Sunday 11/7/1999
Today was not so bad, not too bored, I did not at all feel like screaming. Went to Port Klang at about noon to visit En Mahadi and family. Sajalah, jalan-jalan. Lama dah tak jumpa. Mie was also there, went to Sailor's Club for tea with him.Spent the rest of the evening reading back issues of Harakah, main opposition party weekly newspaper. Demam pilihanraya dah mula, siapa yang demam tak tahulah. Kalau UMNO/BN menang besar kali ni memang orang Malaysia bodoh, bodoh yang tak boleh diajar, bodoh sombong. I have the feeling diaorang boleh menang, tapi menang sikit, menang setakat cukup nak memerintah.
Sebab yang bodoh tak makan ajar tu memang hardcore punya supporters. Lantak,aku peduli apa, aku tetap tak pangkah BN. Sebab aku tahu aku tak bodoh. Aku taklah kata siapa yang sokong BN tu bodoh tapi, I think they are. Yeah, they bloody are.
Malam ni aku pergi khenduri Adi, one of my neighbours, sedap masakannya, aku siap tambah nasi. Terkilan jugak sikit, pasal tadi aku ada nampak kuih talam masa dia hidang kali kedua tu, lama dah tak makan kuih ni. Tapi aku nak ambik segan, pasal orang pun semua dah nak balik. Kempunan aku nak makan kuih talam, tak apalah, esok boleh pergi cari kat Section 18.
Teh ICQed me just now, asking me to check this one page out. It's a new browser with so many new features like web radio, tv etc, makes IE and Netscape dead pale in comparison. And, listen to this....they pay whenever I use the browser. Now, isn't that interesting?. It's so kewl, so I signed up....well, I'll do anything for money....lol... If you feel like giving it a try, then click the icon below, this is what they call internet magic.
Monday 12/7/1999
Kumar had me thinking deep tonight. Was at Estana with him for dinner when he said,"Apapasal itu hari (Friday) masa Chris datang kau buat macam tak layan jer? Buat muka macam (beep) saja...
True, I hated it that Friday night, I was not myself, and I did not like the topic of their conversation.
Ok, can I ask you something? Yeah you....(wmu-53-140.tm.net.my / j22.dms33.jaring.my / bat-49-149.tm.net.my / j15.jrc28.jaring.my / ibrf-87-217.tm.net.my / etc). I know you guys have been "creeping" here since, what, 2 weeks ago? Why don't you identify yourselves? Sign my guestbook for example. Or perhaps just send a simple email, say hi and stuff. Don't worry, I wont bite. Be like RiRi, she's very much welcomed here.
Ok.....You ever get the feeling that you're not like anyone else? In the sense that you don't "fit in" with anyone else?. Yeah, I know, it's a stupid question. I know, "If you didn't fit in with anyone, you wouldn't have any friends, would you?"
But still, I'm thinking this one over and over again, and it dawns on me that that's how I feel about people. I'll look at them and think, "I can't hang with them, they're not like me." That's why I never make many friends but people always make friends with me. Because I'm good.Yeah.Right!
Well, not always, or else I'd have a few billion friends. But that's how I perceive people -- they're not like me, so I won't talk to them. It's not an arrogant attitude, like I'm better than them. It's just how I feel about people in general. I think that I'm so unique (*LOL*) that no one else out there is like me, like no one else shares my interests and feelings.
Hmmmm..., it's like I don't think I can be down with anyone, so I don't talk to hardly anyone, so I'm stuck reinforcing my old strange,stupid blah blah blah behaviours and ideas. These kind of vicious little cycles permeate my life.
I actually made a few new friends. Really. I really should meet a couple of them sometime. Dulu tu lainlah. I didn't get out much. I put one foot in front of the other. I started a joke that started the whole world laughing. I didn't see that the joke was on me. I was so much younger then, I'm older than that now. Very much older.
Apapasal pulak aku bunyi lain macam jer harini....
Tuesday 13/7/1999
Nora called this morning. Or was it her? It was her, it definitely was. The number she dialled from appeared on my phone, a few times, 3 or four. And everytime I answered the call, the line went dead. Curious, I retrieved and called the number. I bloody swear it was her on the other end but she pretended not to recognize my voice and kept saying, Sapa ni? Sapa ni? She even denied having made those calls. Bloody waste of my time.Oh, I like to use this word, bloody. Yeah. Bloody. It's bloody kewl. It doesn't make me a bad person, does it?
Ahhh....I know myself too well, after all this is my bloody journal. And I don't give a damn what people might say.
Besides, I don't want to sound too nice all the times....*LOL*. Yeah. Grow up!
Went to BSN to get a new card for my GIRO account. I lost mine about 2 years ago. I did make a report and asked for a replacement card but nothing came out of it. So basically my account was not active for at least 2 years. I thought adalah seposen dua lagi dalam akaun tu. Malu jugak aku nak kemaskinikan my passbook. But it showed ada 4 figure balance in it. I can bloody spend the money on something nice. Yeah, give myself a little treat, I've been feeling down and I need to lift my spirit up.
Wednesday 14/7/1999
G ot a little surprise today, there in my snail mail box was a letter from one of my long-time friends, Jonathan. One of my two favourite Irish. The other being David, Jhonny's best buddy. We used to exchange lots of snail mails but lately, because of our busy schedule (me, busy?...*LOL*) writing has become once-a-year kind of thing. We only write to each other at the end of the year, during Christmas time. Pity both of them are not familiar with internet. I last visited them about 2 years ago when I was on a short holidays in Scotland.Met Agnes while I was on my way to Sungai Wang Plaza for a little shopping. She was kind of running away from one of her investors and she was not happy with Andrew for losing trust in her. She even refused to come to the office. Not until she got a new client, she said.
Bought May and June issues of .net magazines. The magazine usually costs about RM 42-00 a copy but the price printed on May issue was 12-95. It was 13 something on June issue. I thought they made a mistake. Well, they made a mistake really, the prices were in Singaporean Dollar, instead of in Malaysian Ringgit (RM). And they did not convert the amount to RM. I wanted to ask them about the total amount which I "thought" was wrong but the evil side of me kept me from saying a thing. So, I saved about RM 60-00 there.
Market was nervous again tonight, went up very fast, played sideways for 2 hours, and suddenly dropped and rebounced. We spent most of the time reading magazines, surfing some sites and listening to internet radio. That DJ on MegaMix 96 (a New York radio station) really did a good job, we enjoyed listening to his kind of music.
This internet thing, kewl isn't it? It's 4-00 am now and I'm here in Malaysia, listening to one radio station in California....
While checking alt.soc.malaysia (one of my favourite newsgroups) just now I stumbled upon this hilarious post.
After having been in office for over 18 years as the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir wanted a special postage stamp be issued with his potrait on it. This would also boost the Barisan Nasional campaign in the coming General Elections. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi,the Deputy Prime Minister wanting to please his boss, instructed Tan Sri Zainol Mahmud of Pos Malaysia, to get cracking with it and ensure that the stamp was of the highest international standard. The stamps were duly released and Mahathir was very pleased with it. Soon after the release, however, Mahathir received complaints, that the stamps were not sticking properly. This made him furious and he rebuked Abdullah. Abdullah then summoned Tan Sri Zainol Mahmud and ordered him to investigate. After checking with several post offices, he reported to Abdullah. "Yang Amat Berhormat, Datuk Seri, the stamps were of the highest international quality. The problem is, Malaysians were spitting on the wrong side."
Pure dead brilliant.
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