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LIFE/RAIFU/VIE/जीवन/삶/KEHIDUPANKU

1. I have a few jobs, different kinds of jobs. But it seems like I can always make room for a few more.

2. I am very, very, full of energy at everything that I do - Work, life, sports, and love.

3. I love driving. Fast. With my Kakadu Aussie Hat of course. ‘cause this is the only time when I can be alone with nobody to disturb my peace with the world. Of course, driving with the one you love is just as swell.

4. I don't go to clubs. I hate those kinda movements at those places - they're not really dancing! You wanna dance? Then do salsa! Merengue! Bachatta!

5. I like good songs. I hate bad songs. Although I do have the tendency to divert myself towards Jazz (live, preferably) or the ever-dependable Heavy Metal. Oh and Bach if I’m tired, or Mahler for everything else. Mahler with the hammer, mind you.

6. My idea of a perfect holiday is cheap, surprising, interesting, different, and awesome. With transport, Just like Top Gear.

7. Great coffee with music or work. No sugar, expensive, no problem! Make a great coffee for me, and I’m your man for life. Not really sure why, I just love coffee. Started drinking only after I went to OZ. Swiss coffee, Italian coffee, Sumatran coffee, Arabican coffee – if you’ve tasted my gourmet coffee, then it was my honour to serve you one of the best things in my life that I want to share with the person that I love.

8. Currently I am insanely trying to collect HD movies. By collect, I mean download 7GBs of data per movie, which, with Slowmyx, takes the same amount of time as actually making one. Oh and I’ve started watching anime again, starting with Bleach. BLEAAGH.

9. Memories are a wonderful thing if you don’t have to deal with the past. I forget things easily – call it selective memory lost, or amnesia, or even ADD if you fancy. But I’d like to think that it helps me forget that I’m carrying the weight of the world, and then some.

10. Every year, there will be one significant thing that will happen to me that will mark the next destination of my life. (I wrote it this morning, and hey look; I have 8 stitches on my eyelids now!)

11. My goal is to procreate and have 11 mini C-Fus so I can be a real coach, sans the trouble of years of college education. Saves money, and you have a lot more fun that way. Can’t say the same for my statistically significant other, though.

12. Music plays a very important part of my life. From my early life listening to Hard Rock and Heavy Metal with my dad when I was a little child, to Trash and Alternative when I was a hormonic teenager, to Classical and Jazz.

13. I am viewed (judged) at a distance as having a snobbish persona because of the way I act. Try to take off my mask, and you will see that I am one of the strongest friends you will ever come across in your life. And that, sir, is a statement of fact - created by the propagandists of course – those who have succumbed to my fellowship.

14. Operas, concertos, symphonies, gigs, live music, percussions, drumline – I love live music. I believe music is best experienced with a reason – and location. It adds meaning to the music, to your life. Bachianas brasileiras is especially suited to calm yourself down, Matt Monro’s On Days Like These while driving makes you feel like Rossano Brazzi and driving a Miura. How bad can your life be when there are things like these?

On days like these when skies are blue and fields are green
I look around and think about what might have been
and then I hear sweet music float around my head
as I recall the many things we left unsaid

its on days like these that I remember
singing songs and drinking wine
while your eyes played games with mine

(Matt Monro, On Days Like These)

15. I am unconditionally petrified making an effort that will ultimately achieve zilch. Be it life, job, love. Fa aina tazhabun?

    103: Say: “Shall we tell you of those who lose most in respect of their deeds? -
    104: “Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life, while they thought that they were acquiring good by their works?”
    105: They are those who deny the Signs of their Lord and the fact of their having to meet Him (in the Hereafter): vain will be their works, nor shall We, on the Day of Judgment, give them any weight.
    106: That is their reward, Hell, because they rejected Faith, and took My Signs and My Messengers by way of jest.

    (Surah al-Kahf, 18)

Ultimately, where am I going? Not knowing… nein, not realising the futility of the altruistic nature of self is, to me, the most bloodcurdling thought of any self-serving altruist can ever ruminate of. Rhetorical issue: Why exactly are you giving RM1 to the child beggar from Bangladesh? Would there be any good if it’s anything but as a pure act of sedekah?

To follow up, would the goodness be of your measure, or God’s? Which one ultimately matters in this world?

16. Continuing the tradition of my quirkiness, umbrellas are a noteworthy art form in my book. The shape, the system, the significance, as well as the hidden poetic nature of umbrellas simply fascinate me. Or that I’m just being a cock.

"Are you at ease? Now is your heart at rest?
Now you have got a shadow, an umbrella,
To keep the scorching world's opinion
From your fair credit."

                (Ben Jonson, circa 1616)

17. Erm, I forgot. crap. Yeah, it happens quite a bit more often than what I would expect. I don't really like that, but sometimes it helps me to focus on the things that I remember, which habitually revolves around something significant and important. So if I do remember something about you, bear in mind that it takes a lot of effort for me compared to the rest of you lesser mortals.

18. Cigars are just plain superior than cigarettes. A close second is shisha. Clove, of course. And lighters, oh my God you have no idea how much I love lighters and the kind of fire that comes out of it. If I gave you mine, refer to #16. If you gave me yours, be it cheap, fake, or damaged, then you are someone very special to me, in this time or the next. Seriously.

19. Warm water. Or 100 Plus. A tastier water would be a huge plus, but unnecessary.

20. I scrupulously love to write aimlessly but with a goal in mind. Just that I don’t have the patience nor time to complete anything that I inscribed, since I would be sidetracked far too easily by something- anything that I wrote by researching and adding more side notes than what I originally had planned to begin with. This blog entry for instance, took me 7 days longer than the originally-planned 2 hours. Not to mention I still have a few more blog entries that I needed to finish by the beginning of time. Go figure.

21. I am always in control. ALWAYS. If you see me as being anything but in control, be it vulnerable, don’t know what to do, defenceless, it’s because I have a reason for doing that. Very, very hard for somebody to outdo me.

22. I am a big, big fan of the surrealism movement, dan serpihan-serpihannya di dalam dunia seni, dan segalanya yang ada kaitan dengan movement tersebut.. A huge proponent for Salvador Dali, Odd Nerdrum, Tarsem in movies, dan keluarga mereka, and I'm not really sure why. It's just that there is that... something... about the strangely twisted way they perceive the inner workings of the world.

23. I have observed and proven that there is indeed such thing as your female alter-ego in this world, in every way that matters; luckily for me, I don’t have to search around the world for one.

24. Women. Who made ‘em? God must’ve been a real genius. The hair – They say the hair is everything, you know. Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of flowing black sea, and just wanted to go to sleep forever? Or lips? And when they touched her cheeks, yours were like that first gush of silence when you’ve reached the peak of Everest. That silence; mitigated only by the voice of the mountain. The silence between you and her. Tits! Big ones, little ones, nipples staring right out at ya, Like secret searchlights. And legs – oh, don’t get me started on the legs. I don’t care if they’re like old, wooden Malay house columns, or even bass drum mallets. What’s between ‘em – passport to heaven. And that smile- that particular smile- when she first fixed her teeth, eager to show the world, but after you, sir; that smile when in that brief moment in time she loses her armour, and lets her see you as how she actually sees you. What else is there in this world when you have that? And all these?

25. When in doubt, FUCK (Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman). That’s why God invented marriage. Think about it, if there are just men and women in this world, no ideals, no rules and regulations, no religion, why would you ever formulate the model of marriage?