Pain Ball

Date: 18 May 2008
Time: 1100 hours
Location: TT Sports, Subang Jaya
Weather: Sunny
Objective: Wear as many clothing as possible and hopefully reduce the bruices and injuries to minimum level

Endless hiding, ground sliding, random shooting, thankyou-type-of-bruising, mere planning. Those probably enough to sum it up. Hell lotta fun tho.
12 of us, with Su, Sam, Law, Hwa, Hugo, and couple of their frens and bro.

*Pictures are courtesy of Lawrence and Hwa Hwa for the initiatives of taking it. Please visit his new blog btw, although sometimes tasty food appeared real yucky in the pics in his blog. So yeah, do visit his blog as he might pay me for saying this*

Gas cost to Subang Jaya : RM7
Suit, marker rental and pallets : RM70
Being rained by hard-ass paint balls : Priceless


So yeah, we had like 4000 pallets to be divided among us and that lasted us bout a few games. But somehow it felt that we played really long.

"Game over!" said the referee
"Game over?? Since when they got the flag? Shit wei!"
Lol, they captured the flag in the center without us noticing. That shows how much we are camping there. Its rather sad, thankfully we won the round after that.

Unfortunately, i'm a noob in this as well. So i probably spent more time camping and sliding from bunker to bunker. lol

This is what i get when someone actually rushed thru the center and hit me. He was bout 10 feet away only i think. Before wiping, it was all green and red all over it. Hmm, wonder if i can get blue by mixing them both.

After 6 hours

All in all, its great fun. Trust me.
Of course you will be injury free if each time u end up as the last man standing
Should do this more often and i definitely need to get a pair of gloves by then.

H.O.L.I.D.A.Y.

Sorry for the long delayed post. As some of you might not know, I've already started my holidays (yay!)

Official time given for the break: 8 weeks
So i'm already entering the second week. Hmm, when i count it by the weeks, it doesnt seem tht long afterall.

Finals was hell. When half of the ppl telling u tht the exams was either easy or the lecturers have been kind this time around, then you'll know its not good since you are thinking otherwise.

Started off with a tough paper, ended with an even tougher one.
Oh well, as long its all over now :D

...times where you wished you have listened to the lecture instead

Check out, the very last point, 'Menampilkan wajah yang tidak menyenangkan pelanggan'
This is a textbook for the Public Relation subject btw.
So basically those with ugly or 'less' attractive faces won't have much choice eh?
In cantonese we'll just call it 'Yong Sui' :))

Anyway, i'm totally free except a few particular weeks where i might be off to somewhere, so remember don't hesistate to call me out or anything cause i'm already starting to rot!!!

Two, Dos, II, Ni

Its 2.15am now
Sincerely i thank god for arriving home safely without any trouble with cops as well.
Not to forget that i actually had like 6 glasses of hard liquor. Yeah, i did feel a little light headed for a good 15 mins. But soon after its all alright.

Of course I wished i was still in that drowsy condition, at least till I came home and fall asleep.

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..

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I never wanted to go since the time i got the invite. Probably bout 130% of confirmation. But he's been a good buddy to me. Bros before hoes. Lol. Yeah, go vote for Barack instead of Hillary.

It never change a single bit. Same old feeling never failed to struck me, after goddamn fucking 2 half to 3 years (3Y).
Well, how bout adding in another additional different case? I will call it the 5 months (5m)


Miux, you blardy sucked big time. Friggin loser whose still carrying the guilt behind his back.


I still couldnt forgive myself. All these while I tried so hard to let all of these to go. But nothing seems to change. Been avoiding and and cutting all sorts of communication with 3Y and somehow it just got worse.

I dunno if i did enjoy myself earlier on. Half of the time i was just looking at the time, hoping it would reach 1pm faster and everything will end there.
The drinks was good in a sense that you do tend to forget everything on that moment and go light headed.

Probably another half of the time i was tryin to suppress or wipe away my emotions, distracting myself and clenching my hands together.

If on a scale of being down, it would probably be at least 8.

With 5M, its probably the guilt of wasting opportunity and being a drag.
Shit, could never forgive myself for causing all these.
Don't get me wrong. I couldnt be any happier for him and her. Its just me, thats all.

Since 2 years ago, i realised i never quite fit into any group of frens or acquaintances. I refused to make that as a fact. And everything ended up as trying too hard. My sis was probably right all the way long. We were more different from the rest of the social majorities.

Anyway it does feel much better saying it out to the cyberspace.
And i assumed that this post gonna create another tiny commotion. So yeah, two choices:

1.) Try to take this as a random 'light' reading without any relation to me
2.) Ignore this post, as technically its written by the drunken me anyway. Seriously, I could be rambling bout nothing

Shit, i'm so gonna drive the girls away with this post :P But i have to do this, there's no other way i could release my feelings out. Half of the ppl said i'm emotionless, and i will say that sometimes keeping it in is a better option.

I would never want to lose any friends as well because of my issues. That explains why I hesitated a lot when it comes to talking bout this.

Anyway, good day to you all. I'm gonna hit the sacks now and hopefully tmrw morning i would be able to say to myself again "I'm going to have a happy day today"

Reusable Chopsticks

It might be a good thing...or not, but yeah, my silly face came out in the papers.

It was Wednesday's Star 2, Youth 2 section. Here's the online article, of course without my face. Since it might be wasting its bandwidth :P

http://thestar.com.my/youth2/story.asp?file=/2008/4/23/youth2/21017660&sec=youth2

In fact, alot of people doubted my statements in the article. lol.
Let me ask you a simple question, how often do you see me using disposable chopsticks or eating noodles at hawker stalls?
Cause chances are, you will always see me online or at the mamak stall :)

Haha, I'm sure you will have a chance to see me using it sooner or later.
But of course, I did use it from now and then

And let me reason it out to you why its such a bad idea to use disposable chopsticks.

1.) Ever noticed how white all the wooden chopsticks you saw at Sushi King or those nicely packed plastic packed ones in Ming Tien or any hawker stalls?

Yeah, those are bleached completely to make it real nice and presentable. Unlike the solid,heavier ones you have at home, as those actually looks more natural (by looking at its 'veins' as well, or whatever you call that :P).
Actually plastic chopsticks are bad as well, I tried cooking maggie with it, at one point it got so soft and actually bends almost 50 degrees. So immediately I straightened it back again before rinsing it with tap water (Imagine a blacksmith forging a sword)

2.) Not all chopsticks are made from bamboo trees. As expected, in order to meet its demand for its mass production (now I'm speaking like a true economist, woohoo), companies will need to rely back on wood.

So this is the environmental part of it, the more disposable chopsticks they made, the more trees being cut down. Simple sense rite? Same goes for Rhino Horns and Elephant Tusks.

3.) Some disposable ones are really quite disgusting. Its very easy to tell how low the quality of some chopsticks, having some with fine strips falling off from it. While tryin so hard to peel off the excess, at one point, you will realise its just gonna go on and on forever.

Here's a 2 of the many blogs i found regarding bout the bleaching process. I'm not sure where the images orginally taken, but probably the rest of the bloggers just copied it (in exact orders and description as well!). Oh well, as long you all understands it :)

http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/2007/11/chopstick-alert/

http://rojaks.blogspot.com/2007/09/disposable-chopsticks-you-may-wanna.html

One of the biggest users and contributers (no prize for guessing) will be China, followed by our other 2 famed east asia countries.

"In China alone, an estimated 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks are used and thrown away annually. This adds up to 1.7 million cubic metres of timber or 25 million fully grown trees every year. To encourage that people use and throw away less, in April 2006 a 5% tax was added to the price of chopsticks in China. This measure is part of the first tax package in 12 years." Wikipedia

"A 2006 Hong Kong Department of Health survey has found that the proportion of people using serving chopsticks, spoons or other serving utensils has increased from 46% to 65% since the SARS outbreak in 2003." Hong Kong Department of Health survey

They are aware of the situation, since they used far more than any other countries in the world. But of course I'm not pointing fingers to them, since they have a mass population. But it could pose a threat if it continues on.

Some facts and figures
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5152661/Chopsticks-LIFE-CYCLE-STUDIES.html

Plead by China Environmentalist
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19203227

Beijing Hotels rejected the usage of disposable chopsticks
http://www.chinacsr.com/2007/10/12/1748-300-beijing-hotels-reject-disposable-chopsticks/

Just to named a few websites, as there are tons of websites regarding the outcome.

And another 2 videos I found





So one of the most common solutions will be bringing our own pair of chopsticks, hence, there came this idea of bringing the reusable chopsticks to Malaysia.
Ok, maybe its out in the market before this. But doesn't matter


They are selling this during The Star Enviromental Fest in Bukit Kiara on June 8.
It cost rm18 or rm20. Not too sure bout the pricing as I was quoted for RM18, so you people can get it from me if wanted to.

Alot might be saying its expensive and stuffs, but we are not forcing you to buy! Its just a solution for not using disposable chopsticks. As long you say no to disposable chopsticks, we're happy to hear it and thank you for making an effort to help the environment :)

Thanks for reading my post, so as a reward (no,i'm not giving away free reusable chop since i don't technically make them), here's a video that we, from Star Youth made and acted in. Yeah, its very very silly. But heck, it was fun doin it :)