Visit to The Lion City (Day 1)

I went to Singapore to visit my uncle, aunt and cousins and also to kinda celebrate Christmas. It took us a 5 hour drive from Kuala Lumpur to the Causeway. When we got to the Causeway, it was around 2330 hours and we thought going into Singapore was gonna be snappy. But after we passed the Causeway, we had to be delayed for 2 hours at the Custom because we did not fill in some important documents and my dad blindly followed some Singaporean cars. So by the time we got into Singapore it was already 0100 hours and on top of that, the 25th of December. Merry Christmas!!

When we got to my uncle's home, we unloaded and then went out for supper because we did not have dinner yet. While having dinner, my cousin, Dominic, told me his "adventures" in school. When we got back home, we unpacked and prepared for bed. We slept in Dominic's room while he slept in Dorothy's (other cousin, younger sister of Dominic's) room and Dorothy slept in their parents room.

We woke up and had breakfast at around 1200 hours, then we got dressed and left for the Singapore Zoo!

At the zoo, it was crowded at the entrance, so as my uncle went to buy tickets, we hanged around the outside and had a look at some stuff about pangolin's. When we manage to get in, some how there were less people than I thought compared to the outside.

That's my uncle with a pelican.

Australia! Here I come!! XD

The animals in the zoo are so close to you, you can actually (almost) touch them!

Here, one of the joey's hoped into this area from another side, doing so, it hoped onto a small girls head and it's tail hit me in the face. Also, the girl fell into me as the joey hoped off her head. I was blur at that time as I was looking in another direction.

Oh yes, ladies and gentlemen, that white tiger on the right is Omar, the tiger who attacked one of the zoo keepers. Yeah, and it was moving left and right looking at us.

The only polar bear at the zoo. Too bad it did not dive into the pool when I was there.

The zoo had this garden and there were many plants around there. Most of the plants were labeled wrongly though. Heehee.

By the time we left the zoo, it was closing. We had some problem at the car park exit because we just realised something, we did not do the complete procedure when entering Singapore. So that means we illegally entered Singapore. Hahaha!! After dinner, we all went back home and my dad along with my uncle went back to the Custom to complete everything we missed out. My cousin played a computer game about conquering countries and planning strategies, forgot the name of the game...

When my dad and my uncle got back home, everything was okay. We stayed up for some time and then went to sleep at 0400 hours.

To be continued...

Santa Claws?

Every year in the month of December, the most popular holiday ever is known to every single human being (except new born babies) without fail and that is Christmas. And in every child, Christmas means presents, and "presents" means Santa Claus and Santa Claus means "The fat dude in the red suit who rides a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer around the worlds in less than 80 days (less in 1 hour)."

Santa is known by the world in many names, St. Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, etc. But who is the guy really? One thing famously known is that Santa is believed to be living in the North Pole with his wife, elves and reindeer in Santa's Workshop. Kids around the world who still believes in Santa always sends letters to "him" hoping it'll reach "him" and "Poof" appears their presents in the morning of Christmas Day.

But even if you travel to the North Pole, you won't find any cottage, any factory, any workshop what so ever and it's a fact! And because of this fact, people don't believe in Santa anymore and just think of him as a myth. Television programmes all show that Santa has magic abilities and struts his stuff with it. Buh-humbug!!

Even though I still believe in Santa, I need some ideas to support the fact that Santa is unseen. So here's what I believe,

Since I believe in aliens too, I think that Santa has made alliance with the aliens and use alien technology to hide himself and deliver presents in just one night. Simple as that. And Santa does not have a wife nor kids, the identity of "Santa Claus" is passed around to human mortals chosen by the previous Santa himself and again, uses alien technology to wipe out evidence and memories of normal human mortals who have been in contact with and is related to the chosen being as the new "Santa Claus".

Another belive of mine is that Santa is a super kind alien from another galaxy. Simple as that.

Of Hobbies and Interests

On the 20th and the 21st of December, Comicfiesta 2008 was held at Sunway Piramid. I did not notice until Otakugami-sama (SenzO-kouhai) told me about it during our scout meeting on the 20th. I really wanted to go but guess what, my dad forced me to go to a party that I had no intention to attend at all. Lets take this back to a few weeks ago...

My dad came home telling my sister and I that our friend invited us to a Christmas party. I did not have any interest at all because it was just a party and besides, I had other things in mind. My sister and I did not hesitate to say "NO!!" but my dad has this problem or maybe habit of his to keep talking and not listen to what others have to say. (This only applies to within my family.) Yeah, if you're thinking, he is long winded. For two whole weeks we told him we did not want to go every time he mentions it and totally ignores our cries and he input the words, "Yeah, okay, let's go!" in his head.

On the 20th when my dad picked me up after scout meeting, I told him about the Comicfiesta and he said,

"No! Our friends invited us to a party and you want to go somewhere not important?! I'll feel very ashamed if I suddenly turned him down on the last minute! If it was a week ago it'll be okay!"

"But I did not even want to go in the first place!" I retorted.

And my dad's reply was, "You said you wanted to go! Now you say you don't?!".

What the hell?! If he had just shut up and listen to us, my dad won't have heard the words that manifests in his head!! My dad then fired his meaningless lecture about priorities all the way home.

Over view, I did not agree on going to some Christmas party while my dad forced me to go. I prefer to go to a place where I can enjoy myself by indulging myself in things that my hobbies and interests relate to, therefor, I wanted to go to the Comicfiesta badly.

Which would you prefer? Go after your hobbies and interests or go to a party you never intended to go to? I wish I can drive soon so that I don't have to suffer not going to places I want to go and get dragged around to placed I don't want to go.

Okay, I admit, I had some fun at the party. The food was good, pasta only.

SUZUMIYA HARUHI BANZAI!! BAKA-TSUKI BANZAI!!!

As stated above, YES!! I have found the place I have been looking for all this time for almost a year! (Or maybe slightly more than a year, by a few days...)

I have been a Haruhi fan for almost a year and I was really disappointed when the anime came to a stop and nobody uploaded any new chapters for the manga. One time in Crunchyroll.com, a friend I met there, jerryberry (user name) told me that he was following the novels and warning me about how much more confusing it is compared to the manga and anime.

I don't know why I have never thought about it, but I have been hunting down the novels in bookstores and the internet through links in Wikipedia.com but all was a lost when there was no results no matter how much I searched. 2 days ago, I was surfing through Wikipedia looking for animes that my favorite seiyu (voice actor/actress), Hirano Aya had voiced in. I started liking Hirano-san every since I watched Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) and Lucky Star on the net. I sighed and went to the article that started my liking for Hirano-san after failing to find any more animes that Hirano Aya stared in. I was scrolling the mouse down to the bottom of the webpage when my eyes caught something, something I had never thought of or never noticed, "External Links".

I noticed in a split second while scrolling, the words "Kadowaka Shoten's website on the Haruhi Suzumiya series" and I quickly clicked on it, finding that the website is in Japanese. It took me sometime to understand it because I'm not so good with kanji. I gave up because the whole story was in Japanese. While feeling down, I recalled the personal message jerryberry sent me about the novels, "I'm currently reading the translated versions of the novel...", it suddenly came to me like a rushing bullet that was fired by AK-47 in a close range.

I have always been using Google to search anime pictures and wallpapers but why have I never thought of it?! I could have just Google "Suzumiya Haruhi novel translations"!! This had made my life so much happier (not quiet, my family still bugs me).

I you wanna know, the website is http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Main_Page. Baka-Tsuki is a Wikipedia related website that translates some popular novels into several languages for people to read, loads of novels I want to read are all there! It's truely a heaven, I seriusly want to cry! =")

The Night the Sky Smiled

Last night my friend sms'ed me, telling me look at the west side of the sky and see something amazing. I went out and saw what I had never seen before in my life, two stars above a crescent moon, forming a smiley face in the sky!

Isn't it magnificent or what?!

PS: Sorry, bad camera quality. Hehe.

If I ruled the World

I just suddenly become random and thought,
What if I ruled the world...?
Haha!

I have answers!

10 things that will happen if I ruled the world.
1) Scouts get number one priority at anything. (but of course, still need to obey the 10 scout laws)
2) Anime will be the the show that will be aired the most on TV.
3) Mangas will be sold at all book related stores.
4) Anime DVDs are cheaper than any other videos.
5) Scout camps will be held every month.
6) Baseball will be the most popular sport in the world.
7) American football will be the second most popular sport in the world.
8) Japanese will become the third international language. (after English and Esperanto)
9) Pokemon games are sold cheaper than any other games.
10) There will be a Scouts Day just like any Independence Day around the world.

Locked Out!

Yesterday after our after-camp-clean-up at SMK Tropicana, my dad came and picked me up. I had to bring home some of my troop stuff I took from our scout den for TriplexTM. My dad got out of the car to help me put the stuff (kettles, portable gas stoves, jud rope) into the boot when it happened.

The car my dad was using was a old, screwed-up car that has a "mind of it's own". Because previously, the car was broke open before and the alarm was rigged, so now, at any time anywhere, the car's appliances can act up on it's own. (example: window wipers move by itself) Oh, and by the way, the car is actually my dad's friend's car, he lend it to my dad because we only have one car and my dad's and my mom's workplace is far from each other.

So, what happened? My dad kinda forgot about the fact that when ever the car engine is on, and the car doors are closed, the car can lock by itself. So, after my dad closes the boot, we found out that the car was locked. Luckily the drivers door was not completely closed because my dad did not close the door but thanks to the weight of the door, it closed by itself, leaving a gap. My dad started pulling the door with his might and I tried putting my finders in the gap to pull the door lock but my fingers are too big. So my dad started to look for a ruler or sort and I explained what happened to 2 parents who were talking at the bus stop outside the school. Soon, my friends came out of the school and noticed that I was still there, so they came to help. William lend my dad his penknife but it could not reach the door lock, then Kaili asked why don't we get a wire and pull open the lock. And so my dad raced off towards the main road looking for something. I tried to fit a scout rope into the gap but it was too soft to reach the door lock, everybody (including a parent) suggested ideas but it only worked on new cars. My dad then came back with a piece of long wire and we started to try and pull the door lock. After some tries, my dad finaly pulled open the lock. Woot! Woot! I waved goodbye to everybody (again) and thanked them and then we left the place.

2 day trip to Genting - Day 2

So this is day 2 in Chin Swee Caves Temple, going to Genting, but before that, we made so sight seeing on Chin Swee Temple's beautiful artifacts. After breakfast, we headed to to roof top and saw this beautiful sight! We can see KL from up here!


I have no idea what I was doing but here's me with the statue of Buddha.




I thought if I helped the game one of the 8 immortals in their game, I will get a reward, but...

...instaid, they made me play a game with him. It was a tough match!



This is my family (my dad was taking the picture) in front of the pagoda. We climbed it and it took me some time to get down because of my fear of heights.




The dragon beside the statue of the Laughing Buddha. The sign says "Wishing Well", looks like "Pool of Dragon Drool" to me. Just jokking!



The 10 Chambers of Hell. I took it from afar because my camera was low on memory.




We found this big beetle outside the pagoda.



After cheaking out, we found this moth on our car, it followed us home!

So here is the view of Genting from the top of Chin Swee Caves Temple. Genting, here we come!!

At the Genting Outdoor theme park, I went on most of the rides, and for the first time! The last few times I went Genting, I could not ride the rides as I was either too light or too short. After getting the tickets, we went in but my dad stayed outside because he did not want to go in. The very first ride I rode was the Spinner. My mom told me to scream because it releases the pressure that builds up in you when you ride rides and it was also to make the ride more fun, but on the Spinner, I felt perfectly calm, maybe because I did not look anywhere else other than the guys head in front of me.

After the Spinner, we took the Super Toboggan. I was short but funny, the toboggan ride was bumpy, so when I went "Whee~" it came out "Whee-e-e-e-e-e...". After the Super Toboggan, we rode the Space Shot. I challenged myself to ride it and it turned out to be fun! But now, I'm afraid to take the elevator. After Space Shot, my mom took us to the Corkscrew. This was my very first roller coaster in my whole life and I took the front seat. It was crazy and fun and now, I'm afraid to take the escalator. We wanted to ride the Flying Coaster but because we had to pay for it, my sisters did not want to ride it and my mom agreed. So we skipped to the Pirate Ship. It was like a big swing, you can really fall off the darn boat! I almost slipped out of the bars that holds the people riding it!

I decided to take one last ride and we rode the Rolling Thunder Mine Train. It started to rain while we were on the ride so after that, we went for an early dinner at Kenny Roger's Roasters in the Indoor theme park. That was my first time eating at Kenny Roger's. After dinner, we went back to the outdoor park and my mom with my youngest sister went to ride on the Cyclone, Malaysia's first roller coaster. While they lined up for the ride, me and my younger sister waited beside the photo booth that takes your picture and hopes that you'll buy it. Oh and did I mention, I look damn ugly in those pictures. Later, all I did was wait for my family to finish their rides, they went to the Sungai Rejang Flume Ride, Flying Dragon and the Pirate Train. Time flew as I waited for my mom and sisters at the Sungai Rejang Flume Ride because there was a long queue. After that, we went to meet with my dad and went home. The moth was still on our car wind screen. When we got back to KL, we had supper at our favorite dim sum place (I dunno the shops name...) and went home.

My dumb sister waisted the camera batteries so there were no pictures of us on any of the rides so when we got home, I took a picture of the ticket that we wore on our wrist as proof.

2 day trip to Genting - Day 1

Recently I went on a holiday trip to Genting with my family (duh~) and my sister's godmother along with some friends to watch The Magic Mirror: The Musical.

My family and I arrived late at Chin Swee Caves Temple, the place where we were gonna stay for the night. It's really cool to know that there is a temple that looks like a hotel! There were a lot of interesting things to see at the temple but we had to catch the bus to Genting to watch the musical.

The misty view from Chin Swee Caves Temple.

There was mist in the evening but later at night we could see the statue of Buddha over looking the temple and it's attractions.

Before the musical started.

The golden ticket! Woot! Woot! Lol.

I'm not cam-whore-ing, just remembering how weird I look at Genting.

The night view of Genting from Chin Swee Caves Temple.

Baldness!!

I cut my hair for the Triplex camp this year. Mr. Colin asked me if I was gonna shave my hair because it is sort of like a "tradition" to shave our hair for Triplex just for the fun of it. And so...

tada!! A bald head! Lol.

Note: This photo was taken 5 days after I cut my hair because my irritating sister deleted the photo I took earlier.

Scouts Birthday Dinner!!

Whoot! Whoot!

When we hear the word "scouts", usualy people get, "work", "marching", "camp", "activities", and it goes on and on relating to work and sort. But this time, it's a birthday dinner for three scouts, Jarrel, Girishankar and Mr. Billy~!

We had dinner at a restaurant called .99 in TTDI. There, William, Kelvin, KY, Jerry, Mr. Ewing, Mr. Kentrick and I waited for the birthday boys to come with our Surprise Team from KFC. We talked about all kinds of funny stuff about the scouts around us and watched the idiot box. (Too bad, no sound.)

After some time, they finally arrived and we shouted SURPRISE!!! like all surprise birthday parties do. The staff at the restaurant were really helpful as they did our favors without hesitation. While we were eating our food, a family from another table also had a birthday dinner and the father of the birthday kid gave us some of his cake, how nice!

After dinner, Mr. Colin bought us durian cake as the birthday cake from Secret Recipe. After cake, we had some more talking. I was wearing a shirt with tie and jeans that night and Mr. Colin teased me. Hahaha. Mr. Jeremy joked with me, he told me, "I like guys with ties." and then Kaili pulled my tie, brought her face close to mine with a kind of look and said, "I like ties with guys." I got kinda scared because Kaili looked kinda horny. Lol.

After the party we all went home.

I still can't get over the joke of Mr. Billy and Ms. Yong LM about their future child, Billy Lee Li Li. Hahahaha!! XD

Hangin' Out?

I hanged out with Yubs and Xin a few days ago (forgot when... my memory sucks...). It's my first time with Xin and it kinda went ok except that Tesco-Ikano-The Curve-Ikea-Cineleasure was kinda boring... One Utama would have been better. XD

We met up at Borders, as usual, I wore my Hang Ten T-shirt, this time brown and, SURPRISE! Yubs wore a Hang Ten T-shirt as well! (after complaining about me wearing it for like 2 years?) This time I wore jeans and shoes instead of my usual 3/4 pants and sandals.

We walked slowly to Cineleasure as we talked. I was not used to it as I ZOOM!! as I move from place to place in those malls. (I can go from Tesco to Cineleasure in less than a minute while my sister takes 5 minutes or more if she does not look at anything which she won't normally do.) We had talked about going to Tony Romas for lunch but it was darn expensive, so we went to Sun Cafe, an otaku hangout that I recommended. It was playing a One Piece episode on the display TV but I did not really care because I only watched the anime until episode 19. Xin called the place a anime nerd restaurent which kinda hurt me because I'm a so called "anime nerd" (otaku) but I did not mind. (I always do...)

After lunch, we headed to the cinema complex and bought our tickets for Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa. I thought I saw my friend Min who I did not meet for a long time but I could not tell if it was her or not because according to Kaili, Min changed a lot since primary school and I did not have my glasses with me. Haha.

We bought popcorn and went for our movie. The movie was kinda hilarious and touching at the same time. The thing I did not like was that squirrel guy and the biting shark and also King Julien. (I hate that guy! He is plain stupid!) It's the second time I failed to finish my two large bags of popcorn, maybe because I had stomach-ache.

After the movie, Xin started taking pictures and we sort of became cam-whores. Hahaha! We went to Popular to check out some stuff and then we went to Pet Safari, I bought a hamster ball thingy for my sister's hamsters.

Yubs had to go home first so Xin and I went to play pool. The match ended 1-1 but I finished my game beautifully by hitting four balls continuously because I did not want to lose another round. Lol.

After Xin went home, I went back to Popular and bought an anime DVD titled Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu. Then my parents came and we had dinner at Fireman. Then we went home. End.

Yubs and I in Hang Ten T-shirts! Whoot! XD

Xin pretending to sleep on the couch. Lol.

Playing pool with snooker balls with Xin. My shots are pretty accurate~!

The three of us. (From left to right, Xin, me, Yubs) I look damn stupid... =_="

My JMC '08 Update (and a bit off topic...)

Hello dudez (Sean style),

It was a few months ago already that I joined an amazing event which is a "once-in-a-life-time" thing to me, and that is the JMC 2008 event! JMC stands for Junior Manga Challenge and it was sort of my gate way to the world of mangaka or doujinshi as I want to be either one in the future.

I guess I was lucky enough to be one of the 100 people who get to register for free. My dad panicked when he found out I registered for free because he sent to RM10 registration fee to the company.

Haha, I was excited in the beginning. Long before I found out about this event, I had my doujin story in my head for months! And when it came to drawing it, uh-oh, it's too complicated...

My doujin is a Bleach doujin,titled Bleach: Infinity, is about a shinigami (death god) who suddenly appears in Karakura Town and Soul Socity about a year after the great war between Soul Socity and Hueco Mundo. This shinigami's reiatsu (spiritual energy) is familiar to most shinigami but they don't recall him until he broke a memory seal he placed on all the shinigami's before he left the world to travel to another. This character's name is Desuka Mashita (出州蘭 茉只多) which is the captain of the Infinity division, an acting backup division for the Gotei 13, but they are in charge of "taking care" of a group called Agente which consists of stronger Hollows and some rebellious shinigami.

I actualy wanted to make a new blog about my doujin but I don't have a scanner to scan my pictures and I thought what's so good about it if there was no pictures?

Oh well, back to the topic, it took me a few months to draw my manga as I took a really long break for 2 months and now I only have 5 pages!! Eeek!!

As I am drawing my manga, I'm also still making more and more characters for this story (I have a total of 45 shinigami's in the Infinity division... *swt...) and I redesigned the Inifinity division HQ and moved it's sitting place from "some where in Rukongai" to "a dimensional pocket space in Runkongai".

So far, what I have been doing most is making up characters, I have so many, I can make another manga. That's all for the day. Cheers.

-Max (or Mashita. Haha.)

Randoming~

Every single human on Earth would always suffer from a certain kind of syndrome that not a single human won't suffer. It is called Randomness Syndrome, and "Randomness" stands for,

Radioactive
Alien
Nutrients
Dominate
Our
Minds
N'
Eventually
Stimulates
Something

And when you suffer from Randomness Syndrome, you turn cool, and "Cool" stands for,

Crazy
Odd and
Obviously
Lame

And when you are cool, you also suffer from Special Sickness, and "Special" stands for,

Spontanious
Purging
Ends
Circulation
In
Asses and
Livers

And when you suffer from Strange Sickness, you get Weird Virus, and "Weird" stands for,

We
End up becoming an
Idiotic
Retarded
Dumbass

がんばって ください~!!

オハ-ラッキ~!

Here's wishing all PMR and SPM examinees a very good luck to all of you!!

Same goes to others who are having their finals.

バイ-二~!

Back To School Blues

After that long winding week,
the holidays have come to it's mountain peak.
All feel restless, all feel weak,
probably because they did not take a long night's sleep.

Enter school, fresh and new,
friends here and there, some talked about games, Tr-tr-tr-triple Kill!!
Enter class, not so new,
dust everywhere, so disgusting, E-e-e-eww!!

Teach' came in, diagnostic test at hand,
start the test, no time to spend!
One by one, homework walked in looking so grand,
Nooo I don't want, I melt like sand...

Fused together words, gibberish?
Aiwanagohoumraitnow, did you catch the fish?
She did not come to school today, not like what I had wish.
Feeling kinda sad, I cheered myself up with a vegetarian dish.

After school so tired, I stood under the tree,
talking to the girl, who likes to disturb me.
Discussion about Triplex, something we did not disagree,
I suddenly felt that coming back to school is not bad after all, with a glee.