The Class System.

When one thinks of class, one's mind immediately travels to days of Old England where a person's social standing was generally determined by being in one of 3 main classes; upper, middle or working/lower. The Class System is of course, still practised today albeit with not as much restriction (no "Off With Their Heads!" should a rich person want to be with a poor person) but definitely just as much ignorance, i think..

wanna hear a story? last weekend, i went to a wedding. it was in a beautiful ballroom, in a beautiful 5-star hotel, with beautifully rich guests. the age median was about 55 (even though the bride and groom were 28 and 30, respectively). for some reason, the dinner was not the usual 8 course chinese dinner. it was a buffet with different counters for different food set all round the ballroom. In theory, this would actually have been a fantastic way for guests to mingle while they went to get their food. Unfortunately, in real-time, it was chaos.

So oklah, there are like 10 counters right? 1 counter got roti jala, naans, curries, another counter had dim sums, another one had roast beef and yorkshire pudding, another one had sushi and sashimi, there was a tempura counter and a local fare one as well (char koay teow & fried rice)..very posh right? wrong!!yours truly had to wait 20 minutes for a measly serving of char koay teow followed by queueing another 15 minutes to get 2 tiny siew mais (reminder:5-star wedding)...but i digress, that story's for another entry, its just i got hungry thinking of all that lovely food not being eaten by me....anyyyyways..what i was going to say was that it's always interesting to see how hungry people react to food...even the upper-class...there was queue-cutting, blatant grabbing of all the prawn tempura(leaving only eggplant and ladies fingers) by one lady and all-out hogging of the entire counter (when a person stands directly infront of a counter so they can "book" whatever food they want first)...classy, huh?

Lemme tell you another story..2 weeks ago, my car couldn't start. I was at one of the petrol stations in Centrepoint and it was late. I turned the ignition twice and the sorry sounds that came out of her are not ones i want to remember. There were about 3 shabbilly dressed mat motors still loitering around and i started to leetle-beet panic lah..then one of the fellas started walking over..lageee panik..he got closer..i didnt bloody care if the place was gonna explode or not, i took out that damn handphone and started to dial..he knocked, i dropped my phone..."Miss, you takde air batteri lah".. fast forward 20 minutes later, my car was as good as new..Zamri not only filled my very,very empty battery water thingy, but he also replaced whatever lubricant i had to replace lah..all with the help of his two friends..lovely boys..and i found out later that they didn't even work at that station!they were just helping me out!

So, in the old days, one could tell which class a person belonged to from their accent, their clothes, their interests, the way they raised their children and what kind of food they ate. if you think about it, things haven't changed a whole lot. the question is..does the class a person is in really determine how classy that person is?

Life is such an experiment...

..ya never quite know if its gonna blow up in your face or if something unexpectedly beautiful and new gets created...

so as i get ready for bed having enjoyed wonderful company plus tapas for dinner which is as usual 'muy delicioso' (gracias La Bodega!), i cant help but wonder about different worlds..do they collide or do they absorb each others' mass and become one?

or perhaps in the end it just boils down to chemistry instead of physics...like you might be from totally different planets but as long as both of you dont got anything stuck up Uranus (i know you're stifling a giggle) and are willing to like, give and take and understand and talk it out and call each other things like cupcake and poochie-poodles or applecheeks then its all good..

10 worst songs in the history of mankind

This blog entry doesnt end. Feel free to add to it.

1. My heart will go on - Celine Dion.
i break out in rash everytime i hear that infernal wailing.

2. Numerous songs - That "beep" "beep" frog
music videos, ringtones, screensavers..it's a frog!!!!an ugly frog!!AAnnnddd he's not even real!!

3. Lemon tree.

4. Anything by Air Supply. (i apologise to the people in Puchong or Kepong.i know how much you guys like your Air Supply)

5.

too pooped to ponder..

i definitely think that weekends and weekdays should be reversed..like 5 days of lee-lacksing and 2 days of work...man, that'd be awesome..but then again, being the complicated homo sapiens that we are almost certainly ensures that we'd be dissatisfied with that too, sooner or later...so i guess it's most probably for the best that things remain as they are..:P..velvet was awesome this weekend..stayed till the lights came on and man..suddenly alot of good-looking people became ugly..including a haphazard stef desperately trying to pretend as if her makeup wasnt melting..geezus..to be a woman sometimes..

speaking of human beings..i looked it up the other day..and i F.O.T.F.C.I.L.(fell off the fuckin chair in laughter). the definition of human being in the Oxford AMERICAN Dictionary: a man, woman or child from the species; distinguished from other animals by superior mental development, power of articulate speech, and upright stance.

Superior mental development - For an entire month, grown people will be watching 11 other grown men kick a ball around a field. (pardon moi, cheap shot, i know)
Power of Articulate Speech - whoever came up with this definition obviously has not met my friends on a saturday night.
Upright stance - this is pretty much the only one i agree with. wow, guess we ARE better than animals.we have upright stance.

i recall speaking about malaysians being shy in a previous blog entry....NOT WHEN YOU HAVE A DOG!!!!!hooishayman..taking opium around?instant celebrity-ness!from nowhere, i'm like minding my own business when suddenly.."ma!!" "ma!!!" (and the shreaks get louder and more piercing by the way)and when the mother finally replies "whattt???" the kids are like "doggy!!!can i play with the doggy??" (yours truly, by that time, will have inched herself slowly but surely towards the exit...oklah actually, it'd be more of a brisk walk-run), or like yesterday, when i was at my local bintangwang sipping on a hazelnut latte...i met 9 people,no joke! they just keep coming up...it's like im not even there! i mean this is like THE breakthrough answer for shy people (orrr men who wanna meet women!but for gawd's sakes don't lah go and buy a poodle/shitzu type k?not unless you see yourself being part of the Village People..)

ok, i cant keep it in any longer..i've just bought the kurt cobain journals!!excited doesn't even BEGIN to describe how i feel..

Human Trafficking.

- After the illegal trade of drugs and weapons, human trafficking is the most profitable criminal act in the world today -

go see the movie. i was tempted to say women ESPECIALLY, but i've changed my mind. I feel that EVERYBODY should go watch it because whether we want to blind ourselves to it or not, it does happen. Watch it,then read this entry.

Underaged girls and boys(yes,boys too!) being taken away from their families against their will to become sex slaves. Their ages range from 11 years old to 21years old.They do not get paid, they do not get to go out, most of them do not live more than 4 years because they are either worked to death or contract diseases; anything from hepatitis to H.I.V.

Now, anyone who knows me knows that i'm pro-sex. i think there's a reason that prostitution is the oldest profession and i also think that porn is neccessary. However, i'm also pro-choice. And it shits me to know that there are human beings doing this horrific, gruesome, appalling thing to other human beings and profiteering off it!And do you know why they continue to do this?Because there is D-E-M-A-N-D for it.(C'mon people, Economics class wasn't that long ago)


DIANA ELIZABETH DUBON
DOB: Oct 14, 1992 Sex: Female
Missing Date: May 22, 2006
Age Now: 13 Height: 5'0" (152 cm)
Weight: 100 lbs (45 kg)


EMILY JUAN
Case Type: Family Abduction
DOB: Oct 21, 2003 Sex: Female
Missing Date: Sep 5, 2004
Age Now: 2
Height: 2'3" (69 cm)
Weight: 19 lbs (9 kg)

THINK IT DOESN'T HAPPEN HERE?
'Malaysia is a destination, and to a lesser extent, a source and transit country for men and women trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. Foreign trafficking victims, mostly women and girls from the People’s Republic of China (P.R.C.), Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam are trafficked to Malaysia for commercial sexual exploitation. Some economic migrants from countries in the region who work as domestic servants and as laborers in the construction and agricultural sectors face exploitative conditions in Malaysia that meet the definition of involuntary servitude. Some Malaysian women, primarily of Chinese ethnicity, are trafficked abroad for sexual exploitation.
The Government of Malaysia does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. Malaysia is placed on Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking, particularly its failure to provide protection for victims of trafficking. ' - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2006.

So this is a plea to all the men out there: Please sirs, if you happen to travel to Thailand or the Philippines or even Malaysia..please make sure....ok, fuck this. it's stupid and if a guy's horny and sick then nothing i'm gonna say here's gonna make any difference, is it??

But i can say this.Educate your family.Your brothers, your sisters, your girlfriends, your children. Teach 'em to grow up smart and not end up like some Paris Hilton wannabe (even she's not that stupid!). Because Gen- Y'ers, this is our world. We are going to inherit it someday. And we should not be celebrating people who pretend to be stupid, or people who live for fame and glamour, or people who want to be stick thin or people who sell children for money!if you had to teach the future generation today what would you say?

better start preparing...:)

Easy Like Sunday Mornin'...

" What??Change the speed limit to 60?ohhh surrreee, a few lives will be saved but thousands will be late!" - Homer J. Simpson

This weekend was one of the best i've ever ever had..cos everything just fell into place y'know like..."trinnnnnnnngggg" (picture tinkerbell waving her wand or flapping her wings or whatever..)

it was perfect..mainly because instead of one huuuge event taking it all up..it consisted of many many intimate small moments..which to me are amazing cos big moments can be replicated anytime..(hell, as long as you've got 500 bucks and a place to party) but i love the small moments..like when you're sitting at a cafe with good friends and you're desperately trying to get into the entire football pandemonium/phenomenon even though it annoys you like hell...or roaming the ss2 area trying to tempt a good friend to get her damn pug...or having a quiet dinner with a galpal who you havent seen in awhile, or having an old friend call you up on his one day stopover in k.l to have drinks, or having a close bud tell you he's going to war (ok,actually that one's a little scary,please pray for him if you believe in God;alternatively, drink for him because i dont think they have alchohol where he's going!)or going grocery shopping with somebody and then cooking with that somebody, and of course, being online again with you guys..(maccie got fixed,shes better than ever!)...*blissful sigh*

didja know that policemen in Milan are dressed by Armani?how fucking cool is that?thats one way to stop em from taking bribes..i mean, if YOU were wearing Armani, would you stoop that low?Wait, we're in Malaysia.Scrap that last line.

i also want to celebrate Sir Roger Vivier, creator of the stiletto. Where would i be without you, O great exalted One*!!He's got a store under the same name and a single pair or shoes there can cost up to 16,000 Euros!i would give my right hand...

*(in no way are any or all fragments from the sentence above related to the Bible,the Quran, the Torah, the Buddhist bible, any other religious record,book, volume, publication, parchment-with the whole Da Vincci Code hoo-ha, one can't be toooo politically correct,no?*sigh*)

hmmmm..i see a mahjong session coming..

A Series of Unfortunate Events..

06-06-06 - The remade version of the Omen came out yesterday. Having that knowledge haunted the 5-year old in me because that Damien kid was scary-wei!!!Anyways, pushing that thought to the back of my mind, I decided to proceed along my day as per usual...and that's when everything started going wrong.

1. My MAC,my baby, my life...died..tried resusitating her but to no avail..3 years of photos, songs, work..GONE.

2. My car couldn't start. Sent it in to be serviced, the guys there told me my engine kong-kiawed. Had to change the engine.

3. My cedit card bill came in...enough said.

4. A heel broke off my favourite pair of shoes.

Crazy shit...with so much bad karma surrounding me i had to do something quick.
So, i bought her...



Ladies n gentlemen..it is my esteemed pleasure to introduce you to Opium.