Messy Baby

I think baby's the messiest (also the cutest to me) when it comes to eating. We were hanging around Marina Square and had dinner at Han's, where she ordered some pasta with tomato sauce. I think she was prying this mussel out of its shell when she accidentally did something which caused a prawn's tail to somersault towards herself. It landed on her white skirt, leaving a little red stain on it. Later on, we had our desserts which were an oreo cheesecake and a blueberry cheescake. After finishing them up, we wanted to leave Marina but she popped into Diva on the way. As I don't really look at those accessories much, I just looked around and noticed some black stuffs in my girl's pocket. I went forward to investigate and found out that they were oreo crumbs from the oreo cheese cake that we had earlier on. Right now, I'm still a little puzzled how the crumbs actually found their way into there. My girl's messy when she eats right? But still, I love her loooaaaadss. *smiles*

NYP's Jam 'N' Hop 2007

Hello, I'm back here to deliver a review on Jam 'N' Hop a club party-like event which is held in the campus annually. Before that and for those who are interested, I'll just give a short update about my condition currently. My tonsil infection worsen two days after the first visit to the clinic and I returned again to make some noise. Thankfully, I got a different and better doctor this time who issued me some painkillers, anti-bacterial gargle fluid and extended the course of antibiotics by two days. Now, I'm quite well already, but there's still a little sore and I guess it takes another couple of days for the swelling to go down. Thanks to those who gave me their well wishings, you all are blessed.

Alright, Jam 'N' Hop now. I went to the event shortly after it kicked off, well, the crowd was lesser than the one last year but I think the most magnificent thing was their lights which they rented. It's those close-to-professional laser lightings which you see at clubs. Other than that, I'll say the sound system was average only, sounded a little flat on the bass but still way better than the ones that we once got from the live audio club, which have speakers with bass which sounded as flat as Steph Sun's chest. Too wordy here I guess, some pictures will take my place instead. They aren't too clear anyway due to weak flashlight.

Firstly, you can't miss out something. Check out these two cool guys who were stoning at the event while the rest were grooving. I think they're too cool for school, aren't they? HAHA, if you think so too, thanks for your compliment or else just take it as a bad joke if you don't. It's a shot of Evigan, my pretty new rocker friend and me. He doesn't club and could only do the Mr Bean dance. And for me, I don't really dance too though it really depends. Most of the time when I dance in clubs, I wasn't sober. Anyway, Evigan's not from my school. He was smuggled to the event, errrrr I mean he just bloody walked into the school, into the event area and finally stones there with me like he rightfully belongs to NYP. Let me just promote him a little here, he's from a local rock band called Bad Obsession. Do support them because I personally think that they do make good sounds for a pretty new band. Click on the poster below to know more about them.

Speaking of good rock, now let's talk about bad rock. Continuing from where people were all grooving around, the music abruptly halted and the emcees appeared on stage. I think that was really bad move. Fortunately that occured in a school environment, else the poor emcees would have suffered from a broken nose or concussion from alcohol bottles being hurled at them (from drunkards who were happily dancing.) I guess the management could've taught their dee jay how to ease out the music and making an announcement or something like this instead of cutting off the music by pressing the 'stop' button in the player. And please remind the dee jay to quit his/her MSN or disable the damned alert. I wasn't sure if that was an accident or just a planned comic relief. If it was the latter, you're forgiven.

Now, now, now, why do I say that? All because we needed something to cut tension and sooth us before a great disaster befalls upon. Let's put our hands together to welcome the hottest rock band in town, 'AH PIE'! pray hard to our holy father that 'AH PIE', a self-proclaimed rock band didn't exist at the first place.

Oh my god, they were so bad that the photographer told me that his camera jerked off focus the moment he attempted to click pictures of the rock band. So sorry, that's the best picture he got. You can't see much but let me narrate what happend. This three-piece wannabe band attempted to play songs by muse. They played 'Hysteria' which really put me into hysteria. The guitarist-vocalist sang like he was shitting stones while someone was squeezing his balls. There, I saw Evigan stoned. Though he had shades covering his eyes which doesn't allow me to read his emotions from, but I seem to just got everything through telepathy: We may at any time, pluck out shoes from our feets and put it into the vocalist's mouth. I refrained from doing so due to this security guard lingering around, so I just started shouting at the band to get them get off the stage. Mervyn initiated the 'Boo' party which was good. I rather listen to them boo a hundred times than to listen to Ah Pie once. This was when some crowd starting throwing light sticks on the stage and then taking their leave. However, I couldn't believe that there's a group moshing near the stage. Muse will shoot Ah Pie followed by them if they ever see that.

Next up was this dancing competition thingy which provided me with some sort of entertainment. The emcees called for volunteers and some came forward, while others were sabotaged by their friends. Everyone else was okay except this guy in black jacket + rider gloves who danced like he was practicing martial arts. He did actions like the dragon punch which you see Ryu and Ken doing in Street Fighter and he randomly stripped his jacket, helicoptering it above his head. That was really retarded, for a sober man. If you noticed, there are many light sticks on the dancing ground because everyone was grenading theirs at him. After the first round, there's some elimination to be done and this 'Ryu' was eliminated. Before that he was crossing his fingers and praying that he actually could advance to the next level. That was wishful thinking and during then, people were still throwing light sticks at him. So after he was announced eliminated, he flashed his middle finger before making his way to the exit. Needless to say, light sticks were all still flying around him until he finally went out of sight. I was quite puzzled by that, I mean he wasn't sabotage by friends and volunteered to go up where he couldn't dance at all. I shall not kill my brain cells thinking about that but, I kind of pity him actually.

This is some random shot of the event, just look at the damaged decorations behind which supposed to be the initials JNH. I guess it all fell off when Ah Pie performed their rubbish or maybe, audiences ran out of light sticks and started to pluck them off the wall and throw them at 'Ryu'. To close the event, the emcees mercilessly invited Ah Pei up on stage to perform once again. They played the classical 'Time is running out' also by muse. However it sounded nothing much like the original song and I heard almost pure noise. The band wasn't very bright indeed by choosing songs which the vocalist couldn't handle at all. The bassist who was also the accomplice in crime thought that he was really brilliant to play his bass so loudly to drown the lousy vocalist's voice when he reaches parts which was too high for him to reach (most of the parts anyway.) About that, I could only say one thing which my dad once told me: Your friend stupid, doesn't mean you've to be stupid along with him.

Out.

Welcome to the virus club.

Hello, I'm here for a short while. I heard that quite some people are falling sick recently. Chicken pox, hand foot and mouth disease, Food poisoning, common flu and more. Now, I not only heard it, I fucking feel it! I'm now down with tonsillitis, a kind of bacterial infection of the throat. I had been feeling this weird ache on my throat since halfway through last week but thought it's just a common sore throat that I get every once in awhile. Last friday It bugged me quite a little that I went to flashlight my throat. I saw some will spots on my right tonsil and started to worry a little. That was when I went online and did some research about it. Learnt quite alot of new things, but not at a worthy cost. I made up my mind to see doctor instead of working the next day. That night, my throat worsen before I went to sleep. When I woke up the next day, I abandoned the thought going to polyclinic. I had no patient for that, looking out for numbers, looking for the correct rooms, squeezing with other patients and having to wait for every damn thing. Therefore, I went to this private chain organization clinic at the mall opposite my place as I know it'll be quicker. I didn't mind paying 20 to 30 more for the speed. BUT, this time round, it was too quick. I registered and my number flashed in lesser than 5 minutes, followed by a 45-second diagnosis. That was bloody fast game. I collected my medication and everything costed me 44, which I didn't know where the damn extra 4 came from.

Baby came up to visit me that day. Thanks baby, that was really sweet and pain-relieving. However after she left, the pain became more immense that I could only go dota, own some asses to divert my attention from the pain. A day after I've seen the doctor (which is today), it wasn't any better, I was thinking the doctor was so 'whatever' about diagnosing me. He didn't even give me any advices or ask any much. It was me telling him things most of the time. I'm not trying to doublt his abilities as I know the drugs need some time to work on the situation but now, I felt that he missed out on painkillers. I've search the net and most medical forums mentioned that painkillers and antibiotics are the essentials for tonsillitis treatment. By late night, my throat felt this dull pain everytime I swallow, even my saliva. It was as if something hard and blunt was pull through my neck. I couldn't really sleep even after exhausting baby on the line but eventually, I dozed like at 3-ish to 4am. The next morning, I had problem waking. Though I first woke pretty early, it took me till noon to get out of bed. That was because the moment I was half awake and normally, the first thing you do in is to swallow your saliva, I felt the same dull pain, but worse. And somehow, some defence mechanism made me doze again so I won't feel the pain. So it was like, wake up and sleep, wake up and sleep till 12 noon.

My dear mum couldn't bear to see me in such a state, where I cringed my brows at times when I swallow. She wanted me to head back to get some pain-killers but I was kind of reluctant as I don't wish to waste waste money. It's not about money actually, but imagine having to pay for consultant fees again for getting painkillers? That would be fucked up. I was thinking maybe I'll visit another clinic if things worsen up tomorrow but I've haven't finished the course of antibiotics that was given to me. If I am to, I'll visit private home clinics which I believe have more dedicated doctors. I guess those chain organization doctors get a fixed pay, perhaps that's why some of them just can't be bothered. I'm not stereotyping, there are good doctors in chain organization clinics but they all get rotated around and sometimes you just get a bad one.

Alright, I got to go. I'm still trying to gather pictures taken during NYP Jam 'N' Hop event so I can review on it.

Burn, Burn, Burn in Hell

I think I'm quite slow about this but I found out that hui lau shan, the damned place I worked at back then closed down and the whole fucking crew had crawled back to Hong Kong. I truly wish from the bottom of my heart they all rot and fucking wong have his three outlets in Hong Kong closed down too.

This entry traces back to Life's a Bitch.

Oh, you're sucha Badass

Alright, I'm back by popular demand! Nope screw that, I'm just kidding.

I haven't touched this for a couple of months if I'm not wrong, so maybe I should continue doing since I'm quite free these days(not that I've nothing to do, just that I'm not doing them). Apologies to my buddy taggers, I'll start blogging again, but for how long I'm really not sure. I wondered if I lost the writing touch after such donkey years, err... okay, months.

I'm just gonna start with some recent issues, oh yes, Darren's birthday chalet. The food was pretty good, pasta with mushroom and tomotoes, some mini tomato salad and so on. Darren was the only person I really know there since the others are his class and girlfriend but there wasn't much problem having fun.

I learnt how to play texas poker, pretty exciting. Oh, actually there were some guys that I've seen before when went to his girlfriend's barbeque back then. There's this magician guy I met last time who was here this time too. He's a friendly guy, helped Darren entertain the guests with his card and balloon tricks for free where he's paid 500 on average per event. This time round, he made himself an even cooler shit by bringing the texas poker set with chips and all. I watched the guys play for a while and joined in later on because WHO THE HELL CAN RESIST SWEEPING IN THE CHIPS LIKE HOW CHOW YUN FAT DID IN GOD OF GAMBLERS?

I think we just lacked the table, blazer, table, hair, money and the cigar that night. Besides that, atmosphere was present especially for me, a beginner. There was once when I sweeped in alot of chips and the feeling was like whoa, as if you're starring in God of Gamblers III. Overall, I lost quite a bit that night but well, at least I do know that's something I can't count on for a living. Just once in a while for the fun and thrill of it. Anyway, I heard that the magician guy have a gambling problem, losing like more than a thousand in one night. Hope he realizes it soon before it wreck him. He even wears this bracelet with all the miniature mahjong tiles arranged to form some big win formation.

Life lessons aside, we played a drinking game called 'Chinaman' more thinking require than 'Indian poker'. How it goes, two decks are mixed and shuffled and every one in the ring will be issued a card one by one in one direction. When the person gets a black(club/spades) number card, say 4 spades, he/she drinks 4 shots. Red(diamond/hearts) cards gives the power to issue some one to drink the number of shots as reflected on the card. But there are a few special cards, like any 6 is the toilet card, because no one is allowed to the toilet before the deck runs out. 7 is the 7-up card where the person will count in one direction and those who comes to mutiples of 7 should say up instead of the number. Any one who screwed up the flow will drink. There's also 2 more special cards which I've forgotten what the number is but one is the thumb card and the other is the rule card. The action card is pretty dumb, the person with the card will place his/her thumb on the cheek at any point of the game and the last to follow will drink. The rule card is fun because the person can lay rules applicable to everyone including himself throughout the game. Rules can be anything for instance no addressing by name, no pointing, no saying the word 'drink', no hokkien vulgarities, no fuck or the penatly is to drink a shot. Well, you may think it's easy to avoid now but during the game, but halfway through the game, you're a little tipsy and will start calling the person's name(first offence) while pointing(second offfence) at him/her, asking him/her to drink(third offence) and swearing(fourth offence) at him/her. For example...

Darren: Wah fuck, kena spade 10.

MrJack: *points* Ah... fuck it and drink, Darren.

Holy, the short line and action earns yourself four shots.

Oh anyway, I missed out the pictures. When someone opens his/her card and it shows Jack, everyone must shout 'Hey Jack!' and for Queen, 'Hey bitch!' the lagger or day-dreamer drinks. Lastly, the lucky fellow that gets a collection of any four kings will have a powerhouse forfeit which I couldn't really remember, but something to do with drinking. Well, try it out with your friends over some hard liquor, it's fun.

Two days ago, I bunked over at Darren's to help him fix his comp. We became so bored and started gambling all kinds of shit. It's funny how no one actually won after a whole night of gambling because we started with coins, lost all of them, broke a note, won them back and loses it back again soon. So the whole night, we were just like playing cards and exchange five bucks worth of coins with a one-dollar coin and two two-dollars note. We had a little bit of beer and I think we're really badasses because during one of the hokkien poker games, we were making the last bet before opening the last card and like in any other gamling motion picture, the air was still and cold, there was pin-drop silence, the two opponents stared at one another including the huge pile of chips in front of them, as though they're ready to pounce. And as we were flipping over the last card, the silence was shattered by a sharp wail of the police siren. Whoa, what drama we thought. The senario fits in really well, cards, money, beer and we thought we gonna get arrested soon for being real badasses.

Alright, full stop