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… that didn’t involve me…

On Valentine’s Day, Sarah and I noticed a young couple having their romantic dinner at a table not too far from ours… After a while, we noticed that the guy over at that table wasn’t around… but we didn’t pay much attention to it until he reappeared…

This time, head’s sweating, walking back holding a bouquet of roses in a very pathetic kinda way… he was dragging the bouquet upside down until it touches and sweeps the floor until reaching their table… which he then placed it on the table, and continue talking to his girlfriend/date who was still eating…

They spent some time there talking, we spent some time figuring out why he acted the way he did… perhaps the gf/date demanded a bouquet of roses? After the gf/date finished her meal and with further chatting with the guy, the guy paid for the dinner and then they both left the table…

Can see at that time, the guy wasn’t the happiest guy on earth as the gf/date was looking really pissed and can see her face was darker than charcoal! Gosh… could it be that just because he didn’t want to get her roses in the first place that caused all these?

Luckily my gf’s an understanding one… and I deduced that only 4 types of guys normally would buy daylight-robbery-priced roses on Valentine’s Day:

1) Guys having crush/interest on a particular girl but no progress or notification yet (good day to be giving out roses to finally break out of the secret admiring stage)

2) Guys having crush/interest on a particular girl that’s not available (got bf or married, take your picks) - kinda a way to impress the girl and show the girl’s bf/husband that there’s competition coming their way…

3) Guys having pretentious girlfriends where they still need to be impressed rather than be understanding about the situation where only the flower sellers win…

4) Guys who got just too much cash to spend on, and can afford to buy the biggest rock for his girl, and roses are just the formalities

It’s not like I’ve problem buying roses for my gf on Valentine’s Day… just find it not special at all… everyone will be having it and would you want something that everyone else have it? I’d rather go against the grain and get something more special, meaningful and original

So I’ll stick to michaelooi’s don’t spoil the market campaign

… almost made me RM 200 richer this morning… almost…. grrr…!

I woke up this morning at 9am and instinctively turned on the radio to mix.fm to see if I can win the RM 200 on offer every weekday mornings. The catch is to identify the thing 9 songs played from 9am onwards have in common…

This morning it started with Janet Jackson’s Let’s Wait A While… I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth when I thought it could be this time, the thing in common is that the first and last name of the artist begin with the same letter…

Not too sure if I was right, I waited for the next song to come on… it was Gareth Gates’ Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake)… so that cemented my guess… I started frantically calling mix.fm but to no avail… kept on greeted by either Network Busy signal or busy tone… arggh!

And then after the 3rd song, heard over the radio that a lady won it… damn!

How nice to start my day knowing that I’ve RM 200 more to spend… >.<

… was the horror movie I watched yesterday with Sarah… hmm, who was it that said the movie was good??? After searching, I found out that I first read it was good from michaelooi and then heard over mix.fm that Shazmin said it was scary…

So decided to watch it at the THX theatre in GSC Summit… what a waste of money! Seriously, in my opinion, the movie is SO predictable and not scary at all… well… at least not scary for me…

Yes… it does have the classic elements of a horror movie… the typical scenes of avoiding a ghostly figure standing in the road, pool of blood, bird/owl/bat flying to scare the lead actor/actress… gosh… it’s so fucking predictable…

I was really annoying Sarah out of her supposedly scary experience with my commentary and the typical “I saw that coming” lines…

The plot wasn’t difficult to guess especially the part where she found out that the sheriff was the other culprit…

Gosh… enough of all the rantings about the movie… only thing I’d agree with michaelooi’s post on Gothika would be about Halle Berry’s bootylicious body

If not for Halle Berry, I think I’d ask for my money back

… and I’m wide awake this morning…
Had a test just a while ago and I woke up at 5.30am this morning to study for it… and that effort ended only an hour after that, when I began playing Need for Speed: Underground until it was time to go to college…

So before the test, I was at the sidewalk cafe and downed the black caffeine-enriched water… kinda barely kicked me into first gear… cheapo coffee powders… Would rather rely on Coffee Bean’s espresso to get me into gear…

Not that I’m dependent on coffee really… but yesterday was a long day at college (7+ hours straight) plus a test… so I was pretty braindead… so this morning needed some caffeine to kick me up…

The test was easy peasy japanesey… did it in half an hour…
Promised Liang that I’ll join him for bowling later at Nilai Springs… and then I’m gonna drive down to Subang for lunch with Sarah… and gonna finally watch Gothika… this better be good… like how most people say it is…

Kinda dissapointed with the EPL result of Man Utd vs Boro match… Man Utd lost 2-3 to them at home… fuck man, at the rate things are going, surely they’re gonna lose out the title to ARSEanal… hope that don’t happen…
From my observation… Wes Brown is still not back at his best like the season before… he’s got a long way to go to sync up the partnership of centre defence with Mikael Silvestre…

I really think Fergie should go get another central defender to plug the defensive holes… Roberto Fabian Ayala of Valencia is still my choice… he’s really good in defense and heading too… it’ll be good to see him team up with Rio “My dad thinks he’s really no use and a major liability with his price tag” Ferdinand for central defense when he comes back from his suspension (really miss the good old days of Steve Bruce & Gary Pallister… sigh)

After all, the leftback position is still a weak point in my opinion… neither John O’Shea nor Quinton Fortune can properly play at that position… guess leftbacks really prefer to do overlapping attacks than to defend properly (like Roberto Carlos and Ashley Cole)… although Mikael Silvestre is good with central defense… I’d still like to see him manage the leftback position as he’s really good at that position… for rightback, it’s still Gary Neville the best so far within the squad… definitely a better understudy is required for his position as he’s getting more injury prone now…

Okay enough of talking about footie… I’m gonna go down to the sidewalk cafe and meet up with Ah Liang…

… fuck, latest update, Liang just came into the lab (yeah I’m blogging now from the college lab - with Yee Leng keep pestering me by my side just because her PC can’t go online and she’s being a pain-in-the-ass annoying me like there’s no tomorrow…) and announced that SOCIT just changed our class’s timetable…

Heard that it’s gonna be a major revamp! FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK! (damn, my expletives are flying like crazy now…)

There goes my relaxing Fridays (damn sure that it’s gonna be affected) and enjoyment of watching “Scrubs” on Fridays….

’tis not a good day for studies… summore i’ve got a test tomorrow…

… and one of the subject I’m having this sem is facing serious trouble.

The subject of CSC 320 H1 had only 2 lectures and 1 lab session to date… fucking thing is that the fucked up no-good-son-of-a-bitch lecturer is not showing up at work and don’t even have the courtesy to actually re-arrange the schedule or a replacement lecturer for the course…

Okay, he may be down with some weird illness (I’m thinking alone the lines of HIV, but maybe it’s something worse…) that caused him to call in to the college on a daily basis claiming he’s on MC….

But why can’t he be more responsible, I’m fine with it if he is so ill until he can’t call in but this different… he can call up and make all sorts of excuse to the SOCIT office but can’t be responsible enough to admit that he won’t be able to lecture for the next few weeks…

With that, the entire class is suffering from the lack of time… first chapter was not even completely delivered and not even a mention about assignments, projects and tests…. other sections of this course (taught by other lecturers) have already gone into test 1 and assignments/projects…

The CSC 320 H1 class… are we fucked now or what?

CSC 320 H1 lecturer (name withdrawn for obvious reasons)

Today, we ended up complaining to the Head of Programme, and he promised that we’ll have a complete discussion later regarding the replacement lecturer and also how we’re gonna tackle the entire course in 1/2 the time now… geez, that’s a superb start to my academic year of 2004

… read this while following Jeff Ooi’s link to The Star Online’s Motoring Review of the Proton Gen.2, the WRM launched today…

QUOTE:
“You can say that it’s a bit like how Windows continuously keeps on upgrading their software for the better. We like to think that the Proton Waja has ride and handling version 1.0 while Gen.2 has ride and handling version 2.0,” said Proton’s head of Research and Development, Tunku Azizan Tunku Ahmad.

ROTFLMAO!
If the car crashes as often as Windows, I’m sure not much people would be interested in the car… LOL!

Anyway, it does look good, see pix below… except for the area where there normally should be a glove compartment… I remember once reading in a blog somewhere that the idea of omitting of the glove compartment was planned after the Iswara batches stumbled into problems with the glove compartment’s lock and thus, the easy way out was to just remove the glove compartment and leave it with a slot instead… now… how on earth am I gonna conceal my revolver… err… I mean sunglasses and all?