Counting days

I hate printers, computers and the whole lot. Think I shall disappear into the jungle for a while...except I CAN'T. I have a test tomorrow, a HT and two essays to submit. It has come to the point that the thought of death brings the consolation that I don't need to write my thesis. I want to sleep!

Passing Time

Anything is better than writing my HT!!! Have developed a habit of surfing matrimonial sites, just for shits and giggles. I especially love to read the Arab/North African ones - one can just feel the 'macho' vibe. Scary. Hee hee. My top favs though (if I were to pick someone to marry): North Americans (usually African-American; quite nice sounding generally), Algerian/Morrocan (of non-scary variety) and South Africans (generally, non-extreme tendencies).

If I were to put up a matrimonial, this is what it would probably sound like:

24, attractive (enough), a bit of a wit, intelligent (more or less) and suffering from dimunitive-itis. Have more sense than is sensible to display.
Loves music (rock, opera, hiphop and Spanish pop), reading (especially science fiction) and watching TV. Will not entertain proposals to spend life in deen; love me for who I am!
Seeks: responsible man, who preferably does not wish to live in Singapore and has the means to do so. Must have a sense of the absurd, kind and soft-spoken.

Writing this is rather fun! No one will respond to my ad though - too damn scary.

My favourite quotes:
[seeks] constructive woman, not destructive
looking for the Halal girl (sic)
looking for second wife (!)
Forever wife (as tag)

Also, a forty year old man looking for a woman 18-26. Jeez.

Lost Art

Jikalau merpati sudah terpikat
Jangan terlepas ikatan benang
Jikalau hati sudah terikat
Lekas, lah, lekas masuk meminang

from "Tiga Abdul", 1964.

After a heinous foray into HT-land, I took a break into Malay-land and rediscovered the lost art of "berbalas pantun" (an exchange of wit through verse) in "Tiga Abdul", a film by P. Ramlee. Which I have never watched (believe it or not). Finally, I got the jokes my JC (mat!) friends made - amongst which "Isketambola" and "Isketambatu" (fictional countries - the joke lies with the pun made by "ketam" (crab) and "batu" (stone) which makes it a type of crab. Jeez. It's funnier unexplained!), and "Oi, di sana" (hey, there). An apt demostration of intertextuality and jokes. Anyway, the quoted pantun above had charmed me so I put it up on my blog. Don't ask me to translate though. I can do literal but it would totally spoil the prettiness of the verse. Never has "kata beralas" looked so good.

A side-note: My favourite "Bujang Lapok" has always been Ajis. He's responsible, has a steady job, gentlemanly...and most of all, sensible! Ha ha. And they say Malay men are useless. Rewatching the show, I realized, I still like him best. Funnily enough, there are enough similarities with Nazir. :D V weird.

Greatest love of all

Check out this Johari page. (not a spam)

A pleasant surprise

I have started (finally) typing up my notes (scribbled on bits of paper and receipts! In terrible handwriting!) for my HT. Much to my surprise, there was copious amounts of it, and they are not quite half-bad. Raw, unpolished, but there is something there. Perhaps this HT will not be quite as awful as I had feared. :D

Euclid and the O.C.

Hee hee. What a juxtaposition. On a break after spending one and a half hours on Euclid and proving pythagoras’ theorem while watching the O.C.

Tonight on the O.C: The girlfriend.

Marissa has the misfortune to be obliged to choose between two guys – a (dumb) rich guy and a (dumber) cool guy. Meanwhile, dumber cool guy i.e. Ryan is confused by Marissa’s mixed signals and hooks up with a hottie amidst his difficulties.

Question: Are teenagers this vapid or the sensible ones too boring to write about?

Personal comments:

Ryan is CUTE!!! Gush, gush. Right-ho. I kind of like it when he emotes. V. cute and I am MAD. I like the O.C. I like a teenager. I'm 24, I could be the prospective grandmother, for crying out loud. Therefore, I'm mad. Or just regressing into teenage-hood.

Waiting room

Have been taping people's conversations for my HT and not analyzing anything yet. I hate my HT with a passion - anything is better than writing it. (Ergo, not a word have been written. Really.) This is the new me - slacker and sleepy. I have read somewhere being sleepy all the time is a sign of depression. Oh dear. You know things are bad when the prospect of switching on the computer makes you want to burst into tears.

Totally embarassed when some Americans I have gotten to know say things like, "gosh", "darn" and such bowlderized swearing. Used to Brit coms and a somewhat laissez-faire bunch of friends (Adik excluded), such gentle manners made me clean up my language, somewhat. Isn't it weird to learn manners from Americans? Hee hee. I should really put my previous comment in context - I have long felt irritated by a superior, holier than thou attitudes certain sectors of my community has wrt the (decadent/big bad) West. Villifying the other side (there shouldn't BE an other side, but hey, welcome to the real world) is so not okay. Right...

Still, my censored streak aside, am very amused by a shortened form - wtf expression. (go figure that one out yourself. Ain't that hard.) Very descriptive, I thought.

Have been informed by a cousin that another cousin finds me intimidating. Hilarious - am always uncomfortable with said cousin and always wrack my brains for small talk (not a skill of mine, I assure you). Nice to know my efforts at FRIENDLINESS is wasted. Darn it (ha ha), I should have just glowered at everyone, as per my usual state of being. Am sadly reminded of another failed attempt at encouraging, viz. sister's fiancee. Poor sod (is that a swear word? this is bad...can't even distinguish the two. ) had quailed upon meeting me. And during a meet the parents session when I was trying to look encouraging! Do I have a tiger's smile? *smile* (I'm gonna eat you up?) Ha ha.

Something I have not found out : why "only fools and horses"?
A show I have decided to follow. Old BBC comedy but hilarious nonetheless. Upon informing my family I wish to embark on an "Only fools and horses" journey, daddy dearest had to ask the question. Why the phrase "only fools and horses". Indeed. Cause am too lazy to look it up, putting it up on the blog would remind me to do so later. And if anyone knows, that would really save me a trip to the dictionary.

Have also fallen for the O.C. After a year or so since Farah's recommendation, I have finally watched the show, properly. It's really quite good. Hee hee. How the mighty have fallen. I like the blond guy, not mr. hottie, dark haired, by the bye. [Sorry Farah, I do think Ryan is funnier than Seth. But they are funniest together.]Quite a change from my usual taste, but I seem to have a proclivity towards the morally ambigous, bad boy-loser (par example, Spike in Buffy) - in TV though not in reality. In reality, I will fall out of my chair laughing.

Satire Pt 2

 

Satire