Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Injured
Since there was no iodine a little help from my vile bottle of Korean rice wine helped clean up the wound, painfully I might add. I finally manage to find a use for that vile bottle of alcohol besides it being an object to scare fellow drinkers. Anyway just to gross you guys out I posted a picture of my cut finger and the bottle of Korean rice wine (that you should never buy unless you like to drink paint thinner).
Monday, December 10, 2007
The joy and dangers of eating
Now, before you dog lovers out there start flaming me for doing such horrible stuff let me explain myself. I said I unknowingly ate dog. This happened when I was about 11 and had gone over to a friends place to basically hog his Super NES. As it was getting late, I told my mum I'd be staying for dinner. It was the holidays and after a long day of video gaming and playing basketball I was famished. That being said I tucked into this nice looking stew that my friends mum took out and was delighted cause it tasted like pork and kinda look like pork. So there I was eating away, happily digging into that delicious porky like meat when my friend's uncle came down. By then my face had this satisfied look of someone enjoying his meal, when suddenly I heard my friend's uncle say "Mmmmmm dog meat. My favourite". At first I thought he was joking until he started talking about which dog from the farm they cooked.
You could just imagine the look on my face then. My friend, (the bastard that he was) was giggling away and told me that the meat was actually dog and I had tucked in before they could say anything. Now the weird thing was that I didn't immediately go bonkers and swore (I was 11 and at a friends place, swearing was an invitation to a good whacking from my mom back then, no matter the reason). Instead I straightened that look of horror on my face, pushed the dog meat by to the side of my plate and ate veges for the rest of the dinner. Of course being calm on the outside didn't mean I was calm on the inside. You see the big problem was I had dogs of my own. 3 of them in fact and one of them was a mean little bugger called Duke.
You know that belief that when you eat dog, another dog would know. Well believe me its true. I never told my parents about the dog eating incident when I came back (and I never did until only a couple of years ago) so they were non the wiser. It was a different story with my dogs though. The two more docile ones just shied away from me when I went to feed them, which wasn't so bad. Duke on the other hand almost bit my fingers off when I tried to feed him. And for the next two weeks, I couldn't go anywhere near the dogs without them either avoiding me or Duke trying to bite me. Ever since then, I've made sure to ask what meat is being served before tucking in. I've gone on to eat worst stuff like insects, bats and such but never again dog.
So let this be a lesson, if it taste like pork, it might be pork, but it also might not. So always ASK what is it you're eating before tucking in.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Of Babe Photography and (I think) Badly Taken Pix
As most of you all who are frequent PC Fair yearly (all three of them), I'm pretty sure you're familiar with the sight of skimpy and sexily dressed promoters in the various booths that pepper Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. Ok, I'll sound kinda of hypocritical if I said that it was a good example of the exploitation of women, since I kinda enjoyed some of the sights as well (yes if my girlfriend reads this I am a dead man). However, that is sometimes, one of the draws of PC Fair, the deals and the babes. And so there I was, covering the promoters of PC Fair III 2007. Considering that LYN the site I work for is populated mostly by raging, hot blooded males, it's more than natural for me to go to PC Fair, not to cover the tech (since most of the forumers there would know the whole place inside out even before I reach the place) but the girls themselves.
Not let me tell you, I'm no photographer. In fact I suck at taking pictures. As such I brought in the assistance of a buddy of mine who so happened needed to head to PC Fair to settle some stuff to take pictures with me. As you can see from the pix we took, things didn't turn out that great. If you want to see better pictures, I suggest you check out LYN forummer travis_cfk's photos which were way better than mine and my friends. And if you're wondering which of the girls I took, its the one with the Samsung Cop girls, which were pretty overexposed.
I've never been able to take any good pictures no matter how hard I try. It seems the only thing I'm (partially) good at is writing. If you're looking to see better photography skills, you ought to take a look at what my sis can do. Her eye for artistic photography details easily beat me hands down. And she is able to do it without knowing all the technical aspects like exposure rate, ISO settings and such. Instead she takes photos on her gut feel and after some test shots. Me and a cousin of ours did try to give her a crash course on the more technical aspects of photography but all that info just shot past her, and she still managed to take good pictures. If you don't believe how good my sis is, you could see for yourself the pictures she took on her online gallery here at deviantart (and for all you male readers, do not drool at my sis self potraits. I will hunt you down should you think dirty thoughts).
So on one hand you have a brother that can't do photography for nuts and you have his sister who has an eye for stuff like that. Well at least I have my writing, oh wait she's even catching up with me on that as well. "SIGH" some people have all the luck. Anyway... after this long rant, you now know I suck at photography and my sis rules. Well IT IS 5 am in the morning and I think I need to sleep so enjoy the (bad) pix I took as well as my sis' photography gallery.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Exams are over now work can begin
Yes my exams are over. Finally... hopefully I pass one of my papers though I'm sure i screwed up another. I've found this past 4 months that working and studying is really, really, really difficult. Just trying to think of studying and working at the same time gave me massive headaches. Ah... to only focus on a single tasks. Originally I thought, well how hard could it be. Well I found out how hard it was. On top of my work with LYN and my other freelance gigs, I really couldn't cram things more into my brain. The worst part was shifting gears into study mode. It's really hard when one minute you're thinking of what to write for your next article or review and the next you're trying to remember marketing terms and theory. It was a bit easier doing news pieces since those didn't really require much thinking but when it came to reviewing stuff and trying to remember my marketing theory, well lets say sometimes I got certain acronyms mixed. OMG I hope I didn't put in any IT acronyms into my exam.
Anyway things should go back to normal now. I can fully focus on my work over at LYN and even ramp up my reviews (which were honestly being left aside). Will be updating more often as well.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Dry TV season cometh and what you can do to scratch the coming itch
As some of you may already know quite a bit of the Telly series over in the US have closed down production due to the strike as there are no scripts to film. My fave show Heroes was cut from 26 episodes to a mere 11 episodes for season which really suck as it seems the recent developments would have been much nicer should the whole series stretch to 26 episodes. However as much as I'd like to complain about greedy writers and such, I won't for the very reason that I understand what some of those writers are going through. Hell I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't seeing that I'm a 'struggling' writer as well. So WGA good luck in getting those concessions you need, you have my support here. At least this ought to free up my time to do something more productive like blogging, reading and actually starting on my nascent novel.
However, if you just can't stand to see your torrent client inactive, there's still tons of other stuff for you to download. You shouldn't just narrow your focus to just Telly series only. Search back and you'll find tons of interesting shows that you can watch. The chief among them I'd like you all to at least consider are some documentaries ala informative shows. Before you roll your eyes and prepare sleep, just read on. I'm not talking about those documentaries about the animal kingdom and what nots (though I do find those entertaining as well) but stuff that border closer to reality shows but keep that teensy bit of a documentary streak in them.
A good example would be the show/documentary Mythbusters. Mythbusters is a series that follow two former special effects experts Adam and Jamie as they go around trying to prove or disprove general myths and legends like if a wooden cannon really existed or if you fill helium in a air raft, would it float. Most of the time I find this show entertaining because of the amount of fun the two guys go through in order to prove or disprove the myth, most usually ending in some sort of big explosion. Mythbuster is in its 82nd episode so you have a whole bunch of older ones to go through (downloading might be slow due to the age of some of the episodes). And in case you still need me to spoon feed you guys on other shows to get here is a list of them. (I've found some videos on Youtube that ought to give you a preview of some of the shows)
Mythbusters Preview:
Top Gear:
Some of you might already have this in your list of "to get" videos but if you don't I highly recommend Top Gear. If you're a petrol heads (read car crazy nutter) Top Gear is a must watch. One its hilarious, two they really know how to film cars, three Jeremy Clarkson is an idiot (but still hilarious) and four well its just plain hilarious need I say more.
Human Weapon:
This show is kind of new and showcases the various martial arts in the world. If you're an action junky, Human Weapon is most likely going to float your boat. It has two guys with martial arts background traversing into various countries to discover and learn their martial arts and at the end of the show fight with an expert in that martial art. The shows interesting as it looks at the history of some of this martial arts as well as showcasing the technical aspects of the various moves. I wouldn't say that you can learn them by watching them on the telly but it at least allows you to understand how they work. Hey even Malaysia is in the silat episode though I almost laughed when they gave a brief rundown on silat in our history (no insult to the martial arts but well you'd have to watch the show to understand).
Rise of the Video Game: This documentary is relatively new and to date only two episodes but its does take look at how every geeks favourite passtime rose from war to the money making power house that it is today. Unfortunately I couldn't find any preview videos so you'll have to take my word for it.
That's just a few of the shows I'd recommend you watching if there are not television series to watch and Mythbusters alone might be enough to last you throughout the WGA strike. And if you've already watch them well, it just goes to show how much free time you have on your hands. If that's the case, read a book get some fresh air, EXERCISE. I mean sitting in front of the screen watching telly shows isn't exactly the healthiest thing to do. It's one reason my gut is so big these days.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Stress, Stress, Stress
Monday, November 26, 2007
Of procrastinators, laziness and downright irresponsibility
I'm finding it hard to become the upright, responsible and hardworking person my parents have always envisioned me to be. Ironically enough, my parents are one of the most responsible and hardworking people you'd meet and yet moi, their only son, is the bum he is. I really have to stop this as my current attitude its self destructive. It's not that I haven't noticed it before but I really woke up to my current situation when a friend of mine was kind enough to give me a good nagging over my performance. Its one thing to notice things yourself but when other people start noticing it to, well lets just say its high time to make a change.
So yes, I'm making new promises, to do lists etc... and I hope I keep to it... for good this time.