Wednesday, April 29, 2009

So simple yet so hard

Just want to hear you say for once: Good job
Just want to tell you everything without: Why did you do that???
Just want to know that whatever I do is not shit
Just want for you to embrace me unjudgingly
Just want for your unconditioned love

I don't want to hear anything that you find hard to tell me because of the shields you've built up.
But I just want you to maybe even nod and say good; I will understand what is inside.
And it'll make me feel like my life is actually worthwhile.
And finally, just tell me: Thank you.

Think I can write a song? (or at least a poem?)
Alexie VC

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Yesterday

All my troubles seem so faraway~
Now it looks as though they're here to stay~
Oh I believe in yesterday~

Today I don't know why, I felt soooooo empty. Many times I occupy myself with work, activities and etc just to avoid this moment. This is why I choose to stress myself out. I wish you know, I could stop pushing myself and just feel happy the way I am. And this emptiness/depression has been lingering since I don't know when and it is practically baseless. I guess I'm still searching for contentment (layman terms)/enlightenment (Buddhist practitioner's terms)/ self-actualization (Maslow's terms).

Whats been going on in my life? Nothing really. Today I went to collect my results; Ain't out yet. Went makan with friend then visited the pet shop where she was like sooo manja with the Pomeranian puppy (haha they both look damn cute together! She was all manja2 with it and the puppy was naturally cute la). Then played pool.

Boring post, yea I know. I'm uninspired. There are probably something that's keeping me down. I hate that something but everyone else seems to be talking; singing songs; making movies and searching hard for it. Hope you can guess what that something is..

Alex to da V
(nigga x my nama?)

Sunday, April 26, 2009

At Malacca

Yesterday, Elaine + Charlene + Colin + Nicko + Me went to Malacca. Gawd I haven't been to that heritage town in ages! The trip was fun! It was a great historical town with lots of tourist attractions. Great people over there. Great indie stores that sell cool art tees that you canNOT find over at KL. Cool antique shops. Cool souvenior shops. Cool foodstores. and they were cheap too! I enjoyed my trip a LOT. After Malacca, we dropped by at PD. Had fun in the sand. Mini picnic and kicked the water a bit as wel as camwhored!





Bought 4 cool indie art shirts, 1 fedora; Ate Chicken Rice Balls. I <3>

Alexie von C!



Friday, April 24, 2009

Feelin' da "ConneXion"

ConneXion is a weekly Christian fellowship gathering. I don't know what they normally do during the regular Friday gatherings but this time, Genevieve (a.k.a. Da Stripper!) invited me over for their open mic event.

So there I was with Gene at the ConneXion. There was hot and cold drinks as well as snacks available for us. Besides just random people standing up to the mic, we were tossing 'life-saver' candies at each other, chit chatting, sketching random art on mahjong papers, playing ping pong and games. It was fun. I look forward to the next open mic. :)

Pictures of ConneXion!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=159105&id=1605908454&l=60e36b9bb8

And Malacca trip tomorrow.. Yuppies?? (Tired and broke makes me don't enjoy it as much)
Love, Me me me

Thursday, April 23, 2009

The Mahsuri Experience


My first big-scale musical production and I like!


Angel is starring in Mahsuri and so she invited me to go watch the press screening. So apa lagi? Go lah! And so I dragged Elaine with me to go watch la.


Out of the musical, I think that there was no proper system with: the cafe, before entering the theater. First of all, the cafe had no queue and had a very messy system. We ordered our food, stood 'in-line' when suddenly everyone rushes everywhere. Imagine a piece of corpse and all the vultures are eating it up, that was how the situation was like. We ordered our drinks then the lady told us, after paying to go repeat our orders at the drink counter. Without a bill, anyone can just go over to the drinks and order whatever they fancy even if they didn't pay for it. Second of all, there was no queue before going into the theater so once again, people where like pushing and shoving to get into 2 entrances. In the process, I got my foot stamped over by a lady in heels which I will get into shortly..


Malaysians have no etiquette or courtesy or politeness. The lady in heels pierced the edge of her heels into my loafers and did not even turn around to see whom she had hurt (let alone say sorry). People (big men) were pushing around without consideration for us smaller and weaker beings. Before the start of the performance, they played the 'Negaraku'. People behind us were actually laughing during the song. Disrespectful and immature. When the show had begun, members of the audience were loudly chatting away. Its sad to see such mentality in our people.


However, that aside.. The musical was incredible! Props were amazingly beautiful, very well made and also professionally planned. A lot of attention to details. Costumes were colorful and bright. No pics cuz filming or recording ain't allowed. Actors and actresses performed really well in terms of vocals, timing, choreographing and etc. The lead actor had a rich tone of voice which really brought the emotions out of the song. The lead actress had a beautiful voice too. Me + Elaine loved the soundtracks to the musical. :) nicely composed, written and just plain beautiful. The performers were also really good at their own characters. Me + Elaine grew a hatrate towards the witch lady; wife of Sultan guy. Her 'sihir' act was creepy and very distorted. Scary... Overall, I give my thumbs up for that enjoyable musical. Only comment I would give is: language barrier (difficult words & lack of proper intonation) for people whom are not as advanced in her Bahasa as the Malays themselves and therefore the plot is sometimes rather hard to follow. If you haven't seen it, should definitely go. Tickets are cheap anyways! Why not?


On the comical note;

1) Mahsuri is too plain as a name; It should be renamed to: Everyone loves Mahsuri (except the witch).

2) The education system in Langkawi is good cuz' a kampung lady could actually say: "Please! Somebody help!"

3) Langkawi should invest in better equipment! They use made-in-China swords that's why can't kill Mahsuri!


That's it! My Mahsuri Experience! Thanks to Anna Maria/Maya/Angel a.k.a. AMMA! :p


The critical, the loud, the bold (drum rolls) Alexie!

Daily Rantings and Discoveries

Thursday; Ever so hot day.

For those of you who didn't go or don't know, last night as the 2nd annual KL Word party: Lust. It was Elaine's birthday. I've also won a Little Black Book! :D yeay! Wanted 1 since like it first released. Now I actually don't have to meet the seller and arrange to buy the book. No pics la.. its just a plain black book with cool B&W pics of lezzies. However, you can go to my Facebook link to see the pictures of the party: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=158997&id=1605908454&l=483f0eb400
And now, around 13 hours later, here I am sitting with a migraine, blurred vision and sleep deprived. Mom is seated in front of me talking about the things she always talk about: work, work, work and work (I almost seem to know every single person in her office and car wash already). OH and a change.. nagging at me for something I didn't do and forgetting what I told her again.

Anyways, a couple of nights ago, I dreamt that my house was broken into by a man. The man was slightly taller than me; he was quite big but not exactly in shape; Malay; hair was pretty short and side-combed quite neatly; face was slightly unshaven. There was only my mom, my cousin (girl) and me in the house; Dad and bro was elsewhere. He was threatening us and telling us to be still while he takes the items. At the back of my head, I knew he had the intention of raping them too. Well, there's a dagger in my room (even in reality just in case). I managed to sneak away while he was threatening them. I grabbed the dagger and came back and slitted his neck from the back. He died just like that. Before I killed him, I told myself: If I have to attend court for him, I will not be put behind bars. This is self-defense.

There was this rush of bravery in me that triggered me to kill the intruder. The killing was done rather neatly and respectfully; Almost professionally I would say. I just slitted him, the blood flowed out from his neck and the times as the blade drove deeper into his neck, he turned to look at me. He wore this look of shock and anger on his face. That was terrifying for a temporal moment but I was almost there. And at one point, I felt his bodily tension release and the man just felt motionless and I knew that I had removed him from his life. And after that, I released the body of the man which I had grasp onto. He fell like a thud onto the floor in front of my crying mom and cousin. Right after that, a rush of emptiness intrudes within me. I starred at the pile of unmoving mass on my bedroom floor. The feeling (or rather, non-feeling) that I felt was indescribable.

It was quite an awakening dream. Me being the psychology-st (Not to be confused with psychologists; psychology-st means psychology student), I took my dreams and unraveled its lateral meanings. I think what it is trying to say is that I took the courage and dared to commit to removing something from my life that will result in a better good for all. What is it that I removed? How is it that I remove? It is all symbolized in the description of the man as well as the killing.

So what do you all think?
Anyways later I'm going to go see 'Mahsuri the musical' thanks to Anna Maria/Angel/Maya. Looking forward to it! :) And tomorrow ITS CONNEXION PERFORMANCE DAY! WOOTZ! Play guitar, take pics, eat good food and meet good people. Peace Out

Your sayang Alexie
P.S. Google toolbar is so super duper awesome especially for us bloggers who 'poyo' want to use all the pro words but don't really know the spelling and whether theres such words even.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Weekly Plans

The week of 19-25 Apr 09

Sunday : Rest and sit around at home day
Monday: Casting at Eden Restaurant, shopping at Sg Wang & Dinner at Shah Alam
Tuesday: Cleaning out my closet day
Wednesday: Performance practice and KL word day
Thursday: Chill out and Mahsuri screening day
Friday: Connexion performance
Saturday: Jalan2 Carik Makan at Malacca day

Love, your one and only...

First Post

I don't know how many first posts I've created.. Its all because of the lack of staying power in me. So according to that lack of staying power, I can only hypothesize that I will have an inability to sustain long term relationships, a career and a hobby. Well, those the hypothesis have so far been proven on those 3 aspects stated which is why my longest relationship lasted me 2 months, I have no proper job despite working for almost a year and my hobbies constantly change. But one thing does prevail though, my will to gain more staying power.



Anyways, I'm not gonna talk about that today.. Today I wanna be pressing on the cause:



"BOYCOTT MAMAKS!!"



They are unhealthy. Nuff said.

Opt for healthy, wholesome meals.



And to further follow my cause, I did some research on healthy cooking's recipes [Recipes cuz' everyone knows the beneficial aspects of homecooked food, esp healthy ones but they just have been unable to follow so far because of our changing trends of convenient foodstuff eg fast food]

so far, links I've found are:
http://www.healthy-quick-meals.com/
http://www.helpguide.org/life/healthy_recipes.htm
http://www.1001recipe.com/
http://www.healthy-eating-made-easy.com/
http://www.foodnetwork.com/

also, you can drop by everyone's fav site, YouTube for episodes of Martha Stewart, Rachel Ray and etc for makan recipes! like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6-b4bqM5ac&feature=related (but I only went to see cuz of Rachel Maddow, every andro/softbutch's hero)

now I'm hungry.. off to Sushi King.. Japanese food is healthy fyi; thats why the japanese live up to 100s if they have yet to commit suicide before that.
Btw, Elaine and Charlene have a cause too.. Its more noble.. Its on charity and stuff [which I don't do cuz' I'm a very ME-person]. Do drop by their blog for it (link will be up soon).


/!\
[The very Me-person]