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# Lots of stuff
I actually have lots of stuff to blog about.. but i wonder why i never get down to doing it?
Among the things that are on my mind... hmm.. let's see..
1)Be thankful for what I have
2)Don't be jealous of what i don't (and this IS different from point 1)
3)Top Gear is a really funny show
4)Lots of things happening in this small period of time called.. JUNE
5)How am i getting to tuition tmr?
6)Actually, it's not tmr cuz it's 2am and why am I sleeping at 4am every morning?
7)Internet fast for 24 hours. Wow. Food.. pls?
Ok, among the things i wanted to blog about... cockroaches. People in Singapore, scared to death of it. Malaysia, it's also known as a quality rating of a mamak shop. Here are 3 interesting cockroach tales from Malaysia. Not for the faint of heart. Or those who use soap before meals.
Story 1
I wasn't there so I'm jz retelling this one. Few of my friends were at the mamak stall and there were about 6 big sized guys at a table nearby. Cockroach came walking TOWARDS the guy, he scares it away, it comes backa second time. Guy scares it away, again. The third time, being fed up, the cockroah FLIES at the guy. Makes the first scene with screams. Then later, everyone knew the place was infested with cockroaches, but who cares right? Let's see. Above their ehads was a wire that connected the exterior lights to the power supply and walking along that wire was.... yup.. a cockroach. One of the 6 big guys spotted it and people started staring at it. My friends also looked. Apparently everyone was looking. The cockroach did its little tightrope act across the wire... and eventually was above the table of the 6 big sized guys. Then it stopped, lost it's balance, dangled.... and fell off!! The 6 guys were screaming like little girls apparently, and as if that wasn't bad enough.. as the cockroach fell... it started to flap it's wings (why did God give them wings anyways??) and flew just before it hit the table. That was it!! Everyone scrambled away... Really funny!
Story 2
Now this happened to me. Was in my friend's car (whose name i will not mention to protect.. erm.. reputation?). OK, giving him credit, it was his dad's car. And we stopped at a mamak to see if it was open, but it was closing and as we went back into the car, i saw a baby cockroach on the dashboard. As the driver was too afraid to do anything, i scooped it up with a tissue and threw it away. Few days later.. he picks me up along with other friends for a mamak session. We leave and as we get back to the car, we were joking about cockroaches, but guess who wasn't? The baby cockroach on my seat as my friend pointed out. I quickly took another tissue and tried to clean it up, when my friend realised he was referring to a different one. There were TWO cockroaches on the seat I was gonna sit on. Then as i tried getting rid of the two, we spotted a third...!!!! So cockroach count now : 4
Few days later, he shows up in the infamous car once again and to our disappointment, no cockroach this time.. Had our mamak session, till late.. then... as we were heading off.. there it was.. on the dashboard... cockroach no.5! So yup, that's that with the infamous car... Dun think i ever wanna sit in there again cuz it makes u feel things crawling around and up your legs when actually nothing is there.
Story 3
Yes, there is still one more story! This time we were at center mamak, and we were there quite early after tuition. Not too bad, 10plus, but we were watching NBA Eastern Conference Playoff Game 4, Pistons againts Celtics. Pistons won... oh yeah...!! BUT BUT buttt... sometime around the 3rd Quater, 4 cockroaches came out from behind a "wall" and we were like.... "pls don't fly" And we continued watching as they crawled around the menu, the drinks, and we postulated that a lizard got ambushed by cockroaches as it went behind a whiteboard and never to be seen again. Then came the brave and adventurous one that crawled towards us. My first reaction? SLAM!! Squished it. And so we thought that was it and continued watching as both the Celtics and Pistons screwed 3point after 3point shots.. it was 0-7 for both teams up till end of 3rd quarter i think. Then we looked beneath the table... and the cockroach had sneaked below the table leg! With only ONE leg working... so my other friend killed it a second time with his slipper. And he said he could feel it squirming about beneath his slipper.. On to the 4th quarter of the playoff game. As I sneaked peeks beneath the table to see if the cockroach had indeed resurrected, my friend told me to stop doing that cuz it freaks him out a little. So yeah, we watch the second half.. happy that the cockroach died after being killed twice. And while the Celtics were being creamed and called a timeout... we looked under the table.. and like the Toyota Hilux that Top Gear couldn't kill.. the cockroach was STILL creeping away!!! At 1 milimetre a minute... but it was MOVING!!! smash... the third time.. and this time, the white innards of the cockroach was clearly visible on the floor... And guess what... it was STILL KICKING... we turned it over.. and realised it had NO INNARDS left... we left it there to die... the fourth time...
OK, end of gross stories. Doubt anyone would be interested to read till here anyway, but it's QT time soon (= Time to listen out to what the most important voice has to say. At close to 2.30am. Nice and quiet somehow in KL. The loudest thing at this time.. well.. the keyboard of my father-in-law (think my wife, and see ifu can relate) and when im on QT, it's.. well.. bugs banging into the light. Haha.. yes, even on the 8th floor there are bugs...
Among other things.. no idea why but i was honestly SCARED when i saw the church camp duty roster (and that' show it's spelled FX, not rooster or roaster!=) Guitar 1 (And as my sis pointed out, there's only 1 guitar. so why guitar 1?), Service 4 - Kenneth Wilson. Consolation? Gab's is the PW leader, FX is on keys, and i've at least seen one fo the two backup singers, and Ade is on sound with Faithe on projection. Wait.. why did i say i WAS scared? I still am!! The last time i played the guitar for YA service, it was quite disastrous. When I played it at Infaction, I snapped a string which sliced my finger a wee bit. And now.. church camp?! Training is in order! Oh, btu a little surprise, Amanda Chong on projection! COOL!!
OK OK, it's starting to become obvious why I DO sleep at 4am everynight now. but before I go... eh.. it slipped my mind. Oh yes.. tuition. Helping my mom out with tuition, I once again realise how sad it is to be... so... poor in english. There I am, standing in front of about 15 students about 5 hours go, reading out the simplest passage in my life and explaining my guts out what physiotherapy and aromatherapy are... and i totally didn't realise they didn't understand a THING I WAS SAYING!! I decided to just quiz them on "simple" words in the passage.. "Girl in the blue jacket, what does "rapidly" mean? The whole class doesn't know... And i asked what does "indication" mean.. no idea.. what does "yearned" mean? TWO ENTIRE CLASSES got it WRONG... God, I honestly feel SAD for these kids. I am like.. almost cheating their money. There i was yesterday trying to excite them about a mini essay they were to write about the first car trip in the world (when the car was first invented) and tried to explain to them things like what a carburetor was, what a radiator does, what's the difference between leaded and unleaded petrol... and.. all that time.. i think the hardest word theyunderstood was "car"...
/faint
OK, that does it for this round of blogging. Txs for reading, u're appreciated!
the story ends like this;
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