The Turkey Song!

Turkey for me, turkey for you, let's eat turkey in my big brown shoe! Turkey with the girls and turkey with the boys, my favorite kind of pants are courduroys! Gobble gobble gee and gobble gobble gickel, I wish that turkey only cost a nickel. Turkey for you, turkey for me, can't believe Tyson gave that girl VD...
-Credit to Jason

That was just a snippet of The Turkey Song by Adam Sandler... Damn, I want to watch 8 Crazy Nights badly...

Responsibility

People nowadays just don't have it... Usually I can handle homework normally. But when it come's to a single Chinese homework, I can't seem to finish it... Well, either that or it'll take me 2 hours to finish it. I hadn't done that particular Chinese homework, which is about snipping an article from a Chinese daily, paste it in the excercise book, find words from the dictionary and lastly, write your own opinion... Aw crap, what Chinese opinions could come out of this English based brain?

I thought I could trust my friend to help me find 3 articles and write down a simple sentence about the article's opinions... I phoned him on Saturday to tell him about the homework, he said he could do it and phoned him on Monday, which was a holiday, to collect the homework...

I phoned him at 2pm, his grandmother said he had gone out to buy something...
I phoned again at 5pm, his aunt said he wasn't at home and didn't know where he was...
Phoned again at 7pm, his sister said that he went out with his mother... Dunno when he'll be back...
Phoned again at 9pm, he stll wasn't back...
Phoned again at 10pm, his little sister answered... She said he was busy and will phone me later...
Phoned again at 10:30pm... One of his relatives answered... Can you believe he was asleep???

Honestly, I don't know why I should regard him as a friend anymore... He said he can help me and yet this is how he treats me? Grrrr....

ZZZZzzzz

Sleep. That's it, place your forehead on the keyboard and close your eyes. Open them 8 hours later and tell me how you feel. No, aside from the silly key-prints on your forehead, how do you feel? Refreshed? Ah... that's correct...

Last Thursday was a total hell for me, the whole scene from my prespective looks like I keep "blacking out" every 10 minutes, except that the "blacking out" was actually me falling asleep at my desk, head bent down like a fisherman waiting for a fish to eat the bait.

I am totally skilled at this, nobody has caught me red-handed, at least for now... I'd be semi-alert all the time and had actually answered the teachers' questions 2 times on that day, despite me being in dreamland 7 seconds ago.

The whole damn episode started the day before. What? I can't believe that I had actually accepted to do my friend's homework. That was totally stupid of me. Started: 12:00 am. Finished: 2:00 am. Woke up: 7:00 am. Arngh...

The Blue House had the weekly practise on 8 am... 8 am??? Which freaking idiot set the time? I had wanted to study in the afternoon because I wanted to sleep late! What? Surat amaran (Warning letter)? Fail Disiplin (Discipline File)? WTF? Wait, that was the sleep-deprived side of me ranting. Sorry about that.

I was nearly running on empty, both in sleep and in food at that time. Time to refuel at 10 am. Went to the table outside the teacher's room, folded arms placed on table, sleep.

ZZZZzzzzzZZZZZzzzz..... Wha...? 12:30 pm... Crap... Time for class...

The whole day basically was me "blacking out" every 10 minutes, right until 6:30pm. The whole day in class was a total blur. I didn't learn anything on that day.

I was better off at home revising.

First entry! Quick, get the camera!

Here I am, posting my first entry in my own blog. I've said this to Mellisa aka Glass Charm on ICQ before, I'm slow to respond to the blogging craze, actually about 1 year late. I've seen Live Journals before. Diary? Diary??? Oh dear god...

I'm sort of active on the internet, you can see me mostly on the PPT forums and SPI forums. I have an alter ego which I will talk about sometime later...

BookCrossing? Yep, that's what I'm going to talk about for now. Ever heard about it before? If you haven't, I suggest hopping over to BookCrossing.com and check out the site.

This is the article that appeared in the daily newspaper The Star on August 20, 2002.

From the main page:

The "3 Rs" of BookCrossing...

1. Read a good book (you already know how to do that)
   
2. Register it here (along with your journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book
   
3. Release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, "forget" it in a coffee shop, etc.), and get notified by email each time someone comes here and records journal entries for that book. And if you make Release Notes on the book, others can Go Hunting for it and try to find it!
   

I was informed that there were active Malaysian BookCrossers, after some discussion with Emily and Zarina, we now have own Yahoo group, the Malaysian BookCrossers! (In Links section)

And just less than 2 weeks ago, another BookCrossing group was formed. But instead of Malaysians, this time it's the Singaporeans! (In Links section)

My BookCrossing interest started somewhere in 2002, where the article about BookCrossing was published in The Star (previous link)... The idea seemed weird and was later forgotten... that is, until 3 months later, where some of the people at the Snopes forums were discussing about BookCrossing... BookCrossing again? I logged on to the url given in the thread (the thread was later pruned) and found out that the idea didn't seem so crazy after all... After a release in McDonalds' Prangin Mall outlet, I was disappointed that my book wasn't caught, I was spying from somewhere far away and I think that the book might've been in the rubbish bin by now or chucked under a pile of books which they never bothered to read...

After 10 months without access to the internet, I got a ADSL connection and immediately went to all of the sites that I was previouly interested, including BookCrossing... Enough to say, my curiosity and interest about BookCrossing got restarted.