New Sem, New Resolution

(inserts crappy opening music here)

Its the beginning of the new semester and this semester, I am taking: Operating Systems, Founding of American Republic, Introduction to Advertising, Principles of Management and Anthropology. All 5 which are extremely unbearable. Wait.. Scratch that.. 4 are extremely unbearable, only 1 is just unbearable. And that 1 is Operating Systems. That is because we are given computers + internet so we can FACEBOOK and PHOTOSHOP within that 1 hour of class.

I have not been to American Republic class. Intro to Advert was VERY memorable in the sense that I actually remembered that the lecturer comes from the same area as where I live: Wangsa Maju. Anthropology, as my facebook status reports (done during class via iTouch) is B-O-O-R-I-N-G (Daniel can testify to this with his snoring) but on the plus side, we have field trips (work!) and the lecturer seems quite bubbly.

And finally, we have reached the rant of the day: Principles of Management; the most ironic class ever. The lecturer has no proper management. First class; I entered and she was setting up the laptop and everything which ate into the first 5 mins of the class. She asked a girl who was very clueless to fetch the RGB cable for the projector. While waiting for that girl, she chatted with us and spoke of getting the lecture notes photostated. Then the girl arrived back saying that she can't obtain the cable so the lecturer went to the very same place to fetch the cable. Just setting up wasted 15 mins of class time. In between break time, lecturer started talking about her experience of working in China for about 15-20 mins.
Second class, I arrived 20 minutes late and lecturer was only on slide no. 1. In fact, it seems like she just started. During break time once again, she started displaying and guiding us on her experience in China for another good 15-20 mins. Not only her time management is terrible but she tries to hard to be funny and it just makes her seem bad. And she has little 'technical knowledge'. She asked us how to understand people, to which I answered EQ (Emotional Intelligent Quotient), she said, "No need EQ EQ all!" What is that supposed to mean? She just said, "You need to listen." I don't know. YOU LISTEN TO ME, ITS EQ!

Signing off,

the frustrated Alexie.

This little mystery novel called "Life"

Sometimes in life, unexpected things happen. These unexpected things that I mean are bad things that are usually avoidable but somehow we were not 'lucky' enough (Or sometimes it is that we are not unlucky enough).

This concept is very abstract and I will illustrate in a series of real life examples. Last time, I got into an accident. It was stupid in the way that it happened. It just feels like I lost my focus for a split second and next thing you know, BAM! It hits! It was during a jam so there was not much damage or injuries, thankfully. However, the way the accident happened was so silly that it could almost be comedical.
That accident could be easily avoided but it happened. Why?

Another example I will demonstrate is: a close friend of mine, recently lost her wallet the night of her birthday. It contained RM 180 (which was a gift from her mom), her IDs and her spiritual talisman (dont know what you call it besides talisman). She was confused because if she had placed it in her bag. If it fell out, another friend walking behind her would've noticed. If she had dropped it outside the house, her mom could've seen it. But the wallet is lost. Why?

Well, I'd like to think that no matter what, we humans living under this sun have a spiritual bond with the spirits. Whether it is God (whichever God you believe in), Karma or just the good wandering spirits or even Gaia, spirit of the Earth. These spiritual guardians protect us. Like my friend says: if we give out to the world positive energy, the world will in return protect us from harm.

My conclusion is: The silliest mishaps happen to even the best of us. Does that mean that we are careless? Dumb? Irresponsible? NO. It is a way that these spiritual guardians protect us from even greater mishaps. If the tiny accident had not have happened, I could've landed in a bigger accident that could've caused me my life. If my friend had not lost her money, ID and talisman, she could've lost even more money, even more important documents and it will ultimately affect her life luck.

Any mishaps happened to you lately? Just remember whatever is meant to happen will happen. Give nature the positive, nature will give back to you. Peace OUT

AlexXx ;)

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

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?)

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!

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

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!