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no rain no rainbow

2009-06-06T19:22:00.003+02:00

I was watching Naruto Shippudden Movie 2 today because it was raining outside. In the ending theme, the lyric has a part that says "no rain no rainbow". Kinda cool, because I've only heard until now "no pain no gain".

Was waiting for a rainbow after the rain ... Wondering whether the gloomy clouds will go away.

bread

2009-03-19T10:17:00.003+01:00

When I was in Malaysia I really like to eat the Gardenia bread. You know, with Uncle Slocumm's recipe. Gardenia's bread selling point in my eyes is their softness but full felling of the bread. Eating it with pandan kaya for breakfast is absolutely the ultimate breakfast (along with the long ultimate breakfast list we can find in Malaysia).

When I was in school Gardenia taps into a known teritorry which is the small and already-filled bread and makes it even better. Nowadays we can find a variety from this type of bread. From kaya to red beans, from chocolate to vanilla, from sambal ikan bilis to kari ayam, they have it all. This was quite the popular choice when people want to tend to their hungry pangs.

I don't know when but then came High 5. I guess they do what Gardenia does. We can literally see the similarity in their product line up. Maybe they think they are rivals to Gardenia. But frankly, do Gardenia's people give a flying monkey's fart about High 5? Must ask their marketing people.

Fast forward to 2009. Now I always shop at PLUS despite its status as the more expensive chain amongst the cheap groceries store. Why? Because it's the nearest to my current house. However, I don't really mind. Once I saw a documentary on the idiot box. They compare they price of 30 things people usually buys as their weekly groceries at 4 of these stores; PLUS, LIDL, ALDI and PENNYMARKT. The result was; PENNYMARKT won the race by a humongous 50 cents, ALDI and LIDL have exactly the same price at second place and PLUS came in last by the extravagant sum of, I think, 23 cents or something. Haji Bakhil also don't mind that kind of money.

Oops, got off track. Anyway since I started shopping at PLUS I began to buy their breads and their breads is so soft. Genuss I tell you, genuss! Put little bits of margarine and sugar on top of it. Bake for about 10 minute. Great stuff.

But you know what, nothing beats celuping (dipping) biskut lutut into piping hot coffee on a rainy days watching the raindrops in Malaysia. Now don't ask me what biskut lutut is.

new year resolution 2009

2009-01-01T09:58:00.000+01:00

The first post of the New Year … It feel good and cold! It has been a seriously cold week. I wonder how the chicks yesterday celebrated outside with only baby tee. Must be the alcohol.

Anyway , back to the thing I want to write … I know resolution on New Year is old stuff and I never accomplished them; yeah maybe for a month or two but never until the next year. So this year, I want a really simple one.

I don’t want to be too lazy anymore.

Simple innit? I think in 2008 I’ve been a super lazy bum, with the almost Urlaubsemester, then going home to Malaysia. So I hope I can change this in 2009.

Random Quote of the Day

“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”

Robert A. Heinlein quotes (American science-fiction Writer, 1907-1988)

10 past 11

2008-12-31T23:11:00.003+01:00

Kish tagged me on the 18th, so I might as well do it before the year ends. It almost 11 p.m. here so I don't have much breathing space here. And with all the firework sound I can hardly concentrate ... Exaggeration max!

Anyway, the tag goes something like this : Write a blog (post) with 10 weird, random facts, habits, or goals about yourself. To write a blog with just random facts of YOURSELF is a bit sick I think. And who would read that. That's sicker.

10. I used to think that by eating prawn, I'll grow moustache. Now everyday eat ayam also grow moustache.

9. I like to collect things but always grow tired of them, like I collect stamps once and got an album full then move on to coins. Then I have an album full of them and I move on to ... You get the picture.

8. I've watched more than 100 title of J-Drama. Want suggestions anyone?

7. I like cheap snacks like the 10 cent keropoks and ice pop that you break in the middle using your thigh.

6. I miss the old school cathay (cinema) in my hometown. We can freaking eat kuaci in there and throw the kulit around. Now it has turned into a food court with a karaoke stage. Yes, they use the cinema screen as the karaoke screen.

5. I like receiving postcards now.

4. I have a bunch of weird friends. One of them said something like this, "Ko ade fikir pasal aku tak dalam bilik air?". Obviously before that person said that I didn't but surely after that I would, for a few weeks. Aiya.

3. I really want to use my time more efficiently.

2. Kish said, "I have never gone camping in my whole life". Me too

1. Now, SERIOUSLY, I don't even know why I took Engineering.

That took me about 15 minutes. So in about 45 minutes the New Year will come to the GMT +1 time zone. Have a jolly good year all!

EINEN GUTEN RUTSCH INS NEU JAHR!!!

P/S: This post would also be my 100th post ... Finally, eh? w00t!

advice

2008-11-30T21:06:00.002+01:00

About 5 years ago ...

"Kunci beg tu."
"Passport ade tak?"
"Duit jangan simpan satu tempat je."

Those were the things my mom said when I was taking off for the first time to Germany.

And yesterday I found myself saying the same things to my mom as she and my father were packing for Sydney. I guess advice does goes around.

P/S: Arsenal freaking won 2-1 against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge!!!

dusty

2008-11-23T14:30:00.004+01:00

Snow

It snowed yesterday and despite my almost 5 year stint in Germany, I still feel batak whenever I see snow. So I woke up and went out to snap a few pictures and a friends ask me to post it. Nothing much but here they are!

Frischmarkt

Can you see the snow on top of the pile of brocolli there? It was cold enough for the snow to stay on the surface for a few hours. By the way, this picture was taken in the Frischmarkt or like pasar tani in Malaysia. One thing though, they have different place to make business for vegetation, meat and fish. So it doesn't reek of meat and fish if you go only to the vegetation segment. They got vegetables, fruits anf flowers. Walking through the market is somewhat therapeutic for me. Makes me remembers the countless trip to the market back home with my mom.

Ah, and Shareen ... If you still read this dusty blog; "Mane gambar kita main snowball dulu? Dah setahun aku tunggu!"

Thanks For The Memories by Cecilia Ahern

The decreasing temperature makes me snuggle a lot nowadays. What better to do while snuggling then reading a good book? (Okay, there is but I won't dive into it) I pick up Thanks For The Memories by Cecilia Ahern. I started reading her book because I saw her picture in P/S I Love You and she's a looker! The term "New York Bestseller" or "No. 1 Bestseller" never means much to me because it seems that all books have it.

This new book by Miss Ahern is a classic of hers. Magical: you think it's not logical but somehow it makes sense. And I hope I'll feel the long afterwarm after finishing this book, like I feel with all of her books.

P/S: I feel like this post has no continuity whatsoever. That's what you get for being lazy.

maria

2008-08-04T14:10:00.004+02:00

Date: 5th of July 2008
Location: Torre del Pozzo, Caglieri, Sardegna, Italia

This fateful but unfruitful encounter happened when we (read Pek U and I) continued our road trip in Sardegna from Bosa to Oristano after getting our "stolen" petrol back. That happened thanks to an ancient system of pumping petrol.

Anyhoo, we passed mountain settlings of Magomadass and Medolo, which has kick-ass scenery. (Gosh, I think the word "breathtaking" bored me already.) It's different from the mountainous scenery in Malaysia. The green bush looks like it sprouted out of the limestone. They looked like green scattered face hair of a boy who just reached puberty.

On we go and we reached the city of Caglieri after driving along the coastal road. Caglieri is a very small city hidden between the hills and the ocean. It's a no brainer why we can find a lot of beach here. But since we practically had ocean all over us, we didn't plan on stopping here until ...

I saw a wonderful back of a young Sardinians (17, maybe 18) through the viewfinder (How ironic?) of Pek U's video camera. Immediately I said to Pek U, "U, baju merah tepi tu smart, blake la tapi. Tgk muke smart dok ...". We turned around after we passed her (Pek U forgotten already that he's supposed to drive.) and our blood shoot up! We go like "ZOMG! ZOMG!" because she look way better from the front. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better. From the cloth she wears, I guess she's going to the beach and we're gonna have a field day.

Needless to say, we change our plan and stop at the beach where Maria is headed to (Pek U conveniently gave that name and I don't know why. After that we sang "Maria Ave Maria" from the Korean movie 200 Pounds Beauty for one full day). And "Yes!" we said to ourself when we saw her there lying elegantly with a book and doning a white two-piece with pink tribal motive to make the bikini looks cute. A comical Japanese would have nosebleed right away.

With a sight like that, what else do young mens to do but other then making a fool of themselves and walk from one beach end to another many, many times. After we figured out that it's too obvious, we did a sightseeing of a cliff nearby (If only I have an army bino, I can skodeng from there some more *lol*) and as a result we lost here. Feeling down, we headed to our Twingo to continue our journey to Oristano.

And yet again Maria appeared looking tanner and still stunning. We lost her because she was going home. That makes sense. And again Pek U missed the scene. Not satisfied with that, he made an emergency u-turn (With screeching and stuff) but by then Maria has made a turn for her house. We lost her again and Pek U moaned about it for the whole damn trip.

Maybe we'll see her again in our dream, our meditaranean beauty.

A photo of her back as a proof. (Sorry about the quality but what do you expect of a still pic from a camcorder?)

P/S: Sorry about the lateness of the post. I'm procrastinating to da max!

sardegna - land of mountains, meer and maria

2008-07-11T09:11:00.000+02:00

It all started at the beginning of the last semester. I was bored to death and learned non-chalantly. What do you expect when you only do one paper? So after Pek U informs me of the TUI All You Can Fly ticket, the travel bug in me bought me.

The ticket first take me to Sardegna, an an autonomous island of Italy. If I write about it, this post will be filled with words like beautiful or breathtaking. So I'll let the photo do its job.

(About the title, "Meer" is sea in German and Maria will be explained in the next post.)

blog roll

2008-06-02T13:05:00.002+02:00

This is my blog roll. I will update this accordingly and will add more links later.

Friends

Kish
Chooi Yun

Frequent

Hembusan
Obefiend

money & goal

2008-03-30T11:08:00.002+02:00

Dear readers ...

Do you make money as your goal ...

OR

Do you make money as an enabler to your goal?

Think about it.

balance

2008-03-28T14:51:00.000+01:00

Ever heard people say the world is unfair. Of course, isn't it?

But frankly speaking, if you open your eyes wide enough and give it some time to think, you'll see that the world is fair indeed.

Okay just let me give you an imaginary example. Say in a class, there were a NERD and a TREND SETTER. TREND SETTER was always mean to NERD. Sticking gum at the seat of NERD, sticking pages of NERD's book with glue and hitting hime here and there to get some money. You know, the usual bully stuff. Now, NERD was a bright student but given the age cannot think far enough so he always thought that God wasn't being fair. 15 years after that, fueled byhis passion of physics and adrenalin rush, NERD becomes a roller coaster designer, creating many for amusement park around the world. TREND SETTER has becomed an average guy with an average job. Not really a trend setter anymore. He always bring his kids to the amusement park that has NERD's roller coaster.

Now, this example maybe a little bit far fetched but my point is, the world is fair. You must give it time and think about it. The 3 or so bucks NERD gave when TREND SETTER hit him back in their schooling day are given back to him in multiple in the form of admission fee to the amusement park. No need for hitting or taunting.

If you're feeling that the world in unfair or you're being treated unjustly, be patient and see the world from a different perspective. Maybe you'll be feeling a whole lot better.

falling down

2008-03-24T10:50:00.000+01:00

I woke up to falling snow.

I, for one, was always a fan of watching things fall down. Back in Malaysia I enjoyed watching rain (From inside the warm safety of a home or room, obviously.) and hearing the sound of raindrops crashing to ground. There's also a distinctive and particular smell during rainpour. All those combined and minus the mosquitoes searching for safehaven make me feel calm and comfortable. Add a windchime to the equation, it can be a blissful experience engineered by nature. And after all that (And maybe after some piping hot fried rice or a cup of malaysian mix coffee and biscuits, the rectangular one ...) maybe a rainbow will appear to make a grand closing to a great experience.

In Germany, it rarely rains so hard. Rain always come in an unmotivated trickling. So I rarely get the chance to enjoy a heavy downpour. But in winter, sometime I do get to enjoy snowfall. Now snowfall is another experience all together than rain. Swowfall (Not snowstorm!) is a calming experience. All about it is calming. First of all, the air becomes sort of cleaner and a pure bliss to breath in. You can lose yourself in the slow and random motion of the snowflakes. And after that, snowfall leave your surrounding white making you feel pure. (Okay, don't be so curious like Rawai or you won't be feeling so pure :p )

So people, enjoy the force of gravity =)

are you sure?

2008-03-04T14:37:00.000+01:00

Have you ever come around to a situation where you snapped at people for asking an obvious question. Depending on the people I sometimes do. Talk about double standard *sigh*

That aside, I bet most of us have gone through this situation, more or less.

Asking an obvious question sometimes isn't so obvious. Depending on the situation and current mood people can react differently. Say two women meet each other at a shooping mall. They're just got to know each other through a common friend and don't know much about each other. Let's call them Miss Single and Mrs Pregnant.

The scene is always the same. Mrs Pregnant was using the escalator downstairs and saw Miss Single oggling some blouse. Mrs Pregnant asks Miss Single, "Ah hi Single! Shopping? Are you alone?". Now come the situations where Miss Single would answers differently.

Situation A: Miss Single thinks this is just a stupid question and just answers "Yes" indifferently (Snapping at a person you just know seems kinda inappropriate.)

Situation B: Happy to see a new friend, and that is what is she doing anyway, she answers "Yeah, I'm looking around and maybe buy a few!" happily.

Situation C: She said no and adds, "I'm looking around to get inspiration for my design. I told you I'm a fashion designer, didn't I?.". She beams with a smile.

If you consider situation C, the question is not so stupid and obvious anymore. "There's no stupid question, just stupid answer." is right after all.

collecting, fansubbing and stuff

2008-02-21T07:54:00.007+01:00

I like collecting stuff since I was small. I had a stamp albim, coin album etc etc. Nowadays my interest has taken a turn but nevertheless I'm still collecting stuff (I should gave up some though), like EURO coins, magic cards, novels and dramas to name a few.

My drama collection has expanded exponentially during the past years but it has been quite stable for a while. Maybe use becanow I'm a bit choosy and I've finished all great past dramas. To make up for it, I join several fansubs as a freelancer. I'll list down the drama and the link to d-addicts at the end of the post.

Fansubbing world has too many enemies. Although fansubbers don't make a penny out of their pocket (Sometime they give out their OWN money because of server mantainance, among others.), they're under the constant threat from the media and entertainment company. On the other hand, there are a bunch of stupid people and opportunist who grab their work and sell it on the net. Mind you the works of fansubbers are top notch and pawn official translators anytime.

One example is this GUY/GIRL. I hope you guys don't buy from him/her and spread the words. That person even has the guts to update the series as fansubber release their work. Now I'm working now One Pound Gospel with a team and that site *almost* had the same update with our team. Someone has buy some of the dvd there to confirm the content and it's true. For people who likes questioning and don't believe reasoning like "Someone has ..." (I know a person *lol*) and the like, you can try downloading and tehn buy it to make a comparison (Though I'm not encouraging it, that's pure waste of money.)

I think I'll stop down before my post becomes a rant. Signing out and may you found a great drama to make up the boring life here in Hardbreadland *gloomy*.

Dream Again (Complete)
Hardsub
Raw
Softsubs

One Pound Gospel (On going)
Hardsub
Raw
Softsubs

haruhi mouse play

2008-02-19T23:31:00.002+01:00

Suzumiya Haruhi is a very famous manga and anime in Japan. This particular anime has shot seiyu Aya Hirano to stardom. The sight of Haruhi cosplayer is a norm in Akiba. Please enjoy playing with this flash thing :p

giving up

2008-02-19T17:22:00.000+01:00

A new look. What do you guys think. It looks like the Wordpress theme but I change the color theme. This took sometime *fuh* I think I won't install a shoutbox because it'll disrupt the simplicity of the theme. Or maybe I'll dedicate a page for shoutbox alone. Mal gucken. What bothers me is the little dot on the letter "S" on the banner. Blogger won't take no title for an answer. So whoever knows XML, please tell me how to get rid of that little bugger. I gave up after my computer hanged and my kepale got a headache.

Talking about giving up, I realized something significant. I was so used to giving up, I can barely realize when I gave up now.Starting with going to boarding school until now. I gave up my time with my family, with my childhood friends, with my hometown. That cost me friendship. I hardly contact an indian friend of mine now who once I considered my best friend. We talked a lot and shared the same passion in primary school.

I gave up the joy of studying in a familiar place to come to a foreign place. 'Twas gloomy. One thing leads to another and I give up pretty easily nowadays.

On the bright side, I exchange my childhood friendship with great high school friends. The 5 years in SEMESTI was the time of my life, without a doubt. I can confirm that faster than you can bat your eyelash.

The gloom of Germany is the price I pay for the experience. Experiencing foreign land is exciting and inspiring.

Giving up is a skill. Everybody must learn to give up, but not easily. You must know when to give up and what other things you can achieve when you give something up.

I gave 10 years of ups and downs. I hope I'll find something new and interesting.

wastin' time

2008-01-18T10:36:00.000+01:00

OMG ... Why am I wasting time managing my music folder and making playlist in imeem and updating my blog and making banner for my blog.

And watching 2 seasons worth of Top Gear.

Gear 1. Rev up. Study. Please.

smile

2008-01-03T19:09:00.000+01:00

Yesterday I went to extend my visa. I thought of saving money by using the same photo I used with the last visa but kantoi! With a heavy heart I gave out 13 euros for some photo. I think when I go back to Bolehland, I must buy the blue background and start a small photo business. During the session, I smiled but the photographer asked me to make a serious face. "It's in the law book", he says.

Enough about that. I read on Wikipedia about smile and was shocked that it stated there that smile was originated from fear. I know some of you are curious, so read on here.

Personally, I think smile has many advantages. I've heard to smile you use less muscle than to make an angry face. I don't really know the fact but it's kinda logic. Angry people has speedy wrinkling process, innit? And admit it, who doesn't like to see other smile save the senyum kambing or senyuman sinis. But yesterday I learn something. Don't smile while you're outside and not wearing lipbalm and the temperature is below zero. Why? Try it if you want to know.

post new year post

2008-01-02T12:19:00.000+01:00

*Dusting my blog.*

Been a while. Just let me clearly say this, and no, this is no excuse: I was really lazy to write.

My brother after kalah main chess.

Today's my youngest brother's birthday. He's 11 this year and should be taking UPSR at the end of this year. Buckle up and get your hands on the pencil and books. Don't be too lazy like me :p

Yesterday was the 1st of January. I didn't do much except singing my heart out with 3 others until midnight. Then they played with 14 Euro worth of fireworks. Again, I was too lazy to go out because it was damn foggy and the temperature was around -3 grad celcius.

The 3 chicas wishing their friend from Spain.

Yesterday was the birthday of my friend Peah ... ooops ... Sya in Japan. Happy birthday to you. Yesterday was also the birthday of Nado. Now, I don't know her but during my trip to Spain I was in the car consisting of 3 never-stop-chatting-and-full-of-energy Mavericks from KUSESS. She's their friend and I hear her name all the time. Might as well wish her aite? They even take a photo on the beach to wish her.

Talking about Spain, I learn many things as a traveller and as a person. How the saying, "To know one's true color you must travel with them" is so true. And we can't please all people all the time. Despite that I really had fun in Spain and now I wonder if I can get a trip like that ever again? Time will tell.

I hope I can update my blog more this year.

Cheers and again, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

the dot of life

2007-10-27T23:07:00.000+02:00

A friend of mine died today and it wakes me up from a slumber of malasness. I want to write a tribute for the friend that I know for 9 years.

Although arwah is not as close to me as he was close to Mat Pet (another dear friend of mine) the feeling of loss is still humangous. We knew each other in high school and got along fine. He left the school in form 3 for a reason I vaguely remembers. Don't need to go too deep into that. After that we met a few times. Thank GOD for the lovely technology of messenger.

Last summer proved to be the last time I met him in this world. We ate together, laugh together and took some pictures.

I hope he's placed with the pious group. I hope people will sedekah Al-Fatihah and Yassin to him.

Thanks for the memories.

what the heck?

2007-09-23T13:51:00.000+02:00

Read here --> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070921/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_germany_politics_marriage

Random Quote of the Day

"Jinriki planes don't always fly. When it flys, I have this great feeling. But, making it is also fun. It's not about the result, the process is also important." - Yamada Sensei from the anime, Onegai! Sensei

current lullaby by gwen stefani and plain white t's

2007-09-17T04:16:00.000+02:00

Gwen Stefani - 4 In The Morning

This song makes me regret some things for the past 3 years. I like the song but it reminds me of something and I can hardly sleep if I hear this song (And I'm one fast sleeper.)

Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah

Now, this is a song I really like! Nice and also reminds me of something ... Something nice :p

time

2007-09-14T05:03:00.000+02:00

People say time is gold. I say time is tricky.

You can never be on time with time. You will be either too early or too late.

Bonkers.....

I hope, this time I will be on time.

Art credits goes to shimoda7@deviantART

di tag oleh pencinta hamster balkish

2007-09-13T17:18:00.000+02:00

Saya di-tag oleh Balkish the Hamster-breeder untuk menyenaraikan perkara-perkara berikut, dalam Bahasa Ibunda:

5 Benda Dalam Beg Saya
* Kompas kiblat
* Penyembur dadah untuk Lelah
* Bekas alat tulis Billabong yang bersinar dalam gelap
* Pelembab bibir menthol
* Sampah sarap seperti kulit pisang

5 Benda Dalam Beg Duit Saya
* Duit asing (Dubai, Euro)
* Kad matriks yang merangkap semester tiket keretapi
* Kad penerbang kerap
* Tiket orkestra
* Duit syiling yang berat

5 Bende Paling Disukai Dalam Bilik Bujang Saya
* Komputer riba ku sayang
* Katil yang empuk
* Buku-buku yang berunsurkan lawak dan motivasi
* Pemberat-pemberat yang boleh diangkat
* Snowglobe dari serata dunia

5 Perkara Yang Saya Nak Lakukan
* Melancong ke negara-negara yang belum pernah dilawat
* Melihat aurora
* Lepak-lepak dengan kawan-kawan saya
* Menonton wayang sampai lemau
* Menghabiskan pelajaran saya di Jerman

5 Perkara Yang Sedang Dilakukan
* Berchatting dengan seseorang yang menyukai smiley
* Minum teh
* Melayari internet
* Menonton televisyen
* Mengajar adik yang akan mengambil PMR

5 Orang Yang Saya Nak Tag?
* Seekor Tenuk
* Seekor Ayam
* Shareen
* Bob
* Yue Ann

P/S: Kish, jgn la tag aku lagi :p

hunter x hunter to resume serialization

2007-09-05T12:53:00.000+02:00

"An announcement was made in the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump (No. 40) that Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter will resume serialization Shonen Jump No. 45 (on sale October 6th).

Hunter x Hunter went on a hiatus early 2006. In early July, fans petitioned for the return of HxH through a special service website called Letters to the Cahirman. In early August, a source from 2chleaked the news that HxH will be returning "sometime in October."

Also announced in Jump 40 is that volume 24 of Hunter x Hunter will be released on 10/4." - Extract from ComiPress.

OMG OMG OMG ... I've been waiting for this!