What Christmas Is All About

Christmas is all about,

putting one’s feet up,

worshipping the all mighty 32-inch LCD telly,

decorating the tree with people,

coveting for thy neighbor’s presents,

and playing some Taboo.

So Merry Christmas to all,
don’t weep for the Hallmark channel specials,
and just for once year,
be nice to the people you can’t stand…

Youth Malaysia and Shaking It Up

Today’s post will be a little more personal than the usual rants. I am officially a “youth transmitter” or something fancy title like that for YouthMalaysia.com. It is basically a site where youths can just go and post about anything ala blog style. A few like me are the content writers that keep the ball rolling.

Unfortunately, we can write about anything! That doesn’t really suit me very well cause I am bursting with ideas that only look good in my brain, but when I verbally discuss it with my editor, it sounds really stupid then… even to me.

I like to be assigned a story/topic and then find the most creative way to write an otherwise mundane story.

Maybe subconsciously, I am a little afraid of criticism on writings that are 100% totally my idea. At least if they don’t like the story that I was assigned to write on, I can always put the blame on the topic for being boring anyway and I’ve tried my best to make it spicy.

Moving on, the Planetshakers conference was held at Sunway Pyramid for the better part of the last week.

Couldn’t find ANY pictures of the concert rally for the last night on the internet! So I had to rip the picture above from their website.

One thing that amazes me is the expressive explosion on Malaysian Christian youths. The last time I attended Planetshakers, which was about right after my SPM examinations, the crowd were kind of stoned. The speaker dude (sorry, can’t recall his name) even had to ask the people on the back row of the conference hall to either leave or get with the program because they expressed such an aura of apathy. Like when he was getting to the emotional part, some people at the back started roughhousing around with their girlfriends etc etc etc…

But now, it’s an astonishing transformation. During the concert, thousands of people were jumping up and down in synchronized timing until the entire floor shook and groaned in protest. During the sermon, people were perpetually standing up and chorusing the pastor to preach on while waving their bibles up in the air. A lot like those rural African American churches in the United States.

Anyway, just don’t got to Sunway Pyramid if you can avoid it. Not until they have completed SP2. The construction has transformed the place into a madhouse. Parking is crazily cramped with only one exit/entrance at the lower floor. Get ready a vomit bag because its going to be a very circular drive up and down.

Some whole levels of the mall cannot even be accessed by the elevators at the car park section. To make things worst, they boarded up all the stairwells at the car park section. That means, you are forced to use the stupid elevators which are slow and jammed with people just wanting to go one floor up or down! If (touch wood) a fire should break out during the Planetshakers rally, I think the outcome would be catastrophic.

Sunway Pyramid has really become like its Egyptian namesake, a death maze with no way out.

"Well, I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze."

The Usual Suspects (1995)

The Stuff People With No Astro Get To Watch!

omgwtfbbq!!!

And the scary thing is that they were dead serious. This isn’t a parody. Thus, the secret to unlocking an utopian paradise for everyone here in Great Nation Of Malaysia all depends on our ability to keep our public toilets clean.

If that is so, we are already doomed.

If I were one of those kids holding up the stupid sign in the video, I would seriously contemplate self-mutilation on my face so that no one can ever recognize me. Ever...

Imagine people going up to you and asking, “Hey, aren’t you the kid holding up the “T” in tandas?”

Which goes to show that we Malaysians don’t need the extra help to be made fun of because we’re doing an excellent job on our own unintentionally.

However, this one…

this one is actually quite cool.

"Kalau tiada jari, kalau tiada jari, kita potong benda lain yang boleh dipotong!" :)

Although, the video may not be too funny now seeing what the real Ah Longs are capable of doing to one’s family.

Anyway, if these are the things shown on the "contemporary" local channels, just think what we're missing out right now on RTM 1!

"Of course it's ridiculous... but it's cool!"

I'm back!

I’ve been away for quite some time now. No inspiration to write… LOL. I’ve been feeling under the weather ever since I came back from my Penang trip.

A lot of Mat Rempits congregate nightly here at Gurney Drive but for some reason, it still feels much more safer than good old “snatch-thief-alley” SS2.

The Gurney Hotel.
Any hotel that has an infinity pool, archery range, pool table, gym and steam/sauna room is a good place in my book...

...trow in the Zouk equivalent club at the lobby and this place is guaranteed rocking every night.

From now on, I'm sticking to the hotel's pool.

My nephew, Joshua. I can tell he is going to break the hearts of a lot of girls when he grows up! Definitely a Tan. :P

With my current part-time job as an over-qualified kuli on a hiatus, life seams to be stucky. Just lazing around in bed till meal times and then going out late at night. Sometimes, I really need a job to really make me appreciate the free time that I have.

Humans are such oxymoronic creatures.

Anyway, tomorrow I've got this interview for a stringer job for some youth site called Youthmalaysia.com. No idea what it is about but it sure beats rotting in the house doing nothing.

"Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."

Gladiator (2000).