Aha!

Thanks to my sudden 7 a.m. morning walk the other day, i have finally adjusted my sleeping time to achieve some semblance of wake-early-sleep-not-so-late normalcy (as opposed to wake: late afternoon, sleep: early morning).

Most unfortunately, some of my activity timeslots are not to say too normal. Bah. Went for a post-basketball yumcha session, and halfway through i started feeling all swirly headed. And now, here i am!

I think i'll go to bed. Night night.

Pop-pie

I was intrigued when i spotted the grand opening of

Popeyes! Yup. 5 minutes away from my house, and strategically located on the street across from KFC.

Needless to say i ventured in to sample their food, which were a... delightful surprise. :)

Popeyes sports a distinct orange store colour. Louisiana Kitchen.. Some southern fried chicken concept i guess.

Now food.

The chicken combo is pretty much the same with KFC's. 2 piece + drink, coleslaw, mashed potatoes and bun / biscuit.

Popeyes' chicken is also similar to KFC's spicy chicken. I wouldn't say that it is better, but it's definitely on par with. I can't really decide between both, but i wouldn't mind either. :P

What i like about Popeyes are their side dishes. They are miles better than the sucky ones at KFC.

Take the biscuit for instance. Honestly i wouldn't consider it a biscuit. More of a.. savoury muffin-scone hybrid. But damn it's good. Slightly crunchy on the outside, and muffinish buttery soft on the inside. Biscuittttt! Compared to that grotesque butter bun, this is just magnificent.

Mashed potatoes. I was astonished! The gravy contained some strange minced meat and chicken shreds. The potato itself was firm and had larger bits of unmashed potatoes in it. Texture. :P

Definitely not a fan of coleslaw, but oh well. This is the clear winner. No hard cabbage and carrot cubes.

The best so far is the Cajun Fries. They are positively divine. Divine! It's not included in the combo, but available as a side. They're slightly thicker pieces of fries and tastes like curly fries. V. v. good. I got sis hooked on this. :D

Popeyes serves shrimp and fish as well, but as i am extremely risk-averse when it comes to seafood, i haven't given them a try yet.

Definitely worth a visit. I'm going back on tuesdays? Or wednesdays (50% off sides) for their cajun fries. :P

Wagagaga!!

This is hilarious.

And brilliant, of course.



She's like this crazy, crazy witch playing the piano.

Strange

The oddest thing happened during Case Studies paper on Friday.

I was halfway rambling on and on about nothing and there was a sudden commotion from outside the hall near the bathrooms, invigilators frantically rushing in and out and calling the security on the phone. As i was sitting on the second row right in front, i had quite a good view.

Initially i thought someone tried to cheat and they got caught and so on. But more and more security personnel came and i guess that someone had passed out, or, at least taken so ill that she couldn't get up. They carried her away in an orange stretcher.

Freaky. People, don't la, cram so hard until you pengsan during the exam. Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of cramming? Unless, of course, they give u a much much easier replacement paper.

Gone

So exams are over, and ima celebrate by watching Twansformers!

:P

I still have this jumpy, paranoid thoughts of "oh damn, when's the next paper?"

Oh holidays, here i come.

sunway lagoon

From: Jeff Peters
Date: Wednesday 8 April 2009 10.22am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Membership Renewal

Dear David

This is a friendly reminder to let you know your gym membership expired last week. Your membership is important to us and we would like to take this opportunity to show our appreciation by offering you a 20% discount on your membership renewal. We look forward to seeing you again soon.

All the best, Jeff Peters


From: David Thorne
Date: Wednesday 8 April 2009 1.37pm
To: Jeff Peters
Subject: Re: Membership Renewal

Dear Jeff,

Thankyou for your friendly reminder and the kind offer to reduce my membership by twenty percent. I own a calculator but I could n work out how to do percentages on it so have estimated that I save around $372.10 off the normal price of $420.00 - Please confirm that this is correct and I will renew my membership immediately. Also, do I get a Fitness First sports bag with towel and drinking bottle included in the price? I own my own legwarmers and headband.

Regards, David.



From: Jeff Peters
Date: Thursday 9 April 2009 10.01am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Membership Renewal Due

Hello David

How did you come to that amount? Our half year membership fees are actually $460 but with the 20% discount as an existing member your renewing membership fee would be only $368 for the six months saving you almost $100 off the normal price. We are not Fitness First so do not have those bags.

Cheers, Jeff


From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 9 April 2009 10.18am
To: Jeff Peters
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Membership Renewal Due

Dear Jeff

Do I get free shipping with that?

Regards, David.



From: Jeff Peters
Date: Thursday 9 April 2009 12.48pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Membership Renewal Due

Free shipping with what? The $368 covers your membership fees for six
months.


From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 9 April 2009 2.26pm
To: Jeff Peters
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Membership Renewal Due

Dear Jeff

By the power of Greyskull that is a lot of money but I admit to being in desperate need of increasing my body strength. My ten year old child often turns the taps off in the bathroom very tightly and I have to go several days without washing. I feel bad constantly having to ask the lady from next door to come over and loosen them for me, what with her arthritis and limited wheelchair access to my flat. To be honest, I originally joined your gym with full intentions of attending every few days but after waiting in vain for someone to offer me steroids, I began to suspect this was not going to happen and the realisation that I may have to exercise instead was, quite frankly, horrifying. My aversion to work, along with the fact one of your employees, Justin, was rather rude, telling me to 'lift this', ''push that' dulled my initial enthusiasm of becoming muscular and I stopped attending.

Regards, David.



From: Jeff Peters
Date: Friday 10 April 2009 9.17am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Membership Renewal Due

Hello David

Not sure how to take your email, nobody here would offer you steroids, it is illegal and none of our staff would do this. Justin is one of our most experienced trainers and if you found him rude while he was trying to be helpful and just doing his job then there are plenty of other gyms you could look at joining instead.

Cheers, Jeff


From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 April 2009 10.02am
To: Jeff Peters
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Membership Renewal Due

Dear Jeff

Yes, I have noticed that there are many gyms in my area. I assume the low qualification requirements of fitness trainers means that there is an over supply of these buffed but essentially otherwise purposeless professionals. I knew a guy in high school who couldn't talk very well and collected sticks, he used to call the teacher 'mum' and during recess we would give him money to dance. Then sell him sticks to get our money back. He went on to become a fitness instructor so I view gyms as kind of like those factories that provide a community service by employing people with down syndrome to lick stamps and pack boxes. Except with more lycra
obviously.

Regards, David.



From: Jeff Peters
Date: Friday 10 April 2009 10.32am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Membership Renewal Due

Go f$*k yourself.



From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 April 2009 11.38am
To: Jeff Peters
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Membership Renewal Due

Dear Jeff

I was, at first, quite surprised at your response; one minute you are inviting me to renew my membership and asking me for money, the next insulting me. After doing a little research however, I have learnt that mood swings are an expected side effect of steroid abuse. As another side effect is a reduction in the size of your penis, this gives you understandable cause to be an angry person. I have also learnt that lycra contains carcinogenic properties so this does not bode well for yourself and your shiny friends. If I woke up one morning and my penis was a quarter of the size I would probably take my anger out on those around me as well. There are probably support groups or websites that could help you manage your problem more effectively and picture based books available on the subject for people with limited reading skills. When I am angry I like to Listen to music by Slipknot. The added angst and desire to cut myself works similarly to the way firefighters fight bushfires by burning off sections, effectively cancelling each other out and I find myself at peace. I understand that you guys usually listen to Pet Shop Boys or Frankie Goes to Hollywood so this may be worth a try.

Regards, David.



From: Jeff Peters
Date: Friday 10 April 2009 1.04pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Membership Renewal Due

DO NOT EMAIL ME AGAIN



From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 April 2009 1.15pm
To: Jeff Peters
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Membership Renewal
Due

Ok.



From: Jeff Peters
Date: Friday 10 April 2009 1.25pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Membership
Renewal Due

Is that you being a smartarse or agreeing not to email me again?



From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 April 2009 1.32pm
To: Jeff Peters
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Membership
Renewal Due

The middle one.

Transformers

The GSC website has gone bonkers due to "too many connected users".

-_-"

Oh, it is the evil evil work of the eeeeville Decepticons! Screwing with cinema websites to wreak havoc among movie-goers!

Seriously though. Transformer's first day of screening today, and the website has been jammed for quite some days now. Siaoness! I guess, since the tickets were made available for purchase 1 week earlier. Insanity, man. The seats left in 1U were mostly crap front row seats.

Of course i am perceptive (clairvoyant!) enough to foresee the whole craze, so i popped over to the newly launched GSC Tropicana City.

:) 5 tickets carefully tucked in my wallet.

Tropicana City looks fine. Reminds me of the Jusco in Johor, with a whole sterile feel about it. Since it's about 5-10 mins away from my house (TTDI rocks, baby), i'm not really complaining.

Exams

Given the fact that i have had 20 days to suck all the words off my notes, i guess i have only myself to blame.

Not that i want to blame myself anyway. :P

Marketing strategy... Pah! I think i can pass, but i can't seem to muster up any interest for it. It's too taxing. I think i would have enjoyed it if Ms. Ghazala was the lecturer instead of.... ADRIAN!!!!! ARghh!! I hope he gets strangled by his triumph international bras!

I semi-owned Labour Economics. The essay questions were a breeze. I wish i could say the same about the MCQs. -_-" I only studied for the essay questions, and the MCQs... Tricky. I expect a... High D. But not a HD which has already slipped through my grasp.

2 more to go baby, then! Transformers! Nyahahahahaha!

Sad

Holy fuck i am the worst son ever.

Father's Day today. And i forgot.

And dad, ever the sneaky feller, started throwing hints at me.

"Today is what day ah?"

"What day is today?"

Initially i reckoned it was some sorta rhetoric question, signifying that it'll be a busy day for him so i ignored him and went off to do my stuff.

During lunch, once again.

"Today is what day ah?"

I got slightly irritated and so i spouted out, "Err. What day? Today is what day? Hurrr? You tell me la. Hurrrr. Today is what day?"

Then mum answered "Father's Day".

WtF...!! palms forehead!!!

But of course, in my defense, we've already celebrated for him three days earlier. Also, i blame it on exams. They're screwing with my brains. Father's Day has become merely... Day Before Finals.

So, anyway.

Happy Father's Day to the fathers in the world. I wish my dad nothing but the best! :P

***
I've been meaning to show you this!

Freaking huge-ass prawns, wtf! Huge. They're at least as large as half of my forearm.

They were radiating this fantastic divinest divine aroma. But, nah. Wasn't for me. Eating those would have kicked my allergy into overdrive. Hello, salami lips.

Sigh

Damn. Marketing Strategy internal mark was horrendous. I hate Adrian's lecturing skills (lack thereof, more like), and unfortunately i will be having him for Planning & Implementation next sem. Life's fucked up, right? Another semester of Triumph International bra talk to endure. Geez.

Attended Dr. Ting's revision lecture yesterday, and judging from what he told us (using his ethereal voice with flitty hand gestures), we are expected to swallow all the theories + strategies, and do some hardcore regurgitation during exams. And that's not just all, i have to link the theories to my assignments and case studies.

Disaster! Pleaseeee let me pass.

Ponds Drama

I first saw this in Bangkok, and frankly speaking i wonder how a commercial break could turn out so touching! There are ponds drama everywhere over the Asia. The same storyline but the roles will be represent by the country star itself. To name a few, Saif Ali & priyanka for India while lovebirds bunga & ashraf for Indonesia. I wonder why there is not any in Malaysia

nota kaki: lelaki memang buta hati

Nuts!

Fuckozoids! I'm going all jittery and hyper and crazzzzay!!!

I think it's the 2 packs of coffee...

Damn.

Pro

I had about 20 days to study for my exam. Now, it's less than 7, and i haven't done much!

Doom!

Dreamcatcher

I have been having these incredible yet freakishly vivid dreams.

Two days ago i visited the bookstore in my dream. Dunno whether it's Popular or MPH, but i suspect it was the latter. I could recall the damn price of the book. It was 94.50. Mm hmm! I can remember book prices in my dreams!

I called mum, she said it was too pricey and to return another day when they have promotion / clearance. Then fast forward to "another day" and the price turned out to be 145.90! And i was feeling extremely annoyed (in my dream, that is) and that was when i woke up, feeling rather bewildered and with the book prices stuck in my head. 0_0!

The next one is even weirder.

First, i was driving and a Kancil-driving wantan was getting on my nerves. And so i shoved her the finger. And i could see the wantan (old-ish one. at least 40. blarrdy auntie wantan) showing this look of utmost unhappiness mingled with frustration, frown on her face and her lips pursed into a thin line.

*obviously i do not have anything against wantans / Kancil drivers. i will definitely give others the middle finger if they get on my nerves unless they drive a lorry and can ram me to smithereens.

Next day. I ended up cycling to school! No idea why. So when i reached, i saw that same wantan at the gates, talking to the uniform-clad security people, all the while staring around for that rude middle-finger-flashing bastard. I think she was gonna have me arrested. Fortunately enough, i cycled, so i sneaked to the side booth and signed my name in with the security dudes there (time, 8:05, surprising huh. i don't reach school that early anymore).

Suddenly, one of the security guards came to me. "Hey can you come with me?" and he beckoned me towards the gates where the wantan was standing.

And boom! Back to reality.

Strange, man. I seldom have such vivid dreams after which i can remember so many details. I bet it's my screwed up body clock. I've been sleeping at 6-7 am, waking up at 2 pm, sleeping again in the evening, waking up near midnight. Such insanity.

***
Mum's car fizzed like crazy shit the other day when she got back. Wtf! Vapour was just geysering out from under the bonnet and rising up to the ceiling of the car porch, emitting this horrendous smell.

Mum kept her distance. Apparently, last time when she had the old Volvo, the bonnet once burst open upright with a bang. XD

Turned out to be something wrong with the radiator. Kept pouring water in, but it drains out quite as fast. Cracked radiator i presume. With the engine running, it takes approx 1 minute for the radiator to start fuming. Will have to wait for super clear traffic conditions and then zoom over to the mechanic.

Puncak Alam

Perasaan berbaur untuk pindah...

faculty

cafe besar bagai, harap mknn pon sdp2 belaka

bilik sempit

masjid cantik

blabla

We celebrated fathers day at the Village View Restaurant yesterday, nice ambience comes with a very nice food too.. To brag up while i was eating, i notice that everyone was staring at me... ignore at first but then afta 5 minutes, i was lyke what is wrong with you ppl??? Suddenly my dad voice out.. "itu mawi n wife die kn?" i looked back and naah... there's a long queu.. small voice said, No wonder larrr...



UiTM students!! in case you guys still in a blue moon... Wake up!! cos results has just released.. Well i dont wanna brag mine... Nothing to be proud of anyways.. I did not get the DL.. im not dissapointed wif the result somehow i dissapointed wif myself indeed. I know i did not work hard than i suppose to.. But still thank god, nothing failed.. It sounds cliche but next sem swear to god i will study harder.. Neway our fac will be moved to puncak alam next sem, and we compulsory have to stay in college.. so in the middle of nowhere wif no entertainment at all, what will u do besides study anyways? I WANT DL! nuff said



We went to jalan-jalan KL just now.. We tend to drive at first, but then we decided why dont we take the komuter, bole becinta lame2 sket...skali sardin, amek ko.. penat but happy! We went to times square, bb, n the golden triangle.. We watch Drag me to Hell. *i recommended y'll to watch dis movie! unfrustating n seyesly worth it! We went back bit late just now, and taking the last train. The komuter suddenly broke down n delayed for almost 40minutes at the KL Sentral... can u imagined the crowd dat squeeze into dat tiny train once it operated?? *sigh. So i was lyke, okaaay dis is our first n last. No more komuter date EVER AGAIN. Neway sidia, has just got a job. He got a HR position but they said he can be promoted into his major field, Accounting right after his graduation dis coming October. Well im happy fo him bcos he work so hard for it besides feeding his demanding extra songeh gf here. *have to mention sidia wear long jeans just now! tula ta reti na pake suar pjg lg!

Winter

Winter Warmers, at the Curve.

Highly recommended by Jes.

I would say that Winter Warmers is trying to create a very cozy, afternoon-tea sorta ambience. Once i came in the air was a strange combination of various tea aromas.

Woody furniture. Flowery tablecloth. Flowery china. Lots of tea. Scones and cakes and sandwiches in the menu. Reminds me of the Enid Blyton books i used to pore over as a child. Lady Downing, having afternoon tea. Sipping tea with her finger sticking out while the children frolicked in the garden.

Fruit tea punch, or similar. Served with thin wedges of lime, orange and apple. Comes in a min-jug with tiny little glasses. Though i suspect i can easily make one at home with the right ingredients, i like this. :) It has a refreshing fruity tinge to it.

Tea, anyone?

This is the supposedly "damn nice" dish that we came for. Garlic Deep Fried Chicken, served with sides of mayonnaised potato cubes and pasta vege salad.

Reasonably priced at twelve or thirteen bucks, the chicken was great, crisp yet succulent. But the "garlic" just wasn't there. The reddish gravy was similar to sambal, and a tad sweetish with the mildest of mild garlic aroma. I was expecting it to come wafting with heavenly garlic, crusted with garlic a la garlic bread, but oh well.

Lack of garlickiness aside, i wouldn't mind returning for this dish.

Rose coffee thingy. I didn't really try it. But it looks interesting, dried rose and all.

Pretty ironic that we all ordered iced beverages as we patronized Winter Warmers on a freakishly hot afternoon. Summer Coolers at Winter Warmers!

Now. Speaking of its ambience. Not villagey enough. The lightning is awkwardly bright for a cozy place. I think the Teapot Cafe in SS2 (wonder if they're still around) managed to grasp the cozy English tea place concept very well.

All in all, not a bad place to dine at.

Revisit (cont.)

Ha! Posts from 2005 weren't all that fun.

Should see these bitchings back in CIMP! I hope Miss Norashimah doesn't see this.

But one thing i realized about Ms Norashimah is that she doesn't want a lotta facts. More on opinions and stuff like that. Also, she asks questions, which are easy to fend off by pretending to spout a lot of facts intertwined with opinions. Easy peasy.

Mmhmm!

Our class got some severe sounding from the fishball today for being idle and incompetent. I could picture her quivering fishball figure bouncing up and down in unbridled fury! Scary..

Fishball!

To tell the absolute truth and nothing but the truth, i would prefer to be stuffed like a sausage. =D Hopeless eh? I think having the pearl drawn out of me takes damn long, for instance, in the Fishball's class. I do not care about Ms Norashimah's "research & discuss" teaching strategy. It's pointless. I hate discussions. What's the point of spending 2 days researching and discussing some complete bollock when, in the end, she's gonna stuff us with the info anyway? Hmm.. On second thought.. I would like to be stuffed like an oyster. Y'know. Stuff me with sand. And i shall transform the useless grains into a shiny, iridescent pearl! I'll be spewing out pearls like no tomorrow! Isn't that much better?

Once again the Fishball threw us into her brain-numbing discussion session. Unfortunately for her, noone was paying attention owing to the fact that a) it's Friday b) it's last day of school before mid-term break c) her discussion sessions are brain-numbing d) everyone was sick of discussions. So she got all PMS and gave us a lengthy lecture, going relentlessly on something or another (i did not pay attention. i just nodded my head intelligently as if i was listening.)

And....!

The most evil one.

Ms Norashimah is a crashing bore. She told us to give her suggestions to improve her class. You know, if i were a really badass dickhead, i would have told her:

i) [credits to Wing Hoh @ Xanga.com] Ms Norashimah,your command of English needs perfecting, as well as your fake accent.

ii) Ms Norashimah, you should not even bother to make us change our mind to like history as it is pre-programmed that we detest and abhor history till our dying days.

iii) Ms Norashimah, purple baju kurung really doesn't go with speckled brown tudung. (nothing to do with her classes, but bad colour coordination insults my artistic nature is an eyesore and makes us go @_@, which affects our brain cells, which affects our concentration, which affects our results etc etc and the chain goes on)

XD

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