Cleaning Up, ****!

With 2009 just around the corner, I've decided to clean up my freakishly dirty room which I haven't bothered to care about for the past two months. Dust filled every corner of my room. I had to take a damp cloth to wipe everything, from the windows to study desk and the fans. The amount of dust and dirt really creeped me out! I even had to throw a dead lizard that had harden itself on the bottom of the window that was covered by a curtain. The most interesting part was that I knew it's dead presence since 4 or 5 months ago, I left it there because I was either lazy or wanted to know what would happen to it 4 or 5 months later. And I found out that it sticked on the concrete cement and I had a tough time pulling it up and throwing it into the dustbin (I had originally wanted to throw it on my sleeping sister). I also found out that the insides of the lizard was missing, I wonder why.... Cleaning is tiring but the results are always good. You get to sleep properly thinking that you've done spring cleaning early and you can skip it on Chinese New Year Eve. 

Tangyuan and Caroling

Today was awesome. I woke up so excited to taste the sweetness of the "tangyuans" that my mom and sisters and grandma made the night before. It's freakin' hard to roll the white dough into evenly shaped glutinous rice balls and it's even harder to roll the red ones into sizes for ants to eat. When we arrived, I was rewarded for my patience during the night before when I wanted to eat them straight away (I couldn't help it, it looked super tasty, I swear, things taste better when raw). The rice balls were boiled and put into plates and the sugary syrup was also boiled and cooled. 

The choice is yours, plain sugary syrup or the one with pandan leaves and ginger (yuck!).

My white rice balls! They look beautiful. YEAH BABY!

The hardest to roll, the smaller glutinous rice balls. I quit halfway.

No "tangyuan" is complete without roasted, powdered peanuts.

PERFECT.

Well, they say that you can only eat the amount of glutinous rice balls (GRB) equal to your age. Ermmm... guess how old I am? 

The person who guesses correctly gets a kiss from me.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA.

Sometimes, no matter how old you are, just enjoy the "tangyuan" that is served in front of you.

Later, in the evening, we went to my maternal grandmother's house for Christmas carolings. During the afternoon, me and my younger cousins went cycling throughout the village my grandmother stays in, coming back with sore butts, a couple of bruises and a dead body....... of a chicken, cause: bird flu, I think. 

We had to entertain Sean, my one year old cousin by spinning him in his crib. He got so HIGH, he kept on laughing. Babies are NUTS.

Soon, the carollers arrived. Boy was I going crazy, they sang and sang and sang and sang and sang....... till I got frustrated and snapped a picture of them, then they stopped. Just kidding.

Then, guess who I saw? 

SANTA! SANTA! I SAW SANTA! MOMMY, I SAW SANTA!!!!!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

And look what SANTA gave ME!!!

A choclate wafer, a chewy chocolate sweet, a very sour grape candy and FUNKY potato chips. And a CALENDAR. Ermmm.... you can't complain what you're given with, right?

Well,  It looks like it's not just the adults that are feeling the global recession heat but the kids too. I guess Santa could be hanging up his boots next year if this problem goes on and no more "HO-HO-HO, MERRY CHRISTMAS!" coming from fat guy dressed in red's lips.

Ahem, at least this Santa has shades on to protect from the recession heat.

TEEN ANGST.

Just recently, I've decided to immerse myself in some heavy metal/heavy rock/heavy alt rock music from SYSTEM OF A DOWN (example: CHOP SUUUUUEEEEEYYYYYYY!!!!!!, BYOB, TOXCITY), MUSE (example: HYSTERIA, MAP OF THE PROBLEMATIQUE, cool songs from a cool band), 30 SECONDS TO MARS (THE KILL, FROM YESTERDAY, I've noticed that a lot of Malay girls love this band, is it because of Jared Leto and his band's insanely weird make-up?) and MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE (I'M NOT OKAY, seriously). WHOA! It was soo freakin' nice! All the screaming, shouting and jumping was a real stress relief. I never thought it would feel soo good. Just going insane and dumb and moronic for a few hours really does make you feel much better. Damn, I gotta do that again. And all along, I thought Tokio Hotel was perfect for me during this "going nuts/crazy" period, but it was a disaster. Songs like "Scream" and "Ready, Set, Go!" totally let me down.... the lyrics were really stupid and did not potray TEEN ANGST that well, what's worse is that they're teens! AARRGGHHH, THE ADULTS CAN DO BETTER (referring to the bands listed on top)! WHAT'S WRONG? I have to congratulate Serj Tankian and his bandmates (or should I say ex-bandmates?) for creating such great music for teenagers to scream out to. Did I mention that they're Armenian? Two words: Armenians ROCK!

Singapore Trip Part 2

On Friday, we went to the one and only Singapore ZOO! WOOOHHHOOO, that is like so freakin' cool you know. I just love the animals there, they show off their privates every day to multitudes of tourists. Man, I wish I could/had the guts to do that.

A sexy bat proudly showing his "thing", I think he's Batman.

A totally swollen butt of a baboon, it is said that the more swollen the butt is, the more chances there are that he'll get a mate. I think I'll try that..... 

You think this pic's clean? Think again. Wipe your glasses and you'll get what I mean. Meanwhile, I think I should say,"MAN, THEY ARE HUGE!"

Okay, moving on, before you think I'm an animal pervert. Going to a zoo is never complete without an animal show like the one that I went, called "Rainforest Fights Back!" It tells of how humans destroy rainforests for their personal gains, like building malls and making money from it. And how the animals and the "Orang Asli" living in the jungle team together to chase them away, it was pretty entertaining. But seriously, can animals really protect the rainforest by themselves? Even with some headhunters helping them, it wouldn't be easy. That is why I feel like calling all of us to go green, start planting some trees or flowers, or simply save water by turn the tap off when not in use, save electricity by turning off some lights during daylight, collect rainwater to water the plants and recycle tin cans, plastic bags and paper whenever you can. Those simple steps can not only save you some money (and even earn some) it also can prevent global warming, thus saving the earth from further destruction that we ourselves have caused.

Look closely at the guy in the cage, he's actually in the orangutan costume. Get what I mean?

If you don't, then you're really dumb. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..... I pity you.

Next, we went to another show that had elephants in it. Because we couldn't get any good seats, we had to settle with the furthest bench in the amphitheatre. We had the worst view of the show, I felt like cursing, but then the elephants performed some cool tricks that had me quiet for a while.

Dead elephant, haha!

I was seriously lucky to get a picture of Inuka, the famous polar bear of Singapore.

and also the infamous white tiger who ate a Malaysian zookeeper a few weeks back. Poor guy.

This creature has to be the most unique animal of them all, THE BABIRUSA! (I'll show you the pic later)

Let me tell you a story about this animal.

Many, many, many, many, many, many, many years ago, there was a BABI that was disliked by his group because he was too dirty, lazy and obese, so he decided that he would desert his group and go into the jungle away from his comfortable mudhole to search for a mate. Meanwhile, in the jungle, a naive RUSA was getting desparate because none of her male counterparts wanted to mate with her. So on one fine day, they stumbled into each other in the jungle. The deer was soo excited after meeting this strange, dirty creature that she decided to sleep with him. HAHAHAHA, and the rest, they say, is history.

Nice story, huh? It was told from generation to generations in a remote Orang Asli kampung. Nah, I made up the story. 

But imagine this,

plus this,

equals to THIS,

MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN, DUDE!

It's beautiful!

So this ends my post for today. Anyway, I didn't want to mention this BUT.............

I ACCIDENTALLY didn't bring any additional u________ (fill in the blank space, I'm too embrassed to say this) except the one I was wearing. Wow, that felt better! And I learned that you don't need too much of "that" when you're going places, saves space in your bag. 

I would also like to say farewell to my courageous animal friends in the Singapore Zoo, hope to see you in ten years time!

Singapore Trip, Part 1

Last Wednesday, my sister and I went on a really cool trip to Singapore. And the best thing was, we had to find our uncle's house without really any help, except some instructions written by my mom on a piece of paper including my uncle's house address. So we set off on a bus to Larkin, Johor. It was a two hour journey that I wished I could fast forward like when you're watching a freakin' boring movie, example: Enchanted, Stardust,  and movies with "that" kind of themes. Well, thank God we arrived safely to the massively crowded and dirty Larkin bus station. The guys selling tickets there are really funny, first they look at you like you're their long, distant, forgotten cousin and then starts rapping, really fast like Eminem and Fiddy (Lima Puluh Sen) Cents. "JB-KL-JB-KL-JB-KL-JB-KL-JB-KL-JB-KL-JB-KL!!!" in one breath or "KLUANG-JB-KL-MELAKA-PENANG-KUANTAN-PERLIS-KEDAH-TERENGGANU-KELANTAN..." and the rap goes on and on and on. I really think Jay-Z or Snoop Dogg should seriously sign them up, it'll be a real good investment. Maybe in the next 10 years there'll be a headline on the newspapers saying "From Local Bus Ticket Seller to International Billionaire Rapper!" Cool, huh? Enough with the rapping stuff. Let's move on to the bus ride to Malaysian Customs. People literally ran out of the bus to go through the insanely poor-looking, dirty and dark Malaysia Custom compared to the extremely clean, modern and efficient Singapore Custom. In Malaysia, you just have to go pass the customs official with your passport (I doubt the guy even looks at it). Then you run back to the same bus at the end of the Customs to go across the bridge to SINGAPORE, WOOHOOO!!! After the bridge, you run, again, to the Singapore Customs, again, and run back to the bus, AGAIN. We stopped at the Kranji MRT to take a train to Choa Chu Kang Interchange. WAIT A MINUTE, what the hell am I telling you all this for? Let's skip to the cool stuff like

1. GOING TO ORCHARD ROAD

My aunt took me, my sisters, my cousins Enoch and Dorcas to the famous Orchard Road to see the awesome Christmas decorations there. And true enough, it was really cool and AWESOME and cool and AWESOME and cool and AWESOME and cool and AWESOME, am I irritating you enough?

2. VISITING THE SCIENCE CENTRE

The next day, me and my cousin Enoch went exploring the Singapore Science Centre. The place was really HUGE and if you're a Science lover, you'll love going to this place, dude!

The entrance of the Science Centre is a little weird looking, but once you step foot in the place, you'll be greeted by a gigantic dinosaur that looks like the Kevinnosaurus Rex that I drew (look for earlier posts) .

There were a few nice exhibits around like the electric chair that you can pay 1$ to get electrocuted. Crazy, right? Paying one buck to hurt yourself, I'd rather buy a McDonald vanilla ice-cream.

The TESLA COIL, just like the good ol' Red Alert 2 days, when you build them to send a billion jolts of electricity through your enemy soldiers' body. This time it's much, much more smaller and it can't really kill, sigh. Why can't they build a huge one to make me feel happy?

The next is the Magic exhibition. There was also a magic show that was so-so.

COOL, RIGHT? I think I just peed in my pants. By the way, this is my cousin Enoch.

We also went for a free Science show that taught us how science works in those so-called magic tricks and also taught us how to use them in our daily life.

Well, that's all for the first part. The next part's tomorrow if I even have the time with my sister wanting to grab the computer from me.

CHRISTMAS PARTY

I've decided to promote THE Christmas Party in my blog. YEAH! This is so cool 'cause it's my first time promoting something here. This is actually going to be the biggest event of the year, with band performances from Salted Fish and special performances from the Youth. And not to mention, FREE FOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEAH BABY, FREE FOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Pssst, I heard there's going to be six turkeys).

The flyer for the Christmas Party. WOOHOOO....

Oh yeah, those of you who are reading now, you better come to this party, or else........... you know what's gonna happen...hehe.....hehe....hehehehehehhehe......

Nuts.

Recently, I've been doing nothing but eating, sleeping and digging for nice online games on the net. My searching had been fruitful, I found tonnes of addicting and cool games like,

1. Karoshi Suicide Salaryman (helping a depressed salaryman kill himself through 50 levels, talk about suicidal salarymans having long lifes).

2. EA Street Sesh, skateboarding through the park and beyond! (Hint: If you want to see something funny, try falling down).

3. The Impossible Quiz, seriously the craziest quiz I've played online, with questions like,

"Marmite? Answer: Pa might not." "Look Count Dracula! Answer: Erm...One?"

"Can a Match Box? Answer: No, But A Tin Can." Lame, right?

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

OOOOOOOOOOOO..................

Man, this is so boring.

Hey, I know, why don't I write a joke here?

I found this really funny joke on a really funny joke book.

A girl read the story of the three little pigs to her class. She came to the part of the story where the first pig was trying to accumulate building materials for his home.

She read, " And so the pig went up to the man with the wheelbarrow full of straw and said, "Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build my house?"

The teacher paused then asked the class, "And what do you think that man said?

One little boy raised his hand and said, " I think he said "HOLY CRAP! A talking PIG!"

The teacher was unable to teach for the next ten minutes.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
THIS IS SOO FUNNY!

Kevinosaurus rex

I got pretty bored and thought of posting this drawing that I made when I was, I guess, 4 or 5. It's supposed to be a dinosaur named after me, Kevin. It's official name is Kevinosaurus rex, haha... after the legendary Tyrannosaurus rex.

List of Online Games that I Played During Holidays

I have to admit that I have spent about 70% of my time online playing internet games. I didn't mean to waste my time playing these games, but they're freakin' addictive so I gave in, sort of. So, after gathering all my favorite online games, I compiled a list for it. I even took the liberty of putting their links on this page.

1. Club Penguin

http://www.miniclip.com/games/club-penguin/en/

http://play.clubpenguin.com/

My all-time favorite game and definitely the one that I spent the most time in during this holidays. I started playing this game last year and ever since Disney took over it, it's been getting better and better. I know some people consider Club Penguin childish because you can't curse (you'll get banned for a day or more) or kill each other (we prefer to throw snowballs). But nonetheless you'll get hooked making money by playing their mini-games such as Aqua Grabber, Pizzatron 3000, Jet Pack Adventure, Ice Fishing, Card Jitsu (currently having a yellow belt) etc. Well, the disadvantages of this game is you have to be a member to fully enjoy the whole buying clothes and puffles (some kind of weird-furry-cute-looking pets). But who cares? I get to kill my time playing with multicoloured penguins in a crazy penguin wonderland. (I have a cousin who uses this game to harass other penguins for fun).

2. Mytheria

http://www.addictinggames.com/mytheria.html

This game is a replica of the famous Magic :The Gathering card game (or so I heard). It uses most of your brain as you build decks of cards to defeat challengers and complete missions. It's quite fun to play especially when you have good cards after beating challenges. I have a pure black and red deck respectively but still can't win the fourth challenge even though I've finished the rest, Aaarrrgghhh!!! I just wish that the missions were longer and harder.

3. Staggy the Boy Scout Slayer II

http://www.addictinggames.com/staggytheboyscoutslayerii.html

The title of the game is just as cool and nice as the game itself. It's by far the best hack and slash game I've played online. You play as Staggy, a knight who lives in the woods when he suddenly sees boy scouts (yup, you heard it right) invading his forest and he wants to drive them out by annihilating them. During the cut scene, you can hear him say, "Bloody Boy Scouts, in my forest? Again? I don't think so!" and starts wielding his sword. Each round, you're given 60 seconds to finish all the boy scouts and then you get to buy weapons such as Elven Swords (my fav), Orcish Blades, Axes, Lawn Mowers (needs batteries), Chainsaws (needs batteries too, duh) and Laser Swords (the coolest and the most expensive too), from the money that you get from killing scouts. When you play, make sure that you're speaker is on full blast because you really want to hear the poor helpless boy scouts armed with their wooden sticks, bows and arrows, swords and pogo sticks (weird huh?) scream in pain as you slash their intestines open. It's really amusing when you get the Uber-Sword power-up and you hack your way through them. Mindless killings, WOOOOHOOOOO!!!. Before you think I'm sadistic, let's move on to the next game.

4. Commando 2

http://www.miniclip.com/games/commando-2/en/

This game really remind me of the Metal Slug games I used to play on the PS1 with my friends. You control a guy and get to customise his weapons from shotguns to handguns, bazookas to katanas and the really, really powerful Scorpion. I only managed to get through the first stage and got killed halfway throught the second. Nice shooting game, though.

5. Tactical Assasin 1 & 2, Sift Heads 2 and Clear Vision II

http://www.addictinggames.com/clearvisionii.html

http://www.addictinggames.com/tacticalassassin2.html

http://www.addictinggames.com/tacticalassassin.html

http://www.addictinggames.com/siftheads2.html

In these games, you play an assasin and are given missions from idiots to assasinate idiots and you get idiotic money from it. The best part of this game is you have to use you brain to guess who you're going to kill and then go for it. Did I mention that you can buy freakin' cool guns from the money you get? Awesome, man. There are also cheats (To be honest, I used all of them) for money, guns and missions. Nice. Yeah, and they're all stickmans, so you won't feel guilty killing them.

6. Boxhead

http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Boxhead.html

http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Boxhead-2Play-Rooms.html

http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Boxhead-The-Zombie-Wars.html

http://www.boxheadgame.com/boxhead_more_rooms.html

http://www.boxheadgame.com/boxhead_the_rooms.html

To tell you how awesome this game is would be difficult because you really need to play the game to really feel the coolness of shooting zombies and insanely powerful devils that shoots fireballs from their chests (yuck). There are exactly five Boxhead games around the internet, the first one was Boxhead: A Halloween Special (you have to escort civillians to safety while killing zombies overruning Boxville), Boxhead: The Rooms (you choose a room to play in and the objective is to kill as many zombies as you can while you upgrade your handguns into shotguns and grenades), Boxhead: More Rooms (more rooms, duh), Boxhead: 2Play (gives you the chance to join your friend on the same comp and continue blasting zombies and devils into the other world, also gives you a duel mode to battle with your friend in a room using all the bazookas, barrels, grenades and shotguns you have), Boxhead: The Zombie Wars (the latest from the Boxhead franchise, you have to defend your land from massive amounts of zombies, huge explosions are guaranteed.) One more thing, the bloodshed in this game doesn't dissapear like normal games do, cool, right? 

Lastly, I would like to thank my mom for allowing me to play these games during the holidays as payment for taking care of my younger sis, cooking, doing house chores and helping her do some stuff online. And for understanding that a boy like me should play these games to improve his grades when school reopens (JUST KIDDING! HAHAHAHAHAHA.....)

Meat.

A few days ago, me and my family went to a restaurant called Seoul Garden in Makhota Parade. My grandma and aunt also came with us. The place was kinda small and had a small special kind of wok to cook meat and in the middle of it there was a small pot to boil whatever you want to put in, fish balls, veggies, fish, noodles, prawns etc.
It looks like this


But the most amazing thing about this whole thing is the amount of MEAT they provide you with. You could stop being a vegetarian when you're there . Ranging from black pepper beef bulgogi (I don't know what the heck it means, but it must be Korean because it sounds stupid), Szechuan marinaded meat, Tom Yam marinaded meat (how the hell do they do that?) and some other meat that they take from cows who have epidemics like Mad-Cow Disease.

Here's the first plate of food that I took to my table.

It's kinda little, because then I was really shy.
But then, when we finished cooking the heavenly MEAT on the wok (It took my mom and sis 10 minutes, but for me it was like 2 and a half minutes, I know it's still a little raw, but who cares? It's MEAT!). I started looking like this


This is what MEAT does to me. I go nuts. I go crazy.
Because of that, I took a plate of veggies to make me sane again.


Mmmmm... onions always taste good.
Especially raw ones.
We had two tables. My mom, my sis and aunt were on one table. Me, my dad and grandma were on another table.
Our table was, as usual, loaded with meat and prawns.

Man, it still feels good looking at the MEAT.
Then, I had fun playing around with the ice grinder in the restaurant.
I made my very own grinded ice + kacang + sago + pinapples + sea coconut + gula melaka syrup ICE CREAM!
I only took the picture after eating, sorry 'cause it looked so freakin' delicious.

Hey, I think I'm hungry. Gotta stop now because I'm gonna cook some Maggi Mee Curry Sup now. Maggi Mee still rocks.