Introduction
What can we say about Norman? He’s a kind guy, a simple guy, an honest guy who loved nothing more than to treat his family and friends with outmost respect and love…. *crackle.. *ring *ring… “HELLO!!!…. JOHAN’S FREN AMAT??!! JOHAN!!! GET YOUR BUTT DOWN HERE!! PHONE!!”.
Now where was I? Oh yeah.. born on a.. a… one September morning (I think) 1981, the year in which the world saw lotsa really cool and influential stuff happened. Yup, the year of the ayam was also the year of the first US space shuttle launch and also the year our great Malaysian PM Dr. Mahathir came to power (good man most of the time), as well as other significant historical events I can’t remember right now.
His childhood was a colourful one. Spending his toddler years both here n in Belgium, he vaguely remembers back in Brugge kindergarten, there was a boy who came in with his parents riding a VW beetle and one day shit in his pants, exactly after we all went out for a class pic (one can see him scratching his butt in the pic haha..). Whatever happened to’em I wonder.
Primary School, oh boy.. lotsa embarrassing moments happened which I will not disclose here :p Secondary School years were rather different. A whole array of best friends, first few months, ‘ol neighbouring buddy.. then, mommy’s fren’s son… then, this fella who looked really weird n had the face like a zombie, complete with the dark rings under his eyes (no pun intended dude).. then another weird looking guy (his ears), we spent lotsa cool times together doing things we kids are supposed to do at this time of age. Sneaking out to places your parents wouldn’t allow, doing damage to the environment (purely in the name of science), etc. Then came this one fella.. straight cut boy from serdang, moved over for reasons I can’t remember.
Then, came University days.. oh my, somebody pass me some water, this ain’t gonna be easy. But, to put things nice n simple, he ought to be studying (yeah, we’ve heard that a million times but did it ever happen? What? U think I’m that bad? Come on) One has to wonder why he’s acted as such. From the day he got his own computer, plugged it into the uni LAN, the rest as they say is history. This fella became more daring than anybody ever thought possible. But people tend to disregard that there’s actually a lot to learn from things u experience, mistakes u make, people u’re involved with and yeah, that’s what he had, a complete hands-on idiot course on social studies (which was a bit too perplexing at one time but highly predictable at another).
So now, here he is, contemplating, day dreaming as ever.. dreaming of perfect situations, leaping tall buildings in a single jump, moving faster than "i-don't-know-what", thinking wiser than Jean Luc Pickard (with more hair too haha)
hmm… looking out the window he sees a car passin’ by.. 10inch tail pipe, monkey wings, hubcaps that look like sport rims, mat rock overall styling.. he shakes his head.. sigh, if only they knew better.
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Stuff he likes to do:
1) Dating.. hehe.. naah he enjoys the company, nobody likes to go out alone right?
2) Video games? GT3 of course (I’ll post my best times in another section of this site so u guys can compare) Street Fighter, Tekken.. only Johan and Johann were worthy opponents (on offense to the rest hehe) Metal Gear Solid, hate the view n gameplay’s rather lacking. I suck at 1st person shooter except the medal of honor games.
3) Computer games? Finished Diablo 2 n the expansion (yayy) Medal of Honor’s really really cool.
4) TV? Astro’s always cacat. Absolutely adore the simpsons, seinfeld, 3rd rock from the sun and Discovery Channel (haha.. just the powerzone n junkyard wars only)
5) Food? Oh I’ll eat anything (not really). Lamb chops… nice tender steak.. smoked salmon.. *arrkkkkhhhh….
6) Sport? Formula One nut to the highest degree.. follows daily updates twice a day 365 days a year, watches EVERY race. Missed the Malaysian GP only once. NBA’s not bad too (Lakers, Philly, Kings, Shaq, Kobe, Iverson, Tim Duncan.. yup). CART, not too sure about the timing but not as amusing as F1 cos the technology not as impressive. Football? Sorry.. Golf? Aiyoh… please no.
7) Listening (yup n singing too) music. All kinds except yippie boy bands n all female bands (not that I hate’em .. just not interested y’know). Fav artists in no particular order:
a. A Perfect Circle (terribly underrated but extremely phenomenal)
b. Bone Thugz n Harmony (nice rappin’)
c. Garbage (need I give an excuse? Go baby go go)
d. Barenaked Ladies (I can do “one week” haha)
e. Blink
182 (another underrated band here but extremely funny)
f. The Cranberries (love her voice)
g. Duran Duran (any of you still remember these ppl?)
h. Eminem & D12 (funny stuff too)
i.
Lighthouse Family (quirky but great songs) sbdool
j. Linkin Park (took’em a while to get the attention they deserved)
k. Marilyn Manson (I just love these dark songs)
l. Matchbox 20 (nice meaningful songs they have)
m. Phil Collins (I like his songs.. so what?)
n. Roxette (another oldie but not bad at all)
o. Nat King Cole (L.O.V.E can’t help but like that one) ekrchg
p. Savage Garden (the voice and the song content)
q. Smash Mouth (everybody likes’em)
r. Smashing Pumpkins (another quirky group w great songs)
s. (I’m running out of alphabets)
t. Sugar Ray
u. Sum 41 (that black guy’s damn funny) riooee
v. The Cardigans (not famous enough for ppl to notice. A shame)
w. Tool (darker more sadistic than Perfect Circle. Cool hehe)
x. Vertical Horizon lcoilk
y. 112 (quirky songs but somehow it sticks
z. techno stuff (I dunno what they call the genre that I like. Trance?) enultg
*okay.. that’s it.. I’m not gonna list anymore. Currently I’m trying to dig for Static X. check out the band in the Music section. Cool beard job eh?
*wow, you’re still here? Don’t worry, not much left I assure you. tiknnp
Ahh.. , favorite movies:
1) Pulp Fiction: awesome dialogs. You have to watch it at least 3 times to enjoy it. Nice soundtrack, nice acting, and frankly, AWESOME.
2) Fight Club: (lemme list down all the dark movies first) one word: interesting aafroc
3) Seven: (yup, another Brad Pitt movie) but this one’s dark and evil, demented, cool.
4) The Crow: the whole gothic theme, the soundtrack, the characters.. wow.. a real big WOW.. love it. Fav quote – “This ain’t good” and then BAM!! he sideswipes a patrol car.
5) The Crow City of Angels: not as good as the first but it retains the dark, dirty, gothic world. I just love those stuff. Fav quote – “You think I’m afraid of you?! I’m not afraid.. I’m not afraaaaaiiiid” (do it in a hard ghost metal rocker’s voice).
6) The Rock: no, not that WWF guy. It stars Nicky Cage and that old James Bond guy. Nice soundtrack.. somehow the movie sticks to me.
7) Face Off and Broken Arrow: John Travolta makes a really really cool bad guy.
8) Dumb and Dumber: can’t forget how I almost split my jaw wide open the first time I saw the movie. It’s not too interesting by today’s standards but back then it was the bomb.
9) American Pie 1 and 2, Road Trip and other teenager movies. Absolutely hilarious.
10) Austin Power movies: kinky.
11) Down to Earth: a good one from Chris Rock.
12) Braveheart: a 3 hour experience you won’t forget.
13) The Patriot: gorsh.. when the li’l girl first spoke, cried out for his dad (Mel Gibson).. such an emotionally strong scene. Excellent.
Okay, I guess that’s enough for now. There are lots more movies out there to be listed, but let’s not bore each other with'em any longer. Time to move on. Now, let’s see hmm.. well.. you’ve made it this far, I must congratulate you. Hope you found the secret message I hid somewhere up there. If you’re somebody I know, it might relate to you or somebody you know hehe.. lemme know if you found it.
Hmm.. I’m kinda tired.. haven’t had a bath yet.. braindead actually.. so I’ll continue this some other day then…. (to be cont.)