I know I haven't been blogging.
There seem to be some loading problem with xanga.com.
Crap.
I'm definitely going to change back to blogspot.com real soon.
In the process of renovating the html for my blogspot site now.
Xanga.com has been alright up till now... Been having problems with it for the past week.
Maybe it's just me.
Oh well...
Will let you guys know once my blogspot is ready for viewing!

First and foremost (though a little late), I just want to wish you guys a Happy Chinese New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai and all that. I'm sure most of you people had fun baliking kampong and whacking bak kua.


Me?
My family did the usual stuff we do every chinese new year -
Drive down to Malacca, spent 3 days, 2 nights there and went through the same routine; visitations, makan, and more visitations.
Well... Er... It's was super duper fun WEEEEI... (*sense the sarcasm?.. hehe...)

Ok, that's all for the chinese new year part.
I've celebrated my fair share of CNY and am now back in Penang. Arrived just about an hour ago.
Boy oh boy, it turned out to be a really good trip.

You see, I left KL around 4pm and picked Shelby up along the way.
We drove up and made a pit stop at Ipoh to pick Kevin up. But we also came to Ipoh with the sole purpose of whacking the chicken wings we ate the last time we were there.
DARN GOOD CHICKEN WINGS OKAYYYY... *salivating*
Buuuuuut, to our disappointment, that particular shop was closed. Being the smart alec that we are, we totally forgot to take into account that people were still on Chinese New Year break and practically half of the existing coffee shops or restaurants were closed.
Crap.
Thus, we had to settle for something else.
And that something else really wasn't too bad at all.
Kevin brought us to this noodle stall that was located literally in a morning wet market!
And the noodles were really goooooood... One word sums it up - STIM.
The shocker was this - One normal bowl of noodle only costs not RM3, not RM2 but only RM1!!!
RM1 per bowl man!! You go all around Penang also cannot find food as cheap as this!!...
Shel was saying if she was a beggar and if she managed to get RM1 a day, she would go there and whack that bowl of noodles everyday. hehe...
I think I would too.


We were sitting smack in the middle of a market place whacking the noodles... Quite an experience I must say.




The noodle that only cost us RM1!

So that was our food escapade in Ipoh.
The plan was to head back to Penang after our dinner but we got... er.. distracted... hehe.
By what you asked?
By this...



YEA, BABY! We went to an old school funfair!!
It was along the way and we were like, "What the heck, let's go just for the fun of it!".
And so we did.
Hehe.
In total, we sat 3 rides.
First, being a super duper fast ferris wheel (No seriously, it was super fast).
Second, I don't know whatcha call it but it's this thing where we seat in and it goes round in circle really fast.
Third, we went for a 30 seconds haunted house ride .
It was hilariously scary!



Let me tell you this for a FACT, no matter how much people trash talk and say that haunted house ride doesn't spook them out, they eventually will be afraid once the ride begins.
I mean I was spooked out.
Shel and I sat in the same cart whereas Kevin sat alone in the cart before ours.
Our cart entered the house first, followed by Kev's.
Then halfway through the ride we heard someone screamed really loud... I mean like really LOUD.
Shel and I looked at each other, then we burst out in laughter cause that person was actually Kevin Ho Siang Chuan!!! Hahahaha...
Super hilariousssss!!!
But it was really good fun... The ride was lasted for like 30 seconds or so.
So people, don't need la to control macho... It's ok to be scared.
You're suppose to be scared anyways... hehe...

Yup, after reliving our childhood funfair experience we finally left Ipoh for good.
No other distractions along the way.
The ride back to Penang was good as well.
We made up stupid and nonsensical questions like,
If you can sleep with one person in the world, who would it be? *jeng*jeng*jeng*
That kept me awake for the rest of the journey... hehe.
Good stuff.

P/S: The next time I'm going down to KL, I MUST stop by Ipoh to whack those chicken wings again. It's so    good!! I WANT MY CHICKEN WINGSS!!

Watched Cloverfield yesterday.



This is basically the juice of the movie:

It's about a "raksasa" attacking New York city, minus Ultraman.
Seriously, it's about some Godzilla-monster looking thing that's attacking New York.
I never liked movies with monsters in it, films like Godzilla or King Kong never appealed to me.
However, this movie appealed to me for one reason alone - The concept of the movie.

It was a very Fahrenheit 11/The Blair Witch Project concept using the first person point of view shot.
The movie was done in such that the entire monster-attacked-city experience was shot through the eyes of a group of survivors, which I must say, was pretty neat.
Unlike Godzilla or King Kong, this movie really has that "real" factor to it...
The way they shot the movie somehow managed to blur the line between fictional and reality.



However, the downside of the movie is this.
About 1 hour plus into the movie, you actually do feel like puking or at least don't feel "sober" any longer.
Why?
Because of the way the movie was taken - The camera always shakes horribly fast.
I don't usually get nauseated, I don't get motion sickness and I can play CS for goodness sakes, but this one really got my stomach going crazy and my head spinning round.
So, if you're the kind who can't take this kind of pounding, so to speak, don't watch.
You will not enjoy it.
But if you can, then go ahead.
It'll be something interesting as compared to the rest of the movies in cinemas today.



P/S: It's seriously like Ultraman... Got raksasa and every other element, just lacking ULTRAMAN only. hehe...

I've always felt a little smaller.
That was the problem.
There, I said it.

It was a me-problem and I know it but thing is, I never could overcome it because I perceived things the way I see it.
The way you react, what you talk about and your expression falls heavily on what I feared most.
The things I perceived made me see me as nothing but a minute creature amongst the giant.

Your demeanour betrays my optimism.

Maybe I didn't make it clear enough... I don't know.
I thought I did; my mood swings, cold silence, etc.
Wasn't it clear that I was somewhat upset? disappointed? jealous?

It's weird.
As much as I think I understand people, I can never truly understand myself.

This is one cekap movie.



It's very rare for me to buy a movie ticket without knowing what's the plot about.
I'd rather know the plot FIRST, then watch the movie.
But I didn't this time around because two of my other friends wanted to watch it.
Oh well...
No expectation, just sit back and relax.
Whoa...
Turns out the movie was an eye-opener on how governments can unjustly "mishandle" their powers in order to uphold what's to them, "justice".
It was so darn real that it got me real scared just thinking about being El-Ibrahimi, the character who was mistakenly taken into captive by the U.S government as a terrorist.
But what's fascinating about this movie technically is the way the flow of the movie was shot.
Damn, it's good.
So unexpected.
If you've watched it, you'll know what I mean.
It's a freaking flashback!
They shot it in a way you wouldn't even realize that it's a flashback of the beginning.
Just go watch the movie.