Leaving Shadows Behind

I guess that is whats really been the main theme of my soul searching process. How I am gonna make a mark on this earth before my time comes, a mark more significant than a tombstone above my rotting flesh [InsyAllah, as a proper burial would be good enough]. 

Lightyears
[14/06/10]

I realise I never really think of the present as for what they are. I know I should and I often say to others that they should but I know I don't. I say a lot of things to others that I clearly know will come back and bite me in the back. I know it sounds like I'm a hypocrit, I guess I am but I say them anyway to make myself realise. And most of the time I state this fact to them. Other times I just bid them off to cry alone in the dark, lol.

Anyway, to take another step out of de'Nile, I will say this. I am stuck in the past. Past happiness, past achievements, past memories. I am dead afraid of the future. I know what I want but I don't know how to get there. I want to plan but I'm afraid to. Because if I do...there's just too much fear of the unknown.

CRAP, I don't know where I got this from. Planning was great in high school. I got here in dental school by planning and by sticking to that plan. Maybe because I became so unhappy here that it pasted a negative sticker onto that type of action. "Avoid in future thinking processes"...slap it on that planning button.

How would you like to leave your mark on this earth? Tell me...whoever's reading. Because I KNOW everybody share at least this thought if not all the above.

Puppy Cloud
[13/06/10]

I do believe we were brought to life for a purpose and we may not know what that is yet [some may never] so in the meanwhile, what harm is it to dream?

Out With It

Okay, I'll no longer deny and avoid the factual statement that I'm a dental student.
So here's the latest interesting thing.

Today my group had a short field trip to Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia, Putrajaya. We went to the Dentistry sector of course, sat for an hour's talk on Oral Health Promotion, toured the offices, had free 'oily & caffeinated' lunch, and patiently waited for the bus. I didn't bring a camera since I'm not the posing type of person, but I did see something worth sharing and shot it with my lousy phone cam which turned out horrish. So here's an equivalent shot from the www:

read the smallprints

It was manufactured around 1997. What the hell were they thinking?! Desensetizing kids to the profession?! Did it work? So far, I still have never heard a little girl saying they want to grow up to be a dentist, it's always a doctor, a nurse, a teacher, a doctor. Nowadays? A popstar.

What a day...it was one of those days where somehow, time was spared in every corner but unfortunately by the end of the day you know you benefited nothing from it because you spent most [if not all] of that potential hours sat in front of your bro's computer listening to Russell Peters and playing Prototype. And now? Sit across your laptop for an hour typing about it when hardly anybody is gonna read it. Great learning EPs collected there.

Later days...

Come One, Come All

To do, or not to do? That is not the question.

The question is,

Who's in?

Hot! Hot! Hot!

The awful Monday as a holiday turned out to be quite okay.

Me & my family went to the hot springs in Perak. Oooohh! It was in a Felda Residence. The place is called Taman Rekreasi Air Panas (TRAP) Sungai Klah at Sungkai. Entrance is RM10 per head. There's a discount for the old folks, RM7 only. I don't know if there's student price or not.

The first time I went there was a few years back, I can't really remember but back then it was still in the process of construction and word of the place wasn't out yet. It has both hot spring (hot) & mountain water (cold) pools and a few other attractions.

Near the entrance, if you choose to park outside & walk in, there's this boardwalk pathway where you can enjoy steam from the natural springs below. It's really cool...in a way. But we missed it this time because my dad wanted to park inside.

Hot Spring Swimming Pool

See that sad face below? It's saying 2 things:

1. Eeeww gross [I know it sounds bitchy but I'm not a fan of public pools because it's the same as re-using one's bath water]

2. I thought we were going to the private family bath thus I did nay bring an appropriate attire.

Anyway it wasn't even hot! According to another tourist my dad talked to, it might be because of the cool weather. Plus, we were the early birds, so the pool was just 'turned on'. ???

This is a boy. So I call him BoyBoy.

BoyBoy is standing in front of a hot water source. You wouldn't be able to see it in the pic but it was clear where the point of source was. You could see water being dispersed.

My cousin BoyBoy is. Shy he is nay.




Therapeutic Pool

I can't remember what temperature this tiny pool was at but you could see how we're not too keen on the idea of merely submersing our foot in it.

The thing was, I know the temperature won't damage me physically but the pain was still a boulder and thus it became a mental challenge.

I gave up a few times but was finally able to dip both my feet in up to the ankle. Both my bros actually managed to stand inside the pool...knee deep. We stayed around 20-30mins[max time allowed due to health reasons].

After we retreated, any body part that was in contact with the body of water turned as red as the devil's dick [hahaha! always wanted to use that line from 'Pineapple Express'], of course I'm exaggerating but it did turn pink the whole day.

There's also a Water Reflexology Course which I did nay take a photo of. It's a path with stubby stones embedded in it and hot water flowing on it's surface.

Egg Boiling Activity

This is where we boil eggs. I know, it sounds so random. We could even ask for either half-boiled or well-done eggs. We brought our own raw eggs. They do sell eggs there but you don't know where they're from :P

Awesome, the place already stinks off sulphur. All we need is every tourist being a potential stink bomb.




Family Bath


Yay! This is one of the best places of which I was hoping to go back to after all these years. It's private with each room closed off from the public. The open aired room includes a cold shower, toilet, and benches inside. Beautifully decorated with living plants. This is just the standard rated ones [RM75 per hour]. There are some other rooms of much higher class where towels are provided and massages available.

Loved it! I was the last to leave as you can see me trailing ever so far behind.

I was a little dizzy after that, which isn't a good sign. Darn!

Anyway, we proceeded to the next facility.




Mountain Water Swimming Pool

The Red-Eyed Octopus who loves spraying around

Falling body of water

This is one large pool. If you're a pool freak, unlike me, you'll definitely love this place. The water is cool & calm unless you have someone pissing in the pool nearby or someone decided to drop the bomb [of both kinds, they're both lethal in a public area].

My mom was constantly trying to talk me into going for a dip. I was a little tempted but I had no extra pants. As I said before, I wasn't expecting public pools.

Then we lepak-lepak, I spent quite a lot on theme park junk food to please the rumblings of me tummy.








Then we surveyed the villas & resorts available. Who knows, next family day?

*If you look closely you can see that my feet are pink, though the colour is toned down in this pic

Yosh!




Just a tip though, the cafeteria SUCKS! The food is okay but the service lacks a lot.

Peace out & do nay forget to rock!

Twas The Holi A Fortnight's Passed

What the heck indeed. Just take this as a continuation of the 'Zombie Week' post & be warned that it's quite long. Let us begin! We got onto the road on Friday morning, the day I wrote 'Zombie Week'. Our destination? Cherating. We registered into Suria Resort and headed for the beach.

Suria Resort
Registration was slow, and they gave us the wrong room number & also the wrong key. We finally settled in one but the doors in that room had an issue in...closing.

Other than that it was good enough for a good night's sleep. There were 4 of us so we only got a 2 singles room.



Aaaaahhh, the beach.










Unfortunately, I never learn from past experiences, my attire was unfitting.










Thus, I served as a towel rack for my bro.









This 16 year old kid, who is effortlessly posing as a fragile gay being.









Yes, mighty stick, let us wait for the tide to come in and wash away our sorrows.

Me, in being a lazy ass & you in being stuck in the sand.






That night I slept early while my parents watched an award show, no idea what it was. I brought my laptop and broadband modem so you can guess what my bro did for the night. I woke up at 4am and found that my cousin Dooha was online, so we chatted away until subuh.

At around 7am...mmmm...free breakfast.
The coffee was suspiciously good.
The day was gracefully raining.
The waves were booming from afar.

My mom got news of the landslide at Bukit Antarabangsa from his brother who lives there. Fortunately, his family lives in the safe zone. What a coincidence! It happened around the time I woke up, 4am.


At noon we took off to Kuala Terengganu where 2 of my aunts live. It was raining all the way and there were a lot of cars. So everything was dull & slow moving. What was supposed to be a 2 hour journey lasted around 6 hours instead. We passed by some flooded areas and saw boats being prepared in front of houses.

I love rain but not when I'm in the car on the road. To be honest, I always get nervous when I'm in a moving car, no matter who's driving, except myself. Hahaha!

We spent a night at one of my aunt's house and after breakfast on the following morning, we continued our journey to Kota Bharu, making a stop at Pulau Duyong to catch a glimpse of the Monsoon Cup.

The little one is my cousin, Hanif. He was tagging along since our car was quite spacious from the lack of people.








We went on a free motorboat ride for a closer look at the action.









This was from Pulau Duyong, 2 hours away from the finals that we had to miss in order to reach our destination in daylight.

I'm not much of a fan of this sport but my dad is, so as long as he's happy, I'm good.

Anyway, the wind was very pleasing.

And so we kept going...

We made a stop at a 'Restoran C.I.R. - Pusat makanan ringan & keropok losong' by the side of the road before reaching Besut.

It was lucky we did because they served the best keropok lekor I have ever tasted! Crispy on the outside & super soft on the inside.

Apparently they were freshly kneaded & subsequently fried. Fresh keropok lekor, something everyone should try out.

It wasn't much of a restaurant but it was a great idea. They serve drinks to go with the keropoks & if you liked them, you can buy the not so fresh version of the keropok at the shack next to it. They had a vision.

Anyhows, we finally reached Kota Bharu. Yay! The first night was at my dad's kampung, Salor. Raya Korban is best celebrated here instead of my mom's kampung, I'm not sure why but truth be told.

My dad releasing the sacrificed cow from the fastened rope.

I was absent from the 'massacre' because I failed to escape the warmth of the blanket that wrapped my body from the chilliness of the morning.






Bloated!










For the next few days we stayed at Taman Guru, my mom's kampung, awaiting the big day. Kenduri [may I call it that?] for little Firdaus & Kaira, the latest additions to the family.

Until then we [me, bro and cousins] had 3 days & 4 nights to waste, especially the nights which of course extended into the early hours of the morning. Simply said, we turned nocturnal.

Activities included:


- surfing the net [I was the provider, courtesy of my Celcom broadband]

- playing Big Fish's MCF games [provided by me as well]

- jamming [my guitar]

- trading songs [mostly from me]

- watched all the 'Hanazakari no Kimitachi e' episodes [provided by Jaja]

- gossiping & catching up

The only thing I regret was not being able to film a music video for this year. The 1st was made 2 years ago, it was an emo version of Avril's Girlfriend. The 2nd was filmed last year, it was of MCR's Teenagers but unfortunately the digicam broke and I couldn't upload the film to to a pc to edit. This year? I had nothing planned out. Other than that, we didn't pose much either. Well, at least I didn't.

Here's a few...

Edd: Sheesh, I'm so bored.

Doo: Quiet, we're reading.

Alin: I'm pretending to read.




Edd: Let's rock this joint! Shoot some music vids dudes!

Doo: Hmmm...I'm down with that! Let's gather the crew!

Alin: Ooooh...I wanna be the cutest one in it.





Edd: Lets make an ultimate gore one! Really metal! Rrooaaarrr!

Doo: Oh no! Don't pull us into your darkness!

Alin: Nooo!



Edd: Okay I'm kidding. Lets do comedy!

Doo: Aaaaahh...you scared me.

Alin: Taubat..taubat. Hey this book is kinda interesting. [reading Ayat-Ayat Cinta - she actually finished it in 1 day]



Edd: And then we can post it on Youtube!

Doo: and get horrible comments? Nay! Nnt kne pkai tdung.

Alin: oh my God, how I have sinned!



Doo: My turn in front! Charismatic pose...

Edd: Oi! Brani ko mncampak ku ke tepi!

Alin: Tidak, aku tidak mahu men 'posing' dah. Aku taubat...



Edd: Oooo charismatic yea...beat this Doo. Woof!

Doo: Aaaahh...stop it Edd, evrybody knows I won

Alin: Oh yeah? check this!



Doo: Yelah tuu alin...kte dah tobat.

Alin: Edd's darkness pulled me back out of the light.

Edd: How about this pose? I win, yes?



That was our activity while the others were preping the meat...

the men are preping outside

After the kenduri we all dispersed. As in we all went home, leaving Doo's family who had to stay behind for a week more.

So that's basically it. Great fun, alot of wasting time, but most importantly, great fun! Hahahaha!

Laters!

NO MORE BOOKS!! WANT TO RAYA!!

Seriously Brook, I can't gather my mind to study anymore. With 3 more days to go, who can? And why in the hell are there still classes on Raya's eve?!! Not to mention clinics! OK..no more of my uni crap, because of it, it'll be my first time celebrating 1st day of Raya in Bangi and not in Kelantan with all the other families and not to mention my lovely cousins. And because of that we'll be having the annual 8-hour journey on the same day after the morning prayers, what a way to celebrate an incredibly joyous day. Well it's not all up to me, my brother is in the same situation too, work up to Raya's eve and only having 2 days off. Grrrr to the gov authorities!

Brook: So, I hear you're staying alone in your apartment for the weekends. What's up with that?
Edd: Yeah, I know. Most un-bodacious! My social meter is deteriorating so fast I wish I have a Sims cheat to keep it stable.
Brook: OMG Edd, purple? [whisper]
Edd: shut up [whisper]
Brook: [cont] Then why don't you just go home?
Edd: I'm gonna, trust me. I just needed some time alone to get the juicy inspirations back into my blood. I've got a new tune on the guitar so I'll be going home in a few hours.
Brook: What else have you done in your time alone?
Edd: Well...I've been bored.


That's my solo breakfast meal bought from a nearby baazar. Not homecooked but there wasn't much choice and tea is a must!









Teman hidup.











Teman hidup sorang lagi. My mistress, Vypress...ahaha!











Tempat dating ngan mistress.








And stay in there, I've no time to babysit you guys anymore..uhuhu!











My well-managed food and beverage bar. The only thing I lack is stock. Closing in on the holidays, food stock diminishes.










Let's look outside. Wow, if I had parkour skills I'd be able to make that jump and break into that apartment. I wonder what I'd find.










Don't give me that look young man. You've got a great deal of things to learn in your life ahead and utter boredom is one of them.










The other view. Not much life in colour. Or is it my phone cam?








That's not funny Firdaus. Taula parents awak ade hp canggih...even your pic here is full of life..aaawwww!









Come on people! Seed me! The download is so slow! I need this before Raya!!











Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri & Maaf Zahir Batin

Later days...