saigoheiki.com

About a week or two ago, Shawn’s mum was advising us to be careful because her friend was kidnapped.. and then just two days ago I was reading from Yen’s latest entry that the poor man was killed. :(

Funnily enough when I went for my Chinese class that night, all 3 of my other classmates were discussing his murder for about 10 minutes wtf and apparently they knew of him as well as he was quite popular at the Lakeview Club. And the circumstances surrounding his murder was quite senseless: he was kidnapped at midnight after a drinking session and never returned home, for three consecutive days RM2000 was withdrawn from the ATM each day, and about a week later they found his bloated body at the Sungai Buluh river, with a burnt Mercedes in the jungle/at the river bank nearby.

Then there was a similar case where this 30+ salesman from Putra Heights was kidnapped and murdered the same way, and the police were beginning to suspect a syndicate that’s organising this extremely heinous crime. Fucking scary lah seriously when it’s happening so close to home (Uncle Alan Kwek, the first murder victim, was living at USJ 11) that makes you want to think twice before venturing out at night.

For the first time in my life, that cosy secure bubble wrapping around my existence has been burst and honestly I don’t feel safe anymore. I think when I was in Laos or Thailand 5 months ago when anything – really – could happen, I felt far more safer then than I feel right now.

It’s one thing to rob a person, it’s another to just take his/her life without justification outright. I suppose it’s probably too late to finally figure out that humanity has descended into a lower level when lives are taken without a thought – we’re probably exposed too much to tragedies on the television and in the newspapers that we feel that such things are a normal everyday occurrence until it hits closer to home.

For some odd reason, from these tragedies I found the clichéd phrase about “living your life each day as if it were the last” to be so damn true. And I’ve been wanting a DSLR for some time since last year and have been putting off the purchase because I thought an interest in photography needn’t be so expensive, but there’s only so much you can do with a typical point-and-shoot.

I’ve been giving serious thoughts about a DSLR for the past 2 days, doing my research and all. But my eyes boggled on discovering a flash unit could cost about RM600 and lenses.. depending on what kind, up to RM9000 or more WTFBBQ.

---

And on Thursday night, Jon brought me and Ding out on a spin with his newly-purchased second-hand Vios to Murni SS2. I think it has been almost a month since the three of us last hung out together (usually at Jon’s place).

Then yesterday Heng dropped by at my place in the afternoon to lepak and watched Prison Break Season 3 on my laptop. At night about 7.30pm, I departed from home to Andy’s house to pick up Andy, Kai Tzin, and Esther (Ding was apparently sick), while the other car consisted of Heng, Jess, and Sarah. We all went to Sunway Pyramid to Sushi Zanmei for dinner – true to our Japanese Month theme wtf (and in Andy’s words, “it’s cheaper than Kim Gary”).

Sorry I have to rush this entry ‘cause I realised it’s already Saturday and I’m absolutely not ready for my two exams on this coming Monday at all.

The other table with Sarah, Jess, Kai Tzin, and Esther.

Sarah and Jess. I love the ambience here – lovely warm lighting and comfortable environment, and we were given a semi-private room which was kinda cool.

Andy, me, Heng. Sigh after a month or so did I only realise that my hair super nub lah beh tahan (cue long story about an angry hairdresser that resulted with my bad hair).

Sarah and Jess again.

Andy’s and my sukiyaki – the soup was deliciously sweet (but pretty much left me with a sickeningly numb tongue) and the beef slices were top-notch when we dipped it into the hotpot and then the bowl of egg yolk.

Esther, Sarah, Jess.

I like candid shots.

Esther, Sarah, Andy, me.

And we were also being over-friendly towards a young fair-skinned waitress there whom we found out is from Indonesia and is currently studying Hotel Management at Taylor’s, doing her internship at Sushi Zanmei.

At about 10pm plus we parted ways at Starbucks Old Wing (bought a marble cheesecake with Kai Tzin’s 30% discount, finally couldn’t resist it any longer) with Jess and Heng who were joining their Form 6 friends for yumcha, then after realising that I forgot to refill my wallet with the Lactaid pills, went back to my house to pick them up (and some Marketing notes) and then went to Shawn’s house to lepak – no drinking this time around.

Watched the last 20 minutes of Ah Long Pte Ltd, talked crap for a long, long time (while I slept halfway through) and then reached home at 3am.