master sumbing

Yesterday afternoon, after spending most of the day lounging in front of the television I decided to go for a massage and since I'm the two-birds-with-one-stone kinda guy I thought I should get a haircut too.

I told the Indian barber the usual, a grade number and trim a little off the top. I'm not sure why but there's something about the noise a pair of scissors make that eases me. *snippity-snip-snip* Anyway, I was already half-asleep when suddenly I felt a sudden sharp pain on top of my right ear. Yes, he accidently sliced my ear.

At first, I wasn't worried since I didn't see any blood spurting out and my ear is still intact. Plus, the barber got some antiseptics and cotton wool on the wound pretty quick. But the longer the barber took cleaning up the wound, the woozier I got. I was looking pale, my body was cold but at the same time I was sweating. I seriously thought I was going to die or at least faint. Haha. I think I was just stupefied by the pain and incident.

Anyway, using the graffiti application on Facebook I drew a front profile of my right ear. :) I exaggerated a little bit for the dramatic effect, its not as bad as it looks in the drawing. It's more of a flesh wound, but slightly deep.


The barber shop I went to yesterday was quite funny because two shops down there's another barber shop, and it reminds me of Amsterdam's Red Light District. To compete with each other, the barbers would take chairs in front of the shop and, sit there and wait for potential customers.

Disclaimer: I've never been there, honest.

ps. Come on and join the WDKF Fantasy League! Click on banner on the right. :)

sarcastic that

Nice weather, innit. Brunei Airport weather Forecasts

Oh ya, the English Premiership League 07-08's starting in less than a month's time, WDKF has set up a fantasy league on the Premier League website if anyone's interested to play. Details coming soon.

/edit. Send in an e-mail to wedontknowfootball[@]gmail.com for access to the league.

cheeky monkey

Finally finished reading Jed Rubenfed's The Interpretation of Murder a few days ago, took alot longer than most books since I had to re-read most of the chapters. Being an avid reader I usually fly my way through books. With this book, however, I paced myself because it is definitely too clever (psyhcology being the subject-matter, and abit of Shakespeare here and there) for me, nonetheless it is a very interesting and terrific book. Plus, I didn't want it to end. I personally think its better than Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, it's the best "faction" I've read so far. I certainly didn't think that the subject-matter appeal to me but I was engrossed in the book. The plot, the twists and the style of writing is spell-binding. The research is fantastic as is the incredible writing. Definitely impressed by the gripping narrative and authentic feel of early 20th century New York. Can't wait for his next novel.

I actually wanted to share a paragraph from the book about Oedipus Complex but I can't find the right page at the moment. It's interesting.

He's reading the book too.

This Sunday will be the third game-week for the Golf Punks League, however the initial Pantai Punk Classic at the Pantai Mentiri Gold Club has been postponed to the month of August, and Sunday's game-week will be held at the Royal Brunei Airlines Golf Club. For more information, go to the site.

miss gatal

Back in the old days, I was known for being mischievous. In fact, an ex-roommate used to say that if I was one of those Mister Men & Little Miss characters my name would be Mister Mischievous.

Anyway, I had this weird dream last night. I was in a game of 'who's the most mischievous' between the boys from my boarding house and halls. It was like a huge tournament, however I lost in the final shoot-out. I lost miserably, and I was crying. It was humiliating. Sighs.

My sister's back home. She got me a sexy 250gb external hard-drive. It's so sexy that I wanna make out with it, cuddle it to sleep and wake up next to it in the morning. Seriously. Now I can take my old hard-drive apart and build myself a robot. Thanks again, little sister.

The second round of the Golf Punks League game took place last Friday at the RBAGC. There was a huge turn-out for the second event, 25 golfers in total, in comparison to the first game-week which was half of that. It was a long day, my flight was the last to be back at the club house, nonetheless it was a fun day. Anyway, for more details on the league click right here. If you have a Facebook account, you can view most of the pictures there. Next game-week will on the 22nd of July 2007, 1230pm at the Pantai Mentiri Golf Club.

Fly Boy with The Ivanty winner, Izat.
Photo from GolfPUNKS' facebook.

for my friend

Last week, my friend asked me about the difference between happiness and meaning. I was stuck in a stupor state trying to come up with an answer (I tend to figure out something smart to say when asked a question, but I would normally end up with something confusing) and in the end, all I could say to my friend was "happiness is happiness and meaning is meaning" (see!).

Anyway, I'm currently reading a book by Jed Rubenfeld called The Interpretation of Murder. The book starts off with this..

"There is no mystery to happiness.

Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn - or worse, indifference - cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man does not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present.

But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The ways of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning - the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life - a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisitng only that we choose between them."

For myself, I had always chosen meaning. I want to try happiness now. :)

p/s I had the best-day yesterday. Thank you everyone for the wishes. :) And thank you.