Thursday, June 29, 2006

A Touch of Randomness

I got this from Stanley's blog.

Your Penis Name Is...

Goliath


I think it's pretty accurate :p

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Snippet 6 - Sidebar

I realize that if you view this blog with Internet Explorer my sidebar appears all the way at the bottom of the screen.

Well too bad.

Not that i don't want to change it, it's just that i don't know how to change it. So i am sorry but i would recommend that you download Mozilla Firefox not because you would be able to view my blog properly but mainly because it is just so much more better - less ads, less viruses, less bugs and etc.

Upgrade to Firefox 1.5!

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Family Dinner

I missed Assunta's Lit Night with the excuse that I have Chinese tuition on Friday nights.

Third Floor Restaurant, Shangri-la KL

Dessert menu, the warm chocolate cake is MAGNIFIQUE, seriously.

Yet this week I skipped class anyway because Dad had this sudden urge to have a family dinner considering my sis has been away for 2 months and now she's going to Japan for 2 weeks.

Lemon Garden, Shangri-la KL

Yep, this is a Chocolate Fountain

My sis is a graduate bum, who is meant to spend this year recouperating from her psoriasis problem.

Lafite, Shangri-la KL

It was like a Kinder Bueno cake. I love Kinder Bueno.

I was really quite excited about this whole family dinner thing.

Lafite, Shangri-la KL

Cheese Menu that comes right up to the table.

I was looking forward to some sort of poncy restaurant in the Shangri-la or at least some nice restaurant in KL.

Shanghai (restaurant), JWW Marriot, Starhill, KL

Dim Sum

However in the end we went to a not-so-poncy restaurant. We ended up in Crystal Crown's Chef Rasa Sayang.

Chef Rasa Sayang, Crystal Crown PJ


I actually do not like Chef Rasa Sayang, mainly because they sell Sharksfin.

Chef Rasa Sayang, Crystal Crown PJ

Giant shark's fin

Yes, I do not deny that I was once a shark's fin-lover. However, after seeing videos of how shark's fins are harvested and seeing figures of their dwindling population, I now realise the inhumane cruelty dealt by man towards this poor creature.

The often perceived man-eater is in fact none other than man-eaten.


Besides, how could i deny Sun Yan Zi? :p

Nonetheless, I was just happy to be out together with my family because we really rarely do eat out - we're lazy people.

Dinner was quaint, Dad (as usual) talked about business, Mum talked about golf whereas Sis talked about her idea of setting up a business (damn, I think one day in the future all our dinners will be like CEO meetings). Sadly, our dinner could have been much better.

Crystal Crown's Chef Rasa Sayang was not always the way it seems now. A long time ago, we would have been considered incredibly lucky to have gotten a table without reservations. Today however, the once popular restaurant was merely a little less than a quarter full. Seeing its current condition, its once famed popularity now seemed to me like an echo from the past.

To start things off, service was terrible. Despite its lack of clients and its abundance of scuttling waiters, dishes came to us at a snail's pace. In fact, at one stage we had waited so long that mum was asking for the bill when just in the nick of time our next dish was served.

It actually saddens me to see a restaurant ripped from its former glory. But i guess as history has shown us, empires never last.

Chef Rasa Sayang, Crystal Crown PJ

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Friday, June 23, 2006

Music in Time

Well so exams are over and as promised, this is a post:

I was sorting out my iTunes library today and i think it is interesting how my taste in music has changed over the years. So I went on a little "scavenger hunt" and found all the albums that i have ever bought...well most of them at least.

***

Note all the "TULEN" stickers.
Support the music scene, buy the original
(as if they don't get enough money already).

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1. The first album i ever bought was Swing When You're Winning by Robbie Williams. During my "scavenger hunt" I could not find it though because my sis left it in New Zealand. I love this album and still listen to it.

So what? I'm old school :P


taken from Amazon.com

2. A few years later, when i went through my music-is-my-life stage i was listening to all sorts of mainstream crap and one of my favourite (out of the crap) was Linkin Park.

It started off with Reanimation...



...then the whole shebang.



I got over Linkin Park ages ago, and i don't have the slightest intent to buy Fort Minor.

3. Black Eyed Peas.
Elephunk is(was?) a good album.



However, Monkey Business...not that great.



4. You know, you just can't beat THE King



5. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by Outkast
Well this album is pretty good. However the Malaysian Censorship Board sucks.
They even censored words like "gun", "prostitute", "breasts". Bah.



6. Then Ainaa introduced me to other music, such as Weezer. And my mainstream phase officially ended. Thank you Ainaa! :)

I got the Blue Album...



the Green Album...



...and of course Make Believe



I think Pinkerton is the best Weezer album. Sadly all shops were(still are?) out of stock, so i downloaded it....along with Maladroit.



***
Downloading is not stealing music,
I'm merely sharing music with my

friends

whom i have never ever seen or spoken to in my entire life.

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7. Ainaa would send me a few songs that she thought were nice. Eventually, i ended up downloading more of their songs when i decided i liked them. ConsequentlyI would buy their albums if i could find them in shops....but sadly i couldn't find a single one, so i did the next best thing - download :D

Damien Rice

Stars



Death Cab for Cutie

Aqualung

AthleteInterpol


Note: The noir effect you get when you take a picture of a digital screen (e.g. TV or computer) is because of the fact that the digital screens are shooting out lightbeams at such a fast rate that it looks like a constant image, when in fact it is actually constantly changing. Since a camera has a..........bah i'm too lazy to explain.

8. After listening to "Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll" as well as "Midnight Show" i bought

Hot Fuss


The Killers rock!

9. Gorillaz is cool with their interesting mix of music - a bit of blues, pop, rock, rap, techno and gospels. Now that's skill.

Demon Days


So that's all pretty much where i am now number 6. onwards, and what i do realize is that very few people share quite the same taste of music as me aside from Ainaa of course, and now i've met a chic called Amira who shares the same taste as well.

Are you an Indie (its a genre, not a race) lover too?


Sunday, June 04, 2006

WEIYAN - MBS vs. VI

Weiyan has talent, he really does. This is made by him 100%



*Applause*

Towards the end its just blank, so you can just stop it then.


If you like it - comment.

An Unexpected Visitor

So from homework given by auntie susan (lianne's mum) i'm meant to write an essay for every single SPM examination since 2001. And since mum says she's not going to go to Kuching til she sees me do some studies...i guess i gotta do something.

SPM Examination Paper 2005
Question 2
(c) Write a story with the title: An Unexpected Visitor


An Unexpected Visitor

It is always on dark and stormy nights like this…that remind me of that bright and sunny day when he came.

1

It was a hot sunny Malaysian afternoon, one I usually spend lazing around my apartment, too tired to move or do anything. That particular afternoon I was lying down day dreaming on my comfy bed in my air conditioned room.

Ding-dOngggg. The weird sound of my doorbell once again reminded me I’d forgotten to ask the electrician to fix it.

Ding-dO-dingg-don-ding-dOnnnggg. As if the doorbell wasn’t dead enough.
“Alright, alright! I’m coming, keep your shirt on!”

I walked towards the door and looked through the door hole to see an old man around his 60s wearing rather unusual clothing and carrying what looked like a very big chunk of metal in his hand. Usually, I wouldn’t let in senile men with metal things to hit my head, but something, something, in his eyes caught my attention and an unusual urge of curiosity made me open the door.

“Who’s this?”
“It’s urgent!”
“Oh, the toilet’s in the back.”
“No, no! I can’t believe they made me do this…”
“What?”
“Oh just let me in you bimbo”
I didn’t want the old man pee on my doorway so…
“Ah heck, c’mon in then”

As the old man walked into the room pass me I could see the man more clearly. He was a man of average size, a little shorter than I was. His features were sharp and coarse, as if this once carefree soul had been put through hard times that shaped his character. On his back was an unusual chrome backpack and upon closer observation I realized it linked down his feet and I could see its metal spine connecting through his arms.

“Hey man I don’t know what terminal disease ya’ got but the toilet is back there and after you use it, please just leave.”
“You idiot! I am not sick and I do not want to use the loo.”
He grabbed a chair as if the house was his and sat himself on it.
“Look, I am here on orders and there’s something very important to tell yo-”
Just then, the irritating sound of my doorbell rang again.

Ding-doong-ding-dong-din-do-din-do-dinnnnnnn. Okay I think it’s finally died. I stepped towards the door to open it when suddenly the crazy old man jumped on my back.

“Dude! I don’t know WHO you are but I ain’t into that Brokeback Mountain stuff you hear?”
“O just shut up, it’s them

Wooden splinters flew over my head and dust engulfed the apartment as my beautiful apartment door was blasted to shreds.

2

In a blink of an eye the old man did something I would never have imagined, he jumped to his feet and lifted me with one arm. He then ran to the nice 24th storey apartment view I had saved up for…and jumped out of the window. We fell.

“WHAT, ARE YOU CRAZY!??”

The old man ignored my words and instead closed his eyes and an expression of concentration came over his face. Is this guy trying to pee in the air? I could see it then, the height of the 24 storeys slowly dissipating and the thin strip of tar road looking ever more like a black river. Had that not been enough, weird looking people were standing at my broken window and laser beams were flying past my head. I closed my eyes and prayed that the Kancil at the bottom had a soft roof. I passed out.

3

I woke up disorientated greeted by a very clean hospital-looking room with white halogen light flooding the space and bouncing of the walls to produce a very sterile looking environment. Where am I? Is this heaven?

“No it is not” said a voice from the back of the room. I turned around to see the old man looking back at me.
“YOU! Who the heck actually are you?”
“Calm down son, I’ll explain.”

4

“The world ends in the year 2048AD, I know, it does not seem very far away at all. The world is not ended by man as often thought or even by celestial forces. Instead we are invaded by the Venushians.

The Venushians are a highly advanced alien race bent on destruction and domination, they are immortal however lack the power to reproduce or heal. It is for this very reason that they destroy planets and galaxies in order to harness the energy produced by an imploding sun or planet. Using such immense energy they are capable of rejuvenating their frail bodies and even creating new life. In 2048AD, Earth became their target.

Although by the year of 2048AD the human race is already far advanced from the present that you live in, we are still technologically inferior to the Venushians and our weapons are rendered useless against them. I have left an imploding Earth just to see you.

In the year 2048AD, the human race is on the forefront of time travel and a crucial individual is the man who leads this research. However when the date of the Venushian’s invasion arrives all hope of the human race’s survival seems futile. However, this man sees a way. By compressing all of modern technology into microdots he takes this information into the past and introduces it to the human race, hence forming HOPE, Humans On Peril’s Edge.

It may not be a very flattering name but it is very real. HOPE’s goal is to continuously import future technology into the past and to advance it so that when the day comes we will be able to prevent the Venushian attack. Yes, the humanoids we encountered back then are Venushians. However we are safe now as we are in a 4th dimension which I created right before we hit that Kancil. We are now in HOPE’s mother base.

I am of HOPE’s 3rd generation and I am passing on the technology of the future to you. The rest lies in your hands for you are the founder of HOPE. You are going to lead the human race to further advancement and it is you for which the entire of humanity’s fate rests on.”

5

We spent a few minutes in silence as I absorbed and digested what the old man had just told me. I closed my eyes and looked up.

“How do you know I will achieve all of this old man?”
“Because I am the future you.”
I gave the old man a close look up and down.
“Ewww.”

Warren's School for the Competent

Yesterday i was at lianne's house for english tuition (her mum's an english teacher). So she made me write an essay from the 2004 SPM paper.

Essay topic:
(c) My Ideal School


Warren’s School for the Competent
After a good night’s sleep you wake up at 10am, take your time brushing your teeth, washing your face and having a proper breakfast. Then calmly -there’s no rush- you take a cab, or whatever mode of transport to arrive at school. You step out of the car eagerly awaiting another day of knowledge absorbing and look up to the gold name embossed on the high-tech modern looking building “Warren’s School for the Competent”

My school, the school which will be run by me will be nothing, nothing, like that of the common school you see today. My school will have one main difference: it will make learning fun, and may I stress here that I say “learn”, very much different from the commonly practiced, exam orientated, memorize and regurgitate system. The system that I will implement will focus on the student being able to absorb knowledge and most importantly knowing how to apply it –not just in theory, but in practical as well. Its education system will often be observed by highly-paid professionals in the field of education from all around the world. Hence, every year the system will be revised -doing away with the outdated and inadequate, and introducing newer more effective techniques. Thus, my school’s reputation for producing the elite of the country (or world) will forever be assured.

However my school’s unique education system will not be its only attraction. Besides boasting the best students, my school will also boast the best facilities. It will be fully-equipped with a gymnasium, Olympic sized swimming pool, squash courts, basketball courts, futsal fields, golf simulation bays, a 12-lane bowling alley and a field fully equipped with the proper athletic equipment, groomed daily by a team of gardeners. Sports facilities are only half of it though, I believe in making my school a haven for my students so that they love their school and view school as a joy rather than a chore, therefore increasing their love towards education. Non-sport facilities will be such as a cybercafés, an IMAX theatre, paintball fields and so forth, all for the comfort of my students.

With such facilities put at the feet of adolescents, would there not be chaos? What about vandalism? Misconduct? Misuse? Misbehaviour? Do NOT think that for a second that I will let my students run wild. My school will work on a strict disciplinary system based on respect – I respect them, they respect me. When asked about a night-time curfew on teenagers, Justice Barbara of the California Justice Department replied “What is this idea that you can curb crime by making all teenagers criminals? It is easier for a teenager to picture himself as being a criminal when he is first discriminated as one. They will be what you want them to be.” By treating teenagers as teenagers and trusting them with respect, responsibility and accountability they will naturally behave with such qualities. Of course I am aware this is a utopian idea. So if they do not behave, simply, they are expelled.

One would think that a school such as this would definitely cost one a tonne of money, being only open to the aristocracy, the high-class snobs, and the national royalty. No. My school will not be a snob house. I will not bite the bait of a blank cheque waved in front of me. My school will be free, but all the students in this school will be handpicked by my Board of Advisors and the final decision will be made by me. And the basis in which I choose my students will not be according solely on their academic results -I do not care if they manage to achieve umpteen ‘A’s in a public examination for that simply proves they are capable of studying. What I look for will go beyond examination results; I will look into the student’s character and their co curricular achievements. Furthermore, to assure only those who deem worthy are chosen, each student is given a “probation” period upon entering the school, meaning that for the first few months they will be under close surveillance.

Learning, should be fun. Learning, should be exciting. Learning, should be enjoyed. Warren’s School for the Competent will be a school which makes students want to learn instead of boring (whichever meaning you see fit) the brains of students out of their skulls. Warren’s School for the Competent would be my ideal school.

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Snippet 5 - Reminisce

On the way to add maths tuition last night i was talking to mum about a dream i had, which led to a conversation about how i had worms as a child, which led to a conversation about my childhood.

As a child, i was constipated.

No i don't mean it in the current slang where people say things like "your constipated" or "ahahaha constipated!". No, i actually was constipated as in shit-not-comin-out.

I remember mum used to have to stick pills into my ass as laxatives. And she even had to put her hand in a plastic bag and dig out my crap (i love you mum!). I even remember putting the stool in a plastic bag and showing the doctor.

Ahh...the old days :)


Tian Wen thinks this pic looks constipated:
i disagree...

Shaved

Well i know my hair wasn't very long, but i kinda just like keeping it short. So since the guy who shaves my head doesn't work that far away, i decided to just go to him and cut off that excess hair.

BEFORE

i know, its a bit blur

&

AFTER
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monk

Snippet 4 - Acronyms

Siri Elektrokimia

Kalau Nak Cucuk Mesti Ada Zakar
Kalium Natrium Calcium Magnesium Aluminum Zinc

Fucking Sluts Pour Hot Cum
Ferum Stanum Plumbum Hg-Mercury Cuprum

Spectrum

most people tend to use:
Michael Jackson Killed His Brother In USA
Merah Jingga Kuning Hijau Biru Indigo Ungu

those from chinese schools would use:
Hong Chen Huang Lu Lan Dian Zhi
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Purple

however i use:
Richard Of York Goes to Battle In Vain
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet

i don't know why...i just do

Friday, June 02, 2006

Mutants & Photos

After a very much overdue outing, Weiyan came over today so we could go out and watch X-men 3 together.



So, X-Men 3 was not bad, in fact i would say it was pretty good. However Archangel's appearance in the movie was so insignificant that i really think he does not deserve to be in the front of the poster, mind you, neither really does Cyclopes considering he dies in the first 10 minutes of the movie. There were some odd things too, like i really thought that when Xavier saw Juggenaut he would at least have said "hello" or given him a nod considering that Juggernaut is Xavier's half brother.

I must congratulate Kelsey Grammar (the guy from Frasier) for acting as Beast because i really would not have known it was him had i not been told.



Anyways, after the movie Weiyan and I stayed in the cinema to see whether there was any spoiler hidden at the end of the movie.

There was.

As you all know Xavier dies, however in the beginning of the movie he gives a lecture about the ethics of mutant power, such as assuming the consciousness of an unconscious body, and then he shows a video of this man who is a father of bla bla bla and he's in a coma.

Well the spoiler is this: the scene begins with the room of this unconscious man, the nurse taking care of him says "Good morning" and to her shock, the body replies "Hello Moira" she then looks at the body and says "Charles?". So i guess they're trying to say that Xavier is so powerful that he has assumed the consciousness of another body.

Sigh i'm bad at explanations so here's the video:


So later on we went to Baskin Robins and i used my Chinese Society card for a 10% discount and had Pralines 'n' Cream, I must say it looked rather gay for 2 guys sitting together eating ice cream even if it was seperate ice creams and we decided we should have ajak-ed either lianne or jill to have come along. (i talked to lianne tonight and found out she was at midvalley stoning because she didn't have movie tickets and we could have asked her to come...O WELL)

When we got home we played with the camera and took several shots:

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I know they're not that professionally done and i could have made it better had i been more meticulous but....

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its not like i got 6 hands to do all the work :p

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Snippet 3 - Warren

I've often been asked why the url for this site is "www.rabbitchan.blogspot.com". Moreover is the amount of time's i've been asked why its called "The Rabbit Hole". Well this explains it all:

war·ren
n.
    1. An area where rabbits live in burrows.
    2. A colony of rabbits. See Synonyms at flock1.
  1. An enclosure for small game animals.
    1. An overcrowded living area.
    2. A mazelike place where one may easily become lost: a warren of narrow, dark alleys and side streets.
So in layman's terms it means rabbit hole, which is its most common meaning. Meaning aside however, my ex gfs all called me rabbit, so rabbit it is :)