Friday, 31 January 2003

WinAmp Now Playing ~ Dream Meeting by Tao Zhi

Ho! Ho! Ho! It's Chinese Lunar New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai! Thank you again for coming to my blog, and wishing you a wonderful, happy, and prosperous new year! I turned cleaner boy for today and the job was to help my parents clean the whole house. This started way before the week coming to CNY, only intensive this day and yesterday (Thursday). Since everyone in the family was in good mood, I had been more eager to bring fresh air into the house and evict dust and dirt out of my home. The 'Gong Xi Fa Cai' spirit has been high, and my mood has been way above groovy, and thanks to the mild rain the whole afternoon, it just helped to keep the weather cooler.

The house-cleaning took longer than expected and my mum had to declare half-time in order for the family to prepare for the reunion dinner. Come evening close to 7 pm, my family and I were on the way. Firstly, we went to 4th aunty's new home in PJ to pick up my grandma and 3rd aunty, who came over from Sydney for CNY. Secondly, we're off to 1st uncle's house for the dinner and to catch things up. It's a once-a-year thingy and the tradition is always here to stay. Thirdly, after taking my grandma and 3rd aunty home, we headed to another uncle's house (mum's side) for a short visit. My cousin-brother wanted a game of Battlefield 1942 with me hosting it via ADSL server (my PC). I agreed and will SMS him when I get back. After that, it's back home to complete the remainder of the house-cleaning work before the clock strikes at 12 midnight. Traditional beliefs have always said that one cannot clean the premise on the first day of Chinese New Year, and luckily the cleaning was done just before midnight. Whew! The tv programmes were there to lighten up but after a short rest, I fired up my PC to host the game I promised to my cousin. Unfortunately, he just couldn't connect and the serial key was him giving the trouble. So the game had to be called off. *sigh* Anyway, there's always next time, and after he sorted out with the problem.

Oh-kay, it's time for bed. A big day ahead! ^__^

Monday, 27 January 2003

WinAmp NOT Playing

Monday blues had not struck me, despite the humid weather. Didn't know why I could sleep so much today and had a large bowl of Koko Krunch for supper, and yet couldn't put on a pound on my not-so-lean physique. Perhaps maybe I should seek a blood donation fair somewhere to 'refresh' my many pints:) I was in the mood for CS and was hoping to organise a 4 vs 4 game with my frens but none could make it for the evening and it was swiftly cancelled. *Bummer* Then later in the wee hours of the morning, my DVD marathon continued. This time it's Sixth Sense with cutie Haley Joel Osmond, and of course, Bruce 'The Kid' Willis (yeah, I know he's better off with Die Hard series). What a movie! What an ending! The weirdest thing was this movie was on for few years and I hadn't got to get a good watch on it until this very moment. If I had been Mr Adam Sessler to review movies instead of games on Extended Action (instead of Play), I'd give it an enthusiastic 5 out of 5 :P In my humble opinion, ghosts do exist around us, like in a parallel universe, and to some we call this the 'spiritual world'. Ghosts that have unfulfilled wishes would stay around in our physical world and only leave when their wishes are fulfilled. When they linger around, that's where they 'haunt' the place they last been, letting off strong emotions of sorrow or anger wherever they go. Their very presence would turn the area temperature they were in to several degrees lower. It is believed that when the living accidentally passed thru a ghost, he/she'll feel a sudden chill. Have you encountered this before?

Sunday, 26 January 2003

WinAmp Now Playing ~ Mong Kei Pat Hei by Sammi Cheng

How nice if everyday is like Sunday. I remembered there's this song by the same name (Everyday is like Sunday) that I used to listen when I was in Adelaide for my studies. Don't know who's the singer but it's plain and sentimental, and it neither sound American nor British.

Just this afternoon I followed my family to Nilai Memorial Park to pay respect to my grandpa for the oncoming Chinese New Year. My relatives were there too. After reaching home, I got so tired that I went straight to bed for a nap. Mum bought a new cabinet for the living room, and things looked better than ever. It's easier to dig the list of DVDs and VCDs now :P

And oh look, Monday is coming! By the way, this is my Guilty Gear XX character after going thru the quiz..well, actually I didn't get Johnny at first. I got Chipp Zanuff! But I went thru 5 times & this was how I got in sequence: Chipp, Johnny, Johnny, Dizzy, & Axl. So, overall ended up with Johnny. Agree?

Which Guilty Gear X character are you?

Saturday, 25 January 2003

WinAmp Now Playing ~ Simple Life (Bridget's Theme in Guilty Gear XX)

It's the weekend and another week before 'kung hey fatt choy'! This coming week will be extremely busy for the Chinese people like me. Wash, wipe, rub, scrape, throw, pack, u name it, it's all in the house-cleaning book of encyclopedia. By the look of it, I remembered tat I have to take charge of cleaning up the porch and corridor once again, and if my pet dog isn't careful enough, she might just be taken into the spring-cleaning joyride...muahaha.

It's my usual Saturday. Woke up spectacularly late and then a quick lunch before preparing for badminton game. The journey from Shah Alam to the centre of bustling Kuala Lumpur ain't a comfortable feat. Just as expected, the notorious traffic pile-up at the Motorola intersection of the LDP Highway did just that, and prevented me from reaching at my ex-company's office to join my friends to car pool to the badminton court. So again, I had to go alone, reached the destination and prepared to pay a hefty parking fee when the badminton action was over. *sigh* Will have to leave my home earlier next time...good idea huh? As for the badminton game, it's great to see one of my friends turned up after a long spell of his so-called 'retirement'. Although months have passed, he's still that 'keng'! Hehe.

Later, my friends and I had dinner at the local Chinese restaurant nearby KDU College. Ever since last month, our after-game hangout would be this restaurant for either yum cha or dinner. Then, it's another game time! Who could not have guessed that it's none other than Counterstrike!! Yeah, that police-and-thief shooting game that kids and old boys like me and my friends here seem to enjoy. I tried to persuade my sister to play the game online, but words seemed to fall on deaf ears.

Back home, and came to Saturday Late Night Fever. It's DVD again and last night was REALLY another Tom Hanks's flick. It's Cast Away. Man, I should put my money on him for the Oscars n I think he did win it, rite? Well, tonight it's not Tom anymore but Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes in Enemy at the Gates. Another true story, another war theme. This one you'd get to see snipers in action, yeah snipers...you dun go charge at them with ur guns blazing or else he'll shoot ur head to bits (ok, ok, a tad too much of CS-ism already) ^___^