The Crippler

And so finals are over.
But it ain’t worth much with The Wolverine being gone.

God rest him and his family in peace. For whatever has happened, he will always be one of the best technical wrestlers I have EVER watched on screen.

Rerun

Listening to: Big Girls Don’t Cry – Fergie

Okay I know I may not have the time to blog properly for the next few days but I promise once the damn exams are over I’ll be right back in your face. Meanwhile, I’ll let you enoy something I blogged at the beginning of the year. I thoroughly enjoyed rereading it so I thought I could share.  :)
Enjoy…..

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Listening to: Black Horse and The Cherry Tree – KT Turnstall
Currently Reading: The Brethren – John Grisham

A new year is upon us and just like that 2006 is but another year gone by.

First joke of 2007:

We’re all sitting outside in Barath’s porch for a New Year do, midnight-ish and the mosquitoes are having a field day with us. James, kills one, drops it on table. Glances at Barath nervously.

Barath: Why la?

James: Can drop on the floor ah? (lemme explain, Barath’s a bit… buh-jiggity)

All: Loud laughter

Barath: (scoffs) Sure can la..what la..

Feli: Tengok tengok after you drop, quietly he’ll creep in with a small broom and penyodok and sweep the nyamuk up.

All: Louder laughter

Barath: (disagrees vehemently) WHERE GOT? I DON’T HAVE LA MINI BROOM ALL..

(few minutes elapse)

Bryan: OMG WHAT IS THAT?

This was hanging on his gate.

 Which if you zoomed in looks like this

 I  know this is self-explanatory but lo and behold I think this is, WAIT!, it IS a mini broom and attached dustpan!!!

All: Laughter that would not quit for the next ten minutes causing massive eruptions throughout the course of the evening everytime someone caught a glimpse of the traitorous penyodok.

(end)

Sorry Barath, I had to share this..we still love you but this is too good to pass up again (hugs)

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Happy Bday Meems. Pics of you and Jack will be up soon.

Continuum

“You may have your reasons, but you will never have my rhyme.”
 I’m Gonna Find Another You.
John Mayer.
Continuum.
 

11 stars.

Sorry, did I say 11, I meant 11 kachingamillion.
Yes, that exists.
And I heard he broke up with Miss Simpson – pardon me when I say this but that just makes him even more attractive.
Yes, that is possible.
Swoons.

How can I express what I feel when I listen to this man?
I think the last time I felt this way while listening to a record was when I heard Ben Harper’s Live in Mars album. I was hooked – like an addict I would keep going back for more.
And I thought I would never feel like that again. When John Mayer first came out, I was young with no real feelings for good music. And then, I grew up. And man, so did he.

“Turn 68, you’ll renegotiate. Don’t stop this train
Don’t for a minute lose the place you’re in.”
Stop This Train

I’m not whacked, really. I just have deep awe and connection for music that’s deep. And real. Songs with soul. For musicians that emote their music like lyrical art. And this man. He’s grown up since Wonderland.

I would give almost anything to go see him live.

“I was the one you always dreamed of
You were the one I tried to draw
How dare you say it’s nothing to me?
Baby, you’re the only light I ever saw.

We’re going down
And you can see it, too
We’re going down
And you know that we’re doomed
My dear, we’re slow dancing in a burning room.”

Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
John Mayer
Continuum

And Ben Harper played guitar in Belief, one of the songs on Continuum.
Talk about affinities.

Bevvie

Dearest Bevvie,

Happy 21st hon!

I know we’ve been through some shit growing up but I’m glad we’ve put everything behind us and that we still keep in touch hon..it means a lot to me. I am so proud of the person that you are and here’s to adulthood! Welcome to the club -  I’ll email you the secret hand shake and the sambuca recipe later…

 ;)

May God bless you with so much you won’t even know what to do with the extras! 

Love you muchness, Felicia.

As an aside from the birthday greeting, I would just like to say, since I’m blogging, that certain things inevitably happen. Whether you least expect them to or not. The only difference is, if you have your eyes wide open at the time, you’ll be less surprised when they do.

Adios.

The sinking boat

 Listening to: I Could Be – Donna Summer

If you understand the following, we are could be in the same(proverbially sinking) boat.

I HAART you. Be my Shugoshin. ♣

When studying is not boring enough, top yourself and blog about it.

“I can’t do everything, but I’ll do anything for you. I can’t do anything except be in love with you.” – Dire Straits; Romeo & Juliet.

You know what’s termed denial in the 21st century? Two people, both appearing offline, chatting to one another.

One and half weeks to my finals and 4 of my pens ran out of ink. You know why I still have them on my desk? I believe in second chances.

It’s too late for this. I’ll bugger off vamanos now and leave you to it.

Adios.

♣ Science joke. HAART stands for Highly Active Anti Retroviral Therapy which is a drug cocktail given to AIDS patients. The ‘HAART’ reference is with respect to the infamous ’I Heart You’ line where the Heart represented by the symbol ♥ has now been “wittily” replaced by HAART *rolls eyes and crawls away”.

What, you mean you suck around long enough to read on? Okay so you deserve to know that Shugoshin is Japanese for Guardian Spirit which is also the name of a protein involved in cell division with the same ‘protection’ role.

Sorry for that. 2 am madness. Not even a method to it.

I’m going…

Going…

(*can’t say gone because then it means I didn’t go.*)

…

So like… you guys go also la…

PITA

You think you have it bad?

There was once an effort to spray DDT in order to reduce the incidence of malaria by targeting the mosquitoes which were the vector for the disease. The insects (after being very much DDT’ed) were then eaten by the geckos, which were then eaten by cats that died soon after due to the accumulated DDT that had been passed along the food chain. The decrease of the cats led (naturally) to the increase of bush mice that carry a particularly virulent Arenavirus that causes Bolivian Haemorraghic Fever. Because the cats were “away” the virus-carrying mice came out to play, increasing its contact with humans. Humans who were very much susceptible to BHF.

Now, all because they decided to control malaria in the first place.

And if everything comes round full circle, sometimes they also do so to bite us in the ass.

Life’s shit; but at least you don’t have Bolivian Haemorraghic Fever.

Sehati Sebumbung: The ETL Bowl-A-Rama

As you can see we all did more than just bowl 3 games. 

  Good times…

Interaction

Currently Reading:  GeneticsIII :x 

You know it’s time to stop and go to sleep when you start spelling ‘interaction’ as…

… ‘interactiaction’.

Yes I know that seemed the same at first glance too.

Oh, and tomorrow is a MAX of 14 degrees and I have to go into uni tomorrow because I have about 50 things to do. 

Excluding studying for my finals. Which isn’t an ice-cream treat, I’ll tell you that. Should I worry that I initially spelt ice-cream with an ‘n’?

You know what, the only thing that managed to cheer me up was receiving a great message on Fs (she knows who she is) and the one thing that is sure to cheer me up tomorrow is that I’ll be getting John Mayer

…the CD.

That pause had such a nice ring to it  

Right so tomorrow I’ll have to physically extract myself from my pajama bottoms and hop in the shower (that has been up to its lukewarm action again, grrrr) and make myself look physically exceptable for my reemergence into society.

Okay so I emerged into society on Saturday to go bowling but this studying business is like being the Land That Time Forgot (to quote Chandler Bing).

So yes small cheers for John Mayer, Desperate Housewives, wonderful emails and erm notable blog mentions   

Till then, why do they say there is no ‘I’ in team when there is clearly a ‘me’? Heheheh..

Ok this means I seriously have to go. That was lame, even for moi. Shuttup James, hehehe.

Hosama

People change. You just never realise how much until it happens.

This is my friend, Kristen Ho.

BEFORE: ON A NORMAL DAY SHE WAS SWEET, SOME SAY SOMETIMES SHE WAS EVEN SHY.                      

  Ho, Kristen

AFTER SOME SUGAR ON A FRIDAY NIGHT, 13 DEGREES CELCIUS SHE BECAME

Hosama

Click to enlarge. Please, do click.

P.s. she wasn’t actually even posing – she just did it because she wasn’t wearing any makeup and didn’t want it caught on camera – look what ended up being taken …  hey babes you look good anyway OK  you even made it into my blog 

 

OutLast

 The entire post was drafted on a sheet of paper three days ago.

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 2 days – 20 speakers – 8 hours.

A class of students, held captive by a group of equally trapped student speakers bailiffed by three lecturers who look like they don’t want to be here anymore than anyone else. This was a test of alertness & patience. Coffee was no help.

It was time to OutSleep, OutSnore and OutLast.

2.10 pm, Day 2.

iPod Shuffle: Sheryl Crow – My Favourite Mistake

I’m sitting in a symposium consisting of molecular science students giving presentations of various diseases – it is non-examinable and started of quite interesting but as the hours passed, it just got harder and harder to stay awake. My packets of gummy bears have run out and my coffee supply is giving out. Everyone thinks I am passionately writing notes right now but I am not – thank God micro isn’t my major.

iPod Shuffle: John Mayer – No Such Thing

The next speaker is on now and I am thinking about dinner and how I have to cook for my friends tonight for the first time and how nervous that they’re gonna have have to be admitted and/or require some sort of glucose drip to combat diarrheoeal dehydration. Mimi is sitting on my right, the bill of her hat shading her drooping eyes; for which I don’t blame her. Like her cap though.  :) Anisha is engrossed in Mistress of Spices and Dorothy has her noce in her Chem notes. Kiki has her head propped in her hands and only about a quarter of the class is awake.

iPod shuffle: James Morrison – Undiscovered

I don’t know how the lecturers are doing it. I just want to be home under the covers, reading, in my PJs drinking some hot tea. Yes, a common theme. There is a girl in front of me in lime green framed glasses has a Homer Simpson comic book of some sort on her swivel desk – I want it; I love the Simpsons   

Asha Gill when asked what she would do if Homer was her father said she would put herself up for adoption. I don’t blame her…

Paused for a moment to listen to the concept of antigenic and phase variation which  I don’t fully understand yet.

James Morrison ascends into the choir crescendo and always makes me feel like standing up and clapping my hands  

Speakers switch over. Two girls are playing tic tac toe in front of me.

iPod shuffle: My Interpretation – Mika

She’s yelling now and saying “unprotected sex!” like a remand on people who dare have sex much less have it unprotected. Why is she yelling? “Male ejaculation!” and keeps getting louder as she gains momentum. Man alive! She yells all the choice words!!! “DISCHARGE!”

iPod Shuffle: Leave (Get Out) – Jojo

Male genitalia now – flashing on the screen before me. WHY is she yelling? She’s interrupting my entire iPod shuffle experience.

iPod Shuffle: Ben Harper – Woman In You

Ben Harper is so sexyy. Dorothy is fully slumped now, legs on the seat, Chem notes completely covering her face. The speaker is still yelling. Kristen who was asleep, wakes up to glare at the speaker for interrupting her and yells equally loudly “WHY IS SHE TALKING SO LOUDLY?” Our entire row turns to look at her.

She explains on paper: Did I yell very loudly? Shit, I din realise. Because I was trying to sleep and she was very loud…I had my iPod in. -_-

iPod: Off

The yeller is done and I like this next speaker so I’ll listen. The not yelling helps tremendously. Pictures of a blue and red condom flashes on the screen.

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This experience should be outlawed but thank God it was over. Makes me not wanna visit hospitals, ever have sex, eat oysters or ever get sick.

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*Disclaimer: The symposium in and off itself was extremely interesting and well presented. However the usual combination of timing and bored university students who just want to sleep it off makes it seem worthless. It wasn’t however  :) but I’m still glad I’m not an Immunity major.

P.s. listening to iPods during a presentation is highly rude. I acknowledge that and it should not be used as a favourable example.