31 May 2005 9:56 a.m. one friend is getting engaged, and another is getting married. all this is happening within a week of each other. should i feel left out? oh Sue, where are our princes, dammit. besides, i don't know what to wear. sinkhole: *promptly filled* instead, you'll have to be content with the mutated rubic/rubik i've never driven to Midvalley Megamall on a sunday/public holiday before either, so yesterday was a cherry-popping day of sorts for me. yes, despite common knowledge and their better judgement, some people, i.e. me, have a compulsion to get stuck in traffic for half an hour. the point was to have lunch, of course. Annalakshmi is a favourite because we never have to worry about the cost. it serves vegetarian indian food, and what really sold me wasn't the briyani rice or the lassi, but the fact that there are fried mushrooms in the buffet (on some days) and fruit yoghurt for dessert. more reasons to pay them a visit (of the good sort, of course). speaking of food, this is what happens when Usher has one milk shake too many. this is something i completely agree with (potential spoiler though) - some opinions on Return of the Sith. for reference, see Dashboard Confessional's lyrics. plus, Ewan should reconsider the mentor role. i mean, Renton Trainspotter, now a Jedi auntie? no. (okay, i watched it for Hayden Christensen and you want to know about sandwiches? scroll on, you obssesive-compulsives, you. last week, i stayed home because i was useful health tip - do not eat anything mayonnaise-y that's been lying about in the open for 3 hours. anyway, funky shit happens when i go to watch movies at AEI. for instance, a sinkhole opens up in front of the engineering faculty (will post pictures soonest!!! yes indeed!!!). and, after the movie, at about 11.15 p.m.; my car is blocked by a lorry whose passengers are engaged in dismantling a water pipe at the post-graduate institute. according to a fella who was watching, the pipe was leaking. i don't know how i failed to notice it when i parked there 3 hours earlier, and as i sloshed through ankle-deep water to get to the driver's side of my car later on. of course, he'd actually made an impressive opening gambit when he approached me - random guy (RG): is this your car? did i mention there was a lorry blocking my car? i won't mention the 3 men who had been watching the pipe when i'd arrived earlier and had said or done nothing throughout - i think of them as those mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru, except they were more like "see, hear, speak nothing" monkeys. and then they got wet when this huge gush of water shot forth from the pipe. *the clumsy and obvious segue astute readers are expecting* speaking of japanese, AEI screened Dare mo Shiranai. i certainly didn't expect to sniffle when i watched it! i'd actually read the news of Yuya Yagira winning the Cannes Film Festival award for best actor a few years ago, and i remember wondering how a 14 year old managed to beat Tom Hanks and Tony Leung (aha!). look at those eyes - don't they say "Rukawa Kaede" to you? p.s. - if you fancy watching it, it's out on dvd and vcd at your friendly neighbourhood night market. well, except the one in Taman Tun, because we're too posh to buy bootlegs. i thought this was worth a look (or two or three, maybe more). i am motivationally-challenged. please tell me this is normal. what is this?
it's always the same
the only time you urgently need something is when it's not around. until then, please check out at the ant that tried to eat my car (picture by photobl0g).
um...
sorry, no sinkhole snaps to be had here today. it was actually filled in the very night it occurred, which probably caught all UM bloggers by surprise, i.e.:
bloggers: *stunned into catatonia for the next few days*kubrick cube i saw in downtown KL last friday.
fried mushrooms
i had nasi kerabu for the first time last night. it was very nice and very cheap (cos it was from the night market), but am disappointed that it didn't turn my poop blue.Auntie Ewan McGregor, so what.)
self-fulfilling prophecieslazy uninspired; and claimed to have eaten something that disagreed with me. last night, i really did. there's nothing like a 4 a.m. bathroom sprint to make you properly appreciate good health.
me: *watches water flow past* yeah.
RG: you can't get out ah?
me: no shit.
help me
i am still at home.
i will stay home for the rest of the week day.
(i will, however, venture out at night; because the sun is less hurtful to my eyes then.)
please tell me that every researcher will, at some point in her life, wake up in the morning and think "eeeeh, screw it."
please tell me it will end one day. this year, hopefully.
geografica: the last bit
is it -
A. a caterpillar of the Giant Leopard Moth?
B. a new breed of centipede?
C. an undergrown crayfish from New Orleans?
D. strands of my hair that got tangled in the hairdryer one day?
(more caterpillar pictures from what's this caterpillar?)
10 May 2005 1:14 p.m.geografica: part one in a series of two
what is this? is it a bit of poo that avoided being flushed away?
no, it's a part of nature, known by boffins as Lumbricus rubellus. highly domesticated, it knows what a toilet is for - it even pooped on my water tank! damn pooping earthworms. obviously they've never heard of courtesy. i mean, where the hell did it come from?
not only that, where did it go? i went back in half an hour after taking these pictures and it was GONE. i hope it didn't creep up the shower nozzle or anything, because if it did; there would be a shower scene to end all shower scenes. i live in the suburbs, dammit, the only animals that are supposed to be around are the dogs that shit on your front porch.
09 May 2005 10:51 a.m.wow
did you know that if you let your eyes unfocus ever so slightly, the tiles on the bathroom floor appear to bend and waver? it's as if the fabric of your reality is at its thinnest at that spot and if you just put your foot over---
08 May 2005 7:09 p.m.unbelievably exciting
the weather has been dim and grey these two days. it's great for sleeping, but bad for laundry, natch.
oh, and i stepped in dog shit yesterday. it was alright except for the fact i was wearing my flattest pair of sandals and my favourite/only pair of cargo pants.
i once saw a guy do something like this on the road divider outside Central Market, only he had headphones on.