So this is Christmas?

Satan Claus?

This post is directed to Christians, just a humble point of view, nothing more, nothing less. Do not read if you are an easily offended Christian, even if you did, I warned you.

This is inspired by some pastor from my past church camp. Don't remember his name, but doesn't matter.

Christmas is originally meant to remind yourselves of your Saviour, your Lord Jesus Christ's birth/existence, but how many actually thought of Jesus Christ himself instead of the big old-fat-white bread-man in red costume; Santa Claus?

The argument was, Satan has replaced Jesus as the main focus of the festival into the funny looking weirdo, just, how many actually relates Jesus Christ to Christmas? Or rather, party, Christmas song, food, spraying weird white stuff all over someone's face.. Is that what Christmas truly existed for?

Since when has Jesus' birth has anything to do with an old fat man coming down through the chimney, giving out presents to the good kids?

Yes, the argument wasn't originate from me, and I am sure I did such a bad job that no one actually understand the message I am trying to relay to you all.

Never mind.

Perak Trip

Prelude

Went to Perak 2 days ago to meet my online friend. He added me on msn by random upon spotting my email address in some Ragnarok forum or something like that.

Post Journey
Anyway, he told me he is going to KL for a job interview.. thingy (apparently a speech for the job) And I spontaneously ask if I could visit him there, and so I could bring him back with me when I return. He agreed. I didn't prepare anything until that very day.

That Day

I have a music performance that evening, and decided to go straight to Perak after that. In the afternoon, I downloaded a bunch of songs so that I could burn it in a CD and listen on the way there, but I happened to run out of CD-Rs, disappointed, I double-click on that Google earth icon, check on the road seconds before I leave, and went for the concert performance. And when I check, I left my cell phone in my house, so I had to go back and get it after the concert.

Journey

The highway normally consist of dangerous overtaking, speeding and hard braking when I see a warning sign about speed traps. After the highway, it was some two direction two lane road (one lane for each direction). It was dark; there is no street lights, and I loled when I saw the "Warning, school kid crossing" thingy sigh, because all I saw was trees and forest on the both side of the roads, "I couldn't even see a ghost's shadow," I thought to myself. Upon arriving(Teluk Intan), I stopped by McD (apparently the only McD in town o.o) and rush off to the toilet. Did I mention I always got hit by cars trying to reverse from their parking spot, twice? Fuck blind mother fuckers jk


Friend (name hidden in case it was another violation of personal information LOL)
And I met my friend there.. lets just call him Lee. xD Lee came in and lead me to his place by car. I came to a double story bungalow and thought, "Damn rich bastard" lol. I was lead to my room, and the night was about msning some mutual friends we had (actually we have only one) and early sleep.. Well not really, I went to bed early just to spam other people with texts(without replies unfortunately >':) and talk to myself. xD


Breakfast
Woke up at 6 and went eating erm.. Low Shii Fun (rat noodle.. well, it's just the name of the type of noodle because their shape is like a rat's tail) It was nice, and I was surprised by the price. There are three sizes, which is regular, large and extra large (Extra Noodles.. whatever you call it) and their prices was 2.something, 2.something and 3, and I couldn't think of anything I can get with 3 dollars back in KL. After breakfast, we went back to sleep again.


Pulau Tio.. I mean, Pangkor
After we wake up the second time, we went for lunch with Lee's family, his younger brother and his dad, which was stressful O.o (gosh, I am very bad at communicating with 前辈s(predecessors?)) After that, we went straight to Tio.. I mean Pangkor. It was about an hour drive from that area (to the port) and another 30 minutes? journey on the ferry. We went searching for his relatives by foot, and realised we went to the wrong direction, so he called up his relative to pick us up by bike one at a time, and he lent us the bike. (The island has very narrow roadways and therefore everybody rides.) We took a stroll on the beach and then went riding around the island.


Rempiting
I notice Lee has difficulties handling the bike, as he is not so familiar with that type of bike (a Kapchai, or more widely known as an underbone motorcycle) he rode a scooter at his place, which requires no manual gear changes. I requested him to swap around the driver and gunner slot.. I mean, passenger, and he said okay, so I took over the wheels and start accelerating down the narrow mountainy initial-dish road. "I could do a touge run here with my Myvi", I thought. After going around, we stopped by a Dutch abandoned fort to get some drinks. We went visiting the weird famous stone too (Batu Bersurat, which is directly translated as written rocks. Probably hints that there's a Islamic scripture written on it (I couldn't find the words anyway)). We went back at 4:40


TBC

Moodless

Christmas

Just found out my orchestra's performance is on youtube. I pick this particular song because it's Christmas.. almost Christmas anyway. And I thought I would be seeing someone xP

Storm Rider 2 Sucks

Again, throwing a bunch of slow-mos isn't going to save your movie. Not to mention that there are like at least 5 seconds of slow-mo sequence every 2 minutes in every single fight scene! I mean, seriously, I don't need to look at the hero rotating in mid air, with his "omg I got pwned!" face for like 10 seconds. Seriously, without them, the movie would be a lot neater.

The plot seems to be cut short because of those time consuming slow-mo sequences(I mean, really, I can say there are about 50 or more of those scene)

Things that I felt missing was (note that I didn't read the original manga/comic/story or the previous movie):

Spoiler Warning

*What's so great about that backbone thingy that without it China would be fucked.

*The importance of many subjects seems to fade rather quickly, with a new one replacing it.

*What happened to the evil prince (Not sure what's his name, the son of the weirdy armor man)

*The (romantic?) plot for Cloud and the handkerchief girl is so poorly done, I don't feel anything at all when she died. (and yeah, actually I felt kinda good because she's so fucking annoying for asking the same obvious questing for like 3 times, "is wind possessed by demons?" when he is attacking everyone out of randomness.)

*The ending sucks big time. It was supposed to be a series, oh well, but it still sucks.

Really, do don't (pay to) watch this movie, it is a guaranteed waste of money/time, well, unless you want to know why it sucked, just don't.

Looked up some original story of some of the Disney cartoons, and decided to blog about it.

The Little Mermaid

Disney Version

-Ariel is a mermaid and is one of the princesses of the ocean.

-Ariel falls in love with a human (which was apparently some prince). She saved him from a sinking ship.

-The prince, named Eric, has an deep impression his savior(Ariel)'s singings and decided that she is the person he is going to marry.

-Ariel was lead to the Sea Witch by some eels, seeing that she's in depression after her father, (the merman's king) destroyed her collection of human-world-stuffs.

-The Sea Witch agrees to make Ariel a human, but she has to get a "kiss of true love"(which probably means she couldn't just go up to the prince and vaguely kiss him) from the prince in three days, if not, she will be transformed into a mermaid, and her life will belong to the Sea Witch.

-The Sea Witch added that Ariel has to give her voice up. Ariel agrees.

-Ariel met Eric on the seashore.

-Without her voice, the Eric thought that she couldn't have been the one who saved him; disappointed.

-Regardless, they had wonderful times together

-Eric decided to forget about the girl and (decided to)propose to Ariel.

-The Sea Witch interferes by using the voice Ariel gave up, tricking the prince into believing that she is his savior.

-The prince proposed to the (disguise into hot-chick) Sea Witch.

-Ariel was heart broken at first, but after realizing that she was the Sea Witch, she decided to go after them.

-The Sea Witch revealed her true colors after having her magic pendent(that contains Ariel's voice) removed from her.

-They fought and killed the Sea Witch.

-Ariel's father allows her to marry Eric and stay in the human world.

-The End.

Original

-The Little Mermaid lives with her father and her sisters in the sea.

-The Little Mermaid met prince and saved prince from a ship wreck. She places him on a temple or some shit.

-The Little Mermaid talked to her grandma about human. She told her that human lives much shorter than merman, but after they die, they raise into heaven, while after merman die, they turn into bubbles.

-The Little Mermaid wanted to be with the prince. She seeks the Sea Witch.

-The Sea Witch lay down contracts, where if she gets true love from the prince, she will be able to raise into heaven after death as a human. On the other hand, if the prince marries another woman, she will die the next day, and vanishes into nothingness.

-And even if the Sea Witch can turn her into a human (by granting her legs), every step she take will be as if she steps on sharp knives and needles, and she will have to give up her voice, too.

-The Mermaid agrees to the terms and conditions, and became a human.

-The Mermaid met the prince on the sea shore, and had great time with him.

-Despite of the pain she has to bear taking every step, (which caused her feet to bleed) she is happy to be with the prince.

-Eventually, the Prince must marry a princess from a neighboring country.

-Both the Mermaid and the Prince is convinced that the Prince will not marry a stranger.

-The princess is revealed to be the person who is next to the Prince after when the Mermaid left him after saving him, and he is thrilled an convinced that she's the one who saved him.

-They marries the next day.(or immediately?)

-The little mermaid was on some ship, realizing that she is going to disappear soon, she emoed.

-The little mermaid's sisters attempted to help her, by requesting a dagger from the Sea Witch, which if the mermaid uses it to kill the prince(or in some version, both the prince and the princess), she could become a mermaid again, and will not die due to her previous contract.

-The little mermaid couldn't bring herself to kill the prince she love, and leap into the sea and became air bubbles. (reminded me of Megaman)

-The end.

And I didn't know it will be THIS long. Stopping here then. Tata.

It's bothering me. Something that was there, gone. Tried not to think about it. Tried not to write about it. Lol.

Heartbroken?

But then, really.

In the end, there's nothing. Everything that is given to you in this life, you can take away none when you're gone, so why bother?

Chah Js

Overnight
I have been staying in his place for three days. Whenever something happens, I would want to do that. Staying in my house alone wasn't the best thing to do, especially for an emotional, self-uncontrollable person, that's it. Having someone to watch over you is always better than destroying stuffs at home, well I know that sounded weak, yes, weak I am, always been.

Disappear
And man, he's better at disappearing than ever. We were invited to Blitzone, and after a game of Left for Dead 2, Janson told me he has to have dinner with his friends, which he didn't told me prior. It's safe to say that he left me alone in the cc, well not really. Fortunately there are other friends in the cc at that time, Alric, Yee Rick(which was invited by Janson), and G came afterwards.

Blitzone
And I thought I was an addict. Yes surely I was. It's one of the longest streak I have been in a CC. I got there with Janson at around 4? We started playing for about and hour and he left. I stopped playing when he left because I didn't know about his plans to disappear. I went to Alric's computer and start calling him Stupid Noob Roman. Yee Rick came and started talking about how Janson ditched us. We started playing COD:MW2 coop for awhile, until we joined Alric and friend's DotA game, and back to COD after dying and struggling to survive in that DotA game.

Stealth
And we were stuck on this mission called "Stealth", we were supposed to "cunningly" avoid most guards, take down some that is on our way, "swiftly", and get to the goal. We tried to imitate that for the first 10 tries, which always ended up with either one of us alerting the guard, causing swarms of enemies to run towards you in every direction, eventually painting your body with bullet holes. Well, we gave up being "cunning and swift", but "deadly and swift" whatever you call it. We kill every group of enemies we encounter, and when we trigger the alarm, the population of the enemy forces were so low, we let them go "extinct".

Disappeared again!
And I woke up this morning. Janson disappeared again. Called him via his house phone, and he is out having brunch.

For some reason I was afraid of starting another post (written in words instead of plain pictures), but then, I realized, he got what he wanted, and have no more reasons to look at this pathetic blog anymore. And even if he did, and decided to start another unhappy conversation, (or in the last case, provoked me into starting one), I have nothing to lose. He is nothing to me now. So please, leave me alone. Thank you.


Bike


Punctured Tires
I took out my bike for a ride yesterday. It's been a long time since I rode my bike. The last time I rode it, it was in early November. I was riding out to school for my finals, and did a quick U-turn because I noticed something's wrong with my front tire. When I brought out my bike though, it seemed okay, only to have the front tire punctured on my way to Vince's. I rode it to a nearby workshop, and have them fix my tire for me.

Rain
They told me the tire is already worn out and I have to change a new one. Unfortunately, I don't have enough money, and I asked them to only change the tube for me. As they work on my bike, rain starts to pour outside. I waited in the workshop, and decided to ride off after the rain has soften.

Gas
I failed to notice that needle on my fuel meter pointing towards a dangerously low degree until my bike starts to lose power, and finally stop moving, in the middle of the LDP highway. I had to push the bike for quite a distance to a nearby fuel station kilometers away, not too far I supposed, but walking along the side of a highway is  dangerous enough, not to mention you have to push a heavy piece of metal, (with two wheels, fortunately.)

Bike
Adding on to the worn out front tire, my brake pad is worn off too, as well as some rust on some of the metal equipment causing them to handle very poorly. It feels as if the bike's body is going to break into pieces anytime, and the handling of the bike is so bad it keeps swaying from left to right during corners.

School


Original Plan
I was so sure I am going to fail my finals, all of them, and was planning to transfer to a more affordable university, (MU is just way too money sucking), well, to MMU, (apparently two "M" is cheaper than one), and I needed a new start, too.

Actual Results
Results came out on 3rd of December, (the date reminded me that I could see her within 3 weeks time if I hasn't dug up my own grave). To my surprise, I only failed one subject instead of all four. The one I failed was the business theory part of my course, namely, IT in Organization, FIT1003. Now it gave me a reason to stay, which I don't really appreciate anyway.

Life


Hate?
And I thought again. Jason reminded me of how the whole affair, I was the culprit. You can't expect yourself to be the hero all the time. This story is not your story, and you're the villain when it comes to who's right and who's wrong. To be honest, I never thought of right or wrong. "Moral values? Hah! A method of control." But when I see it the Jason way, yes, I have no reasons to hate him, and he has plenty in return. And I do owe him a sorry. I am sorry. Everyone has their issues and problems, shortage or whatever you call those? Just don't be too critical.

Art of War
And I was reading the art of war, and it says, roughly, if it wasn't necessary, avoid all possible conflict; a value I have always held tight during my childhood, lost over the course of my life. Yes, if I did take it that way, just that day, nothing would happen.

Update

Lol can't think of anything to write. Damn.