29 December we be Thumping!
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We punish kids for shop-lifting,
We let politicians get away with murder…..
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My little Christmas
Think Christmas is over? Well you’re Wrong!!!!! 12 days of Christmas baby!
Which leaves 7 days left!
As always Christmas came and everything got glittery and and flickery all around. Everywhere you go, you’d see Christmas trees all decorated with Metallic Coated Balls and Flickering lights. Well, most places anyways.
Here’s what’s sitting in my house…
the family Christmas Tree in all its glory
and this is what’s sitting beside the it…
OMG!!! It’s a MINIATURE CRIB!!!!
It was a present from my aunts in the Carmelite Monastery from several years ago. They’re very handy at making these religious objects. Through enough, they did a Wonderful job at making this crib customly made for the little figures of the Holy Family, the sheperd, and the 3 wise men they had given us a year earlier.
The church was fully decorated for the occasion as well
Shaky hands…….
it’s life-sized!!!
So like every year before, we were at homing, counting the minutes before we had to leave for Midnight mass on Christmas eve.
Getting into the Christmas mood, i decided to go downstairs and listen to the chimes of the my Singing Bells (Yes, they Were put up after all XD).
Just as i got out of my room on the second floor, i saw…..
HUH!?!
A BAT!!! IN THE CEILING!!!!!
This little fellow was just Hanging there chillin’ like one of the Christmas decorations downstairs!!
i froze and the first thing i thought was…..
"Wow~ COOL~!!!"
Then, all hell heaven broke loose when we tried to get it out out of the house!!!
Something SomethingZ | Comment (0)23 December Silly Billy
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i used to wonder…
"Why do they call the day after Christmas ‘Boxing Day’? Clearly, we do the exact opposite of packing on this day. And yet, we still call it Boxing day?"
"i wonder if envious sibblings fighting over some toy has something to do with it…."
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Yet another Seasonal Entry
There’s actually another celebration that comes about the same time as Christmas. In fact, it’s just a few days before the Bing Jingle Ling Ling.
It’s none other that the Chinese Celebration of "冬至", or Winter solstice.
Unlike most Chinese Celebrations, whice depend on the Lunar calender, the time for this celebration depends on the Solar Calender. This is no joke
So like every year, my parents went and bought some daugh to make 湯圓, which can directly translated into….soup balls….believe me it tastes better than it sounds. There are many ways of preparing it but my family seem to like cooking the Balls in syrup and pandan leaves.
Just for the fun of tradition, we all sat down and began rolling the daugh into little Balls. Well, at least we tried. This is how most of the dough turned out though….
poring! poring!! PORING!!!!
Come to think of it, it wasn’t just the shape…..but the pinkish colour as well.
Something SomethingZ | Comment (1)22 December not myself
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One day, while i was listening to the radio….
"……illegal racing is not a Sprot…."
hmm…..Sprot eh……
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My reflection of Christmas
Being born into a Catholic family, naturally means that my family has been celebrating Christmas ever since i could even remember.
Guess you could say, i grew up with Christmas.
Every year, whenever Christmas came around, my family would start the yearly routine…..
24th December, going to Mid-night mass…
25th December, Christmas Morning Mass (which i’ve always found an excuse to escape)
26th December, Time to open Presents~~~~~~
i recall back when i were a kid, when things were very less complicated. Back then, the sight of a fat, bearded man in a red and white costume never failed to thrill me. i guess i knew that i’d get something from him no matter how naughty i had been, despite what the song says,"..he knows when you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sakes!"
Yes, back then, it was all about presents, presents and more Presents~~~
Time seem to pass so quickly. As i got older, i finally realized that Christmas shouldn’t only be about presents. It should be about SHOPPING!! Err….. i mean celebrating the festival with family.
Though my family isn’t very big, everyone’s always busy with their own business. Christmas was a time when all my uncles, aunts and cousins came together. We’d all sit down together and have a pot-luck(every brings a dish or two) style family dinner. And every year, the adults would force urge the younger generation(namely me and my cousins) to sing Christmas Carols. And it’s always starts out a with every feeling a bit shy. But when the motors warm-up, there’s really no stopping.
It’s also a time when whe whole family would visit my 2 aunts in Carmelite Monastery. Queues another scene of Adults forcing urging the younger generation to sing carols.
But i guess you could say, it’s the Chai Family Tradition. Gotta love it.
There was a time when i though Christmas wasn’t going to happen in my heart. (Queues the song "Christmas isn’t Christmas"). It was a time of drepression, a time of much loneliness, and a time of deep thought. However, glitter from the decorations and lights of the Christmas tree sitting in a corner of the house and the caroling chimes from the set of Singing Bells (which i am still yet to put up this year) were irresistable. The season is never-failing.
Christmas is around the corner again….
The seasonal rainfalls are also here.
Shopping malls are decorated with the usual holiday designs once more.
The Crib with Baby Jesus lying in the manger is sitting in the Church Compound once more.
Kids are Running Wild in Malls, kicking and screaming for parents to buy them the latest Toys…
Ah….Christmas draws near…..
Jesus is to be born, and the world rejoices….
well, one way or another, that is.
21 December Count Down to Christmas~
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i ready this in a book long time ago…
"The Great Wall of China was built to keep out the Mogrels"
it was early one holiday morning and i freaked my parents with a sudden burst of loud laughter….
Dad though i had gone hysterical after the finals…..
i didn’t know what made him think that way, but i guess the fact that i was in my underwear, half way through my morning routines had something to do with it….
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The Twelve days of Christmas
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me~
A PSP just for me~
On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me~
2 gigs of ram, and a PSP just for me~
On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me~
Playstation 3, 2 gigs of ram, and a PSP just for me~
On the forth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me~
4 Chocolate bars, Playstation 3, 2 gigs of ram, and a PSP just for me~
On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me~
5 UnderpantS~
4 Chocolate bars, Playstation 3, 2 gigs of ram, and a PSP just for me~
On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me~
6 kuku jiao
5 UnderpantS~
4 Chocolate bars, Playstation 3, 2 gigs of ram, and a PSP just for me~
On the seventh day of Chrstmas, my true love gave to me~
7 black cats, 6 kuku jiao
5 UnderpantS~
4 Chocolate bars, Playstation 3, 2 gigs of ram, and a PSP just for me~
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
8 flying kisses, 7 black cats, 6 kuku jiao
5 UnderpantS~
4 Chocolate bars, Playstation 3, 2 gigs of ram, and a PSP just for me~
On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me~
9 months of pain, 8 flying kisses, 7 black cats, 6 kuku jiao
5 UnderpantS~
4 Chocolate bars, Playstation 3, 2 gigs of ram, and a PSP just for me~
On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me~
10 for UOW gathering, 9 months of pain, 8 flying kisses, 7 black cats, 6 kuku jiao
5 UnderpantS~
4 Chocolate bars, Playstation 3, 2 gigs of ram, and a PSP just for me~
On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me~
11 Terrapins, 10 for UOW gathering, 9 months of pain, 8 flying kisses, 7 black cats, 6 kuku jiao
5 UnderpantS~
4 Chocolate bars, Playstation 3, 2 gigs of ram, and a PSP just for me~
On the twelvth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me~
Final Fantasy 12, 11 Terrapins, 10 for UOW gathering, 9 months of pain, 8 flying kisses, 7 black cats, 6 kuku jiao
5 UnderpantS~
4 Chocolate bars, Playstation 3, 2 gigs of ram, and a PSP just for me~
Something SomethingZ | Comments (4)20 December might be good?
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I love you,
You love me,
Let’s tie Barney to a tree,
And let’s light him up
and watch him shake with shock~
That’s a pretty Christmas tree~!
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What do You want for Christmas?
i was at dinner the other night, Mum asked me…
Mum : So, what do you want for this Christmas?
me : Huh?! Aiyor~ i so old liaw still need to buy presents meh???
Mum : Nolah, yi su yi su mah~
me : No need lah~ Not a small kid anymore lah, dun need presents liaw lah
Mum : hahaha~~
Presents~ Wrapped-up gifts with purpose of surprising kids when they open them during Boxing day (the day after Christmas loh~)!
Back in the day, i used to be a brat when Christmas time came around. i’d be the one asking for what i wanted. i remember several occasions that i’d open up the present even before Christmas day and play around with it a while, then put everything back into the box, wrap it up, and place it back under the Christmas tree.
Yes! i CHEATED. XD
Back then, gift were so easy to choose. And for me, i usually had to bear with not getting what i hoped for. But, Hey! Life’s like that loh~ Cannot do anything about it leH~
These days, i still, Sometimes, take a straw down the toy section in the departmental store, not because i’m looking for soemthing for myself, but because i wanted to take a look at what kind of toys they have now.
So much has changed all through the years. Such simple things as Lego has become so much Complicated. What ever happened to the simple smily face that used to be on the Lego people’s heads. Now, the faces have become so, how should i put it, colourful. i guess they just wanted to make it more detailed……i wonder when they’re going to do the same to Barbie dolls, when they put in actual life-like body parts for Barbie and Kent dolls…….
Times like this i’m glad i’m a kid anymore.
(So go Screw yourselves! Kids whom sang the "I don’t wanna grow up" song for Toys ‘R’ Us!)
19 December here we go~
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Ten years from now….
i’ll be asking a kid on the street…
me: hey kid, do you know what Christmas is about?
Kid: Of Course! It’s about snowmen~ Christmas Trees~ Presents~ and Santa~
me: errr…….What about Christ?
Kid: Christ? What Christ?!
me: Christmas is suppose to be celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, didn’t you know?
Kid: Don’t be silly! For someone your age, you sure are clueless about Christmas!
me: …….
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Santa Coca Cola~
Christmas isn’t Christmas~
Till it happens~
In your heart~~~~
Thus another year is nearing the end. Which means…..Chrismas is creeping up on us once more.
These days, so many festivals have been commercialized. Yup! Christmas is one of the icons of this phenomenon.
What is Christmas about?
Is it about the Christmas trees?
NO~~~~!!!!!
Presents~?
NO~~~~~~~!!!!!!!
Oh! i know! Santa Clause!!!!!!!
…..Go screw yourself…..
Then what Is it about!?
THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST!!!!
Yes! We’ve been Had! And it’s all the media’s fault!
Take Santa Claus…
Does any know who Santa Claus really was??
No, he’s not the over-weight, old guy in bright-red clothing with fur…..
in fact he looks like this……
Meet Darth Sedious….i mean St Nicholas.
Long ago, there was a poor father who’s daughters wanted to get married. But he was too poor to pay the drowry (apparently, different from our Asian tradition, the bride had to pay….).
When St Nicholas learnt about this, he snuck to the father’s house in the middle of the night and threw a bag of gold in through the window.
The next morning, the father was amazed. He swore to find out who did the good deed.
So when the time came for his second daughter to get married, he faced the same problem. And as predicted, along came St Nicholas to throw "donate" another bag of gold. Only this time, the father was awake and when St Nicholas threw the bag through the window, it hit him on the head and he died……..
Just Kidding!
The father rushed out and caught hold of St Nicholas. Despite St Nicholas’s plead for it to be kept secret, the father told everyone about it.
There you have it! The story of St Nicholas….
But how did St Nicholas become….this…..
this guy probably have heart-attacks, diabetes, and high blood pressure…
Well, here’s the culprit…..
yup……no joke….it’s true!
Yupe! That’s how the Red and White Santa Claus came to be……and don’t even try to ask how "St Nicholas" became "Santa Claus"!
actually i have no idea…….
But my guess is, something was lost in the translation…..
Yes! Christmas isn’t Christmas till you’ve had Coca Cola~!
Wonder what they’ll change next…..maybe instead of saying "Merry Christmas", we’ll say "Merry Coca Cola" next……
Something SomethingZ | Comment (0)16 December pretty weird….
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How different are we from the beasts,
When we slaughter and murder our own fathers and mothers,
for slightest reasons as money….
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Weak, we have become…..
Yesterday, i heard at home that some kid committed suicide….
No, it wasn’t because his girlfriend left him….
and
No, it wasn’t just because he failed every single subject in his finals….
and no, it wasn’t because he owes too many people money that he had to take his own life to escape the enormous debt…..that’s another guy…..
He killed himself, just because his mother refused to upgrade his computer and limited his gaming time to 7hrs per day.
Why upgrade?
So that he could Play Online Games, better….
Oh, but there’s more…..
He left a suicide note, stating which of his belongings will be given to whom…..
and get this…
His friend gets his computer!
And all his other belongings will be give to other friends as well!
When heard this, i was like
"WHAT! THE! F*CK!"
This Brat, i didn’t quite get how old he was, killed himself by sticking an electric wire to his body (i heard wrist ). Well, i don’t know if he was trying to turn himself into Blanka from Street Fighter, or trying to give himself lightning element……instead, he turned into a human jerky.
For what?!
For the reason his parents limited his online gaming hours to 7hrs max.
Yes, 7hrs! Who the hell could sit infront of a computer staring at a screen that Long!? The longest record i had was like, 5~6hrs! 7hrs! That’s already TOO LONG, Dude!
Bet he didn’t know people can get cancer being too close to the computer monitor too long.
So he tried to turn himself into Blanka…..
It’s frightening to see weird things like this happening. As i recall, this isn’t the first MMORPG related death. Not long ago, i remember reading about another incident about a kid killing himself after playing WOW (Worlds of Warcraft)! And he left all his items and equipment in the game to his online pals!
WTF!
How weak can the human race become!?
Something SomethingZ | Comment (1)14 December wen Bam!
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Have you ever noticed?
How several students tend to look almost identical to your old schoolmates when you return to you old high school years later?
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It Shook!
Well, i was prepared to write about kittens and puppies or any other korny thing i could think about…..but i guess after the incident this morning, i guess i’m just not into it now….
It was just another morning drive to work…right, Was……
i was on my usual route to work, and when i came to the exit to the round about in front of King Centre, i stopped. Well who wouldn’t. At the time i noticed that i was following a Proton Waja. And when my car finally got the the edge of the stop, i looked to see if ther was any traffic coming my way, before i stepped on my accelarator to move into the round about.
Well, any sane driver would do that……but any sane driver would’ve looked in front before trying to rush into the round about….
i guess i’m just not too sane….
WHAM!
i felt a shock sitting in the little seat of my Nissan Sunny……
Wholy Crap! Little Sunny here just kissed the ass of the Waja in front of me…..
So i got out, and waited for the driver to emerge from the Waja. And hence, he did. He was a guy a, i would say, in his late 30s or early 40s. Slightly shorter than i am wearing a pair of specs……
What came to my mind was astounding…..
"OMG….IT’s ME IN 10~20 Years!"
errr….ok……
Right so we stared at each other for a while and then we looked at the damage. Then he asked what i was planning to do….
Well, it was inevitably my fault……so i apologized and we walked off…..
Yeah Right!…..
We were half way though our conversation when the traffic police came up to us to tell, no Order the both of us to move our vehicles to another spot as we Were after all causing a jam.
So we did.
i gave him my business card, and told him to check how much repairs will cost. In a way i offered to pay for the repairs.
He then gave me his business card and i told him that i will also check with a friend about the costs.
i consider myself lucky. Mr. Kho (the driver) seems to be quite a reasonable man. At least i hope he is.
Anyways…..all i found out that one of my former classmates is owns a repair shop. i plan to take him there.
Well, i guess everything’s okay. i hope.
Ack! That's Life! | Comment (1)9 November in the dump
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The more you try to keep someone from something,
the more he will be hurt by it,
one way or another……
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Denial….indeed…
Maybe i’m just making too much of a fuss about it….
But undeniably, it still hurts….
Nothing beats the pain of loosing someone you’ve learnt to love…..
Yes, i’m in denial.
i am reluctant to believe that a cute puppy like Sien Sien is gone.
He seemed to have a bright future infront of him.
Yet, life showed its ugly face to him….
His life was short…..too short…….
It may seem rather strange or stupid even to others,
how i can miss a mere puppy so much,
you can call me a wierdo all you like, i don’t care.
i know i miss him and i know there’s nothing wrong with it.
Strange how so many things around you can remind you of someone when you’re missing the them….
i was on my way to pick Crystalcrismoon for lunch the other day when i saw a dog which, i though, maybe how Sien Sien would look like in if he had the chance to grow up.
Darn……it’s hard……but i know the feeling will go away soon…..
As it did when Snowball died…….
i love all my dogs……though i know sometimes i don’t show them enough love…..but i love them…….they are part of my family….
7 December’s skies turned grey…
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Why does it always seem that…..
the ones you love always leave too soon….
yet the ones you hate seem to cheat death….
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Sien liaw…..Rest liaw……..
My family has always been keeping dogs ever since i could remember….
All through the years, they come and they go…..
And yet, i never have gotten used to the feeling of loosing a pet. it hurts deeply. And it seems to hurt more as i get older and worse when i’ve actually grown too attached to the pet.
Though how much i had wished the day wouldn’t have to come, it arrived, and came to pass.
Yesterday marked the end of a little life.
A life that may seem insignificant to many.
Yet a life that had made its way into the reaches of my heart.
meet Sien Sien…..
It was almost like yesterday that he was born. And just as life was just begining, fate caught up and brought it to a stop…
And it was only a few months old….
Sien Sien was born with physical deformity. His rig-cage was born more flat than normal. Could’ve been inherited from the father, Bian Bian, but he turned out alright.
Despite his physical condition it managed to learn to walk faster than his elder brother, Hiaw Hiaw. He even learnt the basics of the command "Sit Down!" and showed more bravery when it came to trying new things.
There were a few times when Hiaw Hiaw hesitated to do something, like jump off one step of stairs, Sien Sien would urge him my pushing him off. It looked as if…
Hiaw Hiaw: "Gosh that’s so high……I can’t do it….."
Sien Sien: "Ahh~ Shut up and just Jump!"
Sadly, life wasn’t fair for his active little soul….
A few days ago, Dad noticed that Sien Sien was having trouble breathing. At first, we thought that he was just tired about playing so hard with Bian Bian. But things got worse as days went by. Up till the night before yesterday, it was natural that we send he to the vet.
The news came back like a stab in the heart. The vet comfirmed our worst fears that Sien Sien’s condition was indeed caused by its deformity. Though he did say that he would do what ever he could.
i call Dad the next day, which was yesterday, from my office on my cell. and found out that Sien Sien had gone during the night.
My heart shatter……
It would’ve been better if i could cry, but i can’t….
Life is unfair…..and there’s nothing we could do about it….
i know i’ve been brought up to believe that animals do not have souls…..but i guess i just want to believe that Sien Sien is in a better place, away from all the suffering he went though…..
one of those lazy Sunday afternoons….that’s Hiaw Hiaw on the left
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