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Oct 15, 2003
Yes! It's N30 again! And those of you are wondering whether I've returned to my dormant blog to actually update it...
you'd be hideously wrong. Last Sunday, a bunch of us went to Times Square to check it out and ride the rides at the theme park. Since I'm a lazy piece of sh*t, I won't actually be blogging today. For a nice update on the trip, go to:
INFORMATION LEEEEECH!! XD XD
Any hate mail for indiscriminate leeching is graciously accepted, and kindly requested to be posted in the comments. ^______^ v
Posted at 01:02 am by neosama
Oct 5, 2003
Reverberating to: Killswitch Engage - The Element Of One
Last night was.... fun... to say the least. It wasn't the best of nights, but it was pretty funny. I met up with Joseph, Chris, and Chris (which will be hereafter referred to as Kuok and Fong, respectively), on the LRT, en route to Bangsar, where we'd pick up wheels and head to Sri Hartamas, for a spot of jamming. And coincidentally, too, seeing as just earlier that week, I was complaining about how I hadn't jammed in the longest time.
Well anyway, toting my trusty guitar, we headed off to Sri Hartamas, where we met up with some other dudes. We had booked the studio for 9pm, so while waiting at the mamak, we bumped into an old Korean friend of mine from high school. Now this guy plays a mean-ass guitar. He makes me NERVOUS when playing. He could tremolo-pick shreds and super-fast, super-smooth riffs and solos like he picked his nose. So we invited him to join the party. Besides, we needed a high-level fret master in case we got into any difficult random encounters (don't know what I'm talking about? PLAY SOME FINAL FANTASY!!).
Also at the studio, met up with John and Hamsa, who are apparently friends of Zhin and Masako. John's known Zhin for 12 years, and they were in SMBB with Hamsa. Small world, eh? Anyway, after jamming, we were gonna go to Barflam in bangsar for some partying, but almost none of us were wearing collared shirts, so we opted instead to go to the bangsar park and open the whiskey there (Joseph had brought a bottle of whiskey). There were about 7 of us who touched the bottle, and most of us didnt have more than a couple shots worth of the stuff. Nevertheless, the entire bottle was finished. Apparently Joseph had drunk most of it, and he... LOOKED fine at the moment.
So, with that done, we decided to hit the Hard Rock Cafe. I rode in the car with Fong and John, a couple of really cool guys. Talked about D&D, Fantasy, anime, manga and stuff. Anyhoo, with our destination reached, we went in and hung around waiting for a table. Got one outside, and that was when Joseph disappeared. For a very long time. We found him in one of the bathroom cubicles and he said he was taking a dump, so we left it at that.
An HOUR later, he was STILL inside, and by now we're pretty sure he's NOT taking a dump, cuz there's only so much you CAN dump. By now, most of us are ready to head back home, and some of the others had curfews, so I peer over the side, and Joseph's hunched over, nearly unconscious, with his feet in a puddle of his own puke. So I have to climb over the side (VERY small crawl-space, mind you) and unlock the door. We managed to drag him outside and to the mamak (I was hungry), where he fell asleep. And as if in respect to his previous feat of headbutting a cigarette on the table, he spits on the table, and promptly lays his forehead back on the table to resume sleeping. After food, we drag him back to the car, stopping to let him resume throwing up.
And drove him home. By now, it was nearly 5am. I get back, crawl into bed, sleep quite nicely, wake up today, update my blog, and realise I had left my electric guitar in John's car...
Posted at 03:40 pm by neosama
Sep 26, 2003
Chilling to: Third Eye Blind - My Hit And Run
Ok, I just got back from a quick overnight trip to Genting with 3 of my college friends. And they're all a mad bunch. This trip was spontaneously planned the night before, and it was supposed to be a low-budget survivor trip. I got up early Wednesday morning, packed up my havesack and guitar and other essentials, and waited for Nadzrun to come pick me up with Tin Kit and Terence in tow. I've been with these guys since I started college, and yes, we really are as mad as we look.
We left my house at around 10pm, and made it halfway down the hill before someone made a remark about our canned food, and we all suddenly remembered. OH SHIT O_O. CAN OPENER! So we made an about turn back to my place, and grabbed a can opener. Little did we know, this humble can opener would soon prove to be the crucial key to our trip. So, brandishing our newly-acquired can-opener, we headed to a nearby mamak for a spot of breakfast before heading to Carrefour and picking up the last of our supplies, among them bread, maggi cup noodles, baked beans, and sliced ham. After loading them up in our trusty transport vehicle, we started the long and perilous journey up Mount Caradhra-, i mean.... to Genting Highlands. We had 4 people, in a Kancil, along with groceries, our bags, and 2 guitars, one of which was riding in the backseat with us. We actually had to wind down a window and stick some of it out to make space.
The ride up wasn't actually that bad. In fact, it was pretty damn sw33t, due to the fact that we were on a totally spontaneous roadtrip cooked up by 4 idiots the night before, and the fact that the last half of the trip was spent sticking out of the back window with the wind in my face. If you want a really kickass video of some of the ride up seen from outside the car,
3rd Person View Camshot <--- Right-Click, Save Target As, and rename the extension to .avi
Ok, anyway... we arrived there safe and sound, happy and cotton-mouthed (me). We decided that it would be way too uncomfortable if we were gonna go hardcore survivor and crash on a park bench, so Terence went and checked us into a hotel room. We decided to go roam around a little and just soak in that lovely cold air before heading back to the room and eating some of our supplies. Wandering about, we chanced apon some old abandoned red phone booths. So we did the only natural thing that comes to mind when you see red phone booths. SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU CAN SQUEEZE INTO THEM!! So we wandered around until we found the mamak and took this poser pic outside it.
---PIT STOP REACHED---
Ok, after our little R&R, we headed back to the First World Hotel, going through First World Plaza, where we saw the cineplex, and decided to go check it out. Tickets were only 7 bucks on weekdays so we thought, oh hell, might as well watch a movie while we were here. So we got tickets for Pirates Of The Carribean at 8.30pm, even though 2 of us had already seen it.
We had about 3-4 hours before the movie, so we headed back to the room and started on our supplies. The can opener was indeed a godsend, as it helped open a can of delicious beef curry. However, our satisfaction was not to be guaranteed as yet, for it was only then that we realised... we had also forgotten to bring any utentils of any kind. So we couldn't dish out the beef onto our bread.
Naturally, we panicked like a bunch of motherless nerds. What could we do? The can was open! The beef was there! But there was no way of getting it onto our bread without causing a spill! The answer, sitting right in front of us, hit us like a ton of bricks. THE MIGHTY CAN OPENER!! It had served its use well... why not see if it could serve other uses! And true enough, it was perfect for dishing out beef curry.
The rest of our meal was eaten this way, with the can opener serving its dual-purpose. And with Tin Kit insisting on eating his meal in a shower cap. After that cool meal, we got a little bored and started playing blackjack. It was during this game, that my friend made a highly interesting quote.
"Being dealer's quite cool. If you win, you win really big. If you lose, ham ka chan."
After this meal, I was actually feeling really sick. I'm not sure why, but my stomach was doing turns, I was feeling feverish, and I had this growing headache. So I slept. And slept. Until about 7.45pm, when I had to wake up to go watch the movie with the guys. Walking there, I decided I really couldn't take it and I was getting really light-headed, so I stopped at BarStucks and got myself a nice hot chocolate. After having a hot drink in cold air, I started feeling better, so we got into the cinema.
Oh, and before I forget, all through this entire trip, we had been making really really bad jokes about soap. It all started when one of us made a reference to 'don't drop the soap in prison' some time ago, and now, it came back in full force. If it wasn't dropping the soap this, it was dropping the soap that, or sabun jatuh.
OK, moving on... we watched PoTC. Wicked... again. And to tell you the truth, I can't exactly remember what we did after that. I think we made our way to the mamak again or something. I DO remember going back to hotel room to pick up the guitars, and me knocking on the first room door when we got outta the lift. This caused the rest of the guys to run helter-skelter down the corridor, so I ran along with them, knocking on as many doors as I could on the way to our room. This didn't prove to be such a good idea, cuz by the time we got back into our room, everyone was panting and laughing and shit, and apparently too exhausted to go back out again XD XD.
So we lepaked. And watched some TV. And ate some food. And played some music. And imitated Aaron Lewis. And then we slept.
---PIT STOP 2 REACHED---
Sleeping with these 3 buffaloes in a joined double bed is not the greatest thing in the world, let me tell you. Tin Kit snores like something crawled up his nose, died, and then expanded to twice its body size. Terence's mass slowly shifts across the bed, slowly but surely, like some large, fleshy glacier, engulfing all in its way. I happened to be in its way. He claims he was provoked. Apparently he was trying to shimmy away from something poking/vibrating against his rear, which was where Nadzrun was sleeping. Me, I was wrapped up tightly in my blanket poised on the edge of the bed, ready to roll off at the nearest tremble from Terence.
Woke up, and needed breakfast. Terence and I made ourselves the remaining cup noodles, and later, headed back to the mamak for a proper breakfast. After that, we headed back home.
And thus ends our epic adventure. Now stop wasting your time here and go do something with your life. |m/.
Posted at 01:12 am by neosama
Sep 19, 2003
Sways to: The Used - Blue and Yellow
*wipes the dust and cobwebs away and looks around his blog*
Man, it's been a while since I've updated this thing. I wonder if anybody still comes here. Well, it's mainly cuz my life's been shit boring for a while. Amidst the eating, sleeping, going out, and various other mandatory bodily functions which I will not describe here, I've been doing pretty much zilch.
Well, with nothing being done, prepare yourself for the lamest/most boring events I can come up with, which yet still give me JUST enough reason to post it up here. Well, to start off this new chain of un-events, I have here below, a magnificent specimen of boredom manifested on a receipt as a result of coffee. To cut a short story even shorter, me and a couple of friends were at Coffee Bean (which will be referred to hereafter as Boffee Cean for purposes of clarity), and we decided it would be a nice little tribute to list down all the bands, good vocal groups, and good solo artists we could think of or remember at the time, and micro-scribe them on the back of a boffee-stained Boffee Cean receipt, with a pen on the last legs of its life.
And yes, that IS a Boffee Cean receipt, which gives you an idea of how small I had to write. When I was finished, I took a step back and surveyed our creation, and it was good. Kind of like a miniature Boffee Cean Wall (er Receipt, i guess) Of Fame. Some bands that did not make it due to forgetting them or being too crap (usually the former), are:
Finger Eleven
The Ancroids
Kidney Thieves
Luna Sea
In Flames
Eiffel 65
12 Stones
Blind Guardian
and a few more...
If you come up with any bands that AREN'T in the pic or list, please tell me so I can update it. For now, rawk on |m/. |m/.
Posted at 01:50 am by neosama
Sep 3, 2003
For the 4th time in my life, I have lost my handphone. I don't know what it is with me and handphones, but it is official. It is lost. Or stolen. Either way, I now know that it is in someone's possession. To make things worse, the one I lost wasn't actually my handphone. It was the one that I borrowed off Shane. I just hope he doesn't read this blog any time to soon >__<.
Thing is, this is the first time I've lost a handphone and not had any idea where I actually lost it. Which is why I also suspect it was stolen. I had it in my cargoes pocket the whole day except for one time I lent it to Chris to make a call, but I put it back right after that.
Anyway, I went to the DiGi office to get a new simcard with the same number, and cancel the other simcard, and as soon as I got it, I started getting SMSs from numbers I didn't know, all in malay. So the bastard who's got my phone is using it. I called back one number and this malay lady picked up. I asked who the hell this was, and she was like "KENAPA??" and hung up.
I swear, I will not rest until I have hunted down this inbred hick who has my phone and kill him to death! But not before gutting him and depositing his entrails down his own throat!
But if it takes more than 2 days to find him, I'm just gonna let it go -_-;
Posted at 11:54 pm by neosama
Sep 2, 2003
(UR53 MY |337 H4|2DW4|23!!
Liquefying brain with: Lacuna Coil - Distant Sun
ARRGHH!! This has NOT been my week >__<. I thought I was returning home after Friday's outing with my hardware to have a working computer by the end of the night! It was not to be!! Something's still tormenting me from within that lifeless husk of wire and metal! So i've been spending the past few days running to and from Low Yat
1. buying
2. screaming at
3. returning, and
4. insulting
my hardware.
But enough ranting about that. I finally bought that camera cable, so the pix are up!
Posted at 05:42 pm by neosama
Aug 30, 2003
Eardrums being destroyed by: The Juliana Theory - Trance
Oh man, I haven't touched my blog since I got back from Australia. I've been laaazy ^^. I've also been running about the past few days distributing the souvenirs/eats/plushies/trinkets to their new owners.
If you have received a souvenir from me and are not satisfied with it...
tough. Life's a bitch X3
Eardums have finally BEEN destroyed by: Maksim - Croatian Rhapsody
Crashed over at Chris' place last night. Parents not home, so we dragged the wide-screen across the lounge so we could watch it while sitting on the balcony, and popped in.... FREDDY VS. JASON!! XD A pretty cool movie, actually. Highly entertaining!
Cuz of that, we ended up sleeping at around 4am, knowing we had to be up early tomorrow to meet up with the MCC bunch. I actually made it up, but it has slowly dawned on me, it is pointless for me to get up early to try and make it anywhere on time, because I will always go back to sleep and end up late.
Anyway, we DID end up late, meeting up with the guys at Kino ISETAN!! after wandering a bit in Kino on the top floor looking for them. Since I'm a guy, you'll understand when I refuse to explain everything in detail and instead resort to bullets to describe what happened thereafter:
---> Burger King (No food ordered. Plushie porn. Still no food. Yet more plushie porn)
---> Sungei Wang (arcades. Pump. Spawn. Rumah Mati. Fist of the Northern Star {Kei and Kem Kicked Arse}. P00000L)
I am now DEAF, therefore unable to realise I am listening to: Cheeky Girls - The Cheeky Song
and you know what... i'm just too damn tired to finish this right now, so I'll finish the other half of this blog tomorrow. |m/. ppl U_U
Posted at 01:36 am by neosama
Aug 23, 2003
Last minute shopping in the city...
Well, after lazing the whole of yesterday at home, I decided I had to get off my arse and head to the city to do that last minute shopping for more plushies and stuff. Met up with my mom and lil sis in the city. Mom looks happy, sister still fat (haha she'd kill me if she heard me say that ^^;;). We went to some Victorian-esque shopping complex, with pretty sw33t architecture and kewl self-playing grand pianos.
We did a whole lotta shit there. We had to follow my mom and my aunts through this Ikea-type place looking at tea cosies and cutlery and oven mitts and knives and stuff. When we reached the knives section, there was some guy demonstrating this supposedly-revolutionary new knife that could cut through stone and still fillet your fish. So we joined the crowd and not 2 minutes into his little demo, my brother piped up "How well does it cut flesh?" The guy doing the demo just kinda stopped and looked at him and said,
"You mean meat?"
Bro: "No, i mean flesh..."
XD XD We walked off in a little while while the guy was thinking of an appropriate answer lol.
Later on we decided to go harrass more storekeepers, so we visited the top floor, which had some jewellers. I entered one and asked,
Me: "Excuse me, do you have my precious?"
Sales lady: "Um... precious stones? Yes, we have this selection here of precious sto-"
Me: "No, do you have my precious?"
Sales lady: (hesitates for a while) "Um... your precious?"
Me: "My precious..."
Sales lady: "I'm sorry sir. I'm not quite sure what you mean by-"
Me: (contorts face and snarls like Gollum) "MYY PREECIOOUUSSSS..."
.. and that's when I couldn't hold it in anymore XD. Me and my brother burst out laughing and walked outta the store while the lady just kept looking at us bewildered XD.
Ah, the joy of harrassing people ^^ |m/.
Posted at 05:07 pm by neosama
Aug 21, 2003
Currently listening to:- Lo-tel - Angel
*whew* just got into Sydney this morning after the worst 17-hr bus ride ever. I nearly missed my bus yesterday too, after leaving the house late and not managing to get a taxi till 10 minutes before my bus was scheduled to leave (Pix coming as soon as I get them from Scnix). Sped there and made it just in time to see the driver looking around for me.
Anyway, since I haven't updated in a week, I think an uber-blog is in order, starting from the day I reached Brisbane.
Friday, 8th August:-
Left the bus station and made my way to the flat where Narc and Scnix fester. Before this, Scnix was the only one who knew I was coming, as I wanted to surprise Narc. He actually thought I was still in Malaysia XD. So Scnix let me in and i started banging on Narc's door. He started grumbling the usual "goways" and "isdoo-erlee" and "whuthefug.." before opening the door to see this grinning bastard holding a camera in his face! I'd post the pic, but I've recently discovered I left the camera cable in brisbane X(. So pix will have to wait. Surprised as hell to see me but too damn tired, so he went back to sleep haha. Spent the rest of the day roaming about the city.
The rest of the week was spent bumming around, going to the arcades, attending classes with the guys, playing Battlefield and Unreal at the cybercafe. Skating around, talking crap, and basically having a blast. (Pix coming soon)
The night before I was to leave, we were walking back from the cybercafe again, and I said "You know... we should really steal a street sign." The others pondered this over for a moment, and later on, as we passed a particularly loose-looking post, we went "Aw hell, let's go for it."
Thing is, we didn't have any tools to remove it, so we did the next best thing. We uprooted the whole damn signpost and lugged it back to the flat XD XD (Pic coming soon). Turns out we didn't have any tools suitable for removing the signs, so we decided to get up early the next morning and buy a spanner haha.
I also managed to get my Lo-tel CDs!! w000000t! Go me XD!
Unfortunately, there wasn't any space in my bag to carry my sign, so I asked them to bring it back with them the next time they returned to M'sia.
Also, I took the Dir en Grey object quiz and VERY VERY SURPRISINGLY, I got THIS result:

You caffiene addict, you!
What random Dir en Grey thing or happening are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
I don't know HOW they could come up with that half-baked assumption. Caffeine addict indeed! *guzzles a coke*
Oh, and the personality test as well:
Your score is
42/50
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Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, who's quick to make decisions, though not always the right ones. They see you as bold and adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes chances and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate. |
My personality is rated 42.
What is yours?
quiz by midgetfarm.com
Posted at 01:34 pm by neosama
Aug 14, 2003
I wasn't actually gonna post an entry today due to being just too goddamn lazy, but I decided I'd better leave an extended discussion topic before I go AWOL for a week. This one actually spawned from reading Keitsu's recent entry.
Anyhoo, today's entry concerns Life, Death and Purpose. Here goes...
People always ask, "What is the meaning of life?"
They ask, "Why do we exist? What are we here for?" Frankly, I think human beings a little more than advanced biological machines; a result of millions of years of pointless evolution. Chaos has gotta somewhere, so after the Big Bang, everything had to slowly become more complicated, and ironically, more orderly. Life, Death... these are just names given to 2 different states in our existence. Life is the active functioning of our bodies and mind, and Death is merely the lack thereof.
With that reasoning in mind, it makes you wonder... Why are people so afraid of Death? If Death is merely the LACK of something, and not a LOSS of something per se, why do people fear it so greatly, even take great pains to POSTPONE it as much as possible?
The obvious reason would be, after being alive, sentient, conscious, thinking, for so long... it would be difficult to give that up. Other reasons would be the fear of what happens AFTER the line is crossed. By talking to lots of friends, I've classified people who fear Death into 2 basic categories:
1. The ones who fear what awaits them on the other side of life.
This category usually encompasses idealists. People who WANT to believe in something, for the sake of having something to believe in. For the Comfort. The Security.
2. The ones who fear the NOTHINGNESS on the other side of life.
This category usually includes the realists. The ones who take life as it is, with little or no thought to spiritualism or concepts about the soul. Either because they have not been exposed to it, or they have thought about it and shunned the concept of it. They relish the idea of unbridled entropy.
It's easy to note that Category 1s are usually believers in a religion or faith, and Category 2s are non-believers... in God or the afterlife or otherwise. It's also interesting to note that people fear TOO MUCH just as much as they fear NOTHING. I myself have a fear of NOTHINGNESS more than EXCESSIVENESS.
An author named Ray Kurzweil wrote a book called Spiritual Machines, and the essence of his book is much akin to certain philosophical and theological focus points made in literature and movies like Isaac Asimov, Bicentennial Man, A.I., The Matrix, etc.
He compared our point of view on 'Life' and 'Souls' with machines, citing major differences and similarities, and questioned why we considered ourselves possessors of 'Souls.' Is it simply because we are organic? That we can think, and rationalise? These scripts blur the line between what we perceive as Life and Death.
Some people have no Purpose in life. Does that make them DEVOID of life? Some machines are made with an exact and specific Purpose in their semblance of 'life.' Does that GRANT them life? From this, it is obvious that Purpose does not even come into the equation of the question of Life and Death.
In conclusion, I don't believe there IS such a thing as Life. And therefore, there is also no such thing as Death. As we have already ruled out Purpose as irrelevant, it also has no impact on the concepts of 'Life' or 'Death.'
Rather. we are merely results of the universe's answer to Chaos and Order.
There are a lot more points to be made here, but I don't want to bore you (if I haven't already). So please, PLEASE post your own opinions. I'd love to hear them.
Might I also remind everyone that this is a NO-SPAM entry! If you do NOT have an opinion, do NOT post your smart-ass comments here. That's what the threads below are for. I don't wanna see any random Gary comments -_-;;
Posted at 12:36 pm by neosama
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