We’re still locked in a cellar.

Project 365 #33: Wednesday, 18th March 2009

Found out from Khai Shin that our Law of Investment assignment has to be passed up next Monday. And here I was trying to enjoy my miserable week-long break, blissfully unaware of the deadline.. I thought we still had a long way more to go. :(

I was disappointed when I scrounged through my entire kitchen, raided the fridge and the cabinets and found nothing edible for me to eat when I was hungry as hell, having just returned from my French class. :( Biscuits and other related food had ‘milk’ listed as its ingredients, and I certainly don’t feel like munching on Mamee Monster or cooking Maggi for myself as they’d hardly be full for me. I wanted something I could bite on while watching a movie, so in the end I hauled my lazy arse off to the Ramli burger stall behind my house.

Aroma Burger. Satu ayam biasa, satu daging biasa.

Watched Mystic River at around 1.20am. It was a depressing movie alright, but very much real, affecting, and genuinely surreal on real potential issues that affect regular people like you or me. I don’t want to spoil the story because this movie really should be watched – it tugs at the loose strings of emotions you thought you have hid very well, but in the end it manages to stir an orchestra of them all, all the same.

The screenshot above depicts one of the final scenes with what I thought was one of the most poignant lines of the movie by Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon): “Sometimes I think…. I think all three of us got into that car. And all of this is just a dream, you know? In reality, we’re still 11-year-old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we’d escaped.”

It probably won’t make much sense to you unless you watch it, of course – and I give it a rating of 9.5/10.

Project 365 #34: Thursday, 19th March 2009

While walking up the stairs of the apartment to my Chinese class, I spotted a cat which looked like it was enjoying its forays into its dreams of catching mice. I threaded past quietly, went upstairs to my teacher’s unit, put down my things and declared to her that I needed to snap this photo (using my handphone ‘cause I didn’t bring my camera with me), and went downstairs quickly:

LOL. This is exceedingly lolcats-worthy. Look at the way its paws were lifted up hahahaha, a funny caption for it would make this picture complete.

Project 365 #35: Friday, 20th March 2009

Dropped by at my Chinese teacher’s place at about 10am to give her two passport-sized photos of myself, RM100, and provided her my IC to be photocopied right there and then – all for my upcoming HSK Basic exam this coming May. I didn’t want to go for it initially as I didn’t think I’d have the time to prepare for it.. but she easily convinced me lol.

After picking up Andy, went to the bank to buy a foreign bank draft for myself – the AUD has been appreciating rapidly, from about 2.4ish to 2.5630 when I bought the bank draft. :/ Sigh – not a good news at all because if it keeps appreciating I mightn’t be able to afford going. Then plans I’ve made would’ve to be derailed again.. bah choi choi choi.

We then picked up Kai Tzin, and off we went towards the general direction of PJ and conveniently got stuck in a ridiculous jam – quite ridiculous, in fact, because it was non-moving for at least 15 minutes that my mouth was shooting off frustrated profanities because a stand still jam at 11.30am near Federal Highway is just plain stupid. Guess what we found out later? Traffic policemen escorting them fucking VIPs. -____- Go fuck yourselves VIPs and traffic policemen who think that holding up the general public for the convenience of a handful of inverted-comma very important persons is reasonable – I was shocked to see that one traffic policeman was standing in the middle of a highway to stop all three lanes of brimming cars from proceeding.. well something new to learn everyday.

So we reached at our desired destination of 3 Two Square to go for HP’s Biggest Warehouse Sale, as they proudly proclaimed it. What greeted us was an awful parking lot system – too many reserved parkings, confusing turns – and while in the elevator we saw Kim Loong as well, both Andy’s and my Foundation classmate and Kai Tzin’s friend’s friend.. talk about a small world.

The entrance.

The queue.

We didn’t take a long time to be able to get in – there was a strict security too in which bags and handbags are now allowed in so they had to seal our bags in a plastic bag. And what was inside the “biggest” warehouse sale was anything but big – extremely limited choices, none of that RM400 laptop that Jon was telling me about (which supposedly Suet Teng told him), so yeah we left about 5 minutes later.

I then went towards the Wisma Academy nearby to Ban Leong Technologies to try and get my mouse fixed because I’ve a strange problem with the left click – it occasionally produces random double-clicks which do get really annoying when you’re working on Dreamweaver or Photoshop or even random browsing on the Internet. :/ I had previously send it for repair, and when I got it back from the shop I bought my mouse from, they told me that there wasn’t anything wrong with my mouse – which was clearly wrong because I still had the same problem.

I finally decided to go to the company itself for warranty claims directly instead of wasting 2-3 months waiting for my mouse to be given back to me – and when I did, the technician told me again there wasn’t anything wrong with it. I was indignant and told him that no, that there IS a problem and decided to show him by opening Microsoft Paint.

..my mouse worked fine wtf.

Strangely.

So he said there could be something wrong with my computer’s power supply etcetc and advised me to try it on another computer. And when I got back home, I tried it with my laptop and it worked fine WTF.

Clearly I think my mouse is playing a prank on me. -_____-

Anyway after finishing my business with Ban Leong, I went and find both Kai and Andy at Starbucks – had to rush back home as my mum wanted to use the car to get to the hospital.

Oh and there wasn’t any electricity for nearly the entire day, from morning till about 4pm plus. Luckily when I got back home, the supply of electricity resumed again and life returned to normal.. not being able to use any electrical appliances suck – which goes to show how incredibly dependent we are on something that we’ve taken for granted for its abundance: electricity.

Ding picked me up at night to go to SS14’s Yu Kee ba kut teh restaurant – met up with Kai Tzin there on the pretext of a ‘birthday dinner’ which Kai was so adamant to not have one wtf. Andy also couldn’t make it as he was still ‘stuck’ in Midvalley.

And we had a really great time chatting and talking which I evidently missed – it feels as if that we were so busy with our own things that little things like meeting up to catch up with each other’s lives couldn’t be done at all. :/

We left the place at about 10pm – paid only RM10 for a rather delicious meal, though I told them that I’m more than satisfied with just the bak kut teh soup and yau char kuai.. personal business idea: setting up a stall that sells ‘snacks’ in the form of yau char kuai dipped with bak kut teh soup wtf. Instant best-seller.

Also in the evening, I managed to install a softmod hack for my Wii.. tested it out at night with my Sonic Unleashed game – after repeated tries, the “Disc Read Error” screen didn’t appear anymore. ^______^. I was extremely pleased and happy – the little things of that Friday night that made me happy: a simple meet up with Kai and Ding, and being able to resume playing Sonic Unleashed.