like a jammed up Jack..

you know, i think, July happened slowly.. like a migraine.
it's like, the 3rd week of the month already, yet it feels like july took forever to reach here and now.
i guess, it's been so slow it's almost a pain because there was/is nothing, in july.
it never was.., never did, never came, never happened. it was bare, unhappening.. july, the sobering glitch in the middle of the year.. it's almost like a jammed up jack-in-the-box.
well, safe for the world cup climax at the beginning of the month, but ozil and team never made it to the most coveted spot..
throw in (on a more personal note), the bon odori excitement that never materialized.. it ended, the idea, as hurriedly as it came.
the birthday celebration that got out of the way,.. one which so deftly, twisted and slipped by its seasoned grips..
the jacob sponsored frim family-walk that aint gonna happen... which i'll just put down to a "everyone's just so occupied these days" with a shrug.
does make me wonder then, whether the month-end quarterly management meeting scheduled for a saturday would skip-by postponed too...

other than that, the brain's no good this month to be of any contribution here.
i'll just continue to go drown and numb myself in gaiman's american gods...



another itch scratched...

it's july~

it's the first day of the year's second half . . .
the first of july, 2 0 1 0 . . .
returned home from woek crawling through the clogged ldp, wipers in clockworks, and the AC blowing straight at my soggy pants legs . . .

at this part of PJ.. somehow or rather, i've always managed to capture some pretty decent skyshots. perhaps due to the void of any skyscrapers ... or simply, the everguaranteed pre-traffic lights crawl on this stretch ...

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another itch scratched...

tik tok cross your toes!

sometimes i do wonder.. whether the boss has had his regrets having my pc screen facing inward towards me and the wall behind me.
or was there any a time when he’d wonder what i was doing squinting my eyes at the screen, but hands, NOT moving.
or maybe he’d be spot on each time, knowing very well that i was just doing something else but Work on the world wide web.

either ways,
when on days like these, i just couldn’t be bothered to bother…
tick tock tick tock … almost time now (toes crossed too..)




another itch scratched...

charmed~

this is all about the song 'remember' .. originally by taiwanese songstress A-Mei.
of course, i only heard of it through Khalil's cover efforts on his Timeless album.

it wasnt really even one of my favs while discovering timeless back in sep last year.
alas, it was meant to shine quite brightly i had found ... while at his concert held recently here in may at Genting. and i was again, reminded by sis today at home.. when she swore that she will be singing this one the next time she hits her karaoke nook..

look what i found while foraging Youtube for amei's original version.
yes, yes, her voice is all solid and really emotionally coined to the song. perfect.
but this, this is like a combi of both my spotlighted taiwanese male singers..!
Jam Hsiao + Khalil Fong ... =P how much more can you ask for in a night huh?? =D





hsiao's voice is all rocker-ish and really powerful.. the intensity as if burnt into the song..
but khalil's more soulful i do feel... it was less intense, at the same more controlled..
amei's .. well no doubt, this song when sung in a female's point of view... makes it a different song entirely.

listenin to khalil's version now on my shuffle, with the sound of the vuvuzelas cut out, it just brings it all back .. the concert.. this song to be exact.
the part where the whole stage shuts down for that second, and then the next, they blasted it back on.. the percussions, in perfect precision.



another itch scratched...

joglog #16

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started with a pretty productive morning for a Sunday ~ with my jog and with mom at the mall, followed by the inevitable snoozing time ~ it is afterall, still, a lazy Sunday (that's how it's supposed to be ~ still ~ for me) . . .

and now, it's time to fill my stomach again ... =)

another itch scratched...

(another) rainy fuket~

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Phuket, TH ~ 5th to 8th, June 2010

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just what were we thinking ? ? ?

another itch scratched...

the month that was: May`

i gotta say... May was really fast. at least for me it was.

i really shouldnt be doing this, not now, not tonight, as i still after all, have a 0730 admin meeting to attend the next morning.

anyhow, a slow and serene scanning of my previous logs, and i am now feeling all calm and zen-ish to just slot in some few lines, maybe . . .

May was fast, primarily i tink, due to my 3weeks plus of OT-ing at the office with Audrey, the sometimes Loon, Zie, K and the on-off Dilla. daily bouts of waking up blurry-eyed, then woeking throughout the day, and then into the night after some dinner (sometimes supper), did not bode well with my system at all. thinking back now, jogs at my fav green haunt were not as enjoyable, nights after OT were spent in front of the then new 40" LCD, refusing to simply let the night sink under the Suzhou silk sheets...

and then, before you know it... it all came to an abrupt end. had not anticipated the job to be completed so soon, anyhow, no complaints in that dept from me! celebrated that weekend itself with a nice meal with mom, sis and yang at Victoria Station, medan damansara... Gorgeous steaks..~ thick with wild mushroom sauce.. yumm~!

and the next day, the gang were game for some bangsar do ~ and so we were at Alexis. . . my dear mates were deprived of their darling tiramisu, but still, i had my fair share of relaxation with the bottle of red. yes, unintruded relaxation for a chill out saturday night . . . ~

next thing which came up, the Wesak Day weekend swings by . . . it was time for our trip uphill. =D

yes, we brought mom along with us ~ yay! hahah!

we enjoyed the fact that she enjoyed her trips to the casino at First World.

we enjoyed the fact that yang is getting old enough to not fit into most of the kiddy rides, yet not big enough for the outdoor rides.

we enjoyed the fact too that, our tickets to the Khalil Fong concert at the Arena of Stars was very well worth it . . . not yet an entirely huge, Huge fan, but still. . . he was amazing to watch all the same. now that i'd checked on it, he covered all the songs from his Timeless album (the concert after all, was named Timeless~), and quite a few numbers from his previous albums too~ we saw that he was everywhere on the stage. no, not dancing or prancing around in slick moves, but~! with the guitars, on the keyboards, the grand piano, even on the drums~!! and he had this funny gadget that changes his voice as he sings into it. i think that was when he did Stevie Wonder's you are the sunshine of my life . . . hahah!

the joy of watching the performance rolled out L!VE right in front of you, yes~!! very 'alive' indeed~!!!

and now, after the dreaded 0730 meeting in a couple of hours later, will look forward to packing my bags, for a 4d3n Phuket re-trip . . .

will be on leave for 3days straight... the beloved co. has had the infamous "Joint Leave" rule re-installed . . . so i guess i'll just be hanging around at home come wednesday...

like what i'd put in my FB statuses (couldnt help it . . . ):

... like a wobbly boat ride in choppy waters, you're never sure you're safe until you reach shore...

but then, the irony that is~ even after reaching shore, the tides can still pull you offshore all the same... =S

another itch scratched...