Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Sixthseal is alive! - Fireelement

Last post I wrote, Sixthseal is dead but partially alive! One reader out of thousands (I’ve been sarcastic), have given me some information regarding sixthseal.

Guess what! SIXTHSEAL IS ALIVE!!!
SIXTHSEAL is very well alive…

The new sixthseal is called fire element.

www.fireelement.com

enjoy!!everyone!!!!
Good on you PHB (Poh Huai Bin)!!! Good to see you back on the blog sphere.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Sixthseal is Dead and Partially Alive!

I have being a big fan of Sixth seal for quite some time now. For those who does’t know what's Sixth seal, well! it is a weblog by a guy called Poh Huai Bin (short for PHB). The blog is about food, drugs, anything/everything that circulate his everyday life. I can proudly say that he is the one who brought me into the bloggers world. Well, technically we don’t know each other nor meet each other at all. What I meant was, sixth seal’s the 1st blog that I have read and from reading his blog, he defines blogging for me which lead my interest in documenting stuff on the internet.
It is funny how I came across his blog a few months ago. I was in the office as usual being extremely bored, out of no reason at all, I wanted a picture of sibu buses. So as a normal person would do, I’ve typed in “sibu bus” in google, click on to the images, and woila, there he was! The legendary PHB! Once I’ve clicked into his blog, I find myself going to his site every single day.
I think what got me hooked onto his website was that, he is from sibu as well. PHB made a lot of reference to things happening in sibu, food consumed in sibu and others. With the help of dozen photos in his blog, It somehow reminded me of “HOME”. In some occasion, I even drooled over some of the picture shown on the site. On to the dark site, his controversial “trips” reports were great to read, simple yet witty. Sixthseal helps me understand the effect of drugs without even experience it. As a drug user myself (hmm…!), I find the site great in term of gaining drug information.
I was reading his blog daily till one day sixthseal was not accessible anymore (what a tragic!!). It is just misfortune that I’ve just gotten really into his blog for a couple of months then no more sixth seal. It is like giving a child a lollipop for 20 second, for a chance to have a taste of sweet lollipop then taking the lollipop away from him. At first, I though it might have been Malaysian server down for couple of hours, then a few days passed, then a few weeks, then a whole month had passed, and reality sets in. Sixth Seal is gone forever.
Although Sixth Seal is gone, it doesn’t stop me trying to google Sixth seal or PHB, hoping I can read his article some where. Fans all around the world miss sixth seal so much that, they even set up an online petition on web. *CLICK HERE*
On the verge of giving up reading his blog again, I found this site. *CLICK HERE*
This is a website which archives some or partial of sixth seal. The downfall of this web is that it takes a while to load up one page and even when the page is loaded up, most of the time pictures were not shown. Old saying goes “A Picture is worth a thousand words”. Without picture, thousand words have lost!! Sixthseal is not complete, there’s just something missing, the sixth seal style.

So here a message for PHB editor of www.sixthseal.com
“Please come back and complete SIXTH SEAL!”

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Stolen Wheels


Yesterday, at about 2pm all of my wheels were stolen and replaced with bricks during the period that I was out of the office having my lunch (from 10:00 to 16:00).

I am well behind in my work and now I have to waste my time with these stupidities and on top of it all I am probably going to be fired from my job!!!

If anyone of you, my dear friends, has seen anything, please let me know. I could even go as far as offering a reward to whoever helps me.

Anticipated thanks.

PS. Here is a photo taken at the scene of the crime (theft with irritating consequences).

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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

The Thought of Being a FLY



Every now and then, people will ask you silly question like, “if you won a million bucks what would you do with it?”or the kind.
The other day, I’ve got one question!
The question went like this : “What sort of living creature would you be in your next life?”.
Then I jokingly answered, I would be a FLY.
Next thing I know, she was burst with laughter, she was nearly in tears.
It was initially a joke just to get a few laughs, but after a few days, the joke became a thought to me.
Well, what is so funny of being a fly?
A fly, well fly, meaning you’ll get freedom. Eating/drinking cooked food from human being, meaning you don’t necessary have to work for delicious food(I’m extremely lazy, ok!). Life span of a fly is normally average of 2 days, meaning that you don’t have to live long enough to suffer. Alright, I don’t want to be bias here only talking about the pros of a fly. Cons of being a fly are, ugly looking thing, running the risk of being smacked by humans, and also if human food aren’t available, flies will turn to what came out of animals (aka SHIT, let it be chicken shit, bull shit, human shit, or whatever shit).
Now, let us analyse each one of the cons listed above.

Ugly looking thing
How often do you see ugly people walking on the street? I reckon the answer would be quite often. I am not saying I am good looking, but the fact is people might regarded me as ugly looking depending on what sort of people are judging, agree? Even Ugly people, do you really think they didn’t know if they’re ugly? They know for sure, but did they do anything trying to beautify their looks? No not really, people just get used to it, and move on with life. So, it is fair to say that if we were born ugly, well, we might complaint about it for a while, but in the end, we’ll just accept who we are and get on with life. So being ugly isn’t a major problem at least for me.

Smacked by humans
What are the possibilities of being smacked by humans, honestly! How often when you tried to smack a fly but end up unsuccessfully! Think about it, the possibility is small, and it’s unlikely. If it happens it happens! Bad luck. It is also part of my fault if I being a fly and been smacked by human. I’ve got every tools I need to move very very fast.

Turn to SHIT for food
I do agree, there are always flies around shit! But me as a fly, I will hang around at the residential and consume human food instead. It’s all about choice!

People always think of being a bird, an eagle, tiger, elephant or etc. Yeah I do agree anyone who wants freedom being able to fly where they want (being an eagle or bird) , getting security of being big (being elephant), or being popularly recognised(tiger lion).
But before being any animals stated above, think of the following question first,
Can you get up really early in the morning?(birds/eagles wake up early for food)
Are you willing to give up meat? (elephant is vegetarian)
Are you willing to work so hard every time for food? (tiger chasing down a deer)
well, if one of your answer for above is NO! then why not consider being a fly??Being a fly isn’t that bad at all!

Friday, February 23, 2007

Idiot Phone Call

Got a phone call this morning in the office
Me: Hello!
Xx: Hi this is Xx, calling regarding the job the other day, ABC building?
Me: Yes! What is wrong with it
Xx: See, I’ve got a meeting with the client today at 11 O’clock, however I still have not seen the report yet
Me: I have done my part, and sent it to John, perhaps you should give John a call for the progress
Xx: but you know I’ve got meeting at 11 O’clock with the client…blah blah blah..
Me: Yeah…yeah..yeah…(what the fuck do you expect from me?)
Me: ……….(ran out of idea what to respond)
Xx: …………(she is waiting for my respond)
Me: Yeah, call John
Xx: Ok I’ll just try that.
Hang up!
He already knew I am not involved in producing the report, my part was to provide information. He knew that in the beginning, then why the hell he called? what sort of respond does he expect from me? I seriously don’t understand people!!! Doesn’t he feel that he had just wasted a few minutes of precious time for NOTHING? SUCH AN IDIOT!

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Chinese New Year in Australia

Being in Australia, Chinese New Year means NOTHING at all. My colleagues didn’t know it was CNY, no fancy decorations on the streets/mall, people were not rushing out to buy stuffs, everything seems pretty normal than usual. So depressing to see this. This is my 1st year in Australia celebrating CNY, thought it would be an experience, but it is really an unforgettable, unbearable experience. The reason of not going back to Malaysia was because

  1. I have a younger brother here, I was told to look after him. (he’s already 19 years old – what’s the point of me being here “look after”).
  2. I only have 3 weeks of annual leave, I figured it was a bit short for me to go home, I was thinking if I accumulate more annual leaves by working 2 years straight, I can next time take a longer holiday to Malaysia. (now I do realised it was a bad choice!)

Well, anyway, it is the 5th day of CNY today, the pain of missing home, the pain of depressing are slowly dissolving into thin air. I still remember, I nearly broke down and cried while I was in supermarket the 1st day of CNY. This is what happened. I was in China town, went into a Supermarket while waiting for my mate to do his groceries. They were playing those mandarin CNY’s song, and I thought to myself, if I were to be in Malaysia right at this moment, I would hear this songs over and over again, I would be buying fire crackers and getting ready for CNY. While over here, don’t really hear anyone getting excited about CNY. Let me see what I have done for the last couple of days

CNY eve
Sit at home, played game in the morn, afternoon.
Went to church at night for dinner,
Went to temple (a bit of a conflict huh?) afterwards for some lion dances and fire works. Was amazed to see so many Asian at once.

CNY 1st day
Sit at home, played game in the morn, afternoon.
Went to mate’s house for some food at night. He was saying : “come to my house for some food”. Now if you were in Malaysia, you would expect wonderful food and drinks. But what we had over here were…..
Wait for it….
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Fried rice noodle, vermicelli, ho kien noodle and 2 mid sized fish to be shared among 11 people.
Although there is a HUGE gap between Malaysia Australia CNY food, but I was grateful enough to have at least some celebration among friends. After dinner, we went to a church auntie’s (I don’t even know who she is) house for gathering. Think there will be ang pao (red packet)???
Absolutely nothing.
Went home, more gaming.

CNY 2nd day
Suppose to be at work today, but took the day off, too depresses to work on CNY 2nd day. Went to china town, had lunch with friends while waiting for lion dance. Were fortune enough to see a couple lion dances, and to my amazed, they even set off fire crackers. Now, I thought to myself, there must be a way to get fire crackers around here. Asked a shop who deals with illegal activities, and was told it is not legal to have them (that’s why I asked this particular shop, idiot!!). Didn’t further ask how to get fire crackers because as if I will go and buy one here. It must be really expensive and running the risk of getting caught by police.
A bit of pokies, and went home.

3rd day of CNY
Back to my depressing work place. Sigh~~!

Depressing? yeah i guess so!

anyway, Happy new year guys! I have decided to go home every CNY! Another 365 days to go! Counting down.

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Weather Forecast

I was checking the weather forecast just now in the office. To my surprise I saw this

Woo hoo…it’s going to be sunshine 5 days straight, that’s a sight I don’t see often. What am I going to be for these 5 beautiful days?
Thursday, Friday and Monday are out of question, because I have to work, I’ll be staying in the office these days (sigh~), so that leaves 2 days.
To come to think about it, what is the point of getting exited over 5 days of sunny days? It’s not like I am able to enjoy it anyway. So hate it when I look out the window and see blue sky, beautiful day with bird chirping/flying away while I have to stay in the office hoping I can outside.
Let’s be optimistic, at least I’ll have a sunshine weekend this week. What am I going to do?
Saturday: Sitting in an outdoor coffee shop sipping latte while smoking my life away?
Sunday: Go down to the bay and check out some chick?
These sounds like a good plan to me! See what happen then.

~~I'm walking on sunshine, woooah

~~I'm walking on sunshine, woooahand

~~don't it feel good!!~~

By Katrina and the waves