A Life Less Ordinary

Shit happens. Really. When you have no one to guide you and no one to walk beside you …

They’ll come to you …

They’ll come to you …

With their blessings …

Wahlau eh … The Gods are shining upon my kingdom!

Sa-kai : : (saa-kye)

adjective

1. to fill with great surprise or sudden wonder; astonish upon seeing something new
2. to get overly excited over it
3. if you still can’t imagine what’s the meaning of sakai, have you ever watch the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy Before? If you have, that is another level of sakai-ness.

A few days ago drumsticks, bongkersz and me tried a karaoke session on the NET! – through Skype. I got sakai-ed. Why?

1. this is the first time I know what the hell is skype
2. skype is so farking awesome
3. now the whole family can have karaoke session with my sis in UPM

Aren’t we so sakai?

I managed to record some of it but then I can only record my voice and can’t hear bongkersz and drumsticks at all but I can hear my mom and my cat being busy in the kitchen.

Bear with the broken chinese

I think I’ve been indulge too much in warbook. I’ve been sleeping late, wake up early and after work I will quickly log on to warbook. Insane, I know. Every single second I think about how is my kingdom doing? Will that farker money mogul attack me again today? Will I be able to repel his attack? Will I have enough money to build up on my defense? I can’t seem to get it off my mind. I know I’m supposed to be giving my full concentration on my work but at the moment, I don’t have anything to do! Everything I see is warbook until all the emails in my inbox seems like the alliance chat and the discussion board:

All Legion Head
All Types of Hero

Subject: Gold Holding Limits – Aftermath
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(Please refer to email circular ref: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx dated 8th October 2007)

Greetings Chaosians,

We wish to remind all kingdom especially to those with temporary increased limit till 22nd October 2007, which you have until Monday to regularize your gold holding limit accordingly. As at 16th October 2007 the gold outstanding is still in excess of 26 million pieces of gold from your regular gold holding limit.

To minimize attack risk and maximize mining productions, please ensure that your gold position is within your regular gold holding limits at end of day of 22nd October 2007 and thereafter at all times with the exception of kingdom that are still under the divine protection till 24th October 2007. By regularizing your gold holding limit back to your normal limit you will start earning your interest or saving on your legion’s interest.

Appended below are some of the steps that you can follow in order to reduce your gold holding limit:-

1. Carry out more gold to the Lord Mogul’s camp or legion treasurer, where necessary within the most cost-effective frequencies. Please make sure the trip is fully protected by pikemen and berserkers.

2. Route the newly harvested gold (if you have excess) to the nearby kingdoms, if required by them for their daily operations in replenishment of barracks or forts. (Information can be obtained at legion’s treasurer’s horde on requirement of gold). This will give aid to those entire newly built kingdom under Chaos Legion.

3. Utilize the newly harvested for your daily operations and for your gold dispenser units since you cannot send these gold back to Lord Mogul’s camp. (Please ensure that you depleted the new gold thoroughly before replenishing in the dispenser units)

We will be monitoring each individual kingdom gold position closely. Please be guided and comply accordingly and report any multiple attack cases.

In Chaos we trust!

Lord Chaos!

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I was tagged by Sean :

Like I said before, I am still using the ice-age old Nokia 3310. So, I just want to share with you what’s my wallpaper. Here you are :

Exactly the same

Why does plastic surgery is often related to the act of being God? I sometimes wonder what does it make when it comes to wearing braces? Why they don’t people say that it’s an act of being God too? I mean still the same thing, might not me major reconstruction of your body but still it’s a reconstruction. Changing something for one purpose ;

To be nice to look at / pretty / beautiful etc

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not challenging what’s I’ve been thought since I was a little boy and I’m not trying to be religiously smart here. Just something to ponder on. Personally I have nothing against plastic surgery and not that I’m planning to have one. I mean it’s understandabaly hard to adapt to the so demanding world, overhyped lifestyle and living in a community which is so judgemental. I guess I do understand the pressure in a way.

My eight year old cousin, Leo recently caught chicken pox. My dad and I went back to kampung to give him a visit. Well, it was actually quite a while since I last visited grandma, so we thought might as well just stay there for the weekend.

Upon our arrival we were greeted by Terence (Awal), a younger brother of Leo. He’s at about four year old. He came to me and said:

“Intai (Leo’s Iban name) is sick. He can’t walk. He got chicken wing”

“What?”

“He got chicken wing”

“Are sure it’s not chicken pox?”

“Chicken wing”

Imagine Leo got this on his back:

I can only imagine …

Jang Hyuk is on the cover of Men’s Health Japan ;

With the raya season last week and heavy night outing during the weekends, it kinda make the “Trim & Fit” life sessions really hard to follow. I remember one time back in uni I used to do a lot of push ups. Then suddenly one day I realized something odd. Instead of getting a larger chest, I ended up having a bigger breast. Yes, you read that correctly A BIGGER BREAST! I need to do a lot of adjustments to that.

It was like a few days ago that Bryan and I were talking about how smart and brave Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong is. This afternoon, I was quite shocked when I heard the news. He was called to be with God this morning at 11:20am. He whom I regard as one of the country’s greatest man passed away at the age of 90. Indeed for me he is a man of courage, a symbol of hope for those who dream of a rags to riches kind of life. He is indeed a legend and it’s a great loss to the nation. May God bless his soul and my deepest sympathy to Tan Sri Lim’s family.

I took an online test somewhere. I forgot whereabout. I was bored so I did the test. It’s a test on “Which Love Song Are You“. The result :

Yellow – Coldplay

Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah they were all yellow,

I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called yellow

So then I took my turn
Oh all the things I’ve done
And it was all yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
D’you know you know I love you so
You know I love you so

I swam across
I jumped across for you
Oh all the things you do
Cause you were all yellow

I drew a line
I drew a line for you
Oh what a thing to do
And it was all yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
D’you know for you i bleed myself dry
For you i bleed myself dry

Its true look how they shine for you
look how they shine for you
look how they shine for you
look how they shine for you
look how they shine for you
look how they shine
look at the stars look how they shine for you

To be honest, I quite like this song. I never really like britpop before. I ocassionally listens to them but not a big fan though. But this track is so – like rocking you in the cradle kinda feeling it gave me. So, relax, very laid back and most importantly, indulging. So, come on and indulge yourself. That’s right, lean back and just enjoy the melody. Let music be the food of love. 😉

Greetings From Sir Archibald Barricade, The Warmonger ;

I bumped into warbook like a week ago. Make it two weeks then. I got addicted to it. It reminds me of the old time playing Utopia. Basically they’re both quite similar where it’s quite a simple game, your character runs a kingdom that accumulates gold each hour based on the amount of land it has. You can attack other player kingdoms or join an alliance of kingdoms. You gain experience points for every successful attack or defence or spell cast. There are various character classes with different strengths. In short, like playing warcraft in 1-D. Only text!

I don’t have tips to offer because I’m quite new to this game. What I know is, be rich and spend wisely. Don’t build twin towers or send some monkeys to space. 😉 It’s simple, to be rich, build more mines. That’s it!

I basically have a few blogger friends playing this game. I tell you it’s fun. I’ve been inviting everyone to play but no response eh .. Maybe they don’t find it appealing. 😉 Whatever!

The motive is like I said just now, to be rich and to have lotsa land. It’s either you buy land or you attack and conquer some land. Suit yourself. If you got lotsa money, just buy la. I wished I could!

Everytime you attack, you will gain up some experience and with that your level also build up. They will give you some points for attacking. The highest that I’ve seen in all network is level 51 and the mightiest in my network is, Sir Bernard Chan. You see, that’s why he’s not updating his blog. He’s preoccupied with his marvellous kingdom. I want some of that!

Do not be blinded by the stats. I’m poor because I’ve just upgraded my army and why Ms. Fong is the richest is because she didn’t even bother to sign in to her warbook account!

For those who I’ve invited but haven’t sign up for this game, please do so because with every invitation sent and every account open, I will be having extra cash to build my kingdom. 😉 I’m being honest.

Derrived from bongkersz Friday’s Blues post :

Few movies take critical beatings as bad as the thumping handed out to South Korean director Shim Hyung-rae’s “D-War,” a dragons-do-battle fantasy that transports a Korean legend to 21st century Los Angeles.

A fiasco of a plot, the critics said. Preposterous dialogue. Risible acting.

South Korean audiences loved it. Two months after its release, the Korean made for Hollywood flick captured about 8 million viewers making it not just a box-office hit but a national success story, a way of channeling Korean pride.

The movie has made $53 million in South Korea, the country’s fifth-largest-grossing film. But what makes “D-War” special is the $10 million it has copped since its mid-September release in North America where, with its mostly American cast, mostly English dialogue and the new name “Dragon Wars,” it enjoyed the widest release for a Korean film.

Now, we talk about a bad movie, when I say bad it was really really bad. The CGI, I have no comments on it but the plots, dialogue? Unbelievably crap! The seemingly positive reaction from the Korean population, as indicated by the movie’s box office success in Korea, was widely attributed to the film’s appeal to Korean nationalism; a logical impression drawn from Shim’s message at the end of the Korean version of this film, “D-War and I will succeed in the world market without fail,” accompanied by the Korean folk anthem, “Arirang”. However, despite box office success, D-Wars was far from critically acclaimed by either Korean critics or Korea’s general public. Korean film critic Kim Bong-sok said, “They want it to be successful in the U.S. because it’s Korean, not because it’s good,” and called the film “immature and poorly made.” Other reactions from Korean critics have been similar.

Now why am I reminded of the bolehnauts? Yup, the so much hyped about first Malaysian teh tarik maker and gasing spinner in space. How cool is that? Cool my farking arse. A lot of Malaysians are proud of it because it’s Malaysian in space, not because he’s good. I felt like borrowing that line and the trip is “immature and poorly made”.

Like the Koreans, Malaysians are also dreamers. It’s good to dream big. There must be the dreamers and visionaries too, but they should not extend beyond the ostentatious and self-indulgence.

“Koreans like dreamers, and Shim is a dreamer,” says Chin Jung-kwon, a prominent South Korean cultural critic who trashed the movie on national TV and was quickly pegged the most villainous dissenter. “The Korean media turned Shim’s going to Hollywood into this great patriotic success story. So if you criticize him, it makes you a public enemy.”

Again, to all the people that think it’s a waste of money, like me, we’ll be the public enemy. It’s the same thing here. You criticised, pointed out what you think is not right, you’ll be a black sheep. Well, ta hell with that. I am not proud. Like I said before, if he uses his own money like that Russian billionaire go on a space trip I’m okay and if the bolehnauts going up there doing scientific research or whatever shit that is, I’m ok but if you just go up there and play gasing and promote Malaysian food – Like does that justifies the price tag you go up there? Okay, I know it’s not your fault. You were sent there – I’m lost for words. It has been on the blogosphere for quite some times for now, so I guess I don’t have to say much.

But I’d like to share with you a quote from Chin ;

This era of blind patriotism must die out

To think about it, D-War might be a flop globally but at least they earned $53 million by producing a crap movie. The Bolehnauts project? You know, I know.