Painting Colours

Ironically, my return this time is more relishable than it ought to be. I enjoyed every second spent with my dad at the badminton court. More like lessons rather than plays. I got beaten by regular housewives who play there, you can tell how lousy a player I am. Wrong idle stances, racket handling is inappropriate and poor strength estimation and control. However, I find bliss in identifying my flaws, as well as learning to correct or rectify them. Hopefully I will improve in no time, or if not, gradually. This reminds me of a saying by Confucius, “It doesn’t matter how slow you walk, as long as you reach your destination.”. Tomorrow will be my last lesson before I get my ass back in KL as they play on Mondays and Wednesdays only.

These few days, time kinda flew. We (Kee Wei, Tze Fong, Cicak and me) spent quality time eating at several places (Even at Mak Long’s shack!), watching movies and playing 2 friendly matches of D.O.T.A. , shopped for housewarming gift prior to Cteng’s housewarming party, in conjunction with her brother’s birthday celebration. During the party, her brother’s buddies were having some kind of a Digimon Rumble match which I found it very amusing. The noteworthy scene was when the infamous Shan’s brother, usually addressed as “Ah Yu” gasconading his skill in gaming and challenged his acquaintances. Obviously like his sohai brother, the haolien-ness imprinted on him or originated from birth, of that I’m not sure. “Lai ah, kia-lu ah!” (I’m fearless, bring it on!) , he exclaimed in Hokkien. When defeated, he minimized his discouragement by accusing his opponent of playing balless-ly. “Tho bou-chi eh la!”, he shouted in Hokkien. How funny! I guess gaming is regarded as a platform for kids here to exhibit their boldness and skillfulness or intelligence if you must and as an activity which they take pride in doing. We sent Kee Wei home and watched an episode of Naruto Shippuuden before we continued playing cards and drank sparkling juice with beer at Cteng’s house. Kee Wei left for KL later that day.

Yesterday, those girls except Cteng came to “Paris” to kacau-kacau sekejap before we all went out to jalan-jalan, later followed by Tze Fong and Cicak. Visited Page 2, HOTS and A&W. Thiam Boon and Yen Ling joined us at A&W. Curly Fries and Root Beer Float, nyum nyum.  Cicak later send all the girls back, while I fetched Tze Fong to purchase his special brush at GQ Stationery. The guys, including me stayed at "Paris" for a lil' Animatrix sensation before we left for dinner at Desa Hill. What a day!


Last Row: Tze Fong, Kee Wei


Last Row: Nobu, Cicak, Rui, Iza  -  Front Row: Cteng, Mei, Ying


Jom Makan: Nasi Minyak, Nasi Kunyit, A bucket of KFC, Confections, Oranges

Happy Homecoming

Back in my hometown since last Wednesday. Nothing much has really changed. Apart from a few new outlets, MPKT is renamed to MBKT, wearing the "Bandaraya" status proudly and I can see a few minor improvements in China Town, some paint jobs done and improved road. There are still road works going on in some other part of the town. Spent the first few days trash-hunting in my room at "Paris". Obsolete VCDs, used book of all kinds, newspaper cuttings, third grade toys and etc; All are sorted and ready to be recycled or given away to cousins. I found some of my old notebooks which I sketched and scribbled alot in, random arts and journals, some are quite impressive. (Haha, Puji diri.) CDs and more CDs, now reorganised and nicely kept. Novels too are rearranged.

On Sunday, 2 days ago, I went to yumchar with old buddies (Tze Fong, Kok Jiun, Cicak, Cteng, Iza and Ying) at the first branch of Secret Recipe in KT. We had the time of our lives. We were like the noisiest bunch there, laughed hysterically like no one was around. As usual-lah, naughty jokes, teases and crazy talks. Ying ordered Banana Yogurt Drink, gross. No offense, it looks like a blend of bananas and semen. We joked that the male staffs took turn to fill up the glass xD. Satisfied with the appetizers, we moved on to the next stop which is just a few steps away. Uncle Chua Kopitiam. The Cham Peng was ridiculously sweet but the food was ok. Poor service though, snail-like. And more sohai talks continued.

The next day, which was yesterday, I went to Mydin Hypermart with Cicak, Iza and Ying. The first ever gigantic hypermart in my hometown, very crowded. Ying went all the way there just to buy a pair of selipar getah jepun, while I bought 2 bottles of lotion and 2 packs of Topaz Razors as requested by my mom. Then we stopped by a while at Cteng's new house near Chuk Lim Vegetarian Restaurant. We intended to watch a movie there at first but due to the noise pollution by the renovation work of her stairs, we only killed 10 minutes and off we went to the first McD in KT. Makan-makan kejap and drove them around town jalan-jalan, then we called it a day.

Oh yeah, Merry Christmas to all. Hopefully Santa will send me a lenglui this year. He has been ignoring me for 7 years already.



From left: Nobu, Iza, Cteng, Ying, Kok Jiun


Right most: Cicak


The only guy who is not in previous pics: Tze Fong

M For Malaysia

Check out this parody version of V for Vendetta. My dad found it some time ago. Enjoy!