RACONTEUR-ESQUE SCRIBBLINGS

I thought that it would be nice if i could write a nice, scary story that'll give the bravest person the creeps... instead I chose to select a few stories I've heard throughout these years. Are they true, or made up from the remnants of over active imagination? No one knows... (insert scary music here) Fact is I wanted to do a halloween decor for my blog. Alas, my knowledge on HTML is not good enough to do some tweaking to the template... Enjoy! 1. Aminah Location: Selangor, Malaysia Aminah is the name we fondly gave to our resident workplace ghost. No one has ever gone near enough to know if it's a woman or man. We suspect she's a female due to her long and black flowy hair. She haunts the utility room and comes out after 7pm and scares the people who go up to the 2nd floor. 2. The toilet ghost Location: A toilet in a girl's secondary school The middle mirror of this toilet is broken. Legends tell us that girls who have looked into the mirror end up seei...

I got tagged by Silversabre where I'm supposed to list down 9 weird things about myself... 1. My (real) middle name: The parents were not just happy giving me a first name, but they had to have a middle name for me too. This name was the butt of numerous jokes and caused some confusion when it came to ethnicity (there are tonnes of different ethnicities here in Malaysia, therefore everyone's curious about a person's particular ethnicity)The weird part is now, when I'm all grown up and people have stopped making fun of my name, I'm starting to quite like it :) 2. Where do I go from here? My sense of direction sucks big time, even in my own hometown. It gets worse when there are roundabouts.... 3. Reading: When I was about 9, my parents got me a second hand encyclopaedia (20 volumes) and I sat down and read almost all the entries (except the long winded ones about wars) for the next few years.. In the end, I ended up walking around with all these trivia in my...

It was several years ago when my then roomate casually mentioned to me that I make conclusions far too easily. Actually, I can't remember what she really said, but it was something along those lines. You see, despite us being born in the same month AND us both being pisceans, we were as different as cabbage and peas... Her feet were always firmly rooted to the ground whereas my head could often be found floating in mid air, hovering between pink clouds and orange skies, and the feet weren't so often found on the ground. At times, I'd find myself being roughly pulled down to the ground where I'd fall in a painful heap, but the clouds and the skies are worth it! What is the connection, you may ask and rightly so... I suppose my intention is to highlight the fact that I do make rough conclusions about the things around me (mostly concerning myself) in a huff... it's interesting while things are on a roll, but it's a big time bummer when the premature conclusions s...

Due to the never exhaustive supply of tags flying around in the blogosphere, I find myself once again succumbing to the pulls of the TAG. I expect that I'm a million light years behind everyone else for this tag, but what the hell... Silversabre tagged me 1. 5 things I would do if I were a millionaire . 1. Build a gargantuan library (fiction only!) with all the cool titles in the world :D 2. Get a self sufficient house - using minimal resources, environmentally friendly, with a large garden that can sustain birds, and insects and frogs (as long as they don't get inside the house and scare the living daylights out of me) 3. Take a long break from daily routine and go globetrotting around the world... and drop by my favourite artists concerts along the way 4. Fool around with the stock market and do some serious investing at the same time 5. The parents: they would need it 2. 5 bad habits 1. I get annoyed way too easily, resulting in me sometimes saying things I do...

It's kinda strange how when I was driving to work just now, my mind was filled with (what I assumed was cool) ideas to blog about, but now as I'm seated here waiting for working hours to start, I'm a bit, 'ahem' stumped. Of course the ideas are still there, but they refuse to fall in place nicely... so unlike a silk curtain. I remember though that I wanted to write about roads, because I saw one of the ladies (whom I fondly refer to as the daredevil road crossers due to their extremely mind boggling choice of location at the stretch of the road they cross - boy wasn't that a mouthful!) buying nasi lemak off the road side nasi lemak lady. So there are these 3 ladies whom I see crossing the very dangerous stretch of road just outside my neighbourhood. Trust me, I know that there is a less dangerous spot for them to cross. I was a pedestrian too! The ladies are fond of huddling at the side of the road that converges from an unofficial 2 lane road to a sin...

I pilfered this off Aunty's blog, entirely voluntarily. 1. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up? One only huh? Let's see... O factor 2.You can flip a switch that will wipe any band or musical artist out of existence. Which one will it be? Pussycat dolls... can't stand them, besides, I'm still sore that they were invited to play here instead of Coldplay 3.Who would you really like to just punch in the face? This answer is quite mean, as I was once this person's lab partner, and she is a 'member of the gang'... but of late, I've found her to be an excruciatingpain in the ass. So, I figured that if I do let out that punch, the animosity towards her will fly away... 4.What is your favorite cheese? Due to the lack of variety of cheese available here, I'm forced to choose Cheddar 5.You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your immediate disposal....

Thanks to silversabre's obsession with the word amazing (Check out his archives, and you'll know what I mean) I have been tagged with this rather interesting meme about all things amazing... in pictures. Here's my list in no particular order : 1. Coffee! A great way to start your day! 2. Johnny Depp - Amazing actor, talented, gorgeous and mysterious! 3. Coral reefs - To think that they're actually animals... Amazing, innit? Besides, since I'm teriffied of the ocean depths, it's even more amazing :) 4. Sunsets - Red and orange streaking across the sky - absolutely amazing (and romantic) 5. Ancient architecture - and close friends/family 6. The Aurora Borealis - Because I can't see it in the equator, where I live :( 7. Music: Need I explain more? PS: My alignment's in a mess... but feel free to tag yourself :D

Dear radio station that refused to play the elusive song.... I have no idea as to what are your ulterior motives for refusing to play the song that I have been curious to find out about. However, despite your insistence on being mean to me, I managed to rediscover the song once again... no thanks to you, though! If I recall correctly, you played the song maybe TWICE (while I was tuned in) I checked your website, your playlist, and everything else that I could think of with futile results. On the other hand, admittedly, it is rather embarassing on my part that the word everyone /everybody does not exist in the said song. (I'm still at lost as to how the confusion occured in the first place) Anyway, I thought that you, being the radio station I tune into most of the time, should know about this. regards, Terra John Mayer - Waiting on the World to change me and all my friends we're all misunderstood they say we stand for nothing and there's no way we ever ...

Yo peeps! Got tagged for this meme by the wielder of the argentum sword 1) What is the best thing about my workplace? Errr... I suppose it's the fact that we get a lot of free food for every great accomplishment (just had one fantastic free dinner last night!), plus the friendliness of all the staff is rather heartwarming :) 2) What do I hate about my workplace? Hate is a pretty strong word... but I could say that it is abominable that we are 'forced' to work late and taking your own designated annual leave is frowned upon. Apparently it's (insert country's name)'s working culture that they have imposed on us just because they are shareholders! I also can't stand the departmentalised mentality the different departments have. We work in the same company for crying out loud! 3) What small irritants at my workplace really annoys me? a.Lots.... the extreme cold in the office vs the extreme heat at the factory floor where I spend most of the working da...

This is my attempt to write something informative... I hope. Anyway, in my previous post, I wrote a poem about the haze which was unable to capture the haze in it's true form. So I have this post, written as an afterthought... The haze is an annual occurence in this part of the world, as in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Since I don't follow the newspapers daily, I'm not sure if Thailand is affected or not. The haze is actually a blanket of dense smog which hovers in the atmosphere. The severity measured in API (air Pollutant index). Last year we reached levels of up to 600 in certain parts around the capital city, which was considered to be extremely hazardous. The forests in certain parts start burning in the right conditions: dryness and intense heat. I'm assuming that no one in their right mind would go into the depths of the forest and start a fire now, would they? Winds play a contributing factor too... the original place where the fires started in th...

The haze is back, Just our luck, Grey skies abound, All you can see is the ground, And nothing above a 12 foot rack! The forest is on fire, Definitely not burning with desire, I'm not sure about the peat But if you think about the heat It burns the quagmire A sorethroat has come knocking, I wear a striped red stocking Oh! There goes the wind The sun saying hi from behind Adieu! I'm going spelunking A poem to'commemorate' the arrival of haze on our doorsteps.

I can't help it. Pippi Longstockings has been stuck in my mind for at least the past 2 days since I saw Lorelai and Rory watch the movie. Now, I'm compelled to mention it. I can bet on my safety shoes that if I were ever to walk into a neighbourhood video rental (does such premises exist anymore?) or even the VCD/DVD rental (never seen any thus far) and asked for Pippi Longstockings, the look on the sales clerk will be worth a million dollars (unless they themselves sat down and watched the Gilmore Girls) Pippi Longstockings! PS: Ran a search on Pippi Longstockings on Yahoo! and found out that it's actually a book! But DVD's can be rented... hmmm