Metallica Edition Converse

I am now a proud owner of a pair of Metallica edition Converse shoes.

James Hetfield is definitely the man.

Good Morning Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, 28/11/09 - 6.30am.

I have just spent 3 quarters of my day watching movies and That 70's Show.

Its so early right now, I don't know if I should go to sleep, or if I should just stay up and ride the day out.

Movies make me happy.

wtf wtf

7.30am

KUALA LUMPUR, 26/11/09 - Its 7.30am right now and I have just spent my last 5 hours watching That 70's Show.

I have just had a huge realization that my brain functions when the sun goes down. No I'm not special.

Because of the fact that I have spent months on end sleeping late and only doing things I need to do in the most ungodly hours of the day, my brain has adapted to a specific timing to fully function. This would also explain why I hate the sound of people talking to me when the sun is up.

I have decided to stay up all night so that hopefully by tmrw my body's clock would be reset.

I really do think I need to lead a healthier life.

Maybe I'll stop drinking and smoking some day.

HAHAHAHHA who am I kidding....

Thinking with 2 Heads

You only need 3 things in life to make a man happy.

This is it...

Journalism 101

KUALA LUMPUR, 24/11/09 - I woke up this morning after 4 hours of sleep ready to face the trials that lay ahead of me. I had spent the night reading disorganized and redundant notes on journalism as a subject.

I arrive in college half an hour before the paper, only to realize how unprepared I was at the sight of all 4 of my fellow classmates studying in the Library.

I sneak out for a smoke and keep telling myself "It's gonna be fine". Journalism is after all a subject about writing capabilities and I don't doubt for a second that I can write properly, if not effectively.

The time had come for me to sit and face the music and I did. I was whizzing through Multiple Choice Questions. Then I hit a brick wall. I had come to the short answer questions and the 2 essay questions that later became my down fall.

I sat and pondered the questions to no avail and decided to hand up an empty sheet of paper. I'm not the kind of person to kid myself and pretend I know shit by sitting there and thinking "If I think harder it will come". Its simple really, if you don't know it, you don't know it.

That decision was not a decision to give up, but a decision to be honest to myself and have the courage to say, I really don't know this crap.

What really happened? I was extremely angry at myself for not having studied hard enough for this paper.

Then it dawned on me. Really, what is Journalism? Is the question "What does DAD stand for and elaborate on it." really what makes a journalist good?

If you've noticed, we now live in a culture of examinations. If you fail a test, you're stupid. If you sit the whole week out at your desk studying and memorizing redundant crap, score an A on your paper, you're supposedly smart. Really? Is this the kind of society you'd want to grow up in. A society whereby you are judged based on paper qualifications.

Higher education has become so important to so many people that everybody seems, now, to be missing the whole point of a higher education.

Education has become a business.

What happened to the days when people learned through doing. Yes, the process maybe more tedious and time consuming, but which is better, the well seasoned blacksmith who has learned all tricks of the trade over 5 years of being a blacksmith, or the blacksmith who spent 5 years of his life in college reading books on being a blacksmith?

Which would you rather be?

Bold as Love

So I'm sitting here contemplating whether or not I should start studying for my Finals, which happens to start tmrw.

I cannot, again, stress how stupid academic examinations are.

But then again I've talked about it way too much.

My back's getting better. Still hurts everyday, but it isn't as bad as it used to be. Guess the physiotherapy is helping. Although I'd love a massage right now.

I'm still looking for people who would model for me for free. Cos I'm like a Jew like that.

Any of you girls interested? Drop me a line...

Anti-Histamine

So yesterday I had a photoshoot. In which I was in the picture.

I had a bit of a sinus problem when I got there so someone decided to give me flu medication which sorta works the same way.

Turns out I had an allergic reaction to the medication. I was starting to choke, and my eyes were getting really swollen so I made my way to the clinic nearby.

This is the first time a doctor has ever told me to pull my pants down.

He gave me a shot on my ass....not cool.

The choking feeling subsided instantly, but my eyes are now still swollen for some reason.

This sucks.

Movies, Assignments, and INK

So to sum up my rather boring week.

I watched a number of movies. Which I do every week.

I finished some assignments and handed em up. I now have ONE very pesky one left.

I hung out with Hajok, like really hang out, for the first time. Met some really cool friends of his, and some really cool friends of his friends. Sarawakian people are really funny man.

Palak Buto!!!

Oh and the highlight of this week.

I got a new tatt. In fact I've made appointments in January to finish up my half-sleeve.

Finally....

A REAL blog post

Its been awhile since I've posted something on my blog that really is somewhat personal and not some rubbish I post just so I don't get people yelling Update!!! at me.

I was just reading Su Ann's blog, and I finally took the time to really read out a whole post (honestly your post damn kau long wei) and it made me realize how I've always thought of blogging about so much shit and yet it always slips my mind when I get on the keyboard.

But today, I shall, for she has reminded me of why I started a blog in the first place.

I believe that I am an asshole. If you don't think so, you really don't know me THAT well.

I believe I was brought up just fine. My parents did right by me and I strive to do right by them.

My brother and I were always given the freedom of choice and the leeway to do as we please in the confines of a certain ethical code of conduct that we were brought up with.

My brother being the older one, with more responsibilities, lives his life pretty much by the book. He went to a private school, then went to college, and then to University, got a degree, came home and got a job. I'd say he's normal.

I was the ever carefree, young rebel without a cause. I went to public school, got beaten, beat people up, skipped classes and hung out in snooker centers and cyber cafes. Stayed out late drinking in the park with friends on school nights. Smoked in the school toilets.

Then one day I realized I was in too much trouble and I couldn't get caught, I didn't want to get caught. So I weighed my options, and made my choice.

I transfered to a home-school center in a church.

I struggled and finally made it out, barely, with average SAT scores and moved on to college.

I'm 21 now, and I'm still failing subjects even after transferring to a different college, with a fresh new program and a fresh new start.

I'm not cut out for this studying bullshit.

You see, the way I see it, life cannot be learnt through books. Books are for entertainment and the dissemination of information. Books are not for learning. Textbooks are a waste of trees.

I have learned everything I know from doing. I have learned everything I know from putting my hands down and trying it until I get the hang of it. I have learned my most important lessons from being beaten up or failing miserably.

I think education is over-rated. I think in Malaysia education is a business.

Take HELP college for example. HELP college is under HELP corporation. The only thing I can think about when I think corporation is business, profits, luxury cars.

Taylors college. They don't care if you fail. In fact, its better for them. That means repeat customers.

Welcome to the world of money. Where no amount of books can ever teach you the fundamentals.

Journalism 101

Assassination of a High School President

I've always seen this movie at the shop but never really had the guts to pick it up. It always looked so much like a flop and I've had way too many movie let downs this week.

Finally after really looking at it, I saw Mischa Barton's name and Bruce Willis' too. So, I thought hey, how bad could it be if Bruce was in it right?

So I finally picked it up and decided I could use a movie that really made me think. Turns out my whole day of work just didn't have enough mental stimulation.

The movie is basically about a sophomore, Bobby Funke, who writes for the school paper. An aspiring journalist, he finally gets his big-break from the editor of the paper when he's assigned to write a story on the school Student Council President.

Mischa Barton happens to be the girl-friend of this President, and unsuspectingly the hottest girl in school.

The whole plot thickens when a whole batch of SAT's are stolen from the principals (Bruce Willis) office and so does Bobby's story. This is really where the story really begins.

An excellent movie about investigative journalism and the typical high school problems.

I really like it because it talks about business and careers from a young start. Which is something a lot of our High School students need.

I remember when I started college. I didn't know what I was doing and I didn't know what I wanted to do. I spent a whole year and a half in college finding out what it was I really wanted to do in life, then flunked out and moved on to another college to pursue it for reals.

Most of our High School students just flow through High School like it was a stream that just had to run. They are never exposed to active use of their minds to think and figure out what it was that made them tick (We all know how we just memorized shit in school). Then we go to college and keep doing the same thing.

We need to be given the training and instructions on how to start using our brains at an early stage. The only instruction manuals that exist out there are our teachers. Who come into class, sat down with their newspapers, and decided we shouldn't make too much noise or we might disrupt their concentration.

It took me a year and a half and thousands of tuition money spent in college to figure out what it was I was cut out for.

How long did it take you?

Ink Inc

So Lam started on his Tattoo the other day. Aint done yet so no finished product to show just yet.

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