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My World Cup 2010 Food

Went to Kasbah before the Argentina VS Germany match to get a lamb doner, fries and scallop potatoes. In support of the World Cup 2010, I'm also having coke in the World Cup glass from McD (we finally collected all of the colours).

Half time now. Time to enjoy my food.

Modified Vuvuzela

It's not over yet it seems. I wish I had one for lastnight's cursed match.

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Posterous Post

I completely forgot about posterous! The only reason I remembered it is because I saw PicPosterous on the Apple App store. I might use it just coz it can post to multiple social sites - especially to my multiple blogger accounts and tumblr. That way, I can save time - no need to open multiple apps. Plus, the photo gallery looks really nice.

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Vuvuzela in the hands of a Musician

The vuvuzela is now a musical instrument. Bravo Brahms! Now where can I get one of those?

PS: It still sounds annoying.

Tweeps' Birthdays

Wishing my two cousins a Happy Birthday and an advance birthday wish for my brother, very advance. Hope you enjoyed the day!

Music Metaphors

A table showing you directions on how to get to certain places. I'm sure they'll sound familiar. That's because they're from popular songs which I'm sure you'll know of.

World Cup Calendar

If you are a World Cup fan you should definitely check out this cool World Cup Calendar app that shows you results of past games and upcoming games just by highlighting the dates. It also highlights the team that's playing and shows the time and place of the matches.

I took the time to screen capture the above image of last night's big results and dedicate this post to Portugal. Though I didn't watch the whole thing but I did however feel really bad for the Koreans towards the final few minutes.

Vuvuzela hits the Mascot

The vuvuzela seems to be getting out of hand nowadays - at least that's what some people seem to make it look all over the internet. First, the Vuvuzela Hero then comments like "vuvuzela-free" contents and now, the 2010 mascot. Check out the funny illustrations below from Cagle Cartoons.

Related articles

• Vuvuzela enhanced websites (digital-teacher.co.uk)
• Florida Marlins Bring Hated Vuvuzelas to Major Leage Baseball (shoppingblog.com)
• Ban vuvuzelas? Spain seeks the opposite at its practices (usatoday.com)

Facts

Stuff No One Told Me

I stumbled upon Alex Noriega's new blog, stuff no one told me (but I learned anyway), and it's full of words that just hit the right places. Here are some of my favourites.

Revenge On The Tracks

I've been playing Red Dead Redemption and just now I was so annoyed at one of the random encounters where a woman calls you and four bandits then ambush you when you approach. So I hogtied the woman with my lasso (after dealing with the four bandits who didn't last long) and put her on the back of my horse. Then on to my next mission - dropped her off in the middle of a train track. Moments later... well, I'll let the following video explain what happened.



Didn't think I'd get a trophy out of it though.

How We Procrastinate

Don't deny it. Admit it. It's true. YOU do this.

THE Break Up Letter

Here's a tip for you teens on how to successfully break up. Not over phone calls and definitely not over a text or email. This is the way.

WOW Player GF deletes WOW Characters

A WOW player came back only to find that his girlfriend deleted all his WOW characters. Furious, he hit and smashed his computer screen... and a few more stuff happened off screen. Wow, imagine putting all those hours on your WOW characters only to be deleted just like that.



Girlfriend Deletes WOW Characters, Dude Destroys Computer - Watch more Game Trailers


I think the girlfriend could've left him and looked for other guys rather than do this. Seriously, why stick with him? I wonder what happened after this...

Wrong Side Of The Road Dude

Funny thing happened today on the way out of The Mall. I was driving out from the basement through the exit next to Cheezbox. As I was entering the curve at the bottom of the slope, to my utmost surprise, a white car was driving towards me!

The driver seeing me stopped the car and realized he has entered the wrong road! JuLeZz and I had to control ourselves from laughing really hard as the driver reversed the car out. And the moment the car exited, apologized to me by raising his hand, we just couldn't stop laughing our heads off!!

Current Annoyance

There's just one thing I hate on twitter right now, people tweeting live World Cup actions. I mean, it's one thing to tweet abour news outside the game but really, you think you are the only one watching? And sometimes, some people just don't care!

Just imagine updating twitter only to get a torrent of football match reports! It's not easy to find actual tweets that matter. Let the pros report it. People don't follow you for your live World Cup updates. Stop it and just enjoy the freakin game.

Google's World Cup Fever

More World Cup Fever: I only just noticed this when you google for "world cup". Not only does it show you the latest results and upcoming matches automatically at the top but scroll down and the usual Gooooooogle becomes...

World Cup Strategies

Just something to add to the current World Cup fever. Check out the following image.

The Old Fecks

Just wanna wish Happy Birthday to Mr Faizul who is back home right now. If only you were here, Aqil would've paid for your lunch.

SEEDS 2 Prank By Seniors

SEEDS 2 finally arrived last weekend and it is great to see that we've managed to come this far. Watch for the blog post over at Commitment 2 Servitude or The Exclusives but here, I present to you a short video of the SEEDS senior bullying the juniors. Mind you, this was only recorded the last few seconds. The whole prank lasted quite some time.

What's Most Important Nowadays

I'm in a blogging mood and I would like to share the following photo. This is what everyone was doing while watching a World Cup match on TV.

Blogger's New Template Editor Rocks

Forget what I said in the last post. Blogger's new template editor is awesome! It's so easy to use that it makes it easy for anyone to customize their blog. Best part is it's a WYSIWYG editor. You'll preview your blog as you make changes without the need to save and click "view blog" just to see what it actually looks like.

Now if only it's easy to blog on other devices like wordpress. Anyone knows if blogger has an app like wordpress on the apple app store? For free?

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Blogging here again

I'm back to personal blogging. In fact I've made two new blogs. Check our http://theexclusives.wordpress.com and http://commitment2servitude.wordpress.com. Those two blogs have their own purposes and I needed a casual blog where I dont need to worry about layout and making things look nice. Then I remembered this blog.

Blogging Moved For Now

I have decided to update mostly via The Exclusives Blog and Shutter Speech blog. This blog will remain ... dormant for awhile. Please direct yourself to shutterspeech.blogspot.com (or shutterspeech.com for the main site) or theexclusivesblog.blogspot.com (or theexclusives.net for the main site). Thank you.

Heavyrain Aftermath

Lastnight's rain was crazy. I've never heard it come down so hard continuously that long. But the aftermath was worse. Driving to work this morning, I saw the underpass at the Kiulap roundabout flooded, the roads filled with mud and a landslide covering over half of a road. My 30-40 minutes drive to work turned to over an hour. Let's hope that the coming days won't be as bad.

More photos over at shutterspeech here.

Litters In A Basket

We've got a few new kittens added to our already huge amount of cats at home. Well, a "few" wouldn't really be a good word...

New Year In Disneyland!

From Hong Kong Disneyland

Happy New Year!!

See a preview of our New Year celebration in Disneyland in the album below!

Hong Kong Disneyland

Where A Mouse Roams Free

I'm in Disneyland!!

Pak Ali Bukan Tamak

Pada satu hari, Pak Ali pergi ke hutan untuk mencari kayu api. Pabila lalu kat kawasan tasik, Pak Ali tergelincir dan kapak buruknye terjatuh dalam tasik tu. Maka datanglah Pari Pari Tasik kepada Pak Ali.

Pari Pari: Kenapa dengan kau?
Pak Ali: Kapak aku terjatuh ke dalam tasik.

Pari Pari pun menyelam dan kembali bersama kapak perak.

Pari Pari: Inikah kapak kamu?
Pak Ali: Tidak

.Pari Pari pun menyelam dan kembali bersama kapak emas.

Pari Pari: Inikah kapak kamu?
Pak Ali: Tidak, kapak aku buruk sahaja.

Pari pari pun menyelam dan kembali bersama kapak buruk.

Pari Pari: Inikah kapak kamu?
Pak Ali: Ya, itulah kapak buruk aku.

Pari Pari Tasik suka sikap Pak Ali yang jujur itu lalu memberikan ketiga-tiga kapak itu kepadanya.

Pada hari lain pulak. Pak Ali berjalan di sekitar tasik yang sama bersama isterinya. Kali ni isterinye plak yang jatuh ke dalam tasik. Pak Ali susahhati. Maka datanglah Pari Pari Tasik kepada Pak Ali.

Pari Pari: Kenapa kau bersedih?
Pak Ali: Isteriku jatuh ke dalam tasik.

Pari Pari pun menyelam dan kembali bersama Angelina Jolie.

Pari Pari: Inikah isteri kau?
Sambil menangis Pak Ali menjawab... "ya, itulah isteriku..."

Pari Pari pun marah, "Sungguh ku tak sangka, kau yang jujur satu masa dulutelah menjadi tamak".

Sambil menahan pilu Pak Ali menjawab, "Aku bukan tamak, kalau aku kata'tidak' pada Angelina Jolie... kau akan bawakan pula Pamela Lee...kalau aku katakan 'tidak' juga, barulah kau bawakan isteriku..bila aku kata'ya', kau akan berikan mereka bertiga padaku... Aku yang miskin ni tak mampu tanggung mereka semua".

What Difference Stages of Social Life Make

Just sitting at Taurean right now. Bored to hell. Got out of work early not realising that most people are at work or are going back to work at this time of the day. Damn. Just when I'm starting to lepak again.

I realise that I need to rethink my lepak time but the problem is, our free time are different now that most of us are working. Those under the government work at different times than those in the private sector, which means that their free times are different. Then, there's those within the sector itself. Different places of work have different time slots. When one person is free doesn't mean that the other is. It might be easy to find time for your friends before life at work but once you get different schedules from your friends, it's not that easy to find the time.

Then there's the differences between each social life. A single person might be able to find the free time to meet his or her friend at anytime they want but someone with a girlfriend might be in a fixed schedule, trying to divide their time between their friends and their special someone. If you are married, it's a whole different story. You might be able to find the time for your friends but it is still limited as your time isn't just divided among your friends and your husband or wife, it is also divided for both sides of the family as well as your responsibility as a husband or a wife. Then there's someone with kids. This has got to be the hardest time to divide. The responsibility and commitment is overwhelming. Trying to find time for others might be harder than ever before. Dividing it between your friends, you family, your work and your interest is one hell of a task.

So, what is the solution? What are your solutions?

This is why, I guess, gathering occasions as they grow older so you can meet those people you used to meet all the time in the past just to make up lost times.

So, who's up to making one?

Photo: Ripin & Zool at Charcoal. One morning awhile back when we had time to hang out the whole day.

The Work Zone

It's been a freaking long day. I had a full morning, mostly dealing with our Newsletter since John left and I was in charge of distributing them (which I'm not even sure how it works yet). And then I had to rush my break because I was out late.

At lunch, we had a relaxing time with the department watching this Australian show but followed by intense work on entering and updating records as well as preparing my laptops for tomorrow. By the time i was done with everything, it was 4pm.

I spent over an hour on the road thanks to the heavy traffic and by the time I got home, it was 5. I took a short rest then I had to get ready for our BADS meeting. Off for a quick dinner, went to the BADS meeting, got home, dealt with some extra work that I didn't get to finish in the afternoon and now here I am, sharing what seems like my daily life since... I don't know.

Seriously, why do I put myself to work so much?

During my holiday, at the back of my head was work, work, work before anything started. Then enter Paris, I completely forgot about back home - and I automatically changed to this free guy who has no commitments back home.

Then I got back home, I automatically changed back to where I left off. It's like, Brunei is all about work for me.

Am I making any sense?
Nevermind, it's midnight and if I don't sleep now, I'll only have less then 5 hours of sleep. I should go before I start saying things which you guys probably won't want to know... or stuff I don't want any of you to know.

Goodnight.

Photo: Paris, June 2008 Holiday. If only I could go back to those streets and relax...

One Long Summary

I've been busy with a lot of things lately. Not just with work but trying to promote my two websites, namely shutterspeech.com and brugamers.com. Lately, I've spent my time mostly on brugamers.com since I'm basically done with the layout for shutter speech, though I do need to update the gallery now. Now, I just wanna get back to posting stuff here.

I'll blog more once I find the time but right now, I'm posting a summary of what I've been up to.

I went to Paris for the holiday, met a couple of people, ate lotsa crepes, took lots of photos (which I'll update soon in Shutter Speech's gallery) and...

...saw a guy crossdressing in a french maid costume at the Eiffel.

Then I met my sister in Cheltenham, got to see her place and where she studies and shops.

Next, went to Cardiff to relive the days when JuLeZz and I first went on our first date... and where it all happened with The Exclusives stuff.

Oh, met cute little Maisarah too - Shar's hyperactive daughter.

Then JuLeZz and I went back to London and hung out at places we first met, again reliving those "old" days. We also watched Into The Hoods and Wicked (above photo) at the theatres.

Got back to Brunei and then it was all work.

Started building and promoting BruGamers.com intensively... well, depends on what you think intensive means. I was hard at work.

After which I've spent most of my days at work updating records, books and then there were the workshops - at one time, I had two in one day.

We are also currently in the middle of starting a society, which I cannot reveal just yet. And I'm the Chairperson and JuLeZz is the Co-Chairperson.

We are also in the middle of rehearsals for BADS (Brunei Amateur Drama Society) and we've been meeting up every week for that - except for occasions where we're either tired with work or we just can't make it due to other commitments.

Then there's my mom's birthday celebration on 16th July (will upload photos soon in my multiply album). JuLeZz and I got her SPA treatment "voucher". I say "voucher" because they don't make vouchers, they gave it to us in the form of a receipt. But mom loved it.

JuLeZz and I, with contributions from Mimi and Anih, got my mom a birthday cake too. Oh, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY MOM!

There you go. A very relaxing post. Nothing too intense but just a simple (but long) summary of everything. I don't think I missed much.

Also, I would like to take this opportunity to wish my uncle & aunt for their new baby (I got a new cousin!) born on July 14. Then there's also Zyreen who has a new baby girl on July 15!

Right, I think that's pretty much it.
Until the next real post.

Congrats to Zyreen

Curious by Mr Syaf in Hyde Park

Congratulations to Zyreen for his new born, born on July 15! Sanang ingat kan tu! And kana bagi hadiah lagi (kan?) hehe

PS: Thought I'd use one of my photos to wish you congratulations. Here's to a great future for the kid.

Cheltenham!!

Aku di Cheltenham!! Jumpa si lateng!! Wooohooo!!!

Hello world!!

GHIII DragonForce 100%

I don't know if you guys have seen this but I was reading joystiq and saw a post on this guy who played Guitar Hero III's hardest song and completed it 100%. The song? It's rather obvious to GHIII's fans, DragonForce's Through The Fires and The Flames.

I have got to congratulate this guy. He obviously spends a lot of time on GH. Not a lot of people can do that. Maybe I should quit my day job and try to get 100% too.

[Posted via BruGamers.com]

COMIC: LAST MINUTE

JUST SOMETHING I THOUGHT a lot of us could relate to. Gotta love Calvin.

The Empire Winner

JuLeZz AND I CELEBRATED OUR 1 YEAR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY on the 18th of May at The Manggis Ballroom. It was such a grand celebration. There was a fashion show for kids, talent show for the teens and some other games to cater the rest of the age groups.

One of the best parts of the day was the Grand Lucky Draw which included a night stay at the Empire Hotel, a TV, dinner for two at the Empire Hotel Pantai restaurant, high tea for two at the Empire Lobby and a wall clock.

Yesterday, we got to see the winner of the Empire Hotel night stay at the hotel itself! We were invited to join the fun - though briefly. The winners invited the rest of our family members as well to join in the fun! Check out some photos here at shutterspeech.com's gallery!

Senja Nan Merah

Masihkah kita termangu di bawah pepohon itu
Ketika hujan melunturi danau yang terusang
Tidak pernah dibilang hari
Hanyalah debar yang terasa… terasa

Setiap hari dibuai mimpi yang terindah
Dengan menghitung senja merah dihujung sinar
Mencipta kebeningan rahsia
Pada sehimpun kenangan
Menyimpul satu makna
Di ruang yang lurus ini

Haruskah…
Kita mencari pada gunung dan lurah
Liku-liku curam insani
Haruskah…
Kita mencari puncak mengilau cahaya
Dalam hidup seribu warna

Dibawah teriring ungkapan
Pada sebuah wajah
Yang lara kesepian
Haruskah kita mencari suatu
Senja dalam kepedihan

(#)
Haruskah…
Kita mencari dalam senja begini
Kembali kita bertemu

Haruskah (haruskah)…
Kita mencari dalam simpati wangi
Kembali kita bersama

Membilang kenangan yang abadi
Seperti menuggu mentari senja
Menghilang perlahan-lahan disebalik
Awan yang merah

(repeat #)

Dibalik awan yang merah
Dibalik awan yang merah
Dibalik awan yang merah



PS: Song's been in my head ever since JuLeZz's uncles played it at their gig during her cousin's wedding celebration, JuLeZz sang it and I was determined to try it out since I've listened to it before. And damn, now my voice is going away. Great song though.

1 Year by HisFoto

I'VE BEEN WAITING for pictures and feedbacks from our wedding anniversary last weekend and finally, someone posted something! Thought I'd link his post here for everyone to check out. Click here for Ish's blog post.

Now, to wait for photos from our officianl photographer.
Jason, I'm looking at you.

18.5 Again!

1 YEAR!!

Today's been a hell of a day. Busy busy. But sad that it's almost over. Especially the celebration. I wish it could've lasted longer.

Will update the clueless another time. Right now, I have to open our one year wedding anniversary presents!!

PS: Photo from Nisa's cake last year.

I WON! Plus Mother's Day Chat

I DON'T NORMALLY LISTEN TO the radio because personally, I like to be in control of my music thus is why I burn them onto CDs and play them in my car. But something different happened today. Not those life changing happenings though. Just something really interesting that will make me listen to the radio once in a while.

I won a prize for my first ever text to a radio deejay!

WINNING

Funny story really. I had the radio switched on when I first entered my car this morning instead of my usual CD (I must've had it on radio before this) and they were playing a very interesting old song. So I listened. Then they were talking about mother's day (which was yesterday btw) which got me interested since I wanted to know what people did during their mother's day (more on this later). Then it came to a point where the deejay said to text about what kind of weather you are like - so I did. Half an hour later, they called when I was at work and told me I won something! Great stuff!

MOTHER's DAY ON RADIO

Now, when I was listening to the radio, the deejay kept telling listeners to call in and chat with her - pick a topic and see if they'll win something from her. So I heard all these people talking about Mother's day and I wonder how many of them are sincere in sharing these stories. I mean, are they there to show off? Or calling in just to win a prize? Mind you, most of them tried to share all these sad stories or even how they were hard at work for their mothers. Seriously? If you are so sincere, try to sound sincere. How? I don't know. You can just hear if people are sincere.

SPEAKING OF...

Speaking of mother's day - I bought my mom and JuLeZz's mom a mother's day present. Nothing impressive nor were they expensive. Just a small thing to say thanks since I haven't really been able to do much for either of them.

So, how was your mother's day?

For my mother:
Happy Mother's Day! Best Mom Ever!

Poll: Do You Notice Advertisements?

I was reading the newspaper earlier this morning and while doing that, someone pointed out a huge ad on the same page that took a third of the page's space. I asked myself, "how in the world did I miss that?" Then I realised that I don't really notice nor do I care about ads, be it on the newspaper or blogs but then I put up adverts on my blogs. It made me think, how well do ads work? And how many really attract the eyes of readers? Don't get me wrong, some ads catch my eyes but only the good ones.

So I thought, for the sake of a simple research, I'd put up a universal poll on all my blogs and ask you guys to vote if you notice them at all. So where ever you are reading this post from, your vote will count on my other blogs. Thanks for voting!

Comments below as usual.

Do you read advertisements on newpapers and blogs?
	Yes
	No
	Sometimes
	What adverts?
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Selfish Attitude

I just don't get it when people start blasting off their music at a cafe for the whole world to listen. Could anyone be more selfish? I'm just here ranting. Seriously, other people are also paying for their food and environment.

I'm at a cafe at the moment, sitting here trying to do my work at a relaxing atmosphere but noooo~. This group of annoying selfish techno fan sickos are playing their techno music so loud while sitting there and dancing to their techno crap (sorry techno lovers - my respect for you but not to them) while wasting their sorry life in a cafe. Don't they have anything better to do?

Heard of earphones? Buy the damn things!

PS: Here's to hoping that you guys aren't one of them. If you are - then God help us all.