Daily misery

Some of you are wondering where do those random images in the top header come from. They are from my flickr favorites.

Hui Nee sent over some photos a bunch of us took during Sin Yee’s and her graduation/birthday celebrations. Here are some of the notable classics…

Ryan loves him some red bras…

Retarded duo…

I’m not drunk…

not drunk…

and lastly, we debunked the myth that a CS professor can’t be fun and cute at the same time.

Ok ok, at least one decent photo. I like this one, a 45 degree head-spinning shot.

Let us welcome Lee Hyori to Alvin’s Celebrity Crushes list. As you have probably awared, the competition to be the first celebrity on the 2007 list is as fierce as the years before and the judges have to be highly selective and strict when deciding which female celebrity should have the honor of having her name in there. I believe it’s a fair decision and she throughly deserves it.

Hereby I present you a live performance of her song, ‘Jan So ri’. I think Jan So ri means ‘nagging’ in English but I’m not sure.

Online Videos by Veoh.com

and you can call me a liberal democrat prick. I can’t possibly be asking everyone to put their political views and differences aside and pray for those kids. I can’t because by posting these images, I’m being political myself. And that is the sad part, isn’t it?

These images remind me of Mark Owen’s song - Child.

or maybe we should just forget about this and have some laughters. I’m not being sarcastic. Sometimes that’s what I do, just flip to the next page and life goes on.

Thanks Aaron :).

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Hollywood has tried to warn us on numerous occasions… we just won’t listen.

ok maybe not Marvin. He’s here to bring joy to the human world.

title quote via xkcd

that makes this picture arresting.

Image selfishly ripped from lastnightsparty.

I would trade my barbie dolls transformer toys for my sister’s (Karen) writing skill any time, any day.

…记得上学时我们的早餐, 从来没有简单过. 好像丰盛的一餐, 才能把妈妈伟大充份的爱统统包裹起来满满吞进肚子里温着, 暖暖地藏了一整天. 好像只有这样, 一日之计才能正式顺利地被启动. 当然, 那时候我清楚知道自己是幸福的孩子, 尤其同学抱怨他们得摸黑早起自己动手准备早餐的时候… read more

I stopped having breakfast all together many years ago :(. In many ways, I think having breakfast alone is worse than going to the theater and watch movie by yourself. Yet so many of us do it every day.

photo via kimicon

you know you miss it :-).

it’s only 8.50 am on Tuesday morning and I’m already into my second laughter of the day.

First is Waiter’s Crack and secondly, this:

So I have to create a Facebook application for this project I’m working on. That couples with the fact that some of my closest high school friends are making/have made the switch from Friendster to Facebook and that I get an average of about 2 invites per week to join this network. Oh what the hell, my life is like a compilation of all the greatest sad bastard love songs anyway.

so you can add me as your Facebook contact, friend or sex mate here.

4 social networks (Friendster, Virb, Facebook and Flickr) and I’m feeling dirty already. I will smack your head if you tell me I’m way too old for this.

Malaysian *checked*
Kinda cute *checked*
Plays guitar *checked*
Powerful, angelic voice *checked*
Can play guitar and sing at the same time *checked* *checked*
Composes and writes her own song *checked*

I think my mom will let me marry this one, no problem.

Melinda Wong - Cold Feet (Original)

You can send your kudos to Melinda Wong.

Because they are autodidacts. The main purpose of higher education and making all the smartest kids from one school come together with all the smartest kids from other schools, recursively, is to show every smart kid everywhere that they are not the smartest kid around, that no matter how smart they are, they are not equally smart at everything even though they were just that to begin with, and there will therefore always be smarter kids, if nothing else, than at something other than they are smart at. If you take a smart kid out of this system, reward him with lots of money that he could never make otherwise, reward him with control over machines that journalists are morbidly afraid of and make the entire population fear second-hand, and prevent him from ever meeting smarter people than himself, he will have no recourse but to believe that he /is/ smarter than everybody else. Educate him properly and force him to reach the point of intellectual exhaustion and failure where there is no other route to success than to ask for help, and he will gain a profound respect for other people. Many programmers act like they are morbidly afraid of being discovered to be less smart than they think they are, and many of them respond with extreme hostility on Usenet precisely because they get a glimpse of their own limitations. To people whose entire life has been about being in control, loss of control is actually a very good reason to panic.

Erik Naggum’s answer to that question is as bold and honest as it can get. I have to clap to that.

via reddit

Now this is just sad: Gorillas head race to extinction

Back when I said orangutans are dying in my Independence day’s post, I wasn’t joking. I came from the only land on earth where this type of ape is known to exist. I’d met them a few times, either in zoo or during jungle trecking, and this creature, I mean they actually know how to smile when you make some funny faces, sometimes. They are friendly, fun and by all relative definitions, human-like. They are amazing.

If you have a little time, just google for ’save the orangutans campaign’ or go here http://www.savetheorangutan.co.uk/ or better yet, fly to Borneo and see them yourself before, you know, they are extinct.

Christene pointed me to this youtube video just now. I had been searching for this clip ever since I first watched the episode a couple months ago. Still looking for my jaw. ^_^

If it’s a customer service, you have to tip.
Yeah, it’s not just while you are dining out. When you get a hair cut, your toenails done, your legs waxed or your balls shaved, you have to fucking tip. And it’s doesn’t have to be closest-to-the-last-approximation point of a minimum 15% tip, you stingy bastard; if you like the service, you SHOULD tip more. And the minimum is 15%, not 10% (except when you dine in a sushi bar, where the minimum should be between 17-20%). Also, here’s a rule of thumb, if you don’t know whether you should tip for a service, ask.

Be punctual
Read my lips: it’s fucking rude to be late. Yeah, Americans and others don’t say it to your face but they do get annoyed to the point they will kill a baby duck if you’re late. They are just being nice - I will kill a baby if you’re late. I know it’s almost ‘un-malaysian’ to not be late and I know all about the ‘Malaysian timezone’ (you add one more hour to the time you’re supposed to be there) but puuhhh-leeeaasee, leave that impolite habit in the cutesy little knapsack of yours back home or ask your mom to safe keep it. Don’t bring it here. And if you’re late, please apologize before you give your reason. Actually, just apologize. It’s more sincere that way.

Not all American women are easy…
…just like not all Malaysian girls wait until marriage before they have sex. You must be fucking retarded to think that way. Cut down on the Hollywood movies and blondie porn, will ya? Here’s how it will go down, Romeo. You go to a bar, have a great time, meet some Caucasian girls, shake their hands, things starting to get dizzy because of the booze, you put your arm around one of the girls, it’s still ok, then you start to have a little brainfart going on up there telling you: ‘hmm, I think she wants me to grope her breast because that’s what American girls are like’, and then you do that, she punches you, probably kicks you where it matters, you get thrown out of the bar by a muscular bouncer, singlehandedly. With a bloody nose and broken lips and millions of starry eyes watching you, you get up, dust off your sweater and start crawling away. Just promise me if that ever happens to you, don’t ever fucking say you’re from Malaysia! DON’T!

Don’t be a fucking homophobic
Soon you’ll realize there’re more gay people in US than back home in Malaysia. Actually I think they are proportionately the same per capita but since being gay is illegal in Malaysia, most gay people prefer to stay inside the closet. And being gay is not illegal in US. Same sex marriage is, in most states. Don’t confuse the two. It’s one thing to oppose same sex marriage, it’s another to call a gay person ‘fag’. I literally saw it once with my own eyes how a Malaysian guy took two step backwards when the other guy he was talking to said that he is gay while introducing himself. Children, listen. If you’re not gay, talking to a gay person will not make you gay. Talking and hanging out with 10 gay people will not make you gay. Playing basketball with a gay player, sweaty arms rubbing sweaty arms, will not fucking make you gay! It’s not a disease, no matter what the Malaysia’s high school text books and TV ads tell you. Actually I don’t even think it’s a matter of choice but we can argue about that till the cows come home. I am not telling you what your moral views should be. I am just asking you not to discriminate.

Welcome to US. ^_^

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camwhore (kămhôr, kămhōr) (sometimes cam-whore or cam-slut)
n.

1. Someone who is armed with the notable ability of taking kawaii pictures of themselves from a downward angle coupled with a strategically-placed peace sign next to their cheek.

It is suggested that the ideal angle of the camera is usually 45 degrees on either the top right or left hand side (rarely middle) of the person’s head depending on which side of his/her face has less pimples.

intr.v., camwhored, camwhor·ing, camwhores.

1. To associate or have camwhoring relations with camwhores or a camwhore.
2. To accept ego-kudos in exchange for camwhore relations.
3. To compromise one’s principles and dignity for personal camwhore session.

[Middle English hore, from Old English hōre.]

Some samples:

notes: Su Ann and I discussed lengthily about the importance of having the ‘V’ peace sign in the definition (she’s the one who inked the original definition). We finally agreed that the sign can be optional and as long as the person is trying visibly hard to act cute in front of the camera with the very intention of attracting massive public attention to self-boost personal ego, he/she can utterly be touted as a camwhore. She even provided some exclusive samples for clarification.

visit her portfolio

I ran upon this fascinating display of illustrative art in Rotunda Gallery today. This gigantic comic narrates the founding history of Republic Czech, a Central European country with a very rich, yet brutal history. What makes this gallery interesting is how such a dark history is portrayed in a light-hearted and funny tones, with teaspoon bits of satire and parody spices thrown into it. Like the one shown above (taken with my lousy mobile camera).

Go see it while it’s up.

and don’t commit with empty comment!

The fifth issue of Five to Nine titled Polaroid is out. Methink it’s the best issue evar.

Five to Nine is a PDF magazine published by skwiot/smith. The latest issue is a collection of 78 polaroids from 24 designers. You can even purchase a print copy if you really like it. Yes, the online pdf is free :)

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Happy to see this on university webdev mailing list today - the first live deployment (that I know of) of UNL Event Publisher in the wild. It looks very different from our own but I dig the design. Goes well with their existing site design.

Kudos to Cornish College of the Arts’ and UNL’s Event Publishings’ developers.

Keep humping, bolehland…

At the risk of coming across as a sexist douche and causing an uproar among my loyal female readers with my camwhore entry last week, I felt the need to reiterate my claims that the definition of the word camwhore applies to all gender, male and female. I am well aware of the fact that the accompanying photos in the earlier entry only show pictures of female (or rather, teenage girls) flashing the V sign. What about the guys, one might ask.

Regretfully, that is very insensitive and unfair of me. There must be photos of dudes camwhoring somewhere. I’ve searched for many days and even with the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, I believe I will find it eventually if I just keep looking, harder. For the time being, maybe these will do…

I don’t know. Lately, every little things I’ve came across with, I think they are sweet and moving. This and this and this and this are sweet and moving. I attended my colleague wedding this past weekend and I thought the vows, poems and dancing were sweet and moving.

If you hold a teaspoon of sugar in front of me right now, my emotionally charged tears will probably flow down and drain out so fast you would’ve thought I’ve just pulled one of my pubic hair with a tweezer.

Regular schedule of sarcastic postings aiming at self-absorbing freaks will resume tomorrow, if I meet my soul mate tonight.

I’m turning Daily Misery into an urban dictionary.

tramagedy
n. from tragedy + drama; Tragedy seen through the eyes of lolcats; drama provoking immediate schadenfreude.

via push cx

via white ninja comics

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Amazing art works. Como 3 and Puglis 3 are some of my favorites. Visit blublu.org

Such a nice song and no one told me about it. Unacceptable. I’m one full year late. Maybe I’m hanging out in the wrong circle of musicography. Stupid Pandora keeps giving me Radiohead and Bright Eyes. And Kaiser Chief. Time to break out from the loop!

Recent happenings prompt me to rethink what FOS really means to me.

So here’s my concise version:

Freedom of speech means having able to repeat what you’ve just said, at the same venue, again and everyone else is still ok with that, even if they disagree with what you said the first time.

O hai, no alcoholik k. juz a bit. kthxbai.

Image shamelessly ripped from wei jian’s album.

Supposedly the moon here is rounder. Yet after celebrating my fifth moon cake festive here in US, I still long for the slightly squarish moon I used to see when I was in Malaysia.

now you know why such dream demands a beautiful mind.

more flying photos at boredstop.com