The Birthday Wish

It's the eve of Christmas eve and I felt that I wanted to pen some of my thoughts as we go about our merry making and joyous festive preparations. However, as we stroll along the shopping malls and the departments stores, carols are abound and shoppers are all excited as they rush through to buy that last minute gifts.

Joseph takes Mary to Bethlehem to be registered

However, one thing that we all tend to forget is that to remember a child who was born 2000 years ago in a stable low and forlorn. This child grew up and changed the whole world; a king yet humble enough to be born in a stable. He came to bring not peace but changes in our lives. He challenged us to think instead of living in constant fighting; to love the one who slaps you on your right cheek.

A king is Born

No one listened yet they still insisted on living their own set of rules and not conform to the changes brought about by this man. He came to his own but his own rejected him and put him to the cross! How cruel you may think of this notion, but that is reality.

Even today, we still have such people who behave and act in this way. Only true conviction to love and care for others will inspire us to change the way we think and act; only by this will our lives be completely transformed.

So, during this season of Hope, lets hope that all peoples (of different faiths and believes) may live in peace and acknowledge that we all belong to one family, which God had created. Lets also pray that all those bigot thinking will dissipate and tolerant views will flourish instead.

Blessed Christmas and a wonderful, hopeful New Year of 2007!

THE LAND OF THE ANNYONGs...

In a few hours, I will be boarding the plane heading to the Land of the Morning Calm. I have no inkling idea why I had chose that place to visit, maybe because I watched too many Korean serials?

As I tried to digest my thoughts, maybe the trip was another impulse made during the recent MATTA fair? Or was it the coaxing of my FH and her friends that led me to venture to this place? Well, whatever the reasons is, I'm just looking forward to relax and perhaps get some rest from this trip? As I blog this now, I have yet to pack, see how disorganized I am...hehehe

However for this time round, I did a list, so I'm not going to in that situation. For days now, I was writing down this lists of brings and not bring.

As it is cold there now, I was wondering how is Korea like? The language is near impossible to understand, let alone speak it. But, I did my research, first checking their currency. Their currency is called the Won or Korean Won. How to distinguish their rates is another mind boggling exercise for me.

I always thought they would be the same as how we use the Thai Baht but no, its completely new story here. It was not as simple as I thought it would be. Also, the next thing that came into my mind, how much is their rates vs the Ringgit? Later, I did a check and found out that our Ringgit is higher than the Korean Won :- RM1 - KW 261.00

Shopping in Korea at this time of the year, I was told is not worth it because its winter and all the clothes will not be suited for our climate. So, instead of skiing and watching the other sites of Korea, I hope to catch up on the following :-

Korean made undies?

New Spring Collection?

Food, our Malaysian favorite past time, who can forget about it? Perhaps I will have the following;-

Set A

Set B

Oh well, wait for my updates then. I will publish more pictures when I take them from Korea. Till then, have a safe and wonderful weekend ahead.

THE UNEXPECTED DECISION

Finally, today, I made a drastic switch. No no, nothing that spectacular about me swinging from this end to the other end or being in the middle...before your minds start to wonder.

Nope, I made a change. After almost 3 years with Fitness First gym, I decided to make a switch to California Fitness.

California Fitness Logo

I'm not sure what actually pulled me to go through that decision. It's not that I'm not unhappy with FF or view that their equipments outdated, or regard their staff to be rude; or the fact that there's no eye candies available there? Plenty by my standard! In fact, FF has the most branches in KL / PJ and why this sudden switch?

I realized that after so many years in FF, I thought that it was time to move on and venture into other turfs. Like to see whats on the other side of gym life. After all, I realized that the one thing the pulled me away from FF was the fact that with my new membership fees, it was cheaper than what I'm currently paying for in FF.


So much cheaper that I decided to sign up immediately; initially I intended to just pass through the 2 weeks of gym visits and then see how it goes but when the membership consultant talked to me, he was earnestly slashing off the prices for me. Before I did my workout, he worked out a figure which I did not actually agree.

After my shower, he met me and we talked again. This time (sales pitch here), he told me that his boss will waive off certain fees and then will further slash off the price. He did a simple calculation on his calculator and some figures appeared. The final figure was really good, it was a savings of about almost 33% and I thought it was a good deal too since it was a Platinum membership card; it entails me to go to other clubs around the world too. Good deal?

Call it impulse or call it stupidity but it was a good sales offer that I could not resist. Besides, even though they have only two branches here in the city - being StanChart Building right smack in CBD and the other one on the outer ring of KL City located in Midvalley, I took the risk of joining them. Hence, now with the supposed opening of their third branch based in Sunway Pyramid, maybe its not that bad after all?


Anyway, I will have to sort out some stuff like canceling my membership with FF and then upon doing so, will start life anew in Cali. Its going to be strange though, but I guess that's how life in the gym will go on...perhaps I will have more things to blog out here? Wish me luck.... Oh, wonder if their Gym Fairies are stronger than those in Fitness First? I shall find out...

SOME HAVE ALL THE LUCK!

"I never understand this, I never get clicked on the chat channel" complained Jungle Biscuit to me one day.

I looked at him and then tried to understand his predicament.

"Why do you say that you do not get clicked? " I asked back.
"Well, I can be in that stupid channel and for hours, I will lay id lying there but no one wants to click on me to chat" he added.
"Then, why don't you initiate and click on someone to chat with?" my eyes rolling.
"Did that, but they did not reply" he retorted.

Then, stepping aside, I tried to analyse this problem. He is after all not bad looking, at a desirable age, and best of all, possess a wicked humor; unless the online chatters are the docile type, who have a one track mind....

Trying to understand the problem at hand

After much pausing, I remembered this good friend of mine far away, based in the land flowing with cute and hunky guys. When he was based there for work, I thought lucky bastard, he will enjoy himself with the nightlife there and plus the eye candies even on every street corner. I thought, lucky you, make sure you concentrate on your work though. (Lets call him Dorothy Juice)

I usually connect with Dorothy Juice via MSN and at every update, Dorothy Juice will be on his way out to club, meet some cute hunks or just lazing out some cafe along some streets (which is very popular over there).

Most of the time, DJ will show me his prized possessions or conquests. And most of the time, these are the cutest of cutest guys you will ever see (is there such a word to describe these "cuties"??) And, the large part of it, my eyes will turn a greenish ghoul watching all those pics he took of his "conquests" for this never happened when he was in KL but upon venturing to another's turf, he turned out to be so popular? Wow, perhaps as they say, the grass is always greener at the other side, holds water!

I asked DJ candidly where did he meet all those cute guys? He told me in a matter of fact, after all those smileys and what not icons on MSN, it was through the chat channel.

I did venture to the chat channel, and did click on to some "interesting" people in there, but not as much as his. His was like a list and I mean a long list of guys...all with good looks and bodies too!

Will I be in your list of conquests?

I wanted to know more, how and what methods did he charm all this "cuties"? I'm not sure if the daily "mandi bungah" will help but its worth a try! Anyhow, having said all this, I think some guys are just charming and born and blessed with it, until they are able to lure these young, unsuspecting lads into their lair of abyss.

Another thing, perhaps the guys over here are all just jaded or the good ones are really taken? I'm not sure, but what I see in the chat channels these days are a far cry from those times where conversations really meant good and witty ones, peppered with sarcasm but still able to be understood by all. Maybe, the standard has dropped like in all the things we see now?

Well,no point in crying over that, if I do get guys like him, one thing's for sure, I will not have so much time to blog. (need to build up my charisma..hehehe)

Would you like me to be on your list today?

WISH UP MY TREE

Last Tuesday, I was at the gym doing my rounds but this time, I was at a different location. I have not been to the Fitness First's branch in the Curve for some time now, so I decided to go there one afternoon.

Since I was on leave, I decided to go there around 3 plus in the afternoon. I specifically chose that time as it was less people and well, I did not like the crowd mingling around the stations that I was going to exercise at.

So there I was doing my rounds and well, surprisingly, it was not all the empty. There was a fair number of gym-mers around there too, and I wondered, if they too were on leave?


After my routines, I decided to venture down to the rest area and get myself a drink. Upon walking to the drinks dispenser, I notice the Christmas tree.
It was not a very huge tree to begin with, perhaps about 5 feet or so and decked with hanging cards. I thought to myself, its a Christmas wish tree, and how smart of the Management to come up with this idea, well, they save on the decorations, thats for sure.


I walked nearer to have a look at those cards.

Some of the messages were mundane (to my point of view) but some very interesting. The wish list starts with this, "For this Christmas, I wish..."

• beauty and riches ( very boring)
• nice promotion (work harder please)
• so and so to be happy (nice thought)
• so and so not to be too grumpy (lack of sex? perhaps?)
• lots of good looking men to fall for me ( make sure they are not gay!)
• so and so to have her first fuck on Christmas day ( a virgin in distress)
• to be young forever (get in line sister)

And, so the list goes on and on. Don't bother reading all because they became reptitive after a while.

Since wish lists are for things we do not have and want to have, maybe, if we work harder towards the things we want, then we do not have to wish too much? After all, hard work equals success? I need to understand that too...

Good and safe holidays ahead and oh yes, 17 more shopping days before Christmas.

Till then, have yourself a Merry Little Christmas!

BamBee Does KL

Ever come across personalized car number plates in town? Apart from the obvious boring ones like NAMXXX something or PUTRAJAYA, have you come to see some interesting names on the number plates?


If you drive alot like I do and get caught up in the traffic jams like most of us normal people do, you would spend some time listening to the radio, looking around your immediate neighbor or you will just keep your eyes peeled on the car in front of you?


There was one day, I did see this number plate BamBee XXXX, which I thought, who on earth would want to pay for a personalized number plate that is, in my opinion, horrendous! The instance this name cropped up to me, it made me think of...

Yup, its that lovable creature from Walt Disney's Bambi which I incidentally grew up with long before there were Transformers or Dungeons of Dragons on the television. But, this is not that name that i had in mind, it was something more sinister, more lewd, and it led me to think of this title...


How on earth, now, you will ask me did I remember such titles? Oh, I was the youngest in the family with two older brothers, who were incidentally at a age when hormones rages on, and me, well, I was getting curious.

We don't live in a big house per se, so many things were left unattended especially stacked in cupboards which were never locked those days. It was one of those boring afternoons after school, left to my own free will, I like to rummage my brother's rooms and view many things therein. Magazines such as Playboy or some unnamed British porn magazines lay neatly in one corner hidden with the towels and the blankets. One of those rummaging days, I happen to come across this video cassette (yes VCRs were popular then before the advent of VCDs or DVDs)

And this title, was the first thing that shot into my mind "DEBBIE DOES DALLAS" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi_Woods, and I did secretly watched it too. This was my first foray into the birds and bees, hence, I grew up much more faster than my other friends who were never exposed to these. I could tell what a Blow Job was and mind you, it was not about blowing out wind!

Before I digress from my original subject and instead, telling you about my naughty childhood days, allow me to bring you back to my original subject. Yes, the name BamBee on some proton waja car that day brought back sharp images and memories from my past, that I had to blog this out. Just in case, you have never seen a proton waja car, here it is...

Yup, its our "proud" national car above and the Road Tax Dept in choosing this number plate seems to connote a double meaning; could it be possible that this same officials may have been fans of Bambi Woods of Debbie Does Dallas? Anything can happen, and the mere change of spelling does not mean it moves away from its original intentions. Hence, it brings my mind to asks questions if this was what they had in mind when approving the name "BamBee"; some sort of Sexual Revolution going on, that I do not know about?

So, the next time, if you do come across a car number plate with those words above, remember you read it here and how this name came about. It could be just mere speculation, or perhaps it might be true after all. Who knows? Do you?