The Mad Dog

I was sitting in my room, trying to squeeze some information into my compact and immobile brain. As usual, my attention wandered to a bunch of teenagers with their "cool" Adidas tracksuit having a session of kick-abouts in the carpark. Just at that moment, a little brown dog appeared from the bushes, wagging its golden brown tail. It caught a "fat boy wearing a shirt that is obviously too small for him" 's attention and the whole group started to corner the poor dog..

Wow, the carpark suddenly turned into a science lab... They started splashing water at it, waiting for it to form a reaction. Nothing happened..the dog continued wagging its tail.. Big mistake..more is to come..from water to the bottle, stones, n finally their feet.. arghh...

Leaving my "Obs and Gyne" book behind, I went down to"save" it. I just claimed that its mine, gave a smile and walked away.. Feuh... I was relieved.. Back in my room, holding the dong, I didn't know what to do with it.. I noticed some injury marks on his body and some old bruises..

"what a poor dog"..

its wearing an old rusty chain on its neck which I'm surprised did not strangle him. The owner's name was smeared and faded... hmm.. I decided to keep the dog...

That was the best decision I've ever made... This little creature that I named "Wo Wo " is a great great great companion.. He's fun, energetic, cute, playful, loving, loyal.. everything you wud want in a dog.. From the moment I opened my eyes in the morning, he'll alwiz be there to great me, inviting me to play, running about in the room, I just loved him... with him around, I alwiz start the day with a smile..However, no matter how happy we played, I can almost alwiz notice a glimpse of sadness in WoWo's eyes.. there are times that he would be standing at the corner of the room, circling in a world of its own...

One day, after my "Obs and Gyne" exams, I went home anticipating my little friend to greet me at the doorsteps... "Hmm.. thats weird..." nothing came and I've never seen it again since.. it must have gone back to his owner...

Wo Wo

6 Years ago, he was adopted from SPCA by his master. WoWo had to leave his friends in SPCA to a new place so foreign and new to him.. but as time passed, he's quick to get used to the new environment, only because his master was nice to him.. His new master, only 12 years old at that time was patient in training him, played with him, gave him full attention, cared for him. They both had a great time running in the woods, playing in the field, going to places that only both of them knew, doing things that he'll only do with WoWo around .. He soon treated WoWo like part of his family.. in fact, WoWo was his best friend...They would eat, sleep, play and do everything together.. He even tried to sneak WoWo in his school bag to school just to spend more time with WoWo..

As years passed, WoWo started to expect to play more with his master, since they were both such great companions for each other.. However, as his master grew older, things start to change.. He met new friends in high school, got himself a few girlfriends, started to stayed out late at night drinking with his new clicks... WoWo waited patiently at home for his master to come back everynight.. but he sometimes never did.. Even if he's back, he would start throwing liquor bottles at WoWo, hitting and pinching WoWo, or even throw him out of the house leaving WoWo alone out in the cold...

Poor WoWo still sees him as the loving and caring master he used to be... everytime he got thrown out, he'll wait patiently as the next morning when his master is sober, he'll pick him up again n played with him for a few moment before he's off to school again.. everyday WoWo will be waiting with hopefull eyes that someday his master will bring him to school again, just like before...but no, nomore having WoWo in his bag, nomore showing him off to his friends at school and be proud of him.. Instead, he's now embarrassed to show his tiny dog around compared to those huge dogs that the "cool-gangs" have..

WoWo soon realised that his old master will never come back..

Its alright, as long as he pats WoWo's head every morning, that was enough for WoWo to know that his master still cares.. even if he hits WoWo at night, its alright, he's just drunk..the next morning he'll still pat WoWo's head.. He's afterall just a dog.. Its just that WoWo was given hope in the beginning that he's actually part of the family.. he just have to accept it now and do what a dog is supposed to do...

What happened to WoWo afterthat was not documented... No-one knows what happened that made WoWo came to me...

6 month later..

I've almost completely forgotten about WoWo when I saw this street performance on Royal Mile.. I went across, and it was not a street performance after all. It was a familiar creature that I once loved.. Wo Wo.. but it looks different now.. His fur is not golden brown anymore.. he's now got patches of uneven fur with mud and dirt on it.. the scarce fur left is stucked together by tint of blood stains.. I cant help but to shout to him...

"WoWo!!"

When I called him, he started to move... but no longer running joyfully towards me.. he hopped on his three legs and barked angrily at the crowd, showed his teeth and raged at everyone... He can't even recognise me anymore.. I soon realised that this is not the friendly and lively WoWo that I used to know.. My visions starts to get blur from accumulating tears.. WoWo has gone mad..

I just turned and walked away..

adapted and modified from one of the SPM 101 English Essay

Crash

The stock market crashed last week, though analysts are calling it a correction.

President Bush was asked if customers should be concerned about all these bank closings.
He said:

"it doesn't matter - if the bank is closed, just use the ATM..."

-Jay Leno

Lehman Brothers bankrupt, Merrill Lynch trying to sell, AIG in trouble... But to the heart of millions, AIG denotes only 1 thing : Manchester United... Ppl worried about whether they can survive to continue sponsoring or not.. haha, mayb cos I'm in UK.

So, any1 got spare change, pinjam them la..

Tax

I received an email from a friend that talks about the politic and economy of Malaysia... It started stg like this:

Malaysia - A Failed Nation?

Those who started work around 1973

a 1.3 Litre Japaness car was RM 7,000
Today the equivalent let's say it is RM 60,000......... 8.5 times more...

In 1973, a double storey house was about RM 45,000..or less
Today it is about RM 300,000..........6.6 times more...

In 1973 an Engineer's pay was RM 1,000
Today it is about RM 2,000 +/-......... bzz bzz...2 x nia..

Prices of houses in Perth is about the same as Australia
Prices of Car 23% cheaper in Australia...

Developed country by 2020?

Let's look at some as of year 2005 ( Financial Times )
USA GNP per capita US$ 35,400
UK GNP per capita US$ 25,510
Australia GNP per capita US$ 19,530
Singapore GNP per capita US $ 20,690
Malaysia GNP per capita US $ 3450

To compound the effect of inflation, the ringgit has depreciated
greatly against all major currencies. The real income of most
Malaysians has moved backwards..

This is why many Malaysians suffer under the petrol hike. The root of
the problem is that our real incomes have shrunk in the face of
inflation and depreciated currency..

... dowan kutuk too much la..i still surviving under duit JPA..
Every month get to pay rent n electric bills,
1 week once get dim sum...
got desktop, got basikal... ok liao la..
At least Malaysia Road Tax for motorbike oni RM 20 now...
UK?


Basikal also wana tax:

ID Please..

I had a social night out with my groupmates,since non of us have food n we need to destress..( them,not me).
some1suggested weatherspoon lo,yah some random pub dat anywhere also got 1..

Spent 20 mins walking there,5 mins looking for table,15 minutes deciding what to order, 2 mins walking to the bar to order..

First thing: " ID pls" had to show ID for all to proof that we're above 18.. WTF .. As usual I showed my Malaysian IC lo..normally the clubs in Edin also recognize 1..
But dis Babi ignorant cashier in this ulu place:

"sorry,we don't accept that.."

ISIC card...

"sorry we don't accept that.."

Malaysian drivings license..

" no"

Just because it's not a uk license..WTF.. I'm a malaysian holding a Malaysian ic n Malaysian lisence with the number all match.. Use common sense la..

" okok,I won't order alcohol then.."

Stupid lady: " no,u can't even be in here.. It's past 8.30.."

Wahh..under 18 after 8.30 have to diet ka..

She then made a stupid suggestion..which just amplified her stupidity..
" there's this citizen card that u can apply for 5 pds today which will proove ur identity."

Sounds briliant rite..just fill in the form n pay 5 pds can liao..

" ok,I don't mind paying 5 pds if that's what it takes.."

Super brainless: "I'll need a signature to certify n send the application off,ur card will reach in 3 days..."

BABIIII...( forgive me for swearing in bulan ramadhan) wads the point if i cant use it now?? Ur brains grow in between ur toes isittt..starve for 3 days then come back n eat in this smart pub...

She just lost a potential 50 pds of business..



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Makan- Makan Updates..

So so many makan-makan events malas to blog about..
This is the compilation of makan-makan of the milennium..

No 1 on the list is... jeng jeng jeng...

1) Har Mee (Prawn mee) with ketayap as starter... ( yang hampir dikantoikan oleh star aniseed...)


Ketayap specially for Doris:

Everything went on fine..i was following the recipe well..masuk all the ingredient, n boil lo.. then i taste, i realise tak cukup masin... (hmmthe smart me start to think..must be inovative..)

" If tak cukup garam then add garam lo, does dis mean all the amount in the recipe tak betul? so i go modify from 1 star aniseed to add 4 in.."

Bak kata pepatah, orang tamak selalu rugi... after 1 hour, the prawn smell all covered by the star smell..huhuhu... but as usual, the smart me, go hunt all the stars lo.. then boil longer, hopefully the start tersejat...

anyway, the para pemakan say nice, tipu or not i dono la..

2nd award goes to....
2) Annonymous Seafood Restaurant (whom shall not be named)

Our table looks like this...
hoho..reminds me of the carryon steamboat in malacca, where u can steam n grill..bestoo....

n its EAT ALL YOU CAN!!!
Heavenly...

wahhh...

n the moment i masuk i saw this:

and this!!

p/s: the size of the picture is modified for visual purpose..the actual size a magnification of 200%

Picture speaks a thousand words..noneed to explain liao... n they have more than 10 types of sauce to dip in..(which none of them are nice..haha)

Some faces of participants:

Poor chicken has got no value here: (with all the seafood, who wants chicken?? curi curi put back..)

n some left over if you berminat...


3rd Place goes to:::::
3) Kublai Khan a Mongolian Restaurant...

This restaurant is special in 3 ways...
- first, you can assemble your own ingredients...
- second there is a wide variety of rare meat...
- 3rd because I ate there...

This is the sort of recipe for mixing the ingredients... If you din see this n go simply add, you can either end up a master chef or super noob...

The choice of meat...basically anything that got 4 legs or two legs, or got muscle can oredi...

sos sos n spices sekalian... looks so interesting..

Its sort of partial buffet... we paid like 12 pds then can go for two rounds...so fill in whatever meat you want... since we got 10 ppl, we try all the meat that's there..

being malaysian:

setinggi gunung... (actually this is a brunei fella 1)

After masak, stg like this...


Taste ok ok nia la..wad crocodile, kangaroo, springbox, all taste the same to me..
2nd round, all take seafood...(better safe than sorry)
Come out, either too salty or too tasteless...looks like we're all hopeless cooks...

Best is still the starter and dessert...


other not so menarik 1 lazy blog liao...nitez

Realisation Day

Hm..i just want to mark today in the history of Flower Monster as the Realisation Day...
thanx les

:)

Heard

I have been having these bad mood swings... isit because my body is producing too mych progesterone?

I was nicely chatting with a fren on msn...the next minute, i feel like going out for a walk, n do some shopping, since i've not been in edinburgh much..I got dressed n walked out...

The journey back from Princes street starts to get longer n longer... I start to look around n sudenly felt so blank... I dont know any1 there on the streets... a mixed feeling of fear, sadness, n loneliness...that sort of mood swing hit me again..

This is when all the negative thoughts start to hit me at the same time.. life, studies, friends, family..nothing seems positive at that time...

I started to look down, feeling down as well... If i just disappear at this moment, how long will it take b4 some1 notices? If I die now, how many ppl will cry for me? haha, i know its stupid, but all this thoughts just came banging to my head.. (I'll probably laugh at myself tomorrow if i read this again).

Just at this moment, a guy called me from behind.. (with suara gagap):

" Miss.. i just passed by and and I saw you.. I just wonder if if if you would like to go for a movie with with me? I I.. just think you look really nice.."

I din't know what to do but to back away a little n shook my head..

"Its alright if you dont want...I have written down my num-number, call call me if u feel like going for a mo-movie..I'll pay for everything..."

I took that ugly looking piece of cardboard that looks like it has been in his pocket for 2 years.. just so that he'll leave me alone..

he walked away afterthat..feuh... as i continued my journey, i look up n smile.. I somehow feel he must sent by God to make me happy.. n to tell me life is not that bad after all..

thx, whoever he is... my mood swings are definitely over now...

p/s: part of the story might be exaggerated for readers interest.