How Malaysian Am I? Part 2

(Referring to previous post)

OK.... so now I'm officially 47% UNMALAYSIAN according to Kenny Sia. The verdict is out and I'm as Malaysian as Michelle Yeoh, which means that I'm as patriotic as going all out to persuade my lifetime partner to PURCHASE an ISLAND in my own home country, and refusing to become a typical "flower vase" in an international sexist movie franchise with a gwai-lo hero (which coincidentally what my partner is)! How about that? Not as bad right? SO, am I patriotic?

As I am writing this, I'm wondering why there's only one house with the Sabah and Malaysia state flag flying along the stretch of the street I'm staying now? I'm also wondering why the so-called favourite child of the nation can blurt out something insensitive to the other "less-majority" ethnic group only being blamed for his youth and inexperience while another decent local actress who chose to speak in a so-called colonist language was being blasted with accusation of being unpatriotic, menderhaka etc etc.......

Also I'm puzzled by the fact that the police forces, who claimed that they were seriously understaffed, still afford to send some troupes to attend the "super-wedding" of the year of our local songstress while the streets and cities were traumatically attacked by hordes of snatch thieves and other criminals. Not forget to mention the never-ending mind-blowing feats of records breaking which consists of acts such as, "the event where most people danced", "the biggest Malaysian flag made by 10 cent coins, used newspaper, beads etc etc......"

With only around 4 more days around, I wish Malaysia a 43th birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (For those who object, please get back your Sejarah textbook and search for the year when Malaysia was formed)

How Malaysian Am I?

Congratulations Tan Cher Kian, you are 47% not Malaysian.

That means you're as Malaysian as...

Michelle Yeoh!

How Un-Malaysian Are You?

Home

Home - Michael Buble

Another summer day

Has come and gone away

In Paris and Rome

But I wanna go home

Mmmmmmmm

Maybe surrounded by

A million people I

Still feel all alone

I just wanna go home

Oh I miss you, you know

And I’ve been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you

Each one a line or two“I’m fine baby, how are you?”

Well I would send them but I know that it’s just not enough

My words were cold and flat

And you deserve more than that

Another aeroplane

Another sunny place

I’m lucky I know

But I wanna go home

Mmmm, I’ve got to go home

Let me go home

I’m just too far from where you are

I wanna come home

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life

It’s like I just stepped outside

When everything was going right

And I know just why you could not

Come along with me

But this was not your dream

But you always believe in me

Another winter day has come

And gone away

And even Paris and Rome

And I wanna go home

Let me go home

And I’m surrounded by

A million people I

Still feel alone

Oh, let go home

Oh, I miss you, you know

Let me go home

’ve had my run

Baby, I’m done

I gotta go home

Let me go home

It will all right

I’ll be home tonight

I’m coming back home

Remember I heard the song for the first time over the radio while driving and snap.... love it straight away. Buble was more known to sing the American standard and I think Home is his first original tune and being away from my hometown working alone in KL at that time seems to seal the relevance to me.

And now watching Buble's show in Starworld and heard the song again, after continuous weeks of outstation and some emotional roller coasters events surrounding my rather bland and mundane life, my mind went into working mode again. How should you define your "HOME" now? You can name your shabby shack where you sleep after hours of work as home; some workaholics who feel less homely may call their offices as home; some says it's where their hearts lie in, which for that matter, the heart of their partners; or your family. We work in different places nowadays. We might not be working in where we was born or growing up so that's why we have hometown but then again, where's our home?

Was there a song called Love Should've Brought You Home?

I guess it's where the love is ~ OUR HOME

Auspicious Day?

Chinese like the number 8.
Not me... this year...

I wonder how long will the hurt stays? Time will heal I hope...

Ima, ai ni yukimasu (Be with you)

Time: 4.00pm
Venue: Old sofa in S10-3
Weather: Mendung tapi tak hujan
Temperature: Cool (fan is next to me)
Mood: Down yet sober, sad yet clear


Just like the dialogue in the movie, "I've always felt comfortable next to you"
And I do miss that comfortable feeling.................

千里走单骑 (Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles)

(a.k.a. Menunggang Seorang Beribu-Beribu Batu - can you imagine the level of subtitling or translation quality here???)

Seems like Zhang Yi Mou went back to the genre he's best at though in my humble opinion this is not his best work in that particular genre. This movie starts well enough and I like the subtlety that he captured here. Unlike his previous 一个都不能少 and 我的父亲母亲 (which zoomed Zhang ZiYi to Ang Li's attention to cast her in 卧虎藏龙), this time around, it's not that 煽情 anymore. At least for me, the tears were not streaming down like what happened in 一个都不能少. Casting wise, it's a solo show for Ken Takakura with only small fraction of limelight stolen by the little boy called Yang Yang in the movie. Breathtaking shots of the scenic China rural area and highland coupled with accurate capturings of the characters' emotion and expression, it's a delight to watch.

As expected, the cinema was not even 10% full with only 5 audiences including me and my pal, Julia. I was grateful though that the cinema chose to show this unpopular piece in the midst of other blockbusters flooding e.g. Superman Return, Pirates 2 and 龙虎门. However, the 2-yr odd cinema's cleanliness certainly left a lot to be desired (Growball, please grow cleaner - yes, Growball is the name of the cinema).

The movie deals a lot with the theme of 遗憾. Did we allow the moment pass through us without doing something we should or at the very least treasure it? Did we refrain from doing something so right but end up regretting it for the rest of our life? I know again, it sounds cliche but there's really a message we should keep in mind. Tell the people you love that you do cox waiting will not bear any fruit or earn any interest. Show your love to them and assuring yourself it didn't matter if they do return any of them cox it's not working that way cox there's no fair trade in this world.

So, to those I love, which you know who you are, wherever you are, je taime.

No Article 11 Forum???

I was kinda disappointed with the latest decision by our big bro to ban all the forum on Article 11. It was to the same effect as refusing to live telecast the parliament proceedings because we, Malaysians who live in a country which gained her independence almost half a decades ago are considered NOT MATURE enough to watch it??????????????????????????

Just as we thought the freedom of speech has been taken a few steps forward, we were deported back by leaps and bounds backward again.

What a way to celebrate our 49th Merdeka Day!

Ramblings from the hotel room..........

Writing from my hotel room outstation trip….. (Delayed publish....................)

As usual, TV is the only saving grace when you are having outstation trip, especially when the city/town is not new to you or you do not have any transportation to roam around..

And this time around, the hotel I stayed in the meow city only provide 8 channels altogether and they bored me to death. Mostly Chinese stations, I mean real Chinese channels from China, I was kinda delighted when they have MTV Chinese version. They showed a show called VH1 Greatest Teens Stars or something like that……

It’s a show where they traced back some of the most memorable teens characters in the history of TV and movies and what happened now to the actors who play them. Hosted by Debbie Gibson, it’s kinda informative hahaha….

I remembered some of the actors featured notably Patrick Dempshey (guess I got the spelling wrong), Helen Hunt and Jessica Biel (they only showed around 10 in the episode I watched). I only know about the Patrick guy when he recently star in Grey’s Anatomy. Great show and what a great transformation of him; from a great nerd to a manly actor. I wonder will there be any kind of transformation similar to that which will happen to me hahahhahaha……

Another one is Helen Hunt, rupa-rupanya she was also once upon a time teenage star! Her transformation to me is something like what happen to Maggie Cheung though I believe Maggie won more award than her. Both of them are testament to stereotype breaking, flower vase can act too……

And that brings me back to my own memory lane……
What TV programme I watch during my teenager years??? Beverly Hills 90210, Baywatch (not qualify as teenage series… I know….) what else??? Anyway, what else to watch tat time when it’s only TV1 and TV2 available???? OK… Beverly Hills??? Who else is left??? Shannon Doherty??? She was not even in Charmed now!!!!

OK…. Next I will talk about the Chinese ones…..

Sunset Charity Run Pics 3

The Sabah athletes who did us proud.

The special olympic champions - another proud achievements of Sabah.

The Unduk Ngadau (Beauty Pageant) winners of 2006.

The finale where all the guests of honor and organizer serenades the crowd.

Atama and the boys with their acrobatic street dance moves.

Sunset Charity Run Pics 2

Waiting anxiously for the lucky draw.

Some were lying down at the finishing point and no... tat's not me.

Glistening light from the night golf lights.

Typical photo with the sunset and a sweet couple cuddling on the bench.

Di ufuk senja.....

Di ufuk senja... di balik bayangan kapal di limbungan........

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The photographer being photographed.

Sunset Charity Run Pics

Marina Club : The sunset is spectacular

Entrance to Sutera Harbour : Nice Silhoutte

Entrance to Sutera Harbour : Nice Shades

Another nice sunset color tone

Running along the Main Road

WC Fever is not over yet; Kids playing in the site for the upcoming Harbour Square

Running to the Check Point at the Roundabout near Wawasan Plaza

King of the Road : The whole road was being blocked just for the runner. Wawasan Plaza on the right and Minibus Station on the left while the sun was setting at the back.....

Sunset Charity Run

It was my virgin run haha..... RM17 for last year's Run T-Shirt with a tacky name card, it doesn't really matter cox everything will go for charity.

It was started with a disaster cox I was late. I had to parked someplace very far from the starting point and the runners were set off when I was on the way walking to the starting point. The evil in me asked me to join the crowd and pretend that I run from the starting point. However, the stupid conscience in me pushed me to the starting point, believing that the organizers will register the runners first. But how wrong was I!!! Reaching the starting point, I was being ushered to start the run straight away and I was cursing loudly in my heart!

There were 2 check point, one was just like 3 minutes walk from the place I parked my car and the we were handed a small 3cm x 3cm size of manila card!!! And there's no chop or whatsoever kind of verification too!

Then I reliazed no one is interested in competing with each other cox it's a charity run. The only perks for the runners who finish the whole run is the lucky draw in the end..... So, I decided to just finish the run and enjoy the nice view (it's sunset run mate!).



Upon finishing, we got to roam around the Sutera Harbour Marina Club which the poor soul like me will never get a chance to get in since it's a membership club. Nice club with great facilities and the sunset view is superb.

The show started with lots of performances from the local music groups and it's entertaining. Hosted by the Traxx.fm DJs, ScamBoy and GreenMan, the show was entertaining. Notable performances were from Atama and the Boys (though I didn't managed to listened to his rendition of his signature tune blending Kadazan and hip hop music) and the evergreen The Beatles (KK version). Personally, I find that the latter's performance strike me more (hey, I'm old anyway). However, the slight pause in between the songs by the Beatle spoiled the mood brought on by the evergreen Beatles tune. Maybe they're not that young anymore but I guess the showmanship is just a bit slacking. Another thing was their song selection (the Simon Cowell in me starts to come into pic) which was not that mass-orientated.

Ending with nothing from the lucky draw as I expected, the evening was well-spent and a fun one.

Your mountain? Your green door?

I was sorting out my travel photos which was being neglected for almost a year since I finished my 10 days travelling in Italy last year mid-May.

Stumbled upon this picture and I remembered the free tour guide, an Italian lady whose English never fail to tickle me in a funny way. She pronounced everything plural "s" with sa, e.g. a lot of friends"a", these used to be streets"a"

OK, back to the pic. This door is actually a backdoor of a church. Before the Roman empire fell, this same door was actually the front door of a temple; that explains the pillar structure. So, once the entrance was being converted into the backdoor.

Though it sounds cliche, it reminded me of what Ang Lee famously quoted when interviewed by the reporters , "每個人的心裡都有一坐斷背山, 只是沒有上過去". Be it the mountain or this green door of the temple/church......

Imperfect

I can't remember which museum did I take this photo... maybe it's in the Vatican City.

It's beheaded, the arms were chopped and the lower legs were gone. The brain is inside the head, controlling our mind and in the control system for those control engineers, it's like the CONTROLLER. The legs and arms were the SENSOR and at some certain times, the ACTION itself. Oh... wat am I trying to say???

Back to the sculpture, I am not sure whether it was sculpted in that way or it's a remains for some famous ones. I never really like Andy Lau's song but there's one I think is quite nice, i.e. 缺陷美. THE BEAUTY OF IMPERFECTION

The world's happiest country is VANUATU!!! Gotta learn more about it. And COLUMBIA? Mafia + Drugs = Happiness?

Wish you all HAPPY AND HEALTHY ALWAYS. If there's some glitches somewhere sometime, take it and learn to appreciate the beauty of imperfection.

Thinking..... thinking..... and thinking.......

Have been thinking a lot recently....

So, am I depressed?

Nope... cox I enjoyed thinking....

With a cup of coffee, with some nice soothing music as background, lying comfortably on some couch.....

OK, of cox sans the pose above...

Oh yea..... it's movie night and it's Pirates of the Carribean 2 : The Dead Man's Chest

What the World Needs Now.........

is love sweet love..............

That's the title of the classic by Burt Bacharach which is so appropriate.

June 6. The Omen
July 7. The London tube bombing.

I wonder what will happen in August 8?
And there's a plot to bomb the tunnel in NY?

What can I say? Seize the moment and enjoy every second of it.

Just the Way You Are

Don't go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore

I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care

I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.

I said I love you and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are.

I'd never know the original singer is Billy Joel though I listened to this song before. However, the version by Maggie Gyllenhaal in the movie "Happy Ending" stunned me and here you go.....

Save the Last Dance For Me

Save The Last Dance For Me

You can dance
Every dance with the girl who gives you the eye
Let her hold you tight

You can smile
Every smile for the girl who'd like to treat you right
'Neath the pale moonlight

But don't forget who's takin you home
And in who's arms you're gonna be
Oh, darlin' save the last dance for me

Oh I know
That the music's fine like sparklin' wine
Go and have your fun
Dance and sing
But while we're apart don't give your heart to anyone

And don't forget who's takin' you home
And in who's arms you're gonna be
Oh, darlin', save the last dance for me

You can dance
Go and carry on till the night is gone
And it's time to goIf she asks
If you're all alone, can she take you home
You must tell her no

And don't forget who's takin' you home
And in who's arms you're gonna be
Oh, darlin', save the last dance for me

And don't forget who's takin' you home
And in who's arms you're gonna be
Oh, darlin', save the last dance for me.

OK, I know I'm lazy by copying the lyrics in my blog instead of writing them. However, the mood is blue and listening to this song reminds me of some fond memories and makes me smile. So, what the heck??? Yeah.....I'm lazy.

Mengapa Kasih - Double Take

Mengapa Kasih – Double Take

Mengapa kasih
Engkau membisu
Bermuram wajah tiada menentu

Mengapa kasih
Engkau begini
Sepuas hati kucuba memujuk

Mungkinkah aku mesti berlalu
Membiar tanpa mengganggu
Mungkinkah aku mesti mengaku
Berlaku yang tak kau restu
Mengapa kasih

Mengapa kasih
Terus begini
Kugerak bahumu oh berkali
Mengapa kasih
Enggan mengadu

Kuperlukan senyuman bibirmu

Malay being sidelined in Penang???I just don't understand this!!! Malay being sidelined in Penang? Just because the Chief Minister post is not being held by a Malay, Malays are being sidelined? I can't figure out the logic!!! So now we have to consider the option of rotation system??? Ask us Sabah people dear!!!!! It's just another ploy I would say!!! I suddenly felt so annoyed with all the current affair happening in our beloved country!!! This to top up the worry over the ever-increasing price of goods (I would never believe the inflation rate figure released by government!!!)SIGH~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~