maybe lame) of me, being a Malaysian, but can't read/write Chinese (be it Mandarin, Hokkien, Canto etc)

Anyway, for my amusement, I used Google's translator to figure out just what were they actually saying in those comments ;-) Luckily, they turned out to be not too obscene, so I can publish them here lol! Here goes:

"Temper and mouth is not good, even if no matter how carefully, not too good"
-For The Killer gig post
I figure he/she must be a fan of the The Killers. I was being tongue-in-cheek for the post there

"People have eyes of a tongue, is the observation times for the sake of talking."
-For the Stereophonics KL Live: Liz's take post
Not quite sure what the commentator wanted to say hmm...

"nice blog yo ~ ~ I will always look at fuel ~!!"
-For the Shiny Happy People post
Hurrah! TQ there :-D

And a few more others, which I accidentally deleted before I could do those translations sigh!

Note to Z.M.: I reckon u to check out R.E.M's Automatic For The People (1992). Phoaaaarr fell in love with the album instantly! Check out Everybody Hurts from the album

Perbualan kelakar

Kih kih...can't help it...this friend of mine is damn funny when she writes.. (and so are her circle of followers). My friend is SNH

Sample 1 (this is about her son):

R,1.7 tahun - Masih tak boleh bercakap tetapi bergerak sangat pantas mengalahkan the flash. Selalu menghilangkan diri dan memeningkan kepala kotak aku utk mencarinya..Logik kah kalau aku letak loceng kat kaki dia? Berdosa tak? (-_-;)

Fren 1 comments: letakkan kerincing ala-ala penari gypsi
Fren 2 comments: bukankah kau yang patut berloceng? *jeling*
SNH: orang aneh dah muncul *cemas*

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Sample2:
Mlm tadi kakcha (her elder daughter) bangun pukul 3 pagi semata-mata nak suruh aku nyanyi lagu Abangface (Bunkface).. bergurau apa!!?? (-_-;) Bukankah patutnya belajar nyanyian tadika!!

Fren 3: kakcha, jgn jadi aneh mcm ibu.
SNH: bergurau apa!?ini semua adalah kesalahan aku kerana mengenali kau! kau! kau!*tuding jadi kat kelompok org2 aneh*

The Killer gig

The Killers gig last night was awesome! Mr Flowers went to the 3 M'sian girls at North Block (that's us!!) & we got to take pictures with him!

The setlist were:

1. Human

2. Somebody Told Me

3. For Reasons Unknown
4. The World We Live In

5. Joy Ride

6. Bling (Confession of a King)

7. Shadowplay (Joy Division cover)

8. Smile Like You Mean It

9. Losing Touch

10. Spaceman

11. A Dustland Fairytale

12. Sam's Town

13. Read My Mind

14. This River Is Wild

15. Bones

16. Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine

17. I Can't Stay

Encore:

18. Mr. Brightside

19. When You Were Young

20. All These Things That I've Done

I loved the encore the most! Awesome!

We also managed to greet the band again at the airport today before their flight to Beijing & they said they were sorry that they played a trick on us by announcing that the gig was cancelled.

Haha...OK now seriously, Nut should bring us potential mental patients to see his gf (she works at a psychiatric ward/hospital)

None of the above happened I'm afraid, it was just my wild imagination

Here's what really happened:

We were there but the Killers were not!

There were 2 M'sian girls who DROVE to S'pore and just only then found out that the gig was cancelled! We felt pity for them :(

Supposedly our entrance. Relax before what show? *rolls eyes*

Unfortunately Liz, we didn't see/bump into any The Killers' crew

We also asked for the Killers posters, but the organizers said they didn't have it! C'mon, they've already known this did they? How come there were no posters at all??!!

On a good note, we saw MUSE posters!

Other than the excursion to Sg Indoor Stadium, we also went to Fort Canning Park to reminisce about the gigs that were held there before.

For touristy stuff, we went to Sentosa as per Nut's reccomendation and tried the luge! It was great fun! We rode the luge thrice !! We actually came to Sentosa twice, once on Sunday (supposed gig day) + Monday while waiting for our flight back home

1 ride = SGS11, 2 rides = SGD=16, 3 rides = SGD20

This was us on the skyride going to the luge trek

This is harbourfront @ Vivo City mall where you can take the Sentosa Express monorail to Sentosa (SGD3)

We stayed near Mustafa centre - the only 24 hour mall I've ever seen! You can get everything here - clothes, kain2, electrical & electrnic goods, jewellery, perfume etc day & night, whenever you feel like buying! There's even a giant calculator!

Lastly, we visited Arab street before going back:

A BIG THANKS TO NUT FOR BEING A REALLY AWESOME HOST!

Driving us to Sg Indoor Stadium, bringing us around etc etc ^_^

Operation Bunga Stalking : Aborted :(

I never posted my entry below and saved it in draft for months for reasons unknown

Now I know why, cos it's never meant to be!

The gig is CANCELLED! :( :( :(

Read here if you must

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Gah! .. Got tix for The Killers gig in January :D

Looks like we are heading for another monkey ape bonkers trip ;-)




Since we got the cheapest tix, and it's sooo faaar away from the stage, we can't see Mr Brandon Flowers' face and fingers first hand :(

So we plan to embark on Operation Bunga Stalking then LOL! Will we succeed? Stay tuned!

Here's one of their best songs - All These Things That I've Done