I’m busy reading this cool blog recently, Jay’s Malaysian Diary, by this 27-year old German university student. He’s in Malaysia for 6 months for an internship with Siemens, and I’m really digging all his posts… You got to like a German guy who thinks Malaysia is fabulous. Reading his posts inspired me to write a something about my fantastic grasp of German, (“ist Ihre Tochter 18 Jahre alt?”) but that would be later, i found another of Jay’s post i simply must write about now. Its sort of a meme, except it doesn’t propagate itself via tagging… so its not evil… but I’m turning into a meme-tag for the sake…

Back in my old school, they had a [tag]vending machine[/tag] next to the staff common room selling soft drinks. It dispensed the drinks in a paper cup, not the tin can version. Vending machines were quite a new thing back then, and all of us in school were quite proud of it. Some other schools had vending machines selling packet drinks, that wasn’t as cool as ours; ours had [tag]Coke[/tag], Orange Crush, and more importantly, [tag]Fanta Grape[/tag]. For some strange reason, Fanta Grape was far and away the most popular drink, it was always the first to sell out after they refill the machine. We could actually buy any kind…

My daughter has hundreds of colour pencils. And crayons and erasers, rulers, pencil boxes, colour pencils outnumber the by far. Everywhere I look, I see them lying around. They’re all different lengths, all coming originally from different boxsets, some given by people, some won at sand art contests. Kind of the same types of colour pencils I had when I was small. We had this steel pencil box (yes, they had steel pencil boxes on those days. Especially those ‘Oxford Instrument’ ones that originally contained a compass, a ruler, a set square and a jangkasudut…). We would put all our colour pencils in it. Speaking of colour pencils and other…

Remember back in school, on the last day of the term, after the exams are over, and everyone whips out their autograph books for their friends to sign. It doesn’t matter if you probably stay next door to your classmate and see him / her every other day, you still want their autograph. The thing about autograph books – they always a pink or blue or yellow, filled with pictures of fairies, pixies, flowers, seascape, meadow scenery, and all that projectile vomit inducing stuff. And the sick part is I can still remember all those saccharine sweet poems my friends loved to write. Drink hot coffee, drink hot tea, Burn…

The [tag]meme[/tag] was passed on to me by Si Beruang Kutub, and I know its been awhile, but better late than never, right? Right?! Neeways… this is how it goes: I’ve 10 words and have to write an essay based on these 10 words which have to be used at least once. The 10 words are: I me blowjob grapes random power loneliness water robot blue So here goes: Gandalf was having a bad day. The hobbits have ran off to follow Dumbledore, and Aragorn is having a photoshoot for the cover of Modern Knight magazine. “I’m the most bloody-power-ful wizard in this Earth-in-the-Middle, the sea-water and even Asimov’s robots…

What? You’ve never watched [tag]American Idol[/tag]? Every week 20 million plus Americans and even more worldwide watch this show. 2 or 3 times a week. So what’s it about? It’s your school talentime contest. On a much bigger scale. It’s also a popularity contest. It’s also a study in demography and American race studies. It starts with 6-7 weeks of auditions. Hundreds and thousands of wannabe singers, psychopaths, self delusional psychics, lonely cowboys, cross-dressing headcases come and try to impress the 3 judges. So, in short, you’re average American. So out of the 43 million people who audition, usually 200 people are selected to ‘go to Hollywood’. Why ‘go to…

When I was small, balloons weren’t very common. Don’t get me wrong, they were really popular with kids, but you don’t see them as often as you do these days. Those days, balloons were filled with helium, simple fact is that helium, being lighter than air, would cause the balloon to float up by itself, so you would have to hold it by a string to prevent it from floating away into outer space. I’m thinking they use helium because it cheaper than hydrogen, and hydrogen would be freaking dangerous once it is exposed to the atmosphere whenever the balloon pops. And with every 10 kids, 7 of them would…