Merdeka!
Malaysia reached it's 2005-1957= 48 birthday today. I celebrated the count down of merdeka the truely Malaysian way- by going to the mamak with 2 other friends of a different race. For showing how patriotic and harmony we are as a society, the restaurant offered a 15% discount off the bill becuase we are 1 chinese, 1 indian and 1 malay. We then sat and analyze and conclude how shallow our society is, why we are sending one man to the moon when we have more pressing issues such as improving our domestic transportation system. How come bbc reported that our govt wants to send nasi lemak as space food but no one knows about it here. When our govt. going to raise the oil price, why do the govt keep organizing the same boring march .... Why each introduction line must start with.. "whats your name", "where do you work". Why the govt does not put a stop on the mushrooming of hotels on our beautiful beaches. How silly that we want to break the world record of longest teh tarik.. yada yada yada. We weren't proud or happy with our society.
One thing we were really proud of was being in the school band for 5 years, dedicated a big part of our teenage life to learning the meaning of dedication, discipline and friendship.
To us celebrating merdeka, these are typical malaysian speech which still cracks me up, mostly becuase of the mix of dialects and language only a malaysian will understand:
1. Wa lau eh, you r da man!
2. No lar, why like this wan ah?
3. Char koay teoy, no see ham.
4. Ceap ceap, mai lar.
5. VCD x ringgit, DVD x ringgit - very ceng one.
6. Paul Moss?! Friday nights 8.30pm
7. MNG SaLEEEEE
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Haze
The haze is very bad. Couple of cities reach a level of over 500 on API (Air polution Index). I can barely see anything 25o meters ahead. The lake in Putra Jaya has dissapeared before my eyes. It pisses me off that our neighbouring country is burning to clear off land for plantation while killing us.
Anyways, today I woke up feeling in a better mood than last couple of days. For the last couple of days I was just feeling very down for no apparent reason. Just didn't feel like talking to anyone, doing anything, wanna just shut down and do nothing. Does it happen to you? I wanna tell myself to feel better but it doesn't quite happen. Then, I have to still wake up and come to work.. yucks!
body refuse to listen to the brain
I tore my muscles. Nothing serious, just my thigh muscles. I'm not in the hospital...just can't walk properly for a week now and it still hurts. I don't mind the hurting but am very dissapointed becuase I can't take part in an event that I was training for :(.
I bet this happens to all athletes and I am not an athlete yet I am still dissapointed.
I've been training for the last couple of weeks to take part in some gym challenge and an athletics event. It felt really good to be able to focus on something other than work. So, I went and trained really hard. Ofcourse, after each training my body would ache quite badly. But its the type of ache which you feel good about.
I was all prepared for first competition- sprint 100 meters... my brain was at work.. hear the gun shot, focus past the finishing line, move my legs as fast as possible, swing my arms. Gun shot went off, I sprint.. only a quarter way of 100 meters, my legs gave up. Muscle tear.. I kept running, finish and collapsed. It felt much much more painful than a strain, it kinda went SNAP! and arghhhhhh!!! I couldn't massage it for 2 days becuase the pain would be too unbearable. yeah yeah... I'm a sissy and baby and fragile but it was really HURTING bad!
I've got another competition lined up for monday but seems like I need to pull out. Very very dissapointed... :( with my own body. This is when I wish the body would just listen to the brain and get well.
