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As some of you may have glimpsed from my Plurk three days ago, I went to Wai Hong’s house on Friday night for his belated birthday party/potluck dinner. I walked over at nearly 8.30pm when WH told me on MSN that he just finished bathing and heard Shawn’s voice downstairs, and when I reached there, I found out there was only two of us guests lol. I thought Shawn would come together with the rest.

Anyway, we went upstairs to WH’s room and lepak for a while, then when Sarah and Esther arrived, we went to the kitchen to start.. feasting! We were quite hungry by then, and couldn’t wait anymore for these latecomers anymore.

(As usual, some pics below may be clickable to enlarge.)

Shawn and Sarah with Sarah’s 2 homemade pizzas (one of which was burnt lol). The non-burnt one was delicious (and a little spicy)!

3 dishes of sushi of various types which WH kindly bought for us!! Mmm heavenly.

Shawn getting his aglio olio prepared – it was a little cold when he brought it here, so he had to reheat it again by cooking it in the wok.

Esther, Sarah, Wai Hong

Then Ding arrived (who asked on a telephone conversation with WH where the party was supposed to be wtf) bringing a dozen of IKEA currypuffs, then followed by Andy with a Secret Recipe birthday cake that some of us shared.

Birthday boy.

Shawn eating something (shot with 50mm).

Esther making a funny face while eating.

Me trying to find out what’s the nearest route to PJ with Andy’s N95, which Esther is pro at ‘cause she worked with Nokia before for a roadshow (no we didn’t find out ‘cause Andy’s Nokia Maps was outdated and lacked the function she needed).

After finally feeling full and cleaned up the kitchen table for a bit, we played Jenga or whatever it’s called – the Uno Stacko variant.

Why so serious Shawn wtf.

We laughed a lot while playing this – making stupid bets (which obviously no one has the gall to do) like running around the neighbourhood naked and pulling the loser’s ‘ball hair’ HAHAHHA.

Jengjengjeng jatuh! (Actually I’ve been sitting there with the camera ready for ages waiting to snap this moment.) Contrary to what the picture may suggest, it wasn’t Shawn who dropped it.. my memory fails me right now as to who was the actual loser.

Deep in concentration for another game.

Oh then Jon and Eeleen arrived while we were in the middle of an intense Jenga game wtf.

Esther before she lost – the bet was eating a mouthful of wasabi wtf.

I swear this photo looks wrong on every level ‘cause it looks like a rape scene wtf, what with Andy taking a photo/video on his N95, and Shawn beckoning Ding to restrain her wtf. Also note the green wasabi in Shawn’s hands.

Really looks wrong hahahahha said wasabi was shoved into Esther’s mouth wtf. And she erm threw them back out into the wastepaper basket.

I also lost the next Jenga game and my punishment was.. to eat 2 IKEA curry puffs wtf. It’s considered a punishment for me ‘cause I was bloody full, and managed to stuff in one.

Then time to sing the birthday song! The cake actually said, “Happy Belated Birthday to Uncle Hong Hong” wtf.

Clapping and singing the birthday song.

About to blow the birthday cake.

Blowing the birthday cake.

Forced to pluck out the candles with his mouth wtf.

We had to wait for Jon to come back from fetching Eeleen back. Unusual group photo where everyone stands up wtf, but again my Gorillapod found its usefulness here and had to dangle it on top a stack of something, and my ultra-wide angle lens obviously couldn’t zoom in that much.

Mrs. Lim looked a little behsong, so we went back to my house and they lepaked in my room.. and then laughed like shit over our old u8 videos.. where we looked really nub wtf.

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On Saturday night at about 7.40pm, I woke up from my nap with a suspected symptom of conjunctivitis ‘cause my right eye was all teary and red, and I had a sudden bout of running nose. I wiped my right eye vigorously with copious amount of tissue papers, and then blew out my mucus, and well about an hour later I seemed okay again.

At about 8.30pm, Ding picked me up to Shawn’s house to do our Japanese homework, and I ate my tapau-ed chicken rice there. We did it for a while, watched the first quarter of Die Hard 4.0 on HBO or something which was getting interesting, then had to leave at about 10.40pm to Sze Vien’s house for an after-party meal. Andy dropped by at Shawn’s place, so we had him in Shawn’s car and picked up Sarah too.. and later at Sze Vien’s place we found out that it was her brother’s wedding dinner or sommat, and we weren’t exactly dressed up for the occasion.

Sze Vien called us actually to try and finish her remainder of buffet food for her wtf which we failed to do so as there was soooo much and I’ve actually just eaten. So I merely ate the finger snacks like crab meat nugget thingies and fish nuggets.. and a cup of beer to go with. At 12.30am-ish, we went back home, Shawn fetched me to the 7-Eleven behind my house to get the Eno (where I was being friendly to the counter guy, ‘cause he was as well, also noting his late shift and all) to help me with my bloatedness/indigestion that has been there since evening, then reached home at nearly 1am.

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Sunday at about 11am, I went to the Maxis centre at Carrefour to try and port over to postpaid Maxis from my current prepaid DiGi.. and tada!! ..I am still a DiGi user zzz because apparently my prepaid has to be under my dad’s name if I were to get a supplementary line under my dad. Sigh why so mafan!

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Sorry to break the little happy spell on this entry, but as nearly all of you would’ve heard and known by now.. recent shocking politically-motivated ISA arrests were made.

I’m a little concerned at where our dear country is heading to – Friday midnight when the u8 gang came to my room, I surfed Plurk and Malaysiakini and found out the horrible ISA arrests our government pulled on RPK, the Sin Chew journalist, and Teresa Kok – and the reasons they gave ranged from the ridiculous to the most egg-headed.

Really, Mr. Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar, do you think we, members of the public, are stupid when you say that the police arrested Tan Hoon Cheng for her personal safety? How fucking stupid is that when the arrest was made under the draconian ISA – I am incredulous at the statement. The mind boggles when Ahmad Ismail was left scot-free with merely a 3-year suspension from UMNO, and the perpetrator even planned to do a roadshow throughout the country to explain himself? Why is that not stopped for “inciting racial disharmony”? Why is it that Khir Toyo and Utusan Malaysia are not punished under ISA for “starting this whole thing” that led to Teresa Kok being nabbed over a preposterous accusation made by Khir Toyol, when Ms Tan was arrested and Sin Chew was sent a show-cause letter?

Why is it that my country always has to make itself a laughing stock with the rest of the world? Why are the majority of the politicians in this country corrupt, has the IQ of an elephant, and love issuing unintelligent statements that are nearly always hilariously ridiculous?

I am upset, disappointed, angry, and getting disillusioned day by day by the ways of our country. If they think that they can pull off something to cause racial tension and disharmony and social unrest so that the can strengthen their stay in power, well, they’re sorely mistaken. Today isn’t 1969 anymore. Today is 2008 where information is free and uncensored and most of us who care about the country are educated and intelligent.

If one day my country falls into a state of complete disarray and moral bankruptcy, I am giving up my Malaysian citizenship for real.