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Missing Thailand Again

This is all because of the pictures on Najwa‘s blog. I remember listening to this song by Teerapak “Ten” Manechot called นับหนึ่ง:

จากวันที่เธอทอดทิ้งกันไกลห่าง ฉันคงหมดความหมาย
มันทำให้คนหนึ่งคนแทบตาย เมื่อเธอเดินไปกับเขา
แต่มาวันนี้ตัวฉันเริ่มดี เกือบลืมที่เคยปวดร้าว
เวลาช่วยฉัน ให้ลืมเรื่องราวที่เคยผ่านมากับเธอ
แต่มาวันนึง ฉันได้เจอ เธอนั้นอยู่เคียงข้างเขา
ฉันเหมือนดั่ง ต้องเจ็บปวดร้าวเหมือนเคย

* จากวันนี้ ฉันต้องนับหนึ่งอีกครั้ง
เพื่อลืมเรื่องราวที่ยัง ค้างคาในใจ เมื่อเจอเธอกับเขา
จากวันนี้ ฉันต้องทนเจ็บและเหงา เหมือนเดินกลับมาที่เก่า
หัวใจดึงดัน ก็ที่ตรงนั้นเคยเป็นของฉัน ฉันยังไม่ลืม

จะไม่โทษเธอ และไม่โทษใคร โทษใจตัวเองเท่านั้น
ที่มันไม่ลืมเจ็บมาก็นาน โกหกตัวเองเรื่อยไป
เวลาคงทำให้ลืมทุกอย่าง แต่มันต้องนานแค่ไหน
สิบเดือนไม่พอ สิบปีหรือไง ที่ฉันจะลืมภาพเธอ
เพิ่งรู้เมื่อตอนฉันได้เจอ เธอนั้นอยู่เคียงข้างเขา
ฉันเหมือนดั่ง ต้องเจ็บปวดร้าวเหมือนเคย

Of course I prefer Ten’s version when he played this song during Peacemaker’s concert back in 2003-2004. The ending’s nicer.

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Cranky

Cranky Bird

Yup, it’s that time of the month now.

PMS?

Well, something similar. This is how I am when I am deprived of the feeling of breathing compressed air in salt water. Cranky, moody, irritated.. and whatever have you.

Please, please, please..I need to dive now!

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February Babies

February Birthday Cake

The February babies celebrated at my house on the 23rd February 2007. All the surviving members of my mother’s family attended, including my aunt Rasidah from Kuala Lipis.

More pics can be viewed HERE

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Malaysian Army’s 74th Anniversary

Malaysian Army logo

Come March 1st, the Malaysian Army celebrates its 74th Anniversary. From a small experimental battalion, it performed extraordinarily well against the Imperial Japanese Army when defending Singapore and was mentioned in despatch by the Churchill government.

It continues to perform well, although some reform needs to be done in terms of policies and most of all – mindset.

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Consider Me Gone

There were rooms of forgiveness
In the house that we share
But the space has been emptied
Of whatever was there
There were cupboards of patience
There were shelfloads of care
But whoever came calling
Found nobody there

After today, consider me gone

Roses have thorns, and shining waters mud
And cancer lurks deep in the sweetest bud
Clouds and eclipses stain the moon and the sun
And history reeks of the wrongs we have done

After today, consider me gone

I’ve spent too many years at war with myself
The doctor has told me it’s no good for my health
To search for perfection is all very well
But to look for Heaven is to live here in Hell

After today, consider me gone

Desolation

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Dumb Employers On Ego Trips

Anand Panyarachun

I think it was sometime last week that a survey conducted was announced by the Ministry of Labour that 53% employees leave their jobs because they think the respective companies’ management is…to be polite…f***ed-up. Among the grouses are that employees are treated like dirt although the management’s way of thinking is against good management theories.

I guess warning letters should be sent to these employers asking them to buck up and treat employees fairly, telling them that their management skills (or the lack of it) have been less than satisfactory. We find employers, especially those foreign ones, often treat locals like cheap labour, and often mistreat them, giving them warning letters, or dismiss the locals, when the expatriate workers go scot-free.

Maybe the Immigration Department should also look into how certain company positions, such as directorships, have been abused in order to bring in unskilled labourers in so that they’ll get to “work” and hold high positions, when in reality they have no clue about how the wheel turns.

Not all expatriate directors are bad. There are good and exceptional ones. Take for example, Anand Panyarachun, who twice became caretaker Prime Minister of Thailand. Because of his contribution and excellent leadership skills, he’s been given an extremely high position in one of the local telecommunications companies, and is also recognised for his good deeds worldwide.

But then again, not all Anands are good…

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Curing An Addiction

Tim Yang in the background...and someone's hair in the foreground

It’s one boring weekend. I went out last night to meet up with someone..that was from 8pm through 10.30pm, then I took the kids to their maternal grandma’s house. I slept quite late last night, and woke up quite early this morning. Went to the Cheras DBKL pool with the kids, they swam, I dived.

I didn’t dive for long…half an hour the most. That bunch of floating hair you see up there is one of the reasons.

I really need to spend a few days on an island doing nothing but dive, eat, dive, sleep, dive, dive dive…

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Skodeng Squad

The Terengganu State Government will be implementing the “Skodeng Squad” (Snoop Squad) with members recruited from the ranks of hotel bellboys, room service guys etc etc to perform “vigilante” work and report to the state religious affairs office of any sins being committed. The state exco actually used the term “vigilante.”

Cool, but this stupid idea would probably benefit the country if we have snoop squads to report on violent crimes in progress or being planned. This would be beneficial to the country trying to promote itself for the VMY 2007. The original idea will stop domestic tourists from visiting Terengganu.

Someone please remove this guy from the next general election’s list of potential candidates.

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Old Flame

An old flame burning

I’m sure you often wonder about your old flame..how he/she looks like now and so on. I have so far bumped into three I actually had relationship with, and two flings…in the 24 years since leaving college.

Of the three I had relationship with, one I bumped into when she was in a telecommunications-related body. She looked almost the same, just that her face looked older than her age. Another, still looked youthful except for some streaks of grey hair. Another one, after not seeing her for about 20 years, I cannot recognise at all. She didn’t even look like her former self. I guess in some ways I still look the same because all of them recognised me the instant they saw me despite my having put on an extra 30 kilograms since I last saw them. The two flings, one I saw walking into the restaurant I was in…with 4 children, still looked the same except that she had broaden her horizon; and the other, still the same face, saggy breasts and huge butt.

Have you thought of your old flame(s)? What do you think they’d look like now?