So 2009 ends soon.

~Betch

I just finished my finals. I'm so thrilled that it's done, but I will say that I'm a little sad that my 2nd semester has ended. I mean, I love college man... it's the place to be! Of course with all the right reasons la, huh... I'm not doing anything illegal or stupid or both.

SO, moving on, OH MY GOSH the best stuff is in the papers lately! I'm telling you, MALAYSIA is such a dramatic place to live in man... I mean, honestly, let's look at it, politicians are calling each other names, the public is doing dumb stuff only to be killed in the end, how can we not call Malaysia dramatic? People say America is so filled with drama and they're talking about the white lilies that live there... MALAYSIA HAS EVERYONE! You name it, we've got it! Malays, Indians, Chinese, Punjabi, Chindians, Chi Bais (Chinese mix bai yi la huh, what you all thinking ar?), Mayonaise and even foreigners also we got. Because we have a lot of illegal immigrants here, thanks to the our government's effort of trying to bring the world together. Our dear Prime Minister's wife was saying something about 1Continent or 1World or something along those lines... Dearie, let's just focus on 1Malaysia first, okay? Don't look too far because from where I'm squinting, it's a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONGGGGGGGGGGGGG long road.

You know what producers should do? They should do a reality TV series of everything Malaysian. Every joy, mistake, triumph, screw-up, drama. AND air it without any censoring on national and international TV. CONFIRMED ratings will be off the roof. Can you imagine the amount of money the networks in Malaysia could get from both national and international airings? It just occurred to me that this could be an EXCELLENT way to boost the economy. The politicians came up with all the plans and budgets, to hell with that! USE MY WAY!!!!

I must say, the post-traumatic mania from finishing finals has seriously made me say a lot of things on impulse. But never mind. I didn't say anything anti-government now did I? I'm merely being honest and blunt. I'm really being supportive of Malaysia. I'm not calling anyone a pig, I'm not being light-headed unlike those dumb dumbs in the newspaper today where they had some picture of a politicians head photoshopped onto a cow, for a protest rally. The stuff these people do really tickles me.

I did say I would compensate for not betching in my previous post, so compensation complete!

Ciao!

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives" ~ Abba Eban

Conclusion

~Betch

WHOA. 2009. You are nearly becoming a past tense in our lives.

I shouldn't be blogging really. I've got exams and assignments to complete but I think I should pour my thoughts about recent happenings out into this box before I forget, hence making it seem like I'm not thankful.

Well, I can say it's been a very nice year for me. Everything just fell so nicely into place. Deadlines were met, prayers were answered, answers were given to mind-bending questions, people came into my life.... everything is just fine. I don't wanna say it's great because of the world's disasters like the Padang earthquake, the reversion of Maths and Science back into Malay, the economy crisis... I think it would be unfair really to say that life is great.

Among the recent things that I wanna be thankful for is my recent performance for Thanksgiving (Happy Thanksgiving, everyone... though most of you don't celebrate this, but oh well). I performed two songs with two friends of mine, Mayuri and Marivin. We were called Green Egg & Ham feat. Marivin (he was a recent addition before we told the MCs our band name). The name has no reference or meaning, whatsoever, so go ahead and rest your confused selves. I sang "Use Somebody" and "Chasing Cars" to a good response from the audience, so I am particularly thankful for that to God. You see, I was panicky about forgetting the lyrics to the two songs and my panic escalated to greater heights when I DID forget the lyrics during sound check. My mind went blank.

So Mayuri in particular was worried for me and I didn't blame her. She was very passionate about performing before the people of HELP. So I prayed to God asking that everything would be fine, that I can remember the lyrics and the timing, that he would rid me of anxiety... you know, your typical prayer before anything. And thank you God, everything went so well. However, two people in particular from the audience were not pleased with me performing "Use Somebody". One was Monica whose reason was another band she heard totally crushed the song and has hated the song ever since, and the other was Dessie (I hope it's the right spelling) who thinks Kings of Leon's latest album sucked and has offered to coach me in other songs from their past albums which were, according to her, WAY better. Well, at least, it wasn't because of me, LOL. They be the coolness anyway.

And now, the show must go on... it's time for one final quiz and assignment and then... the finals. *Hallelujah chorus soars dramatically* I know, like I haven't even opened my books properly due to all the other projects that I've been involved in.

December 9, I beckon thee,
Come quick and deliver me,
From college and the final papers,
I ain't kidding, I need them answers!

I realised I wasn't being my usual betchy self here, but because I'm in the thankful mood, I shan't say anything indirectly nasty.

Have a good weekend, everyone :)

I'm BACK!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey readers sorry for "abandoning the it world" (according to the Politician).... Well for the matter of fact i was really caught up with lots of things to do you know... I'm not as free as the politician and the betch... the politician gets money under-table and the betch get money by bitching and I get money by fishing so mind u there's no internet at the open seas... oh well.. So i'm back...
I've got nothing much on my mind to blog about recently so i'm just going to update u about my current experience in UNIVERSITY...
So for your info i've been accepted to a local uni that is UPM... well.. so much diff from all my well-to-do friends that's in INTI, TAILORS, HELP, UTP,SUNWAY, and etc... This is because the subject i want to study is only offered in UPM, no other col/uni... SO i'm stuck here... well being stuck here is no so bad afterall... i've got amazing friends (which i initially thought i wont have any)...Thank GOD for that..
The reason i am missing in action in the blog was because i was very caught up with many many things to do... My first sem was very busy... my schedule is always jam packed with labs and lectures sometimes i feel so drenched out... 18 credit hours every sem is crazy... every week i have three long reports to do.... every 3-4 weeks have test and exams...Well talking about exams its not easy at all sometimes.... i thought it will be all smooth and easy in uni looking at the majority that is around but this year was an exception... THIS IS THANKS TO THE JPA SCHOLARS!!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha.....I think they actually raised the standard so that it gives the JPA some sort of challenge...and they are also focusing on some ISO thing...haiz... all this is making my life more challenging... oh well... have to put up to it... its not easy honestly... In a way its a good thing because i think this is the thing that drives me to move further and getting me out of my comfort zone... I'm currently waiting for my finals results.. I'm so nervous looking at my odds to get good results...
I guess that's my update for now... i'll blog again when i find something more interesting") till then chiao!


~The Fisherman~

Fed up of Gossip Girl drama in reality!

Updates are kind of slow because of exams.......

These are some things that have happened since my last post:


1. MCA's image has been destroyed:
There are internal problemssssss in the party. Most of them are stupid problems! EGM was held but the resolutions were contradicting with Registrar of Societies(ROS) about the post of Deputy-President of the MCA and many more that I am too fed up to say....


2. Malaysia is in Formula 1!
I am actually looking forward to that and I don't want to give any comments until I know about it and see how do they do in it. I hope they do their best, take it seriously and not just for the sake of promoting Malaysia.



You people must have watch dramas such as Gossip Girl which should teach you people a lot about relationship. If not it's okay, it's just a metaphor for the title..... No worries:)

What relationship am I talking about? Of course guys and gals. If you want lesbians or gays, hmm maybe it will come from the betch or fisherman not me. Hahaha.

Coming from a place that is very different than where I am now, totally different type of people, made me notice that there are people who are jealous, so jealous that I can consider them as stupid!

Everything that the gal/guy does must be told to the other party so that he/she knows what is he/she is doing. For example: the voice of the guy changes into a very soft spoken person and start updating about every single thing that he is doing and going to do with his friends........ then his voice changes back to his real self. I find this annoying maybe just because I get this so much here...... I thought people now are liberal and not so 'ulu' anymore but I was wrong. A picture of the guy or gal of little intimacy can cause massive drama in a relationship...... The ending..... hmmm..... depends, sometimes it's good and sometime it's not but before ending, I would see tons of drama.

I find that utter stupidity. Are those the thing we get when we indulge ourselves into a relationship? Of course not! Why get unnecessary problems and stress instead we could be happier being single.

This is what I think.....:

To be in a relationship is to declare that the couple becomes closer friends and not what most guys/gals now think, that is they own the guy/gal, he/she belongs to them. Not only when in a relationship, also after marriage, they should still treat each other as friends.........but that is not usually the case.......

The main factor to maintain a happy relationship and marriage is by the trusting each other. T....R.....U....S....T... is a value that we should practice when you think the relationship is getting serious. If not, hmmm, it's up to you because trust is something expensive or I can say priceless so don't just give it to any Tom, Dick and Harry. If you know that the other person is cheating on you and he/ she cannot be trusted so much but you still want to be with whoever the person is, what's the point? Sex? Money? Fame? If that is what your looking for then go ahead, continue with the relationship and you will attain your objective...... If you think that he/she is going to change to be a good person after you talked to the person, forget it. He/she will not change.

In the case where both are committed and have decided that this is the person then just do one thing........ trust in him/her, almost nothing can destroy the relationship. For example, your boyfriend or girlfriend slept with another girl/guy but he/she did not tell anything to you.....In other words you found it out yourself or it came from another person, you are confident that he or she did not do anything wrong. You might even choose not to ask him about that at all because you trust him/her. This is how much trust you have in the person you are with. But bear in mind, this has it's disadvantage.... If the other person has done a big mistake and you choose to trust him/her..... after some time you end up knowing that he/she did do a huge mistake, it will hit you hard...very hard.

But again, let me remind you that being in a boy and girl relationship(BGR) is a time of trial so breaking up shouldn't be a big issue and if both of you are really meant to be together, I am confident that you and the other person will get together again..... Wishing all the BGR out there good relationship and learn from love dramas about relationship, don't just watch!

The Politician

Remember, remember... my gosh, it's November?

~Betch

Before I betch, I apologise to our readers for the constant delay of updating. You see, I'm a very busy betch with college and the betching business. It's very hard to juggle you know. And also, I'm sort of at a crossroads in my faith. By that I mean like I'm hitting a rocky path as things in life are revealed to me, like what is there to come and what is there to do to please my God. It's hard but I'm hanging on.

I gotta say, I'm just so amazed how 2009 is just dissolving into 2010. I anticipate the future, don't get me wrong, but somehow I feel like things are going way too fast. Just yesterday, it seems like I had just started secondary school and now, I'm in college! Sometimes I just lay in bed and wonder how did time zoom past us so quickly.

It's either time that's being sneaky or it could be me. Recently, I've got TONNES of work on my shoulders. So basically everyday would be monotonous because I'll be trying to race against time to complete my work. Thank the Lord for He sustains me. And the people! I love HELP, readers. Honestly, I'm so glad to be in HELP and no where else at this moment because of the people in general. Come to think of it, if it was not for NS, I would probably be in some other institution. Because before NS, I didn't even think of HELP once. Funny the way things out, eh? And yeah, in this sense, NS was helpful, I guess.

Why am I being so nice and tingly? OK, Betch mode activated.

1Malaysia is good. Yeah honestly. But shouldn't it have been implemented LONG TIME ago in Bethlehem or something? They're only thinking about it now, when racism and discrimination is at its' worst? Even the late Yasmin Ahmad said our PM copied her because her movies have depicted racial harmony in Malaysia in the most natural way possible. I mean, I wanna be optimistic for Malaysia, I seriously do, but let's face it, the country is in pretty deep shit. C'mon, politicians are losing the trust and faith of the nation as we speak. No substance, just small talk.
No planning whatsoever, always playing dirty. How now?

All we can do is pray for this country.

If you ask me, I'm in a love-hate relationship with Malaysia. I dunno how to love it or hate it. I'm simply mundane about Malaysia. All I can say is that Malaysia is my first home and a home that no matter what happens, I still gotta love it. C'mon we gotta be thankful we aren't in wars or involved in natural disasters.

Anyway, it's nearly three in the morning. I'll come back soon. God bless you all!

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

~ Groucho Marx

A crocodile in disguise 2

The Betch and his silliness…Buu you!

Fisherman and his jala! Buu you too for abandoning the IT world and being very busy in fishing!

(The following post may have been slightly different from the real story for he/she may be a close friend of the writer and please excuse the informality of the post)

Remember once I told a story about a crocodile in disguise? If no huh, go find it in previous posts, if yes, I have another story that you people might be interested in…. As what you have read, you must have learnt something about the attitude and characteristics of the crocodile but there is more!

Before telling, let me describe a little further about him. He came from a wealthy family. From what I’ve seen, his father is fierce but he’s very generous to his son if his son does achieve what the father expected them to achieve. His mother is very loving and that’s all I know about his parents. Let me tell you that the guy I am talking about is kind of smart but he could be the most stupid smart guy in the world and extremely immature….. I think lah.

Very common, a guy likes to act cool especially in front of gals…..So gals, I just let out a guy’s secret…thank me. I would like to give another tip too (if wrong don’t blame me), observing from what I have seen is ……. a guy who has good sense of humor and he does naughty stuffs even thou in front of his girlfriend is a guy who is really in his true natureJ Anyway, back to my story…… The guy that I was talking about invested his properties (handphones, money and other stuffs that a teenager may use to give his gf) that his parents bought for him on his girlfriend….How? He would show that he is loving, caring, generous and cool, everything in the world lah, so that the gal that he is with would be impressed. What for? One word………..sex. I heard him said that he would spend much more money on prostitutes for sex than his girlfriend and it’s not only for once, he can do it as much as he want and then when he captured a new prey, bye bye the used ones. Phones and anything that usually a guy can give to a gal are some of the things that he would give and that wouldn’t be as expensive as receiving services from prostitutes. So did the coolness attracted many gals to him? Yes it worked!

Recently, he went for a class and his good friend was his partner for that class. There was a girl who was new and she was also in the same class. The crocodile and his good friend had prepared for some time for an important project. As you all know, the crocodile can’t stand his (I don’t know what word should I use to describe), he went and waste much time with the new gal and left his friend for hours to wait for him. His good friend was fed up with him so his good friend told him off in front of the particular gal…… And because of his jaga muka and cool attitude, he punched his friend and left the project which was very important…… And guess what did his friend do? Nothing….He just said…..”that’s it you’re out.” Let me tell you that his friend was a very fit guy and I think he would have easily kick him in the ass for good….. but he didn’t.

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There is so much more about him but it is to be continued………

The Politician

Lost in Thailand...apparently.

~Betch

Well, I've got a story for you guys and it happened two years ago. It suddenly came back to me a couple of hours ago before this post. It's hilarious.

So here's the dirt. I went to Thailand with two of my aunts and a cousin during the CNY holidays. This friend of my aunts came along and he was this art director from China. Very nice guy and all, only there's this one problem... well at least in my case, he doesn't speak much English. He can but not much. And you guys know me, I'm the worst Chinese ever because I don't speak Mandarin. My almost non-existent ability to speak Hakka and Cantonese wouldn't help. So basically, I only made small and monosyllabic conversations with this dude.

I think it was our 3rd or 4th day there when he expressed an interest in touring Bangkok as he had never been there before.

Aunt of mine: Hey, that's good! (My real name) can go along!

I remember hurting my neck from turning so sharply around to look at my aunt.

Me: HUH?
Aunt: Yes, he hasn't been to Bangkok before... so why don't you two go together?

OH YES..... I, a Mandarin-impaired dude, was going to go walk around some places in Bangkok with a guy from China who doesn't speak much English... I mean, c'mon, think about the communication issues... I remember praying the previous night that things would work out... Thank God it went quite well with a few bumps. I mean I had fun going around taking pictures with him and seeing the historical sites and shopping places, what have you not, it's freakin' Bangkok.

So we were in this mall and I saw a rather fancy music store. I told him I was gonna go there and he nodded. I put on the headphones and started listening to a lot of music. I think at least half an hour had past and I started looking for him.

I found him talking rather quickly and desperately to this information counter lady. The lady just picked up the phone receiver and started dialling. I went up to them.

Me: What's up?

I could have sworn I had never heard the loudest sigh in my life. He was like: "OH MY, OH MY, HE'S HERE! WHERE YOU GO? I LOOK YOU AND CALLED YOU... LADY SAY NO ONE COME..."

I didn't understand initially until I saw the counter lady and I was like "OH".

The poor thing thought I was lost! I guess he wasn't listening when I said I was going into the music store or perhaps he didn't understand and simply nodded. Apparently, he went up to the information centre and made the lady call me on the loudspeakers 14 TIMES!!! My days, how could I have heard when I had the headphones on in the music store??? It apparently went like this...

"Calling Mr. (my real name), calling Mr. (my real name), please proceed to the information centre on Level 1! Thank you!"

He was terrified. I remember him rambling about what could have happened if I was really lost, about how he was so worried and what my aunt would say for losing me... I was like Dude, calm the hell down, I'm HERE.

It was the comedy of the evening, joke of the day and a memory of a lifetime and still is! So from now on, if any one of you decide to go on vacation with a person who doesn't speak your language, BE ON THE WATCH. Lol.

I have quite a lot to tell you guys but not at the moment, or not in this post. It's already too long, imagine if I'd added any more stories. Take care everyone!