*sigh*

Monday Monday Monday... I have the Monday blues.

Urgh yesterday didn't really feel too well after I got back from 1Utama. Had a headache, sore back, sore neck and sore eyeballs! Looking up hurts, sideways hurt, basically if i move my eyeballs fast to look at something, it hurt.

Anyways, I want to rant about the parking yesterday. Killer parking lot i tell you!!! I was stressing out like hell there trying to find a parking space. Oh my goodness, talking to myself (coz got no teman in my car, no music mah, what to do?) and cursing incessantly. Usually Sundays weren't too hard to find parking, it was relatively easy. But DAMN! Due to it being Father's Day, I had to suffer and i'm sure everyone else who took ALMOST an hour to find parking suffered as well... Yes people, imagine how much petrol spent. Stupidddddd...

*note to self: never go to shopping malls on an auspicious day

At any rate, it was well worth it I guess, spending time with my old primary school mate Erica. She brought along Halim, so yea, it was cool with me, didn't mind one bit and i've finally bought my sport shoes!!!! *GRINS* I'm bloody happy. I was trying to hunt for a nice pair of sport shoes all this while ever since my right shoe sole came out and plopped on the floor behind me while jogging on the treadmill in Celebrity Fitness. So embarressing !! Everyone at the back jogging behind me could see it. Joyce was nicely giggling while jogging. Oh well...

For a couple of months now i've been trying to find a nice suitable one that i would fall in love with and is within budget and I've GOT IT! Sketchers were on sale so i just thought of checking it out, i spent for what felt like ages standing in front of a particular section contemplating on which design is better then trying them on. Phew, first time buying a pair of shoes without my dad beside me. I was afraid i'd buy some crappy shoe that wasn't durable and what not. I think this is just fineee, got it for 40% off. Not too bad.

Father's day was yesterday as well and so we went out for dinner...
Then when dad knew i had a headache, he gave me these 2 patches to stick on the side of my temples. Smelt like Chinese medicine. *bluek* So i slept with it and now my pillow case stinks of it. It helped abit, but i definitely wouldn't recommend it at all. Prefer the same old odourless and effective Panadol tablets.

Then today, Gene suddenly ring me up which totally disrupted my sleep. It was 12pm that time. Hehe, obviously i was still sleeping, why would i need to wake up early anyways? Gene called me to join him, Ju, Anna, and Shern Ai out for lunch.

*ring ring*
Me: *in a very husky voice* ....errr...hello..?
Gene: ...errr...may i speak to swee wei please?
Me: ...speaking? yes gene, why arh? What time is it?
Gene: oh , you sleeping ah? it's 12pm now.
....
*jabbering on about me not feeling well*
....
Me: Anyways, why you call? (haha, then i realised i was talking too much and didn't know the purpose of his call)
Gene: I wanted to know whether you want to join us for lunch with Anna and all, sorry for the last minute call. First of all, i totally forgot about it, and second of all, my handphone dropped into the lake. I'll tell you the story later...
Me: Ahahahahaha, okok, what time you going?
Gene: Erm..hehe, 10 minutes time
Me: WHAT?!?

Eventhough I had a slight headache, i still decided to join them no matter how last minute it may be. I don't know, usually when people call me out last minute i'd still go, of maybe it's the power of Gene's psycho ability. It's sad to know he'll be leaving soon next week Wednesday, so hopefully we'll have another gathering before he leaves. Apparently, this time i'm organizing it. =S. Gonelah credit...hehe

Now i'm having a tummy ache, not the kind that needs to go to the loo. The pain that's there but can't be shitted out. *sigh*
Okies, i'm going off to bed for a short nap as an anesthetic for the pain...

Cheers!

Short review

*sighs*...I'm so bored here waiting for Lee to come over my place to play PS2 and just to hangout... I swear, he's alike a girl sometimes, takes ages to get ready...I bet he's putting on some foundation or some lip gloss about now. Oh well.

I'm almost done with the book i'm currently reading. It's a nice read. Just plain ok. Nothing special. It tells the story of an autistic child trying to solve the mystery of who killed Wellington (neighbour's dog), and through his journey, he stumbles across a dark secret whom his father has kept for a long time. *ahem* Don't think it right to expose the secret but that's about it. You may find that some chapters dwell into the intellectual mind of the boy and how smart and capable he really is in Maths and anything that is number related. He also knows quite a handful of other information like the bubonic plague and other health related matters. Overall, to me it's just like any other children's book. Just a good read to past time.

God...i'm still waitinggg... Bored as hell here...

Cheers!

Superpower

You know in Facebook there's this application to discover what kind of Superpowers you would get if you were to be a Superhero. Hmm, quite intriguing, but I didn't try that application. However, I would love to have the power to be...

INVISIBLE

Whoohoo! Imagine all the eavesdropping you could do, guy stalking, sneaking into places in which you're legally not allowed to, scaring the pants out of people, randomly poking enemies, and many other evil syiok sendiri behaviors. *evil grins*

Frankly, in terms of a more logical "superpower" that i'd love to apprehend and engage in on is the power to Motivate. I know, lame lame, but as a friend to others or even as a kind soul to a total stranger, motivation can be a a powerful tool to ignite the hope and cheer (omg, sounds like Christmas, corny as hell) into the lives of sad and confused kids--ahem--I mean people. Hehe. I'm usually the kind of person whom people seem to trust me with their personal problems, I for one in turn try to help as much as I can. Though, I feel like I sucked, I try, but I suck. Well, least I take the time and attention to hear them out, let them know that I care, which in fact I do. Just what I lack are those powerful moving words or just the RIGHT words that can help lower their sadness to a minimum and boost up their happiness level. Hmm, maybe I should bring a box of chocolates with me just incase.

I'm just really free! So decided to blog about this.

Can't wait for tomorrow! Going to Cineleisure with Lee at night to watch a movie-dunno-what.

I'm going to be pretty busy over the weekend and i'm happy! Got everything planned out and sis got 2 free tickets to go to Advertlets premier of Made of Honor on the 17th of June (Tuesday) at TGV 1 Utama. It better be gooooood...

Cheers!

The Rape of Nanking

The Rape of Nanking is a brilliant true story of how the Japanese took over Nanking with no mercy towards the Chinese civilians as they heartlessly killed, tortured, and rape their way in. How strong propaganda played its role in covering this forgotten Holocaust of World War II. It's truly amazing the way things were during those days. Leaders fought for power hence resort to war, thus many lives were taken unnecessary in a brutal way. I'm really thankful that I wasn't born during those times. Craziness.


Here are some interesting quotes from the book...

"Chinese men were used for bayonet practice and in decapitation contests"

"An estimated 20,000 to 80,000 women were raped. Many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel women, slice off their breasts, nail them alive to walls. Fathers were forced to rape their daughters, and sons their mothers, as other family members watched. Not only did live burials, castration, the carving of organs, and the roasting of people become routine, but more diabolical tortures were practiced... So sickening was the spectacle that even the Nazis in the city were horrified."


Interesting quote from a website... (http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/njmassac/rape.htm)

Those suffered most from the barbarity were women. They were not only raped by the Japanese, they were often brutally killed by the Japanese after the rape. "Sometimes (Japanese) cut off their breasts to reveal their white ribs; sometimes Japanese pierce through their lower body with bayonets, let them cry in pain! Sometimes they sticks wooden sticks, reed pipe or carrots into their lower body and stir, until they are dead, Japanese soldiers clap their hands and loudly laugh alongside" (Ref. The Record of the Brutal Acts of the Japanese Invaders, Political Department, KMT Military Commission, Published July 1938).


Young girls were usually not mature,..., the Japanese then tear open their lower body and gang rape them.
(Ref. "The Atrocities of Japanese Invaders", Du ChengXiang, Time Publisher, p55, 1939 edition )


Outside HongWu gate, Japanese soldiers raped a pregnant woman in a farmer home, and then cut open the abdomen of the woman and took out the fetus. In another case, Japanese soldiers wanted to rape a pregnant woman, her mother-in- law struggled to stop them, the Japanese were brutal than anything, they kicked the old lady, and cut the pregnant woman with knife, a fetus of several month flew out of the body, in a moment two lives ended like this. (Ref. XinHua Daily, Feb 24th, 1951)


Here are some pictures on the net which some can also be found in the book...

Burying alive.

Captured civilians were used as bayonet practice.

Two Japanese officers, Toshiaki Mukai and Iwa Noda, held a competition of beheading Chinese. They denied the accusation as "imagination" but were confronted with the above evidence published in Tokyo Nicinichi Shimbun. They were executed in 1947 in Nanjing.

A raped body

Female dead bodies were laid everywhere on the floors of Nanking

These three photos are not about the Massacre but taken in Xuzhou a few months later. They were put here to show that the Japanese soldiers were so proud about the killing because the photos were sent back to Japan as postcards.





This book basically wants to inform the people out there that The Rape of Nanking exists (as it was denied many time by the Japanese due to the strong propaganda at that time) and to hopefully bring Japan to their senses to not deny their past but to admit it and insert it into their history books. They are so ashamed about their own past that their Education minister tried to sugar coat it and to eliminate the past that would have a bad name for Japan. The stupidity of it all. I mean, how can they NOT admit these atrocities when there's clear photographic and recording evidence that supports it. *sighs*


At a 1994 conference on Japanese war atrocities in Cupertino, she (Iris Change) saw poster-sized photographs of Nanjing victims -- "some of the most gruesome photographs I had ever seen in my life." In a "single blinding moment,"she found herself "suddenly in a panic" that the massacre "would be reduced to a footnote of history," or, worse, that "the world might actually one day believe the Japanese politicians who have insisted that the Rape of Nanking was a hoax."


This is definitely one of my most favourite books to read. To be honest, the first reason why I picked this book up in the first place was due to the fact that it talks about the horrific torture methods during that time of the Japanese invasion. Yea, I have to admit, i'm pretty sadistic. Sorrylaaa. But seriously, everyone should pick this book up for a good read and it'll make you think about things. Depends on the individual itself on what you'd like to ponder about.

This book has intrigued me into watching the documentary, which I am patiently waiting for Siree to pass it to me. Hehe. Can't wait! There is also a movie based on the Rape of Nanking that was featured last year 2007. But i'd rather watch the documentary.

So hurry up and grab a book today! or the documentary... Whichever works.

Cheers!

Just plain exhausting

Ahoy!

I had a pretty good time for the past 2 days (Friday and Saturday). Which is why I am too darn tired to go out today.

Sait Yie came back from India last Wednesday so due to us both being quite free, we went out the whole day on Friday spending our time in Pyramid. She be my date and I be hers. hehe. Lovely. Dad was nice enough to send us both there at 2pm. So we hung out first at Sushi King chatting away as we drank hot green tea and ate the sushi that passed us by on the conveyor belt. I'm so in love with that Edamame peas btw. Great snack. After that we went around looking for my sports shoes, her waist belt and of course, checking out most of the ladies footwear. We then had dinner at 7:30 in Kim Gary. We probably spent a good 8 hours there. Amazing, we couldn't stop talking. We just kept going on and on like a never ending chatterbox will my cheeks felt sore. Siree picked us both up from Pyramid at 10pm to yam cha at Station 1. By then I was starting to feel dizzy from the Ying Yong (coffee mixed with tea, my body reacts to coffee like that,sad) and Sait Yie's stomach felt a little uneasy due to her gastritis. Moreover, that night at Station 1 I felt too upset to stay out for long due to a certain situation. In the end, we left at 10 mins past midnight.

A super tiring day and I was having trouble sleeping. Weird. Slept at 4:30am.

Well, Saturday was an exciting day at first, then it just got draggy. Harumph. Lee's brother had tickets to Summer Splash so Lee and I both decided to go and spend out afternoon there. Lee came at close to 2pm. After the horrendous traffic jam and parking woes, we found out that we had to go through another entrance into Sunway Lagoon and not the usual main entrance. Oh bugger. When we went down the escalator beside the main entrance and walked for what felt like eternity, we finally met a HUGE ASS CROWD! It stretched all the way to the MINI entrance into Lagoon. ****

*sigh*

We were in the slow moving butt-to-butt crowd. What a never ending nightmare. My toes stepped multiple times, I was being pushed so hard till I felt I could fall and die from being stampeded over (if you could see the trees there, you'd know what I mean, the crowd was insane that the trees in the way were pushed to the ground and stomped all over. Kesian) and hearing the angry united chants of "Fuck you". What a way to show your Malaysian spirit.

I HATED SUMMER SPLASH for being such a loser in terms of its organization. Who the fuck organized this?!?! Summer splash to me was a big summer FLOP. We waited in the crowd for a more than 2 hours NOT to get in. Go and die please. What the hell, you printed so many tickets but you can't even let us in?!!? Please control the amount of tickets you print you suckass. We've wasted our time sweating our asses off, ciggie smoke being blown to our faces, and lame joke remarks of...

"Potong kotek dia!"
"Cabut bulu kotek dia!"
"Oi, Mawi nak lalu!"
"Cepatlah, saya nak berak!"
"Bunuh buring biru tu!"
"Saya anak Badawi!"
"Gigit telinga dia!"
"Gigit hidung dia!"
"Siapa kentut ni?!?"

(...and so many more)

...to the officers there.

Mostly the crowd chanted "Fuck you" a couple of times. Which Lee and I found quite irritating. Please people, don't waste your breath. They wanted to destroy the flat screen TV which was just above the mini entrance of Lagoon. Too bad they didn't. But they did manage to just pull down one bunting. LOL. Big achievement there I suppose. Screw you organizers for over printing your tickets and leaving ALOT and I mean ALOT of people out! We suffered for nothing. *sigh*

I will never so to this event ever again because this is what you get for going to a free event. Havoc and disappointment.

Anyways, we then had to rush to go to Sait Yie place as it's the meeting point for our next agenda. We're going to the Regency hotel that night to celebrate Samyutha's Birthday! So rushed we did, I went home to grab my stuff, went over to Lee's place, then Siree picked us both up and we all reached Sy's place at 7pm. Samyutha wasn't even THERE yet! She and some of her mates were supposed to lead us the way to the hotel. Well, Sammy was getting her hair done and stuff. Hence the long delay. They came at 8:15 instead.

The hotel suite was nice. I felt relieved that I could finally take my bath after that horrid scene in the afternoon. I was sticky and icky the whole time.

Sait Yie and I

People started coming in bla bla bla, met some of my old school mates. We were all starving and the food finally arrived at 10 something. Haha, yeah, talk about dinner. KFC and Pizza Hut. Most of them only had 1 piece of chicken and a slice of pizza. That's dinner *ahem* i mean supper for you folks! Then not enough water, and i felt dehydrated from the Coke mixed with dunno what alcohol. Anyways, to be honest, it wasn't the best party i've been to. It was just plain O...K...

There should've been games to get the crowd together or something. Half of the guys were watching the Euro football game there and that got dear Sammy pissed. Don't feel like elaborating much coz i didn't really enjoyed myself. But it was great seeing the mates that i haven't seen in ages. Least there's a plus side. *grins*

Siree, Sait yie, Lee and I left at 2 something in the morning from KL. We were all exhausted especially Lee and I from that you-know-what-bullshit-thing.

Let's hope next week will be a week to look forward to...

KUNG FU PANDA!

hehe. Cheers!

Tattoo

Hey God... wassup?
Last night was one depressing night. I cried over dad's sudden decision. First of all he allowed me to go for a Degree (wanted to surprise the gang by showing myself up in college on the 1st day of Uni, so I didn't tell most of yall, only Audrey), but then, now he's thought twice and said that best I start working...blah blah blah (well, back to square one). I don't feel like filling in with little details and stuff. Just informing you guys on the conclusion is enough. So ... whatever ...

Whilst bawling my eyes out, I was msging Lee, guessed that helped abit. Then I started to think positive that you know working shouldn't be SO bad (not the end of the world basically). I feel like venturing into other things than Public Relations as I didn't really enjoy the workscope (having the experience in Essence Communications). Stupid media calls & media shit.

Anyways, when I was comforting myself being all positive and looking on the bright side of things, I suddenly got struck with an idea for my tattoo!

I thought of the SUN. Something that represents cheerfulness, optimism and to help remind me that whichever road that is set for me to take, there is always some good in it, the light in every darkness. I may be seen as someone who's so carefree and happy-go-lucky. Yes, can be considered true, but obviously one can't stay that way forever right? There are also some hard sad truths about me that I don't normally share. Just stored away deep inside, still upholding that cheerfulness when in front of the publics eye.

But anyways, I'm excited about my sudden burst of inspiration for this tattoo. Now I'm searching for a good design. My sis is also helping me out if I need any alterations, something to make it that much special. =)

I've found this nice article (click on the title) : 7 steps to a perfect tattoo
It has got cute pictures alongside it. hehe

Since this tattoo is going to be a forever sort of thing, my plan is to search for a design this year. Once a design is confirmed, I shall place the picture in my room for about 6 months or so to see if I get bored of it. You know sometimes when you feel that a design is absolutely fantastic at that point of time, but then the next your perception might just change in a few months or so. For all i know now, i might think that having a Sun tattoo might be dumb. So basically, I'm on a verge of finding a design which has endless beauty for me. Something that I will definitely adore for life. I'm not going to rush myself into this of course.
I'm just going to take my time as this will last for a lifetime.

On another note, there will be an event called the "Malaysia Dog Olympic Day 2008" on 29th June, Central Park. For more info you can click on this link.

I may or may not go, it depends. hehe

Oh! On another separate note, I so so so don't like that new song by Sayla, Dina, and DJ Division entitled "Whoopsie". Too bad I can't seem to find the lyrics to that song, as I would love to highlight the *ewwwwness* and the sheer dumbness of it.... The hard breathing in the background (doesn't sound sexylarh woman, don't even try) and the ending to that song which goes a little something like this...

girl part: We can do the whoopsie...like accidentally
guy part: Yeah, do the whoopsie all night longgg...

Not exactly in the right order, but somewhere there...
*ahem* Time for criticisms. Do the whoopsie accidentally and all night long??!?! Whoopsie is supposed to be like a short time thing isn't it? Like "Whoops!" when you accidentally slipped on a banana peel or something.

Oh well, I guess you can do the whoopie all night long if you want to. Gosh, it soo means like sex lahhh..."Whoops! I'm sorry!! It just slipped into your vajaijai, so can we do it all night long since I whoopsed already?" Haha, then all night long you'll be hearing "whoops...whoops...whoops...whoops". Bit annoying eh? I'm sorry, my minds abit corrupt. Let it beee, let it beeEE, let it beeeee...oh...let it beeee. Whisper words of "whooopsieee", let it beeeeeEEEEEEEE...

Cheers!

Flo Rida and T-Pain in Malaysia?

Flo Rida and T-Pain coming down to Malaysia????

OMGWTFBBQ!

wait a minute... Or is it just Flo Rida only?

Ahhhh heck! I don't care.... I want to goooooooooooooo!

Hehe, I heard about it yesterday on hitz.fm. They're coming down to perform at Mont Kiara alongside with Pop Shuvit and god knows who else (another local band I can't remember). I'm so darn excited!!! *wished it was free*. It'll be on the 19th of July. Kind of feels like a long wait for me. Was hoping it'll be on the 19th of June instead. Ish, wished they would tell this information in the month of July instead of now.

"Please make the tickets dirt cheap...pls pls pls" =P

Anyways, hope it'll be sponsored by Maxis at least. *bighugeassgrin* OR I'll enter in some contest and win tickets then I can bring some peeps along so we can ALL SING (or i'll make them sing)

"Apple bottom jeans...boots with the furrrr...(with the furrrr)...the whole club was lookin at herrrr....she hit the flo...(she hit the flo) ! Next thing you know, shawty got low low low low low low low low..."

Imagine making Lee sing it... LOL! I seriously can't imagine it at all. Zip. Not. Nada. Nope. No way. Never in a million years. Even in my dreams it'll never happen. But it would be fun though! But then again I can picture him looking elsewhere and stoning, and probably looking all pissed at me making him sing...darn...mission failed. Oh well. I tried.

Can't wait for more info next time around.

Cheers!