@#*!%-ing Hilarious!

Title says it all, Provided if you undertand cantonese. Some might find themselves offended..offended of being the subject? Haha enjoy!

The power of time

Location: Dining room

Mood: Very full from Stevie's Nando's

Sights and sounds: Dim Sum Dollies, SIA Girls, Youtube

While browsing through dad's flickr page, (http://www.horsoonsphotography.blogspot.com/ and http://www.flickr.com/people/horsoon/) I found myself traveling in memory lane as i saw pictures of me and my family over the years. I then realize how much i have changed from an innocent child to the problematic youngster unsure of his sexual orientation till so far, today; erm..haha i don't know how to describe the recent me..most probably a few years later i'd laugh at whatever i'm doing right now :)

Here are some pics of me and my family 9 years ago.
(Stevie said i look a bit Beng but.. a true person treasures his past! :P)

By the way, Chrystal wasn't born by then.

9 Years Later........

The 3 of us. Catherine, Casey and Chrystal

Me and grandpa

Spot the change!

Cheat or no cheat

Location: Bedroom
Mood: Energetic
Sights and sounds: All dressed in love, Jennifer Hudson

Was browsing profiles on axcest not too long ago... 25 pages matching my search criteria! It seems everybody is looking for love these days. Looking through them,I noted a few all–too–familiar faces. Some of whom I know have had boyfriends for several years, yet their status still brands them as “Single”. I can safely say that not all “single” men online are truly what they claim to be.

The word “cheat” is a silly one, for it is culturally centered. It implies that we have violated the rules of the game called Relationship. Why do men cheat? or to be general, why do people cheat? Is it because the risk of being caught made cheating so appealing? Or simply because we can never have enough?

If only we could be brutally honest to ourselves, we would then acknowledge that we are by nature, attracted to more than one individual even we are in the most romantic relationship. Fairytale-like love stories aside, this is not an infringement of any pledge of love made to our lover. It's just natural intuition. Hello, if this is not the case, what are porn for? Does watching porn while having a relationship considered cheating, if one would inevitably assume the term "love' is something ENTIRELY a one-to-one basis activity.

Again, we see ourselves landed in the question of definition. What are the boundaries and how do we consider ourselves cheating or being cheated? Definition of cheat varies from couple to couple. Some might think having three-ways and orgies a way of exploring each other better, some think having an open relationship works better and some would simply regard watching other men engaged in sexual activity an offense.

In a world full of temptations and offers, it's vitally important for couples to have adequate communication and understanding over the issue of cheating and set clear rules so that we do not cross boundaries and eventually hurting the relationship.

Jalan What?

Location: Study room

Mood: Shocked

Sights and sounds: Sound of Zoe barking downstairs

Even Kuala Lumpur may soon loose it's name forever in a matter of time if authorities are not concerned over the concept of preserving history.

The recent controversy over the name change of Jalan Alor to Jalan Kejora is another, in my point of view attempt made by some 'somewhere-ranked' officers 'Upstairs' to do some publicity work. Too similar to the entertainment industry, minus the elegant and handsome faces, replaced by some rotting and restless politician uncles. Namely Uncle Mohd Amin Nodin Abdul Aziz. Now, the whole Malaysia and beyond recognizes him! what a successful marketing plan.

Although i've never fancied eating along Jalan Alor, but i'm sure it somehow portraits the exotic Malaysian cuisine. It is a vital part of Kuala Lumpur's history and that title doesn't come easy. The sudden change of it's name after being recognized as the eating place for more than 30 years now by both tourists and locals is certainly unfair and ridiculous. To make matters worse, the authority actually secretly changed the road sign overnight without proper notice and agreements with the locals!

Uncle Amin quoted :"Names are changed to avoid confusion of postmen." Well, very thoughtful of him over our postmen; but how about our tourists? Nobody will be delighted if Eiffel tower is renamed something else in order to 'stay align with the themed neighbourhood', as proposed by City hall to name streets in neighbourhoods according to themes. i.e. Stars, Fruits, Animals...etc. Where on earth did someone came out with such idea?

This shows that Malaysia has very little history background and is not interested in preserving any in future.

FAYE

I've been listening to Faye wong's songs rather frequent lately; not only does it made it's way to the 'top 25 most played' list in my iTunes in no time, I've even started to resemble her as the asian version of Madonna! Thanks to Stevie for playing her songs on almost every trip on his car and whoalla..I'm her new fan!

Lately i've been admiring all these 'older artistes' and my friends started to complain whenever they borrowed my iPod or while playing around with my phone. Well, perhaps i've just grown older! (wiser too, i hope)

One of my favourite:
Heard it before back in the 90s i think. I felt so excited listening to it again a few days ago :)



Prefer the canton version as the mandarin version sounded weird.

Penang

Yep! That view from a jacuzzi is worth traveling 300km north for the weekend!

It was pure excitement as I stepped out of class at 12.30 and headed straight to the airport to catch my plane at 4.30 to join vie vie for the rest of the weekend. However I was turned down by some cold that I caught days ago and to never ever catch a cold before a weekend escape, I ended up popping various dietary supplements from now on to keep myself healthy; special thanks to vie vie for the supplements.

It was a long and stressful week with 8 hours of lectures daily and to actually fly off to heaven on north was indeed very appealing despite some minor health glitch.

The place we stayed was Gurney Hotel and vie vie got some really great deals and they upgraded us to this 2-bedroom suite which at first was kinda freaky coz there's too many vacant spaces in the room! (you know what i mean). But just before that interfered with my mind, the stunning view from the room literally blew me away and the best part was ofcourse...the bathroom!

Gurney Drive infront of the bed

Penang Brige outside Queensbay mall

On our way back to KL, we've stopped by Ipoh and had lunch at the original Old Town white coffee house next to Ipoh Tourist Information Center. It used to be some typical chinese kopitiam ages back and eversince some great minds expanded and franchised the business, the coffee house was then refurbished to this modern-colonial theme similar to those you can find along Heritage row in KL.

Often enough, I felt that these franchising work creates a rather generic and uniform appearance regardless of which part of the world you are in. Old Town white coffee for instance, have the same menu at their originated store in Ipoh as it is at those other stores in KL, which I'm abit disappointed cause I don't wanna feel at home so soon! haha.

To my surprise, busses in KL and Penang are operated by the same company called Rapid KL and Rapid Penang. Okay, perhaps the word 'Rapid' is their company's name but can't they modify the appearance i.e colour and design of the bus abit for the sake of giving a different identity for both cities?

So, is franchising doing more good or bad? Good for business, bad for tourists...I think.

The field or 'padang besar' of Ipoh and it was yesteryear's Trevvy and Axcest before the internet came into service. Foreground was Michelle Yeoh's secondary school (Convent Ipoh i think)

SEX + CITY = Sex and the City (Manhattan only)

SATC style: Strutting down Fifth

I swear I felt so bad being one of the last SATC fans in the world, plus all the uncountable cuts, to watch the girls on the screen again after a looooooong wait since last December when I first got to know that the movie will be coming mid year 2008. And while every other countries are showing (including Mars) in May, I was so upset that this low efficiency, low key, low sense and everything low except taxes and temperature country we called Malaysia is not bringing this movie into local cinemas until July!!

While having a morning jog with my family at KLCC Park, I figured an opening sentence to express my feelings when one fine day if anybody ever interviewed me: "To the Censorship,Media Development Authority and whoever's responsible for this unreasonable delay, I cursed the day you're born! (Sounds familiar heh)"

While cursing the day he/she was born seemed to be too dramatic as how Charlotte had played her role in this movie, I find this movie relating what life is when you grow up. After not seeing those girls (or women) on HBO for 2 years, I feel that their change and even what they preserved in their lifestyle is directly reflecting myself. While being dramatic is how we as being gay express ourselves, staying calm and the ability to forgive is a very important and priceless lesson to learn through hard times and breakups.

Take Carrie as an example, the hardship, shame and the unbearable losses that she faces when Big left her on their wedding day, especially when her marriage being made a 'famous celebrity wedding' after she's been featured in Vogue could easily made her going stagnant without the help of some really, really good friends.

As relationships are becoming more and more 'disposable and replaceable nowadays especially in the gay scene, having some really good friends like Carrie's deemed very important.

Like most movies, SATC comes with it's soundtrack album called "Sex and the City Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". Although some of the songs are not featured in the film (i.e. Mercy by Duffy), but generally I think it's worth buying it (RM40-50, not so sure coz vie vie bought it for me) if you're a die-hard SATC fan like me.

Here's the tracklist:

1- labels or love

2- All dressed in love

3- Mercy

4- The look of love

5- New York girls

6- All this beauty

7- I Like the way

8- It's amazing

9- How deep is your love

10- The heart of the matter

11- Auld Lang Syne

12- Kissing

13- How can you mend a broken heart

14- Walk this way

15- Sex and the city MOVIE THEME

And for those who still adore the series and been watching it on DVD repeatedly, This book may just be your thirst quencher for SATC. Kinokuniya, RM28.10 ISBN: 2110446617682