20100731: Mud Art

Sailed back home to attend something sad.
Weather of Kuching the day after,
Basking hot in the morning,
Heavy dog gone rain in the afternoon.
A short pause about 3 hours in between,
Sound of solitude in the refreshened air,
Atmosphere seems stunned by few rainless days,
I was muddling through the garden spade in hand,
when I realised I might have created my first oil painting today.

20100728: Quote from Resuree

1) Once in a while, need to cut people some slack.
2) Need to cut everyone some slack once in a while.
3) Once in a while everyone need to be given some slack.
4) Everybody need to slack once in a while.
5) "Cut me some slack, boss."
6) "Boss, cut me some slack, I tired OreTi."

I have this thinking when the Sg hawker "forgot" my order & I was made to wait my food for 15 mins. The guy at the next table also waited another 10 mins. "25 minutes too late."
Should I order another stall next time? I've been ordering from this same stall and same people since I can remember.

Nah, then I thought of some quotes in the spare time (refer above).

I reminded again another guy from the same stall, he said the other forgotten, sheepishly. So I wondered what went wrong? Will they include "extra special material" in my food. I saw none, "phew" . . . sighed of relief. LOL ...

Another day passed us by & Life goes on.

20100722: Quote from Resuree

"Your mind, body & soul gotta be doing something meaningful (specifics like listen to music, etc), else all the sh1t (fatigue, emotional outburst) will come out beyond control."
Experienced & realised this from events & observation during on-going simulation.
Now is the chance to be more specific I guess.

20100715: Golden Days

Hey old timer, what will you do after you get that pot of GOLD?
(A collection of options when I reach that age.)

1) Alone Ah Pek at terminal
Good after noon sir, are you traveling alone?
Where is your wife, children or grand children?
Are you waiting for your friend or sibling?
It's a sunny day today, the plane here & I'll be gone,
Have a good journey and Bon Voyage.

2) Tee Oo oo Obasan
This is the filial piety pledge shown in mass multimedia to educate the Sg people I guess. In the current society where the parents expect that the salary receiving teachers in school are resposible to teach their children everything, the National Something Society created this short film often shown in cinema & sometimes TV.
Opening scene, old grandmother carrying the picture of grandfather & move into the flat of the only son's three-some family.
Scene 2, grandmother complain chicken is too hard and vomit it out of her mouth "So hard wanna kill me issit." "Mother I go buy fish poridge for you to eat." While the daughter in law throw the hard chicken into the thrash, the only grandson slam chopsticks on table & grandma looks on apologeticly.
Scene 3, grandmother took her luggage & wanna moved to her sister's place in red mountain while the son tried to stop her. Keypo, neighbours looked on while annoyed grandson slammed door & listen to music on earphone.
Scene 4, doctor talking to son, grandmother got terminal illness.
Scene 5, in hospital grandmother is bed ridden, daughter in law going to toilet while asking husband to accompany the sick old lady, & also asking the grandson to accompany his father. Grandson say, "Grandma treat you & mother like sh1t, why you still treat her so good."
Then the taxi driver son start to sing Tee Oo oo to the mother. Memory recall that last time the son was sick on a rainy day, then the mother carry her in the rain from house to hospital all soaking wet, when arrived at the hospital, the missy ask her to wait "Everyone coming here is sick, please wait your turn." So the mother sing Tee Oo oo to the sick son to comfort him while waiting the turn to be served. Son open eyes and looks like feeling better.
Scene 6, son still singing to grandmother in hospital, she in coma and cannot open her eyes but tears stream down. while grandson looks on.

3) Kueh Tiaw Ah Pek
"If I hang up my wok, I'll die already."

4) White Shoes Ah Pek
"Today sure is sunny hot. Yesterday was a cloudy day, my game of golf went pretty swell."

5) Nice Aunties offering help
"Do you need some "hong ew"? I have it somewhere in my bag." :-)

20100710: Put Your Best Foot Forward

Worned out. . . settling down in bed, as I recount what I did this evening.

It has been a long while since I did any exercise, so I called up my friend this morning to arrange a jog session in the evening perhaps?.

As we were doing the last klik, my friend, a "hardcore" jogger got smitten by some heavy footer closing in from the rear & he went in all out to show who is the Alpha male. Leaving behind poor me smelling the foul stench left by his & his burning rubber shoes.

As my body exfoliate, sweat & salted, I experienced near lapse into a blackout not since a hard hangover. Maybe this is the Runner's High I heard of?
As I neared the "finish line", I felt a sudden bliss as this is the end. kekeke.

But noo noo noo... at this time we were joint by another seasoned veteran "hardercore" runner who saw what had happend & ":praised" my friend for the "kill". I too join in the talkokversation as so far, I think this was really a super good work out, partly due to I got the runner's high feel. :-D or maybe too much delifrance coffee I took 2 hours before?

As it turns out, we continued the jog at his favourite route, a mixture of uphill, downhill & traffic lights. We were climbing uphill & my friend started to talk about a nice coffee shop at that area. Being his favourite route, he knows all the lobang around there. OMG, as the fat in my body started to burn, my mind just couldn't process the taste of char kueh tiaw & char hey mi deliciously, what is happening to me? I guess less blood flowing to my brain made it haywired because I just couldn't reply, probably I also couldn't recognized me... looking like a zombie, out of breath & trying to keep up. Those short pauses at traffic light crossing became a really welcoming sight.

Caught a few breath and started to reply as my language ability suddenly came back. Making meaningful chats for a few seconds & we were off again. Jog jog jog jog, I don't know why but Jay Chow's catchy indistinctive rap tune started an army of ant-crawl moving in my head. My friend told me some form of focus & determination is needed at times like this. Who would have thought some Mpop rap tune would have this type of affect deep deep.

As we were doing some warm down exercise, my friend gave me some pointers & I tweeted: "I thought it was a good run". "Yeah, see you tomorrow same time, a few more of us is running." "Sure, why not. I'll beep you tomorrow if nothing come up." ... ... ... Sure something is bound to come up.

Nah, I think I need the exercise & it wouldn't be a bad thing too. Just no regrets & putting your best foot forward.

20100709: Silvering Days

Overheard on a bus, conversation between 2 silver hair people. From their attire, they are still contributing to the workforce. On the queue same as me, 2 buses came, they boarded the crowded one and was commenting about no place to sit, & how should have taken the other one. Old people tends to speak carefreely in company of their own like a coffee shop. One way to look at it, maybe he was thinking of the comfort for his buddy. As they continue to talk, some young girls sitting nearest offered them seats, but they declined. This hold true for the theory of refused to be "Reserved Seat"-ed. So they were continuing on that still have people offering seat on the bus, in the train XXX lo, they are the one who are giving up seat for people who really needed it. Only seat down when necessary, some people pretend to sleep, some hold up the paper high-high, some treat as invisible & also the price of bus ticket has increased since 4-July.

From what I see, as the population continue to "grey" & "silver" and current statistics of less children popping out, it just can't be help. When they are young, they think they can give up the seats & finally when they are old, they still have to give up their sitting comfort.

As I looked out, I saw a double rainbow, similar the one at Kuching the other day, minus the orange sky though. July = Rainbow month? I wondered: Where is the silver lining in the cloud? And is there really a pot of GOLD waiting at the end of the rainbow?

20100707: People Looking Dull & Bored the Dayafter

Day After... Everybody in the train looked dull & bored at rush hour today, or was it lack of sleep from watchin' this morning's two thirty match. The 6PM crowd was back as usual, no more empty comfy cabin space as what was seen few days ago. Crowd was at most dead silence, maybe still in dreamland or like me, conserving up every bit of energy until the time to watch the next match.

Worn out and a rare rigidity filled the air, only disturbance by faint howling sound from wind tunnel & chattering of sorts unfamiliar to World Cup.

For last night, I dozed off during second half of the game. hah, hope it would be an exciting match later. chaw...

20100704: What Can be Done in 360 seconds

6 MINUTES: that's the waiting time if you arrived late a second at the plateform courtesy of some ignorant stair blocking human and the train just shuts in your face & pulled off.

1) Walk from one end to another of the platform, slowly to catch the wind if any is blowing.
2) Write a blog entry such as this.
3) Count the trees, good for your eyes as watching too much screen is bad. Alternatively you may count the foreign workers having a picnic on the lawn field.
4) Look for birdsnest on the mrt roofing.
5) Read the rail track information.
6) Secretly scratches scr0tnm.
7) or just sit the fk down and listen to one and a half songs on your iPod.

20100703: Greying Days

People will grow old, that's a fact. In general, people do not want to grow old. Since the beginning of time, we have been told fairy tale stories of the fountain of youth & elixir of life. Even in the media of present days, old age seems to be a taboo, people want to feel young and continue to live forever.
Good health should come before wealth, but these days, that doesn't seems to be the case anymore. The value of human is measure by wealthat we show people & teaching of books such as "Rich Dad Poor Dad" phenomenal hype. I started to think of this when I saw the number plate "SH4H" in an up scale Sg neighbourhood. Is that really a arabian shah in the car? Looks likely but uncertain, all caucasian looks the same in Sg due to blending into the landscape.
Anyway, one day life ends and what ever great worldly things they had will be left behind.

Greying days (rainy gloom as I took the bus) in Sg, observe the food court auntie & uncle. I was killing time (about 1 hour of uncertainty; mind the pun) in a food court kopitiam. Ordered kaya toast set (orang kaya? mind the pun) with coffee since i'll be meeting my friend for dinner later. Most of the worker hired were above 50s (or so?). The services & speed were comparable to young people & they seems to be more serious in their work. One aunty walked pass me about 5 times to clean my table & cautiously checking whether I finished my coffee already. Didn't bother me at all as I understand this is their job. Everyone have their role to play in the kopitiam or in life. Sort of a pity that they could not enjoy the old age as my parents do. But at least they will get salary money on pay day, whether they'll be spending it is another matter.
It's up to them to clean up the food leftover on the table, seeing the leftover moving before my eyes, at that moment the story of "children in Africa got nothing to eat" invoke in my head. I knew they felt the same too but they cannot say anything to "not their grandchildren", probably already grown accustomed to the wastage in this age of abundance.
Hope they don't take it out on them when they meet their grand-children as it would only cause the opposite effect to children nowadays, & also lose whatever desired love that's is left.
Apparently it's better to work in an enclosed kopitiam rather than open air. A cleaning lady once rambled on & on about an old ahpek fellow worker who slipped, falled & had to be hospitalized for some time.
Often wondered where are their children? off to earn money? & do not care about what happened to them?
We'll all experience this in the future some day... that's LIFE ;-) but then again, we're living the present. Like the food in the trash that will be collected by the ton & processed into "black" fertilizer for the trees around the neighbourhood; when the time comes. it comes. I also wonder what it would be like another greying days.

(visual imagination based random blogging)

20100701: Kuching trip

Did a stopover at Kuching for a short 3D2N trip. Didn't go out much, most of the time drinking whisky on the rocks at home, feels like old age is trying to drag my feet. Shrug. . .
Went to my regular kolo mee haute, ah... the taste is the same still after so long. Same old taste, did I remembered the taste correctly? Or is it getting better everytime I eat it?
House full of customer at 9:45PM during middle of the week . . . let that be the judge itself.