Friday, December 28, 2007
Monday, December 24, 2007
Mobile rang on the eve's on Christmas Eve.
Mum: Where are you?
Bee: Last minute shopping, getting Christmas wrappers and cards, you need them?
Mum: You won a super-voucher for shoppers to buy prepaid cards? Yes please. My phone card is Digi 016.
Confirm her ears are jammed too.
Mobile rang three hours ago on Christmas eve with Max out and around. On speaker.
Dad: Where are you?
Bee: In Prangin mall, getting my car washed.
(Background could hear my mum was on another phone shouting to whoever).
Dad: Okie bye.
Hung up then mum called two seconds after that. On speaker.
Mum: Where are you?
Bee: Er I just told dad I am in Prangin Mall with Maxine.
Mum: What? In Tanjung Bungah?
(Background dad heard and complained loudly to mum that I simply hantam my whereabouts to him).
Mum: Eh why you simply tell dad you are in Prangin when you are in Tanjung Bungah?
(Max started to laugh).
Bee: I'm not in Tanjung Bungah and I think you are partially deaf mum.
( Mum started to laugh with Maxine).
Mum: My god, so funny eh how come can hear so many people laughing when you are only with Maxine?
Bee: I am only with her.
Mum: Oh merry (laughs) Christmas (laughs) Maxine (laughs)
Bomb-blasts from the Past
Mum: We are going to Haadyai tomorrow.
Bee: You guys are mad. I can’t let you go when it is still not safe.
Mum: We are going for a purpose, for prayers.
Bee: Cibai.
Mum: We will be back.
Ya, I know you will be back but I want you guys back safe.
After what occurred in year 2006 17th of September, I really do not want to go back to there. Last year in Haadyai was a devastating bomb-astic experienced for me and ( my family i think). Committing to my memory now, it was after dinner when we decided to go our own ways to get our needs. Grandpa needed his sleep, my parents and aunty wanted to shop, my godparents and my Cina pukit girl-soulmate, Lilian wanted to walk around and I salivating for a beer Chang.
As a regular in Haadyai, nothing fascinates me but Lilian being a virgin in this part of Thailand, we have to show her the Haadyai parade. I wanted to have the beer so bad that I led them towards the main street where the pub is located; and prostitutes reign the area, the ugly Mat sallehs are part of if and the other half we have people like me pretending to stroll by just to get to nowhere.
The pub was just around the corner when my godparents insisted to turn to this dodgy, corrupted lorong where I bumped into another Penangite making his way to Pink Lady where of course a nightclub where you can’t tell if the Thai goddess is a transvestite or on his way to become one. I told my guy friend this is when sperm-guard comes in handy.
Then the magic happened right after we exchanged goodbyes– first, we heard an earsplitting explosion from the main street. Second, people were running in to our lane. Before I could say third, the second explosion was heard and reporters and polices were everywhere. We didn’t want to miss this so we rushed to the main street where people from the opposite direction were running towards us and witnessed this – the pub I wanted to patronize was bombed. We stood there and across us the third bomb exploded ignoring the impact of the air pollution. Basically there were six home made mobile activating bombs planted around the district which believed was the work of Muslims from outer side of Haadyai. The bombs were launched simultaneously – obviously creating chaos leaving the locals and foreigners disarrayed.
Me agape.
Godparents started to talk in Thai to people around us - absorbing everything they heard. Lilian: B, I think I really miss him. If I am still alive I vow to treat him right when I get back. No wait I think I love him. I want to be with him now.
B: You might die now because I will kill you.
And as expected I need to look for my parents which the journey back to the hotel was nerve-racking as the neighbourhood smelt of smoke, Lilian was cinaly mental, I didn’t get my beer, a prostitute with a gun was running towards us which I so much wanted her to shoot herself. However the bomb blasting night ended how everyone wanted it to be – at the hotel lobby, my family was waiting for us and Lilian broke up with her boyfriend the week after that.
Slightly traumatized, going back there would be like asking me to eat pork. But of course my mum has my dad’s balls which I don’t. All due to respect, yo if I were a fly, I would land on her shit.
Coincidently while waiting and blogging, my team decided to go to Haadyai and one of them messaged me earlier to ask if I am on the go. Maybe one of you can change my mind.
Pictures I took the next day outside the pub that was bombed.
* My internet connection failed last Friday, just managed to post it now.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The Ling episode
Afterall it is Christmas now, so be merry, be forever grateful and be kind to all beings which is a bit lackluster I know. Dear dumb blog, my Christmas and New Year to-do-list this time around are less jaded, un-climaxing and non-intricate:
1. To bloody get Atilia’s album and wrap it myself
2. Convince mum not to read my blog after Christmas
3. To stay sane with my job
4. Drink less eat more
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Collide- Howie Day
The dawn is breaking
A light shining through
You're barely waking
And I'm tangled up in you
Yeah
But I'm open, you're closed
Where I follow, you'll go
I worry I won't see your face
Light up again
Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills my mind
I somehow find, you and I collide
I'm quiet, you know
You make a first impression
I've found I'm scared to know
I'm always on your mind
Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the stars refuse to shine
Out of the back you fall in time
You somehow find, you and I collide
Don't stop here
I've lost my place
I'm close behind
Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills your mind
You finally find, you and I collide
You finally find
You and I collide
You finally find
You and I collide
*This is enthusiastically dedicated to you. You know who you are.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Atilia and All That Jazz
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Penang Island Jazz Festival
We went a bit late because were stuck in the immovable traffic, stopped by to get burgers and the guys insisted to get our beers from this Indian shop on the way up as well. This is where we get our mouth-watering, lip smacking beef burger wrapped with egg and cheese, nicely topped with fried almost caramelized onions from:
Trevor: Am chilling now with the sea breeze and the jazz beats
Christine: The overcrowded typical tourist….
John: I didn’t know they are really good
True to the point, the environment was faultless – we were sitting on Christine’s mat under the stars, un-dehydrate ourselves with the surprisingly still chilled Indian beer. But that was just the beginning, because you will automatically activate the jazz in you get once you get to know this next performers all the way from China – the Possicobilities.
The jazz night ended off with the widely recognized Thailand’s top jazz/soul/funk/R&B attire, the Bangkok Connection. The name of the band itself sounds like it consist of notorious Thai mafias ain’t it? Bangkok Connection is one of my favourite bands of all time. They were so darn good that our local Off the Edge Magazine featured them once. I couldn't get off my eyes from the two brothers playing the saxaphone, sounds cheesy just the way I like it.
Bangkok Connection was still playing when I took a picture of Trevor, Scully boy and Christine
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
He said She said I said
I tremble easily
I fear of fear itself
I panic when I should not
Such a life, that one should not encounter
That one should not even contemplate
That I take it as a breathing death
I dislike the fact that I am paranoid
I detest the fact that I go through my routine without you
I despise the fact that I build walls around me
For I fear that if you showed that you care for me even a bit
The walls that I had will be a precinct to me
That I will never leave and the child in me will never grow
What have I become one might wonder
I am man with his ego
I am also a woman with her sensitivity
I am all walks of life
Monday, November 19, 2007
When you can't siesta, you fiesta
The boys and I had a blast. Trevor kept on drinking because he got busted from John earlier that day. It was so easy to drink with Trevor that night. This is a shot of me, Damian and Trevor.
Trevor not only drinks, he decided to finished the Florentina pizza that I had to go up to my favourite pizza guy – Joe to get my personal pizza he designed for me and not the boys. *Laughs* I was enthusiastically trying to get a good snap of Joe twirling the pizza base but was interrupted by John.
John: When are you gonna stop flirting with this fat pizza guy?
Bee: He can dance and make a fanfuckingtastic pizza for me. What can you do?
So this is Joe - thanks to John it wasn't a good picture but fat Joe was popping and hip - hopping all the way.
And this is my entrée that I finished happily.
And my main course to go with my coke and Green Label that I selfishly did not share with the guys.
The guys were having fun seeing me having fun. John asked a question. I replied, “That’s because you guys can drink have fun with me but by the end of the day, you wouldn’t want a girl like me to stay around. It’s not for you to keep, I fucking learn about that John. Or maybe there is something wrong with me”. Damian said it's all good. John and Trevor nodded and started to get me more drinks.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Project Green Runway
The name of the this swarm tree sounds insanely happening but the tree itself is ugly, miserable, herbivorous and most of all innocent looking too - nothing like a convict tree. Cibais and lanchiaos, this is the actual tree:
Whatever babe, you look good right next to it.
Friday, November 9, 2007
You Leave With What You Take
1. Howard X was found very much alive and I forgive him instantly because he got me my favourite cake – okie enough of me being nice because I have to confess to you Howard, your blog is damn cibai gaymorous
2. The superstitious theory worked as well – might be my naïve appreciation towards little things.
3. Spend more time with myself and I didn’t know being emotional can be so painful. Cibai case, why didn’t my emotional bitches warn me on that?
It’s like I have more time for myself now and knowing that if people doesn’t care, they just don’t – the tragic fact that they do have other toys to play with or they somehow forgot about your existence. So yeah right to your face.
Take this simple explanation, if you were take to two steps back and visualize that you are caught in this nasty dilemma trying to communicate with another person that completely wants nothing to do with you in every possible way you can think of, you will come to discover that, you as a subject, cannot be victimized in any situation in any time of your life. How do you really come to know that you can’t be victimized you ask – well, think of yourself as on outsider observing that, eventually with little time and your conscience sinking in, you know you have to leave right there and then. So I leave all of it behind but I take the alcohol with me.
Monday, November 5, 2007
I wanted to be a * *. But that didn't last long.
He and I grabbed a drink after work last Friday summing up the overview of working life– finding the right profession, obviously, was always an issue. He mentioned he has things to deal with – I would say several options in a short time which I’m certain he can construct and achieve it. We both know it wasn’t easy but that is worth trying. He nodded. I smiled.
As for me, I yearn for something raw, fast-moving, a bit risky and perhaps artistic. In brief, I need a change of job and environment. When your job has become flat, de- motivating and it’s putting you in a psychological trap, this is when you really know what you want next or knowing what works best for you. I mean my working life right now feels like I’m standing on an exact spot where someone got murdered brutally.
Pauline did tell me what I am competent of doing. I need to have a killer personality to do so. Killer personality, people, here means I have to be audacious and vivacious to handle the job. A word or two from her is really encouraging because she says what you do not want to hear. Thanks P, I will get back to you on that. Tell me something P, are you saying that no profession is too impractical or too dull to merit inclusion?
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Silent Scream
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The Disturbing Tale of STDs
Bee: I still can’t sleep
Doctor: If this new pill doesn’t work, we have to work on your lifestyle
Move over valium, introducing Imovane :
However, the bloody Doctor didn’t mention about the side effects. I was bleeding profusely, nauseating and of course sweating like Howard X. Leh mah who cares?
Friday, October 26, 2007
Doctor : You are depressed.
Bee: Oh, that bad?
Doctor: You know in this world, you have to be thick skin at times?
Bee: So is it okie to still drink?
Doctor: Come back to me 3 days later if you didn't notice any changes, will get you stronger pills.
Bee: I will. I just don't like the side effects part.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Give a dollar to a small girl and she will buy herself a lolly
Of late I’ve been through a non – ecstasy and instability moment of my life. I’ve become very inert, my thoughts became insignificant and my responsibility is no longer an issue to me. I’m so unlike him who on the other can hand hold his composure and move on effortlessly after what happened.
I’ve become terrified to step out from my own fundamental character. But X is ahead of “time” – going out with another available hot individual and each day is just another day for him. It has come to the stage where things that I do are no longer solid or making any sense that I have to humourize with it. For now, I need hardcore booze for the next few days, go for pleasure skinny dipping and indulging in an extreme ice cream diet that will shock my lingerie – all in that order. Cibais and lanchiaos, feel free to share it with me. Strangers are welcome – just that you don’t have to be that strange okie?
Plus I got :
1. Howard X around which is great
2. Pauletta that has been trying to get me sober
3. Kenneth T that has been trying to get me drunk
4. D that is always asking for my well being each time on net
Pauline: It is expected to happen. This is life. It is okie.
Bee: I get what you mean, it's like you rape a virgin and you can't give back her virginity.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Intoxication vs detoxification
1. Pressurize myself to drink just the REDBULL
2. Drink redbull and imagine it is VODKA and REDBULL
3. Hang out with my gay friends to drink gay drinks
4. Imagine VODKA and REDBULL are like prozac (expired stuff)
You should be asking why would my very first entry didn't like start off with Once upon a time........
Reason is I haven't been sleeping well so i figured i need to do write the fcuk out of it. Not a single living thing helps - my friends weren't that smart 'till they came up with the notion of my sleeping disorder:
1. Too much of VODKA and REDBULL
2. Too much of VODKA and REDBULL
3. Too much of VODKA and REDBULL
4. and of course, too much of VODKA and REDBULL
Damn, they make me feel like i smell like a whorehouse which I think i should be illegal by now. So I decided to ask my mum instead. Trust me, my mum is a better bitch than I am and drinks more coffee than I do.
B : Ah mee, I can't sleep. It has been going for weeks.
Mum: Of course lah. Lack of alcohol consumption.
B: Leh mah. You mean I should be inebriated by now?
Mum: Don't you think you always make better decisons when you are intoxicated?
I didn't even know she is my mum 'till she said that. Her reverse psychology works like feeding Britney with crack. I had caffeine as a bizzare detox and it worked, I didn't even sniff on Vodka and Redbull and had a good sleep over that weekend.
Pauletta - you reckon I should still blog now that I am sober enough to sleep?