Before long, everything's gonna be like stah wars, 3D hologram transmission through your watch and instant communication from anywhere around the globe. Thats the good news. The bad news is, your long and my long varies.
Due to the fact, as a twainee and we can't take overseas leave for nuts, i had to be confined within the boundary of my country, sucking my thumb (doing housework actually) while the rest of my comrades suit themselves up with their shiny red armour, infesting houses of relatives, and wishing one after another a jolly prosperous year ahead even though recession is just round the next corner.
Even with my ass stuck to my chair, i can almost feel the awkwardness after some idiot uses 裁员滚滚 this season. So here's a good reminder to those still going to take advantage of your unmarried status to reap as much goodness as you can in the later days without insulting your relatives and friends. Chances are, you might want to insult them afterall, as the downhill economy will create stingy people with stingy not so deep pockets to fill the red packets. Just my 2 cents, I digress.
A few minutes ago, i just had an interesting video chat with my relatives. That includes granny, my 3 cousins and aunts and grandaunts. So its pretttttty fun trying to adjust your webcam to look your best even when we're all wearing pyjamas ( its 1145pm ). My grandaunt, being uneducated was freaking shocked to see us through their laptop all the way from penang, pure fun.
The best was not looking at the shocked faces but the 拜年 part. Ironically, i accidentally used 裁员滚滚 when i was firing my mouth away with sweet sounding wishes over the mic. I stopped awhile, and almost immediately remembered none of them over there are employed, mostly housewives and students. Oh well.
AND THEN I REMEMBERED ANOTHER THING. Eh, where's my ang pao dammit. Normally, i would practice my lines of wishes so well that, people giving me ang pao will FEEL GOOD giving it. Its my way of distracting them of their frustrations of this obligation and best of all, making them ENJOY giving their hard earned cash away in its crimson glory. Yes i'm being a huge ass here.
So ok great, i highly doubt anyone bothered to put their handy dandy red packets in their pyjamas just before bedtime, needless to say, someone even try to squeeze that ang pao through the retina of the webcam. Most likely it won't work, i think, but i'm still being optimistic about technology.
AND THEN I REMEMBERED ANOTHER THING. Maybe my aunts had paypal or internet banking services enabled ? Low chance... but still, that would be great. They could enclose a credit transfer statement inside an email tagged red, with subject title "RED PACKET FOR KAI", and with a simple click, kaaaching~. INSTANT CASH.
I'm an optimist, but a realist. I'll probably suggest this CNY only when either 1) I start working in a bank somehow, or 2) Holograms are cheap as Nokia. And realistically, let's say we charge 0.5 cents per transaction.... ok nevermind the details. The future is now, and i've got many things to be more worried about... like SLEEP.
Goodnight, and happy harvesting!
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
277 : A Rare Lunar New Year
Its been a great 2 days worth of slacking at home, and out of home with family/friends this festive season. Lots of good (expensive) food, fun and if i may add again, mindless slacking off without a worry.
Was out with my poly-mates today for a mini reunion lunch, and when i reached home, i found this at my doorstep. This is all too good not to share with all to see.

Note the miswritten 年. haha.
I wasn't too sure if this letter with a CNY greeting card inside was addressed to me until i saw whom it was from. At least he wrote his own name correctly, and he a side note (see above) mentioning that his chinese does suck, and calling me "yasai yaro san" or Mr vege bas+ard. That aside, i'm still stunned that he GAVE me a greeting card, albeit it was also from his gf too.
At the end of the day, i roughly could see that people may change after all... Hope kuah doesn't read this post =X
Was out with my poly-mates today for a mini reunion lunch, and when i reached home, i found this at my doorstep. This is all too good not to share with all to see.

Note the miswritten 年. haha.
I wasn't too sure if this letter with a CNY greeting card inside was addressed to me until i saw whom it was from. At least he wrote his own name correctly, and he a side note (see above) mentioning that his chinese does suck, and calling me "yasai yaro san" or Mr vege bas+ard. That aside, i'm still stunned that he GAVE me a greeting card, albeit it was also from his gf too.
At the end of the day, i roughly could see that people may change after all... Hope kuah doesn't read this post =X
Saturday, January 24, 2009
276 : Angry lady
Its late i'm sleepy, and i need to say something, so that i can sleep well tonight.
There was this lady who was alighting with me on service 106 back home just now. And due to the massive amount of people alighting then ( and those NOT alighting, crowding at the exit door ), i might have stepped on her leg or something while evading some guys at the door. At this point of time, i must say i have yet to notice her leaving her seat and ahead for the door too.
And right after that moment of accident, she gave me the "TSK" sound, i could even hear it through the music running into my head. Well, noticing something's wrong, i simply turned my head around and apologised for whatever happened ( because i really didn't know what happened, shag cannot think, late at night passed bed time ).
And so i alighted the bus and ran across the road immediately due to the green man flashing already, she's probably still alighting the bus right now. Once i reached the other bank of the road, i turned around and see whether she's ok or not, well not that i can do much about it anyway if i stepped on her leg.
And there it was, that look on her face of disgust, anger, hatred and pretty much all the negative stuff that a person's face could portray, being portrayed at that instance of a moment. I could feel her unhappiness from where i was, 12m across the road, in the middle of the night, even with the poor visibility from the street lighting.
And with all that, she was staring right at me.
感じる。。。
Seriously man, it was an accident, i'm pretty shagged out too from all the fun, and its waaay past bedtime for me. If i could buy you a cup of coffee to redeem myself, i probably would, there's no use to be so upset about this right? Hate is a bad emotion, especially when its being applied on people, let's settle this like diligent civilised people.
Tell you what, if you're the lady whom i mention above, and you wish to demand some sort of compensation, by all means, drop me a message, and we'll settle for something along the lines of caffeine ( but no coke please ).
Its the lunar new year, i get 4 days off from jungle fun, cheer up lass.
p.s. my plahtoon section 5 is seriously got a wire loose somewhere, these people are even more childish than the leekoots in tehkong. may god bless your soul somewhere in the future and not getting other people into trouble thanks to you.
There was this lady who was alighting with me on service 106 back home just now. And due to the massive amount of people alighting then ( and those NOT alighting, crowding at the exit door ), i might have stepped on her leg or something while evading some guys at the door. At this point of time, i must say i have yet to notice her leaving her seat and ahead for the door too.
And right after that moment of accident, she gave me the "TSK" sound, i could even hear it through the music running into my head. Well, noticing something's wrong, i simply turned my head around and apologised for whatever happened ( because i really didn't know what happened, shag cannot think, late at night passed bed time ).
And so i alighted the bus and ran across the road immediately due to the green man flashing already, she's probably still alighting the bus right now. Once i reached the other bank of the road, i turned around and see whether she's ok or not, well not that i can do much about it anyway if i stepped on her leg.
And there it was, that look on her face of disgust, anger, hatred and pretty much all the negative stuff that a person's face could portray, being portrayed at that instance of a moment. I could feel her unhappiness from where i was, 12m across the road, in the middle of the night, even with the poor visibility from the street lighting.
And with all that, she was staring right at me.
感じる。。。
Seriously man, it was an accident, i'm pretty shagged out too from all the fun, and its waaay past bedtime for me. If i could buy you a cup of coffee to redeem myself, i probably would, there's no use to be so upset about this right? Hate is a bad emotion, especially when its being applied on people, let's settle this like diligent civilised people.
Tell you what, if you're the lady whom i mention above, and you wish to demand some sort of compensation, by all means, drop me a message, and we'll settle for something along the lines of caffeine ( but no coke please ).
Its the lunar new year, i get 4 days off from jungle fun, cheer up lass.
p.s. my plahtoon section 5 is seriously got a wire loose somewhere, these people are even more childish than the leekoots in tehkong. may god bless your soul somewhere in the future and not getting other people into trouble thanks to you.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
275 : Effortless
And so, the tua taos asked us to print out our own passport photos with a garang look ( not smiling ) and submit during our next return home trip. And due to the fact i am a man with little motivation to head down to some photography shop wearing my slime green attire, i decided to do it with a tripod, camera, PC, printer with photopaper and an empty wall at home ( rare, had to move some stuff away).
And the bottom line is, after all the effort ( which took around 25 mins to finish printing and changing back to my nice comfy shirt ), i recieved news that, photo is not needed anymore.
And i printed one full A4 piece of myself, in slime green with a not so glad look. At this time, people may comment that i don't have that kind of happy look all the time, which is perfectly normal.
Here's a picture of the halfway cut out pictures of many me, along with my other misc items that i threw around on my table.
And the bottom line is, after all the effort ( which took around 25 mins to finish printing and changing back to my nice comfy shirt ), i recieved news that, photo is not needed anymore.
And i printed one full A4 piece of myself, in slime green with a not so glad look. At this time, people may comment that i don't have that kind of happy look all the time, which is perfectly normal.
Here's a picture of the halfway cut out pictures of many me, along with my other misc items that i threw around on my table.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
274 : Nope, not today.
There's a lot of negativity brewing about me this week in my 2nd home. And based on experience, no ones likes reading about negativity and the writer would just gather up more negative thoughts and become more zombie-like, mindless aimless and drenched in self-pitiness. No good at all.
Speaking of being zombie-like, i am currently feeling the transformation in me right now. Not exactly a baaad thing in my aspect ( thinking positively ) , cos' i'll get a bloody good nap after this. I can already form a beautiful mental image, me on my fluffy bed, lying there resting, dead as a log, unmoving, but still disturbing neighbours with my armour piercing (AP) snores. I'll wake up, wash up, make a nice cuppa coffee, watch an episode of anime/tv while eating breakfast and start to work on something i promised a friend. Ah the good life.
Yes. Positive energy. That's what i need, especially next week when i once again embrace the mud grass trees insects, moths ants and their millions of cousins in the forest for another FIVE days. Wow ! Imagine how much fresh air i would breath during then! I could probably extend my lifespan from 30 yrs to maybe 30.5 years. Who knows ~!
Next part is skip-able. A bit about ahmi stuff that some people might want to know, and its about twainee life. As a twainee, when you get appointed in leadership roles, you're probably in a bunch of deep sh!t. When appointed, your number 1 goal is to find a good shovel, and dig your way out of the pile of sh!t. Word of advice, no matter how deep, 1m, 2m, 10km deep, JUST WORK and DIG with all your might. And hope, the next guy who assumes your role, will take a longer time digging his way out than you did. If you don't understand its ok, it just means you have yet to put on your "Completed Sai-Kang" training badge. Well, don't rush it. There's probably "Sai-Kang proficiency level 1" and "level 2" achievement somewhere down the line.
Long way to go~ Push on !
P.s. saw my tehkong sarge during dinner todae, probably recognised me, wanted to tell him i went to sh!tspek, but didn't. I didn't want him to have the impression he had influenced a single bit in my journey to become an ahmi leader. I simply had lots of bad karma thats all =)
Speaking of being zombie-like, i am currently feeling the transformation in me right now. Not exactly a baaad thing in my aspect ( thinking positively
Yes. Positive energy. That's what i need, especially next week when i once again embrace the mud grass trees insects, moths ants and their millions of cousins in the forest for another FIVE days. Wow ! Imagine how much fresh air i would breath during then! I could probably extend my lifespan from 30 yrs to maybe 30.5 years. Who knows ~!
Next part is skip-able. A bit about ahmi stuff that some people might want to know, and its about twainee life. As a twainee, when you get appointed in leadership roles, you're probably in a bunch of deep sh!t. When appointed, your number 1 goal is to find a good shovel, and dig your way out of the pile of sh!t. Word of advice, no matter how deep, 1m, 2m, 10km deep, JUST WORK and DIG with all your might. And hope, the next guy who assumes your role, will take a longer time digging his way out than you did. If you don't understand its ok, it just means you have yet to put on your "Completed Sai-Kang" training badge. Well, don't rush it. There's probably "Sai-Kang proficiency level 1" and "level 2" achievement somewhere down the line.
Long way to go~ Push on !
P.s. saw my tehkong sarge during dinner todae, probably recognised me, wanted to tell him i went to sh!tspek, but didn't. I didn't want him to have the impression he had influenced a single bit in my journey to become an ahmi leader. I simply had lots of bad karma thats all =)
Sunday, January 04, 2009
273 : 結婚する? はやい!
I guess there's a first time for everything. Some might think its too early, or too stupid, but there's someone i know in ahmi who's getting married next saturday.
As there's not much time to get any gifts or ask for the consent of the whole bunk to figure our something to do to that person, i've volunteered to get him for everyone, a simple greeting card.
I've bought birthday cards, made my own birthday cards, happy mothers day card, happy children's day card, so many other special occasions that i'm not sure anymore which one's more important anymore.
But never have i bought a "Happy Wedding Day" card. I'm not sure what type of stuff i should write on it too. As experience has taught me, JUST WHACK AR.
The lucky guy getting married this year is as old as me, 21 this year. The lucky lady is also 21 this year, and according to intel, a few months older than the guy. You might be thinking, shotgun la ! But nooooooo, its not the case. This person from ahmi is of great integrity, so much it scares the little devil out of me. He's always the first to wash the toilet, something others will surely procrastinate to do. Sometimes i even wonder, am i doing enough ?
I wish him all the best, no matter how early everyone thinks his marriage is. Is it a pursue for something formal on paper, or just they just want to be "legal"... haha its debatable, but whatever it is, i'm super cool with it. Ultimately, the ideal age for ladies to impregnate is at 25 years. You can't have EVERYONE having kids at late 30s reaching 40s.
Maybe the ahmi should reward him for doing the country a big favour for fighting the ageing population crisis....
As there's not much time to get any gifts or ask for the consent of the whole bunk to figure our something to do to that person, i've volunteered to get him for everyone, a simple greeting card.
I've bought birthday cards, made my own birthday cards, happy mothers day card, happy children's day card, so many other special occasions that i'm not sure anymore which one's more important anymore.
But never have i bought a "Happy Wedding Day" card. I'm not sure what type of stuff i should write on it too. As experience has taught me, JUST WHACK AR.
The lucky guy getting married this year is as old as me, 21 this year. The lucky lady is also 21 this year, and according to intel, a few months older than the guy. You might be thinking, shotgun la ! But nooooooo, its not the case. This person from ahmi is of great integrity, so much it scares the little devil out of me. He's always the first to wash the toilet, something others will surely procrastinate to do. Sometimes i even wonder, am i doing enough ?
I wish him all the best, no matter how early everyone thinks his marriage is. Is it a pursue for something formal on paper, or just they just want to be "legal"... haha its debatable, but whatever it is, i'm super cool with it. Ultimately, the ideal age for ladies to impregnate is at 25 years. You can't have EVERYONE having kids at late 30s reaching 40s.
Maybe the ahmi should reward him for doing the country a big favour for fighting the ageing population crisis....
272 : Running, panting and more running
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You will run, run, run and run in here. No one fails their run. You will love running." - An over enthusiastic leader
You will run, run, run and run in here. No one fails their run. You will love running." - An over enthusiastic leader
When they said, it was 4 klick every morning, i thought, aiya, can't be la, where got run so much one. You won't even have time for breakfast, you wanna run so far...but we still did it anyways.
Well, i guess running have got its perks. Your breathe becomes stronger, you have better stamina, you will sweat A LOT, which means, detoxification, and you will slim down, not just the leg areas but the core muscles as well ( spare tires ).
No wonder, when i was sipping coffee at borders just now in the evening, some guys were talking how "easy" it was for their 42 klick run/jog. Back then, 42 is an imaginary number when it comes down to running. MARATHONS are just out of my spectrum of imagination, i think i hit 10 klick i want to peng san liao, thats an assumption there though.... Never try, never know.
Considering there are 5 days a week, each week in training we'll AT LEAST cover 20 klick running distance. Over a period of 8 weeks, that would be well under 160km. That's about the distance of from here (home) to the end of malaysia's johore state. I think like this quite xiong already, i wonder how the orh-fist-sirs twainee are doing, they're probably fit since the beginning.
There's a lot of talk and unhappiness about landing our asses in silly spec around inside our 2nd home. Many of us WANTS to jump over and become orh-fist-sirs. Yes i agree the perks and recognition is there... but doing things to sabotage others and staging a farce just ain't the way to go. I'm sending out a warning to all silly people out there, don't wahyang too much, or the wahahayang will get back to you in the future.
I'll end off with a simple statement : 2 day break is just... shiok!
Well, i guess running have got its perks. Your breathe becomes stronger, you have better stamina, you will sweat A LOT, which means, detoxification, and you will slim down, not just the leg areas but the core muscles as well ( spare tires ).
No wonder, when i was sipping coffee at borders just now in the evening, some guys were talking how "easy" it was for their 42 klick run/jog. Back then, 42 is an imaginary number when it comes down to running. MARATHONS are just out of my spectrum of imagination, i think i hit 10 klick i want to peng san liao, thats an assumption there though.... Never try, never know.
Considering there are 5 days a week, each week in training we'll AT LEAST cover 20 klick running distance. Over a period of 8 weeks, that would be well under 160km. That's about the distance of from here (home) to the end of malaysia's johore state. I think like this quite xiong already, i wonder how the orh-fist-sirs twainee are doing, they're probably fit since the beginning.
There's a lot of talk and unhappiness about landing our asses in silly spec around inside our 2nd home. Many of us WANTS to jump over and become orh-fist-sirs. Yes i agree the perks and recognition is there... but doing things to sabotage others and staging a farce just ain't the way to go. I'm sending out a warning to all silly people out there, don't wahyang too much, or the wahahayang will get back to you in the future.
I'll end off with a simple statement : 2 day break is just... shiok!
Thursday, January 01, 2009
271 : 新しい朝
This year, will be a year with little things to be bothered about. Hmmm, sounds good eh. There's too many things that we should be worried and concerned about now, money, jobs, security, terrorism, dwindling population... blah blah blah, SEE... too much.
Of course, we can just be indifferent, and toss all these things aside.
LETS JUST DO THAT.
Guess i'm just not too noble or responsible enough, ahah brings back memories about the time when i was working on a social responsibilty poster.... NOT.
With a new dawn and another fun filled loving 364 days ahead of us, we were asked by our lao da to come up with a new year resolution, a VISION for the future. Honestly, i think its bullshit, but realistically, people like bullshit. It makes people grow up, mature and to be liked by others. Its the foundation of our society =)
I guess for the year, as an ahmi men, i can't do much. I can't like previous years, hope and target to get good grades for school, or as a normal person, aim to be rich. Getting rich with ur 490$ ahmi pay is gonna take more than a little while.
So, to make things simple ( as things SHOULD already be simple), I'll like to declare that this year :
Of course, we can just be indifferent, and toss all these things aside.
LETS JUST DO THAT.
Guess i'm just not too noble or responsible enough, ahah brings back memories about the time when i was working on a social responsibilty poster.... NOT.
With a new dawn and another fun filled loving 364 days ahead of us, we were asked by our lao da to come up with a new year resolution, a VISION for the future. Honestly, i think its bullshit, but realistically, people like bullshit. It makes people grow up, mature and to be liked by others. Its the foundation of our society =)
I guess for the year, as an ahmi men, i can't do much. I can't like previous years, hope and target to get good grades for school, or as a normal person, aim to be rich. Getting rich with ur 490$ ahmi pay is gonna take more than a little while.
So, to make things simple ( as things SHOULD already be simple), I'll like to declare that this year :
Let's all be happy.
Its not just me trying to be happy and all, its about YOU being happy. Yes YOU reading all these darn words over here. Let's just be satisfied with the little things around us. Be appreciative (see prev post).
That brings about the question, how do we all be happy ? That, my dear readers, its the answer we all should be searching for starting now, and maybe when you found the answer, you can publish a book about it and earn lots of money...
...just maybe.
I'll just be happy that i get to hold super kick assed weapons and shoot imaginary enemies that doesn't shoot back.
That brings about the question, how do we all be happy ? That, my dear readers, its the answer we all should be searching for starting now, and maybe when you found the answer, you can publish a book about it and earn lots of money...
...just maybe.
I'll just be happy that i get to hold super kick assed weapons and shoot imaginary enemies that doesn't shoot back.
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