Sunday, June 29, 2008

Not quite supersize me

We've all watched how one guy ate Mc.Donalds for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 30 days. Well, in her paranoia Kaka said, "if you eat Indomie for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 30 days the title won't be 'Supersize me' it will be 'Kill me'"

HUAHAHAHAHAHAA

Grinning Goat at 6/29/2008 08:46:00 PM pontificated

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Friday, June 27, 2008

SNEAK PEEK

MY long forgotten buddy page to my homepage. Please check out the SNEAK PEEK
After a millenia, I finally come up with some updates. You'd be pleased.

Well, I was pleased and nobody should be harder to please than me. Enjoy.

Grinning Goat at 6/27/2008 02:34:00 AM pontificated

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

stupid moth !@#$%+&%#@

Selv: nenekkkkkkkk dah libur ya lo? dah lulus nii?
R: udahhhh I'm FREEEEEE.
R: Shit there's a moth in the room.
R: MOTH ISN'T DANGEROUS IS IT
R: SHIT SHIT
R: BRB
Selv: nga la... tinggal gepok aja pake sendal
Selv: gw seringg bunuhhhh
Selv: ato pake koran lo gulung2, trus lo gaplok d the moth
Selv: nekkkkkkkkkkkkk
Selv: nekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Grinning Goat at 6/26/2008 10:37:00 PM pontificated

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Dick Dastardly and Muttley

Presenting to you Dick Dastardly


anddddd Muttley



R: I used to love the cartoon
CK: OMG I never realised you were that old
R: Geezz there's no need to get personal hauahaha. It was aired in 1969?? my god, I must have been watching the re-runs.
CK: Maybe you're old but yr parents just didn't want you to know the truth

STOP THE PIGEON! Oh listen to Muttley laugh


Grinning Goat at 6/26/2008 03:32:00 PM pontificated

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Free ad

If you go to the tagboard homepage you will notice that the heading says, "Tag-board.com the least technologically advanced message board".

Although in the general scheme of things, tag-board is deplorable beyond measure, it is at the very least, honest.

Just a couple of days ago, the tag board refused to show anything. And today it shows EVERYTHING. And this everything is 100% advertisements. Geezzz. It is high time I change it to a message board that is more technologically advanced.

Grinning Goat at 6/26/2008 02:45:00 PM pontificated

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Midnight craving

Grilled fish. That's what I would really love to have right now. Yessireee.

Grinning Goat at 6/26/2008 02:30:00 AM pontificated

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

That's right

R: now streetdirectory doesn't come with a map anymore ah, after that suit?
Bambamz: huh? what suit?
R: LTA sue Streetdirectory for ripping its map
Bambamz: oh
R: is 0.47 km far?
Bambamz: no it isn't
R: but it's a little far if you don't know the way right? which is why I NEED THE STUPID MAP
Bambamz: hahaha relax, where do you need to go?
R: 26 Surin Avenue
Bambamz: wtf. k. You need the map

Grinning Goat at 6/25/2008 12:21:00 AM pontificated

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

What you got

My friend refused to leave the shop because it was playing this song. Or at least what I thought was this song (I got the wrong shop and the wrong song) but anyway one of the shops DID play this song and now it's stuck in my head.

And when it doesn't, the urge to listen to it is strong enough for me to play the song and get it stuck in my head again.



Grinning Goat at 6/24/2008 12:43:00 AM pontificated

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How do you

How do you outsmart a think tank who thinks of everything, calculates every variable, and considers every possible scenario?

You cheat.

That's how.

Grinning Goat at 6/24/2008 12:37:00 AM pontificated

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Friday, June 20, 2008

Missus Brown Font

R: since when are you using blue font? You're at your friend's place again huh?
Pein: no, there's this thing on the messenger that allows you to change your font, so I just clicked and changed it
R: there's no need to be sarcastic geezzz; I was simply asking what INSPIRES you to change them
Pein: it looks pretty
R: sheeshh guys are so VISUAL
Pein: speak for yourself missus brown font

Actually, it's MAROON. But I suppose there is no cure for color blindness.

Grinning Goat at 6/20/2008 09:45:00 PM pontificated

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It must be

R: chikun I'm back! and I'm alive.
Chikun: Heaven must be dyslexic. Welcome back.

Grinning Goat at 6/20/2008 09:41:00 PM pontificated

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We would have

We would have rocked the plane with our laughter. But see, we didn't because it had rocked without our coming to its aid. Thanks to the pilot. Or maybe it was the plane.
And I could tell we irritate the people on the row in front of us but hell that's a tiny price to pay for FARTING on us. TWICE.

Today I discovered a couple of things.

1. How Ricola Lemon tastes terrific (lemon and only the lemon flavour)
2. How terribly civic-minded Taiwanese are.

For a while there I was reminded of a conversation I had with a Bulgarian who asked me for direction. Along the way as we walked I got around to asking her if she likes this place -Singapore. She said yeah but she wouldn't wanna live here. So I instinctively asked why. Too perfect, she retorted. That was the first time I heard it said out loud that perfection is actually a FAULT. Something you want to avoid.

But as it stands now, this place is actually not perfect. For a start the service industry could've had a major improvement, the faces could've been painted with more smiles, the actions with more sincerity. Sincerity that shines through, not forcibly polished.

3. How boring the Snake Alley turns out to be (and how utterly not nearly as disgusting as I thought it would be)

4. How fantastic a treat looking at sunrise and rainbows over mountains eating free preserved fruits can be if you can get over the drowsiness of waking up at 1.45 am in the morning and the shocking realisation that you wake up at the exact moment when you're supposed to sleep and when you get over being driven and zig-zagged over cliffs at 40 km/hour with nothing but the car's headlights.

5. How smart people who think of inventing their own Taboo games are when they're bored stiff being stuck on a mountain looking at ugly dogs they don't want to touch and not being able to touch dogs that are not ugly.

6. How STUPID it is for people to want to do business with us by trying to cheat us and GET CAUGHT in the act. (I'm all for public buses anyway. Support the local industry, not the individual and the not-terribly-honest businessman)

7. How you should NEVER annoy a bunch of students on their trip by babbling on and on about your son's salaries and how he got promoted to where and why and how your son's probably smarter than you. Because, really they don't care about you at all, except for the fact that you don't zip your pants. Ugh. Ugly ugly sights.

8. How Huan Zhu Ge Ge should be played back to back without a break involving stupid show nobody understands called Ke ai nu ren.

9. How tasty KFC can be, in the right places. And with the right sort of recipe.

10. How pleasant it is to enlighten Taiwanese that yes, we're indonesians and that there exist Indonesians with pale skins.

11. How white water rafting in the right setting and with the right people actually DOESN'T KILL

12. How weird it is that people can still spend money in a tourist attraction even when it's closed. (yes, Taiwanese umbrellas don't get wet, only those made in China do, they say)

13. How lovely pieces of ROCKS can be

14. How yogurt can improve your bowel movement in more ways than you imagine, although it doesn't beat prune juice.

15. How INTELLIGENT it is for people to capture the marvel that is papaya milk inside a carton. Instant papaya milk. Guaranteed no breast reduction necessary.

16. How UNREASONABLE it is not let people who like their toast scorched to toast the bread twice.

17. How a piece of snack with name resembling a laxative can send some people into a frenzy in a seven eleven and send them into a hunting fit, in search of TWENTY of such snacks, potentially sending the town into a severe shortage of them and possibly pushing their price up for the next couple of months.

18. How you should really really use sunblock

19. How interesting CINDERELLA, SLEEPING BEAUTY, LITTLE MERMAID, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, RAPUNZELS, ANASTASIA and RAPUNZEL are, and how ugly a princess with SHORT hair is -namely SNOW WHITE- and how UNBIMBOTIC watching all these movies is; because bimbos wouldn't understand.

20. How nice it is to have friends you can grow old with.

Grinning Goat at 6/20/2008 02:04:00 AM pontificated

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

I don't have a death wish

Ok I'm typing this with this funny keyboard with a lot of han yu pinyin on it. Very very foreign to my eyes and hand. And this keyboard, it feels odd in my hands. It has a sort of bounciness to it, but in an annoying way, like a run down piano whose key once pressed remains stuck in that pressed position. Most uncomfortable. This kind of keyboard will put shirleen to shame. I got tired typing this because with this stupid keyboard my spelling error rate jumps out by about 200 percent and my finger is sore from backspacing.

But with only this PC as my link to civilisation (the blogoworld that is, not the blogoSPHERE because I hate people who called it that)I haven't written in a while and I TERRIBLY miss it. Thoughts that are not put in writing are mere thoughts.

Anyway. I'm apprehensive about tomorrow. I know that people can die anytime, at any place in a lot of different ways. But when you die, BECAUSE you go to dangerous places or do dangerous things, well then you can't really blame heaven for taking your life, can you?

And even if you do, by the time you want to start complaining the damage is done anyway. Hello, St.Peter please help me make my bed.

I don't wanna die. I'm too young to have written a will but it seems like it's too late to write a wish list now. So.

Anyway it's really oddly comforting to bug chikuen with my fear of death.

Ok if I'm on an aeroplane, this is what you will find inside the blackbox. My last conversation with Chikuen.

Cramping my style 說:
chikuen
Cramping my style 說:
is white water rafting safe?
Cramping my style 說:
answer me quick
Cramping my style 說:
before I die
Cramping my style 說:
huahahahaha

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Cramping my style 說:
CHIKUNAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Cramping my style 說:
QUICK
Cramping my style 說:
IM PARANOID DONT YOU KNOW
chickuen 說:
why
chickuen 說:
can't any of your chinese speaking tour guides assure u enuf?
Cramping my style 說:
for one they speak CHINESE
chickuen 說:
LOL
Cramping my style 說:
and you know how my chinese is
Cramping my style 說:
STOP LAUGHING
chickuen 說:
well what grade river r u doing
chickuen 說:
1
chickuen 說:
2
chickuen 說:
3
chickuen 說:
4
Cramping my style 說:
by the way my keyboartd has a lot of hanyupinyin on it
chickuen 說:
2-3 is pretty safe
Cramping my style 說:
so hard to type
Cramping my style 說:
wqithouyt mispelling
chickuen 說:
4 has lots of rapids i think
chickuen 說:
yeah yeah
chickuen 說:
excuses
chickuen 說:
yr spelling was never great to begin with
Cramping my style 說:
so I ask them
Cramping my style 說:
what GRADE the water is ah>???
chickuen 說:
that's for going to taiwan without even breathing a word about it
Cramping my style 說:
howdo I SAY IT???
chickuen 說:
grade lah
chickuen 說:
as in river
chickuen 說:
how many stretches there are rapids
chickuen 說:
how big the rapids
Cramping my style 說:
but I gotta ask them in CHINESE CHIKUEN
chickuen 說:
hey my mandarin is not much better than yours
Cramping my style 說:
can you phrase it for me?>
chickuen 說:
"ji du"?
Cramping my style 說:
all I know is AN QIAN MA???
chickuen 說:
haha
chickuen 說:
yeah that is a good start already
Cramping my style 說:
what's jidu?
chickuen 說:
how many degrees
chickuen 說:
ji gao nan du = how high the degree of difficulty
chickuen 說:
ji3 gao1 nan2 du4
Cramping my style 說:
wait lemme write it down
chickuen 說:
but it is degree of difficulty
chickuen 說:
i dunno if it can be translated to the grade of the river
Cramping my style 說:
so they'll say something like hen nan, very hard or hen rong yi ah?
chickuen 說:
that's y
chickuen 說:
it is not the same as the grade of difficulty of the river i think
chickuen 說:
if it is grade 1 then the river is still
chickuen 說:
like u just glide thru
chickuen 說:
i.e. boring
Cramping my style 說:
huahahaha
chickuen 說:
grade 2 prob just moves faster
Cramping my style 說:
shit la chikun, how?
chickuen 說:
grade 3 u have some rapids
chickuen 說:
just use gestures loh
Cramping my style 說:
am I gonna die?
chickuen 說:
to describe rapids
Cramping my style 說:
what's RAPIDS?
chickuen 說:
i don't think so
Cramping my style 說:
maybe I can ask
chickuen 說:
rocks
Cramping my style 說:
if there are a lot of rapids?
chickuen 說:
and water flowing over them
Cramping my style 說:
hah do you know what it is?
chickuen 說:
just ask if yr raft will go undulating a lot like use yr arms to gesture it
Cramping my style 說:
huahahaha oh my god Ima look like an idiot
Cramping my style 說:
but life over pride eh? life over pride
chickuen 說:
A rapid is a section of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient causing an increase in water flow and turbulence. A rapid is a hydrological feature between a run (a smoothly flowing part of a stream) and a cascade. A rapid is characterised by the river becoming shallower and having some rocks exposed above the flow surface. As flowing water splashes over and around the rocks, air bubbles become mixed in with it and portions of the surface acquire a white colour, forming what is called "whitewater". Rapids occur where the bed material is highly resistant to the erosive power of the stream in comparison with the bed downstream of the rapids. Very young streams flowing across solid rock may be rapids for much of their length.
chickuen 說:
if u guys are novices
chickuen 說:
new to it
chickuen 說:
i doubt they'd bring u to anyplace too difficult
Cramping my style 說:
CHIKUEN I KNOW WHAT ARE RAPIDS
Cramping my style 說:
I meant to ask you
Cramping my style 說:
wqhat are rapids IN CHINESE?
chickuen 說:
uh... (chikuen copy and paste: Cramping my style says (12:02 AM):
what's RAPIDS?)

chickuen 說:
oh
chickuen 說:
chey
chickuen 說:
i dunno lah
Cramping my style 說:
dui bu qi
chickuen 說:
shi tou?
chickuen 說:
rocks?
Cramping my style 說:
hahhh zhen de ma?
Cramping my style 說:
shi tou ah>
chickuen 說:
can try
chickuen 說:
ask if there are lots of shi tou in the river
chickuen 說:
and will the water flow over them making the raft undulate a lot
chickuen 說:
gesture gesture
chickuen 說:
is it very difficult
chickuen 說:
hen gao na du ma?
Cramping my style 說:
the tone?
chickuen 說:
wo shen me dou bu dong
chickuen 說:
tone for which one
chickuen 說:
hey
chickuen 說:
arent u there with yr SIS>>????
Cramping my style 說:
the shitou
Cramping my style 說:
NOPE WITH MY FRIEBNDS
chickuen 說:
shi 2 tou2
Cramping my style 說:
and alkl our chinese are BASIC chinese
chickuen 說:
lol
chickuen 說:
and u decided to go to taiwan
chickuen 說:
well done
Cramping my style 說:
so I'll askk
Cramping my style 說:
YOU HEN DUO SHI TOU MA?
chickuen 說:
yeah
chickuen 說:
plus the water flowing over thingy loh
chickuen 說:
plus gestures and imitation og the raft going up n down a lot
Cramping my style 說:
huahahahaa
Cramping my style 說:
please pray for me chikun
chickuen 說:
ok
chickuen 說:
dear god
chickuen 說:
please keep rose safe
Cramping my style 說:
jesus spell it right. God will get the wrong PERSON
chickuen 說:
oh u mean a teeny little E matters so much???
Cramping my style 說:
huahahaha
Cramping my style 說:
so chikuen
Cramping my style 說:
in case I die
chickuen 說:
yes ross
Cramping my style 說:
remembver
Cramping my style 說:
Im in Hualien ok
chickuen 說:
what will u give me?
Cramping my style 說:
tell them to pick up m,y dead body
chickuen 說:
hualien is what
chickuen 說:
ok
Cramping my style 說:
Hualien county in taiwan
chickuen 說:
can you will something over to me as payment tho?
Cramping my style 說:
when your prayer is answered I will
Cramping my style 說:
hauahhahaa
chickuen 說:
che7y
chickuen 說:
if u're alive
chickuen 說:
why wld u need to will anything over
Cramping my style 說:
precisely my point
Cramping my style 說:
HUAHAHAHAHAHA

chickuen 說:
ok
chickuen 說:
rose
chickuen 說:
god please keep rose safe
chickuen 說:
rose and only rose
chickuen 說:
the person i am praying for
Cramping my style 說:
HUAHAHAHAHAHHAAH
Cramping my style 說:
oh my god you're so SNEAKY


Did you see all those "SHUO"? Does it bug you? It bugs me.

In any case, I don't wanna die. So Lord, please get the correct Ross.

Right. I'ma go draw on rocks now. Yes, drawing on rocks. Taiwanese' idea of their favourite past time maybe.

Grinning Goat at 6/12/2008 11:45:00 PM pontificated

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Sunday, June 08, 2008

DeBarge's Rhythm of the Night

They don't make music like this anymore.



Grinning Goat at 6/08/2008 08:11:00 PM pontificated

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Saturday, June 07, 2008

Anansi Boys

Ah well, being dead is probably just like everything else in life: you pick some of it up as you go along, and you just make up the rest.

She had expected death to be a number of things but irritating had never been one of them.

That came from the Anansi Boys. That's just the kind of author Neil Gaiman is I suppose. That was the only book I've ever read of his oh but I've watched Stardust and I can imagine the kind of things he would've written in the books that was on the movie. And if I'm not so short in cash, I would've bet the books are better than the movie.

The Anansi boys. It was a peculiar story but he has a way of telling it so it wasn't like a cheap paperback you found in the kids' section of the local bookstore and grew tired of and turned into a paper wrapper when you're short of one of the plastic ones. It grows on you. As a matter of fact, it grows on me. Like vines.

It was odd, the way he tells it. But it was effective. Well nothing ineffective could have grown on me anyway. Even if it was like vines.

He has a way to ramble on and on. I love writers who ramble on and on. It's like they would never run out of stories to tell or characters to point their fingers at and make fun of.

I should read the American Gods. That was the one I've been told to read.

Soon enough. I would.

Grinning Goat at 6/07/2008 06:12:00 PM pontificated

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Friday, June 06, 2008

Fruit face

Having your face smelled like kiwi is not pleasant. Not pleasant at all. Apple maybe. Kiwi no.

Grinning Goat at 6/06/2008 02:26:00 AM pontificated

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If

If you are dying and there is a technology that can save you but that technology is obtained through research involving the torture of hundreds of people, will you use it?

If you use it, you are benefiting from the cruelty. While this is not the same as condoning the severe breach in ethics, it is encouraging it. The same way that shark hunting would never cease so long as people are still eating shark's fin.

If you don't use the technology, you will be morally right through and through but you will die.

If you cannot decide and do nothing, your inaction by default will lead to your death or your salvation should someone else makes the decision for you -to use the technology.

If you say that you refuse to use the technology because people were subjected to unnecessary harm through the course of its development then the people who created these technology can pose a similar question to you, how was your own technology developed?

If you then answer that you use members of the lower species to do your experiment on, and not PEOPLE, then the people who created those technology can say, how convenient of you to draw the line between members of lower and upper species for the purpose of advancing your own technology without the apparent burden of 'an unethical conduct'.

If you don't sacrifice 'members of the lower species', your own technology will never advance and the benefits that can be derived from it will never be reaped. You will most probably die before even having to contemplate using other people's technology because your own technology cannot even let you hang on to life that long.

I will use the technology. I will benefit from the cruelty. Not because I like to ride on the wave of rebellion against ethics and get invigorated by it but simply because it would be stupid not to.

It would render those sacrifices USELESS. If this ENCOURAGES people to act cruelly in the name of science in the future, then I am duty-bound to stop it but not by ERASING all the knowledge obtained in the past.

Perhaps I have a mean streak in me but I'd like to believe that I can see the bigger picture.

Grinning Goat at 6/06/2008 12:20:00 AM pontificated

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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Now I know why the book is called that. One hundred years of solitude. But even after I know why, I can't help but note just how apt it is. This is precisely the kind of book someone with one hundred years of solitude would write.

Marquez writes with grace.

And there was no undelivered promises. I hate books with undelivered promises.

Grinning Goat at 6/04/2008 04:12:00 PM pontificated

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

"Through the haze of the dust she saw him in the haze of another time"

I finally get around to reading this. I'm about three quarter through. What struck me in the beginning was just how everybody is screwing with almost everybody else -short of incest- that the family tree becomes not only complicated, it's necessary for proper following of the story. Because imagine, this man called Jose Arcadio Buendia has a child called Jose Arcadio who has a child called Arcadio who has a child called Jose Arcadio again.

It's like the story isn't short of any creativity really, in fact it's so full of it I couldn't stop reading although part of the story was how everybody was screwing everybody else. So I'm not sure yet why the author, for all his creative juices didn't opt for a name OTHER than Jose Arcadio and Aureliano.

What saved the day was how the great great grandfather Jose Arcadio Buendia eventually died, and so did his son and then the son of the son so that only several Jose Arcadio were left. So we didn't have to bother tracking the lives of all the Jose Arcadios because surely several Jose Arcadios are enough materials for a headache?

I love the book though. It was the kind that can survive several bus rides without my forgetting where I was in the plot. It is original enough and it wasn't written in that stuck up overtly exaggerated way novels by american writers are usually written (because if that's what I want I can easily catch a bad cop movie out of Hollywood).

And it's the kind that's going to be interesting enough for me to have a second read.
Oh well let's just finish this one first. Let's see what happens to Jose Arcadio.

Grinning Goat at 6/04/2008 01:27:00 AM pontificated

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