Lamentations

Saturday, March 31, 2012

It's been quite a long time since I've had a lazy Saturday to myself all day, just slacking and sleeping and doing whatever I want (mostly sleep). The last four Saturdays though, have been packed! I didn't blog about them yet; they're basically it more of my alcohol stories, lol. They've been some of the more interesting highlights the past few weeks.

A few weeks back I went for Underoath's concert in Kuala Lumpur. I'm not actually a fan of them, but they are quite recognized in the metalcore/hardcore scene, and their music is not bad. Joseph asked a few of us to go, for experience and as a musical reference. In the end, only Sharon (Payne) and I joined Joseph. My colleague Matt and his brother also came along, and Oli and Wei Ling also came along too.

The venue's KL Live. Pretty nice place with great aircon!

The gig itself was pretty good. Opening bands were Tres Empres, 2Side1BRAIN and Love Me Butch. 2Side1BRAIN's a Japanese post-hardcore band, and were perhaps the best opening band. Full of energy, and very charismatic on stage, with great showmanship. Not bad songs either. Anyhoo, after them, Underoath had a soundcheck. For one freaking hour. Geez. I don't know what the hell was going on but lots of people weren't happy waiting an hour doing nothing. Quite a number sat down on the floor, making less room for the rest of us standing up. Zzz. The lights finally turned off after an hour, and Underoath played. This was perhaps my craziest gig yet. The amount of stagediving was lessened, but how they jumped was even more insane. Lots of idiots ran up to the stage to take vanity shots with the band members, and lots more tore at the vocalist's shirt, until it looked like a hanging rag exposing his nipple. Walls of death, Malaysian-style hardcore dancing in the back and a hell lot of moshing, pushing, sweating and dodging stagedivers. Very fun! There was moment that Kevin Cottie Tan was with Joseph, Sharon and I and it was a City Harvest Church circle for a while. Lol.

Anyhoo, after lots of sweating, headbanging and moshing, they finished with "Writings on the Wall". They played pretty short though, about an hour as well, which felt like a ripoff considering the tickets were over a hundred and the soundcheck was as long as the gig. But it was good nonetheless. We headed to Sharon's friend house later, Susan's. They were planning on going to drink at Changkat and invited me, so I followed them.

We went to a bar called Never Mine. It was already 2am, so it was pretty late and it didn't last long. But we did have a fun time in that short time span. Joseph taught us a cigarette drinking game (no smoking involved), and later we played I Have Never, and I more or less discovered a big portion of all their sex lives and history. And because I was the only virgin, there was a lot less to discover on my part, and a lot more to to theirs. Oh man, haha! Because of the game itself, we talked thoroughly about the things they did, and everyone was so honest with the alcohol, so yeah. Very interesting night getting to know everyone better, especially Sharon and Susan, since I didn't know them that well.

Yeah, I got to know Sharon way too much. And in the later weeks, much more as well.

The week after that I joined them again at Changkat. It was random. We had band jamming and after jamming Joseph asked if I wanted to join them again. I didn't have any initial plans (Symposium asked me out when I already made my plans), so I joined along again. We went to Changkat again, and for some reason went to Never Mine again and drank. Met a few new people as well. So I already knew Sharon, Susan and Joseph. I was introduced to Juliet and her boyfriend (can't remember your name, sorry) and Sam and another guy (can't remember your name either). We started off with beers and basic conversation, but after a few tequila shots and some other stuff I don't recall, we were all saying stupid stuff. Became much easier to chat after that, and sexual jokes were the highlight of the night. We also met Ben later on, a British astrophysicist working here. He was having a party with some other Europeans upstairs. He asked some of us to join them for a while and gave us some jagerbombs. Hell yeah! After hitting on Niza, a Hungarian (or Croatian, can't remember), the Europeans were getting drunk and making out with one another, plus we didn't want to leave the others for too long, so Sharon and I went back with the rest. The girls were all dancing, and later I was forced to persuade Ben to join us for another round of tequila shots, because someone smiled like a horny little kid when he was talking to her. Anonymous, but I think its pretty obvious.

Outside of Zouk, drunk, and posing while I took a picture. Why did I take a picture? I don't know.

I thought that was the end of the night, but nopes, at 2am, someone came up with the bright idea to go to Zouk. And high as we were, a few of us went. Joseph, Sharon, Susan, Sam and I, plus a new addition who met us at Zouk. I also forgot his name. LOL. Susan, drunk as hell, swiped her credit card to buy a bottle. And so we went inside! We headed to Velvet and drank. I actually didn't plan to dance, but somewhere along the way Susan started stripping me and danced with me. Yeah, she kept unbuttoning my shirt while dancing. Impressive -.-. So I did dance in the end, along with grinding and making out with her neck, chest and hair (her long hair kept getting in the way). Because of her hair it was too annoying to move on to the lips, so meh. The strangers around us who weren't dancing were laughing like hell seeing her unbutton my shirt; didn't help she did this more than once. Eh, it was nice though. Ahem. She's got really soft and tender skin.

And she loses at the cigarette game quite a lot. Oh, and I was surprised to discover that Zouk was still open at 5:30am.

That's all? Nopes, one more time! Haha! Last week Symposium went to Genting, but Forsake Me Not was auditioning a new vocalist so it wasn't appropriate to miss. After the successful auditioning of Prthiv, we had a meal and chilled out for a while. Sharon asked me whether I was joining them later, to which I asked, join them for? She said they were drinking at Changkat again, so I agreed. Nothing to do at home anyway, and they're fun drinking people too, so I decided to join in once again. Joseph didn't come this time, but instead with Sharon and Susan, I met two guys, and guess what? I forgot their names again! I only know one an Indonesian from the Netherlands, and the other is a local from KL. We planned to go to Raggae Bar but we were stopped by the Never Mine staff and told about a 2 for 1 promotion, which we took. So yeah, again, for 3 weeks straight I've been going to Never Mine. Lol.

The non-Netherlands guy, whose name I can't remember, and Susan.

Wasn't so crazy this time round. The Netherlands guy kept paying for our drinks, and we drank quite a lot too. But it was more chilled out, playing the cigarette drinking game I learned from them the first time we drank together. Late in the night, Susan was dancing with/on me while I was sitting down, so that was enjoyable, although I hadn't drank enough to dance, so I was mostly the taker, greedy in the sense I took but didn't give, lol.

Metaphorically.

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12:58 PM

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol. Lmao. I've been drinking every weekend for the last 4 weeks. And in some of them, I died.

Firstly, earlier in the month, Miki, Ruz and Eddie had their graduation ceremony. Symposium, with Nick Choi, (bloody cute) Stephanie and InJune came to give our support. Well, long story short, we cheered, took pictures and clapped a lot. While the various majors were going in, we clapped and cheered, while shouting out the names of people we knew. And then when Tatsun Hoi and the rest of the lecturers walked in, we cheered like idiots and yelled Tatsun's name. Haha!

Afterwards, we hung out at Borneo Rainforest, which, despite being right behind TOA, I've never been to in my life. The environment is really nice and chilling! But the prices and quantities for the food are ridiculous. We played pool and shisha-ed for a few hours waiting while the actual ceremony was going on.

After everyone was done, Redzuan told us that his sister had asked him to join her at a club in the Sheraton hotel. He was hanging out with us, so he asked if we could come along. She said yes. Oh, and she said that it was free, free flow alcohol too. We headed to the Sheraton, and went to a club called Sixty3, in the Liquid Room. We met a bunch of celebrities, firstly, Redzuan's sister Sarimah of Disney Channel and Red FM fame, the Red FM boss, some new singer who's being pushed as a new Justin Bieber, and a few others who I can't really recall.

The beer was free flow up for a short while, and the first hard liquor we drank was a shot of Patron. That's apparently a legendary drink that killed Redzuan and Maxi a few weeks back. It tastes really nice! It's strong, pleasant and really tasty. Coffee-ish. Either way, pretty awesome. Anyhoo, at first I was concerned that we wouldn't have enough, because we were essentially being parasites to this group's alcohol. But after many shots of Patron, and continuous towers of beer that kept coming, Redzuan remarked "Still don't think we have enough, Howe? Fuc* you"... LOL.

James was drunk, and dancing the "Para Para". He kept bragging about how the girls around kept looking at him. Of course girls (and everyone) would look at you when you do the Para Para in a club.

We danced quite a bit, and apparently a few of us headbanged too. Haha! I got to know some of the other people there, and sat at the table drinking, and drinking and drinking. Then I sat beside this cute chick called Nora, and began flirting. No, I don't recall what I said; that's pretty much all I remember. Oh, I squeezed her sides a few times and she gave me a few playful slaps on my face too. Now that is all that I remember. Then I died. Lol. Although that's all I remember, the rest remembered a lot more. They said that when everyone drank together, I grabbed a bottle of Patron and drank straight from it, with the cap still on, and I acted like it burned my throat. HAHAHA. Oh man! I can't believe I did that kinda crap! They said I fell asleep on the couch too. Geez. Somehow though, I managed to guide Andrew back to my house safely and properly. Hmmmm. I'm a good drunk driver, and apparently, I'm a good drunk GPS as well.

Oh, and that stupid bottle thing I did? Nora was actually impressed! Lawl.

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2:38 PM

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Monday, March 12, 2012

Aye, so first, let me apologize for the lack of updates. Lol, 3 months into the new year and I've already not fulfilled my first resolution. Heh, but then again, I don't take resolutions so seriously. They're more like guidelines most of the time. Guidelines I'm usually lazy to follow most of the time, lol. Resolutions aside, I do have a legitimate excuse. My internet was cut. Since I'm working, I now pay the bills for the internet, adding it to another list of things that have been free most of my life, and suddenly need to pay for, including things like allowance for my mom, gasoline for the car, phone credits and a bunch of other stuff you get for free as a student.

I was lazy to pay the bills, so I dragged, until I gave the money to my mom to do it. So yeah, that explains my lack of online presence. Felt weird that I had no internet for so long. It allowed me to do a lot of cleaning up though. Managed to reformat my computer at long last, no thanks to David keeping my Windows 7 CD for 10 months (he returned it, broken). I also filed most of my unfiled songs, adding a thousand or so tracks to my filed music collection. Which felt like a great accomplishment because I don't put songs into my playlist until they're filed... because it's a pain finding a song like "Unknown Artist - Unknown Track" or something along those lines. But I still have tons of unfiled things. I have 10,000 unfiled pictures, a few thousand of which the filenames are purely numbers. Oh geez.

Anyway, I guess I'll start with the earliest thing I can currently remember off the top of my head, Bruce introduced us to the girl he liked, more or less going to be his girlfriend, Winnie. And of course, being the first time we met her, we ended up being bitches to Bruce. Justin suggested that we act as gangsters under the service of Bruce; him being our big leader. Think of Mafia mixed with Triads. When he finally arrived with Winnie, we stood up and greeted him, we talked in low voices, bowed our heads, talked as though we had headsets and all. Winnie was freaked out and thought Bruce really was some bigshot. Ha! Great way to make a first impression -.-. Being morons done right to a whole new level.

On a more personal note, I couldn't help myself, but I kept glancing at Winnie throughout the night. Heh, no, I wasn't thinking of snatching her, nor was she so beautiful I couldn't keep my eyes off. It's just that she looked remarkably like Kai Yih. I mean, seriously, the resemblance is scary as hell. Just a little taller and a bit more meat, and she'd look like a twin sister of Kai Yih. Of course, that was just looks. Apart from that, they're worlds apart, in personality and speech. It just kinda freaked me out that she looked so similar, and in certain angles, exactly the same.

Also, Symposium had our little NBA session. Having been quite some time since any of us played basketball, Aaron suggested we play basketball in the court behind Justin's house. And due to everyone coming late and all, we ended up starting at midnight, hah. First team (and only, as you'll see later) I had was Andrew and Jeremy. We played against Justin, Bruce and Aaron. halfway during the first matc, the genius Justin threw the ball way over our heads, over the fence, and into the drain. A drain, twice my height. Brilliant. Justin couldn't bother going down there, so Andrew went down. I felt bad that he was doing shit (quite literally here) alone, so I went along with him. The fence was a long and relatively tall one, so we had to walk all the way to the end of the drain to find an opening in the fence. And then we climbed through.

We started by climbing along the fence at the top of the drain, but there were too many plants blocking the way. So we tried the other side, which were the back fences of the houses themselves. Pipes and thick fences prevented us from going that way. So we had no choice but to jump down. Geez. There were successive horizontal pillars blocking our path. A slightly higher one we that required us to bend down a bit and a lower one that required us to bend down a lot. Continuously. Bend down, bend lower. Bend down, bend lower. And if that wasn't uncomfortable enough there were bugs flying all around that made every single inch of exposed skin bloody itchy. And that's not the worst part! At nearly every taller pillar, there was a HUGE spiderweb blocking the way that we had to clear with our bare hands. Not to mention most of the walkable floor was slick with slime and dirt, making it extremely slippery too. It sucked. Like hell. Did I mention it sucked?

After quite a distance of spiders, webs, insects, slime, mud and slightly tired backs, we finally reached the place. We picked up the ball and threw it back up. Justin and Jeremy gave us some assistance in climbing over the fence with twisted barbs, and we washed ourselves up. It helped, but not much. I was still itching all over. I came back to the match, irritated and annoyed. I said out loud what I was thinking in my head. "I did not crawl down a drain just to end up losing this match." Andrew fully agreed. So I played seriously, and we won. Apparently Justin couldn't stand to lose, so he set up the next match, with the same team members. *Sigh*. So we won again. And again. With the same teams. The guy just couldn't lose, so he kept arranging matches with the same teams. So in the end, we won the first three matches, and lost the final one, when we were tired, and knew he just wanted to win.

Of course, since I was the main goal-scorer for my team, there were constant accusations of luck. Ugh, please. Why does everyone who loses say that? And you winning means its your skill, and not luck? Did everyone suddenly forget I sometimes join the church members for basketball on Sundays?

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1:34 PM

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