Bottled in Extreme Clarity

… Of course.
At our usual loccal. With BT multimedia ceo. Ah laters
The pearl keypad killing me!!!

…might try moblogging again.

…. not at all.

There hasnt been this much clarity in my life as there is right now. But, life doesnt stop. It isnt. Lots is happening now even though i dont write on here about it. One such is tarot readings at KL Hilton.

The girls are dabblers of sorts and when word got around, Hilton wanted to hold tarot readings for ladies nite. Suffice to say, i went along… out of curiousity and to learn how its done. I even have my own beginners set now… and was sitting in with friend. Amidst the free beer and fingerfood, curious querents came, one after the other.

Most popular questions asked:
1. Will i meet mr. right this year?
2. will i get married this year?
3. Will i stay married this year?
4. will i be millionaire this year?

A lot of leaving it in fates hands?

Naaa… certain steps can be taken. For example: How to be a millionaire?

1. Gooo to a river in September. Catch a salmon. It has to be green. Then buy 4D.
orrrrrrr
2. Save only USD100. Convert to RM…then go to Indonedia and convert to Rupiah.
orrrrr
3. In 16 and a half years, buy lottery according to your third child’s birthdate.

The least favourite of course is this:
- Get a job. Work hard, work smart. Increase responsibilities to get equivalent increase in $$$. Do this for 20 years.

Id say tarot isnt an exact science (yes, i said science!), but it can be helpful as guideline when one is in a muddle and arent sure what immediate steps to take.
That said, readings have to be taken with a pinch of salt. If u think a reading applies… well and good, but mostly its all just meant to be fun and if u let it, revelatory.

Maybe we’ll see you one Thursday?

…scary thing is we’re headed for another one tonight!!!

Bud’s party bud from Abu Dhabi arrived in KL at last and got to see for myself first hand more of demented Abu Dhabi partying.
My theory is that partying in KL is too stuffy so they tend to magnify it a thousand times when stuck here… ie. bouncing off the walls, snow-angel-ing the floor, bizzare tribal sort of dancing etc.
Pub crawled KL last night

Fingers crossed.

…decided to participate in another quiz nite at another outlet……this one is more primitive, with no computers or elaborate scoring system…. it was all pretty good too.

We’d been late to arrive and quiz was already into 4th question…..and when we at last got the official answer sheet, we scribbled whatever we knew…which wasnt a whole lot, but wasnt so pathetically little as well.
Have to vouch that the bar manager’s accent did not help much (he’s Belgian). We threw away at least two questions cos he didnt pronounce the questions correctly….grrrrrr!

Music section was a mess as well…. i guess the DJ was new?

Anyway, managed a third placing….kudos!

…sure doesnt feel like it. More than usual maybe cos almost all the family are in Puchong now. But otherwise…zilch. Nada. Numero ZERO.

Eating cold luncheon meat while typing this…. cold luncheon meat? All the result of a prank pulled by da girls. Reached rendezvous point and nicely nicely settled down to frying my fave Codfo luncheon meat with ham.
Friend comes in to kitchen, looks at it and says, “M is coming to get us. She’s two minutes away.”

AND THEN… we drove past z bar….

“Cant use this way anymore, someone said got roadblock. Some kind of celebration. All roads closed got to go the other way.”I saw cars on the other side of the road that was “supposedly” blocked. But I waited.
We even hit a jam near Bank Negara…. and when we passed by Dataran Merdeka… I thought i heard sounds of a carnival…

“You see, I told you got something happening wan!” friend says a little too enthusiastically.

By the time, we drove past Hotel Istana, instructions were given to go behind Carnegie’s way.

“This way, this way….behind Standard Chartered.”
And then,……. “Eh, how to go back to Brickfields from this way?”

Yea, we ended up at Carnegies’, they decided to make Cat happy for a while lar… but neglected to tell me about it, I suspect cos she wants to get back at me for something which happened a few days ago.

“Spirit of Rock” Carnegies’ has had a change of management to probably those who own tsb, cynna, la bodega etc. There are distinct differences… and on the way down to the toilet there are fire hazards just waiting to happen. I took one look at the candles at the side of the stairs and thought, “Geez its turned into a poofter bar??”It was alright other than that….music was better than before and there were a nice bunch of blokes from few weeks ago.

Then it was onward to Zeta.

The highlight would have to be when we met the Lebanese. Then the American. And then both of them meeting each other. They both talked… then started to look as though they were spoiling for a fight. Lebanese had mentioned he hated Americans…so suspecting that politics may have been a cause, had to go in between to referee.

“What did you say to him?” I asked Lebanese. “I hate George Bush,” he states.

Then the Lecture proceeds. Try to imagine me lecturing a guy twice my age.

“Dont bring your politics to this bar. I refuse to be responsible if he starts a brawl, cos i introduced the both of you. Keep your shit out of the way.”

US-ian was an utter sleazebag… a bit like Woody Harrelson when he acted in Wag the Dog… sending off bad vibes to everyone in the group. The guys were just itching to punch him, the girls recoiled away and after serenading him with Michael Jackson’s Man in the Mirror, me says, “You are in the wrong place.”

Cold luncheon meat all gone now… may topple over with lack of sleep soon.

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Didnt sleep, ended up going grocery shopping for local food deprived Malaysians. Took all of seven hours non-stop as well as a very big shopping trolley. Also saw this scene on the way.

Dunno whats going to happen for X’mas… we may go back to Melaka… aim to take a long leave… but I guess nothing can be confirmed yet till at least deadlines are met…. crossing my fingers…would be good to get out of KL by 17th December. Drink bud leaves on the 18th.

cat: will she come if u call her
dadda: too late shes here
dadda: on my lap
cat: omg
cat: OMG
cat: OMG
dadda: sucking on her thumb
cat: OMG
cat: OMG
cat: BOO BOOOOOO
dadda: i`ll let her type to you
cat: bup be a loo laa
boo: mp
cat: awwwwwwww
boo: cnnnnnnnn bvvvvv
cat: her first xmas wish list will be for MP3 player
cat: CNN???? not BBC??
cat: lol
boo: fffffffffff8888888888888ii;l88
cat: wanna hug u baby girl!
cat: yes thats me
cat: cathy88
cat: hehe
boo: jmmmmmmmmmmm,,,;;;;
cat: jim beam
boo: c bvfv hervvvfx,k fr,.bnk;ogp gif
cat: lol
cat: oink oink oink
boo: c
boo: cl
dadda: lol
dadda: shes gone
dadda: fast as lightning

Learning french and spanish and lots of useless phrases (birds nest soup, pigeon pie on toast etc) according to dadda…. ahh….!!!

Previous nite Merdeka Celebrations…

Steer clear of the lamborghini…

What’s your poison?

Mine is tequiiiilaaaaaa!

The three stooges - return from Shlasik Land!!!

…. or not at all….

At long last…. back from lovely BKK… and went straight out to watch the quarter finals of world cup yah?

at our fave local, they were taking bets on what the score would be….friend guessed right….argentina and germany did draw after 90 minutes…but waht a killer after that.
i myself had predicted a 3-2 score in favour of argentina…an underestimation on my part thinking tht both teams needed time to get into rhythm of game but no…both were psyched to play their best.
The argentinians were wily and tricky…willing to put all they had into the game….which caused them to dominate the game most of the time…they gave their best going for the ball…which resulted in a higher foul statistic.
And yes they had lots of scoring chances…about 3 went straight right into the leg of german defender and they had about 2-3 scoring attempts…but lehmahn knew what he was doing. I saw alot of panting germans……maybe the argentinians were undergoing the same problem as well…but the camera wasnt on them. Argentina was the fitter side from what the camera let us see.
Ayalo put the ball in right past not one or two germans but THREE at teh goalpost. ARGENTINA WAS READY TO LIFF THE CUP!!!!

The first goal keeper for argentina was injured from a knee to his tummy…so second keeper came out…he was too inexperienced…which cost the argentinians their game…..and first placing.

Cos even tho the argentinians played their utmost (the germans were outclassed, argentinians had hgher percentage of ball possession), but they blew their scoring chances. And they drew the score…which in a way was good cos friend was aboiut RM50 richer for guessing 1-1 score at 90 minutes. YES, it is true….the germans had a hard time cos the oppponents kept disrupting their flow and teamwork…… I guessed the 3-2 score cos expercted germany to play like the game against sweden….twas superb….. they were all psyched up and spurred on by home ground advantage to go the whole way to the GOLD medal… though they coud not keep it up…conceding only a two point lead against Sweden. Argentina hammered Serbia 6-0.

its just a shame the first keeper wasnt ready for the penalty kicks when the teams drew yet again after extra time.
into extra time, both sides kept their cool…. Germany was in mostly in possession….Argentina was ready to pounce even though cool…and happy to win by a one point margin…but their chance never came. Which called for penalty kicks….ARRRGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Their downfall….the keeper was just not ready….unless first keeper purposely came out to let the taller lankier keeper have a shot at saving the shots.

Friends were ecstatic that germany won…… for personal reasons and because…….England would have an easier time dealing with Germany than with Argentina.

2006 - Max

After finding out we are from same kampung….

These were taken at Velvet Underground, Zouk during a Motorola party…watta nite!!! Was not without me trusty notepad and pen…