congratulations..!

our friend (D's good fren) got hitched over the weekend. D was there to witness the ceremony. Congratulations to both of you and may you have years and years of happiness together!



mr & mrs maok

the illusion of plastic money

sunday. my mom and i have this regular sunday routine of morning workout, breakfast, and then grocery shopping together. (interesting, i know)
today, one of the items we purchased was without a barcode so we had to wait for ages for the rollerboy to find it. in the meantime, other customers passed by to pay for thier purchases.
first, a man whos bill came up to two hundred plus- whipped out his credit card.
second, a gay looking dude. bill- hundred and seventy. credit card.
mummy was disgusted. she turned and looked at me.
"bill dua ratus pun pakai credit card, teruk betul. im telling you if this is the way he shops every month for his family, sampai dua puluh tahun lagi pun dia takkan habis bayar bill dia semua. i dont understand orang ni semua, barang makan pun nak hutang ke?"
good point mummy.
tapi mummy, kenapa time orang dapat gaji macam sekarang ni je orang shopping? kalau ada credit cardkan boleh shopping bile2?
"sebab gaji tiap2 bulan habis membayar hutang, so they end up with no cash in the end. and bile hutang dah bayar, baru boleh guna balik gredit card tu"
oh. sad.
tapi kalau macam barang lain kalau ada sale, takpelah kan? i mean, apart from barang makan?
"tak tau ke perangai orang ni? nampak baju tu ada 20% discount tapi cash takde. so, beli jugak sebab rasa macam konon-konon it's a good buy. but you know what? they pay the minumum amount every month plus interest, and in the end harga baju tu lebih mahal dari the price even if it was never on sale"
ler.macam tu ke? tapi mummy, kenapa kalau orang tu pakai credit card it's symbol of wealth and style and all that crap?
"itu dulu. skarang ni? no way. orang gaji 30,000 setahun pun layak apply. tau graduate card tu? alaa..orang salesgirl pun boleh pakai credit card kalau cukup overtime hours dia. dulu memangla lain..nak dapat credit card tu susah sangat. minimum gaji mesti 48,000 setahun. that's wealth. people know you have a decent salary"
ooo. like that ar? habistu.is credit card such a bad idea?
"take my advice on this. only use credit cards to pay for your hotels when you go for overseas holiday and for emergency petrol cases.dont ever, ever make it a habit."
tapi kalau kita takde duit macammana?
"takde duit, takpayah nak berbelanja. that's why you need to plan financially wise. jangan makanan dah jadi tahi, hutang tak habis bayar."

no wonder i never see my parents use their credit cards no matter how much their bill amount might be. wow. i see them in a whole new light that sets them apart from other people. yeah, maybe they both earn five figure salary each but i have great respect for the way they handle expenses.

well, i hope i get to be like you.

only the brave will survive

whoa..what a weekend that was. D might agree that it probably was very 'explosive'..wouldnt you?

anyways,more shocking news. D's very good fren since college days, M has suddenly decide to get married. wow! D was lost for words and so was i. i mean, it wasnt like "i'm getting married in september/october/august or whatever" no! it wasnt like that at all!! it was more of "im getting married in another twenty days. do you mind being my photographer?" kinda thing. WOW! Then again, D was telling me 'is there anything that he ever does that is not surprising?'. too true.

well. there you have it. congratulations, congratulations, congratulations. you have the most guts of any guy i know. she'd be lucky to have you, Mr. Braveheart. And btw, there was certainly no need to apologize like you did yesterday for the surprise. its a really good surprise and shouldnt require any amount of apologizing, aite?

we wish you the best of luck, and hope the both of you be happy together forever and ever (sorry if it sound cheesy, but i love happy endings..or is it new beginnings?)

and to my ex-collegemate who has always had the hots for M, well..all i can say is EAT YOUR HEART OUT!

Tell you love me.., no, seriously

its been quite a while hasnt it?

ive lost touch and right now am a bit in the dark. not sure what to say or whether anything that has been happening lately is even worth sharing.im now a first rated couch potato cum human tv guide.. wa-hey!

interesting eh?

reason for not updating is definitely not because ive been busy or occupied with shitload of stuff. not that ive been spending too much time with my workoholic partner either. its the inability of the damn developer to make the streamyx connection yadda yadda...plus tmnet is not one of my favourite things in the world.
having said all that, here i am-tmnet and all.

last time i was out with D, we ended up at this secondhand bookstore which was the equivalent scenario of me being charlie in willi wonka's choc factory. awesome hidden gem. we lost each other for a while there seeing how are reading habits quite differ. D likes those strange twisted tales while me, well i'm not saying for fear of being ridiculed.(i DO care what ppl say!)

after that we were like walking up and down strange busy streets feeling a bit lost..but compensated by fiddling with our lomo cameras. D with his and me with mine. That kept us occupied for a while.

evening found ourselves at a gig in old klang road. our friends were playing (i forgot we had rockstar frens!) and Aiya's boyfriend was there too. Found myself concentrating and staring too hard when i realised that my mind was far far away. I mean, im not exactly rock and roll material. and D was amaze at how much i was enjoying the bands.*giggle*

have a great weekend and be safe.

D writes, how long has it been?

how long has it been?

i've notice some the blog group stop writing also. maybe just to busy to be bother that some find it surreal to write again. maybe just plain lazy because by the end of the day nobody really bother of our outcries and griefs. maybe just call it quits, pondering what's the point anyway.

as for me, i still do have my days, glooming and being bloody melancholic about life and all. but hey c'est la vie... a friend of mine, N, she's definitely in deep turd herself as she contemplating vss and jobs hunting. been there, done that. i was like her before is started working here as a well paid balachi cum designer.

one thing, i learned that never to give up and worry too much. S was and always there to comfort and relax my mind off. especially when the doughs getting thinner and thinner by the day. mama's also cool. all i know is that whenever you're feeling down and fucked up in the head, one should never keep to him/herself. it's already a burden in the first place, if you let it to yourself, it'll drag you all the way down...

but i guess i can't blame N for all that she is, she is in fact a scorpio. i know because me and S are one of them bloody scorps (don't mess with us!)

finally, S really settled down in that far-reached putrajaya. a big house with plenty of rooms to open up another overrated super club. then again, most of the time there would be only four peeps inside the house, S, the father, the mother and the annoying maid. hehe.

what else? well, there was the trip to penang with the other '6 jahanam' during chinese new year. it was MN's wedding. *grin*
and then there was the uncelebrated, overrated v-day... yes, me and S didn't really celebrate but we spent the evening drinking teh tariks somewhere in bangsar.

nothing much to write, even when there's so much to tell... cheers!