give me novacaine

i found one of my most favourite green day songs on youtube today...too bad it's not the original video (some stupid asian kid with bad lip-synching skills made this video), but the lyrics in the song kinda sums up my feelings...for today at least.

those of you who know what i'm talking about will understand...hopefully. enjoy.



take away the sensation inside,
bittersweet migraine in my head...
it's like a throbbing toothache of the mind,
i can't take this feeling anymore...

drain the pressure from the swelling,
this sensation's overwhelming...
give me a long kiss goodnight,
and everything will be alright...
tell me that i won't feel a thing,
so give me novacaine...

out of body and out of mind,
kiss the demons out of my dreams...
i get the funny feeling and that’s alright,
jimmy says it's better than here...
i’ll tell you what...

drain the pressure from the swelling,
this sensation's overwhelming...
give me a long kiss goodnight,
and everything will be alright...
tell me that i won't feel a thing,
so give me novacaine...

oh novacaine!!!

drain the pressure from the swelling,
this sensations overwhelming...
give me a long kiss goodnight,
and everything will be alright...
tell me jimmy i won't feel a thing,
so give me novacaine...

- give me novacaine (green day)

help me...i need relief. =|

the most irritating thing...

is when you're trying to look for an optical shop without your contacts on...and then when you finally find one, the sales girl doesn't fall for your charm while you ask for a discount...

is when you try to explain to your boss on the phone that you are late cuz the bus you took to work got into an accident...and then when you finally get to work in a cab, the meeting is over already...

is when you reach the takraw courts and find that there are better-than-you players there already...and then it turns out that they wanna challenge you. =|

(p.s. - yes, my team kena whack.)

sepak takraw inspiration

some inspiration for tomorrow's takraw...



you thought sepak takraw was only played in south east asia? think again...check out these americans in minnesota...



ok lah, some of them play on grass, but i might just hope to reach their standard in the next lifetime lah hor? haha.

and these germans...



but notice that the coaches are still malay...some things never change...right abang? hahaha.

cheers. =)

over my head

which one do you think is better?



or...



i think that crouchy's (the latter one) beat ronaldinho's hands down.

here're some more bicyles for your entertainment...











cheers. =)

david james' hairstyles

david james at liverpool...loved his video games...which ultimately became his downfall as he earned the nickname of "calamity james". god knows how many sleepless nights i've had cuz of this man...



he decided to change his lifestyle after he moved on to aston villa, west ham, manchester city, and finally, and most recently, at portsmouth...but apparently, he has not only changed football teams, but also his hairstylist at the various cities...







i just watched the portsmouth and newcastle game, and i saw the latest, and not to mention, the most amusing haircut yet...the slickly-gelled side parting...(apologies for the lousy quality picture...you try taking live shots of people playing football on tv!)





no wonder his side parted with a 1-0 defeat. haha.

i love david james. he is so unpredictably entertaining...just as long as he doesn't do a robbie fowler and move back to anfield. haha.



i leave you with my favourite picture of james...david james...



hahaha. cheers. =)

superman is chinese!

breaking news!!!



apparently these videos were made by some people who call themselves the "umpatriots"...the "um" stands for "university of michigan"...the same school that my brother went to, and the very same one that my sister is studying in now...how i wish i had that kind of entertainment to liven up my nus classes last time. hahaha.

here's another video made by the same people:



damn cool. i love their sound effects...wagawagawagawaga...haha.

cheers. =)

angels or devils

i'm listening to:



"this is the last time, that i'm ever gonna come here tonight...
and this is the last time i will fall...
into a place that fails us all inside...

i can see the pain in you...
i can see the love in you...
but fighting all the demons will take time...
it will take time...

the angels they burn inside for us, and are we ever, are we ever gonna learn to fly?
the devils they burn inside of us, are we ever gonna come back down...come around?
i'm always gonna worry about, the things that could make us cold...

and this is the last time, that i'm ever gonna give in tonight...
are there angels or devils crawling here?
i just want to know what blurs and what is clear to see...

well i can see the pain in you...
and i can see the love in you...
and fighting all the demons will take time, it will take time...

the angels they burn inside for us, and are we ever, are we ever gonna learn to fly?
the devils they burn inside of us, and are we ever gonna come back down, come around?
i'm always gonna worry about, the things that could break us....

if i was to give in, give it up, and then, take a breath, make it deep...
cause it might be the last one you get,
be the last one, that could make us cold...
you know that they could make us cold...

i'm always gonna worry about the things that could make us cold..."

- angels or devils (dishwalla)


introduced by elsie (from the butter factory)...happy birthday!

cheers. =)

birthday song

hey people...as some of you might know, it was my birthday yesterday...so thanks to all who messaged / called / met me...it's wonderful to know i have so many loving friends and family...it makes getting older a little more bearable with you all in my life. i am truly lucky. =)

anyway, before i turn all mushy, and speaking of mushy, check out one of my presents from a bestfren far far away in a land called the nether(lands):



here are the lyrics for those of you who can't understand his indon-singlish-dutch slang:

"well, he’s a good friend and that’s about all,
had some fun but more than i can recall...
and when my backs up against the wall,
he's the first one that i would call...

i think all night and through the day,
of all the perfect things to say,
but this will just have to do...

well, he’s a good friend can i say less,
not so good body, not so tight ass...
but what makes him better than the rest,
is that what you see when he's undressed...

he impressed girls and some guys too,
sooner or later he'll get to you,
and he will make your dreams come true...

each night i think and wonder why,
why can’t i be like this guy, sky,
but for now let me just wish you...

happy birthday to you
happy birthday to you
happy birthday to you"

- birthday sky (mike ruhul dahrial)


thanks...i love you too mike! hahaha.

cheers. =)

sales support present

i was in a bad mood this morning...

sales support minah (ssm): moby, i spoke with so-and-so just now...can you please call him to email you the customer's request, then you forward it to me? i need to verify something...
moby: har?? why do you need to beat about the bush? just ask him to forward to you can already lah...
ssm: but i need the customer's acceptance as well...
moby: the job has already been completed...so just base it on that loh. anyway, i'm not doing that service anymore, remember?
ssm: oh ok...
moby: sheesh. *grumble, grumble...*

after lunch at the sales support office...

moby: hey, i need a leave cancellation form...i need to come to work next week, so i don't wanna waste my leave.
sales support chic 1 (ssc1): oh ok...are you going out now?
moby: err...yeah, why?
ssc 1: are you coming back later?
moby: hmmm...good question. maybe, maybe not. why?
ssc 2: aiyah, just give it to him now lah...he's probably on leave tomorrow... *giggle giggle*
ssc 1: hehe. ok...anyway, happy birthday from all of us!



brown plastic bag

moby: *speechless*
ssc 3: sorry, but we didn't have time to wrap it...
moby: *tear rolls down right cheek*
ssc 4: quick! open it!



hugo box


hugo by hugo boss

moby: i'm speechless. so paiseh... *tear rolls down left cheek*
ssc 5: smile! *takes picture of moby and hugo*
moby: i'm very touched... *sniff sniff*
ssc 1: so do you like it?
moby: i love it! i like hugo boss very much!
ssc 2: yay! now he won't pass us work to do already! hahaha.
moby: ok...this bribe works. hahaha.

i'm very moved. they don't normally buy presents for anyone...much less for someone who expects as much from them as i do...it kinda makes the voodoo dolls that i bought for them from bangkok look a little pale in comparison. but then again, who's counting...it's the thought.

my sales support girls are so good to me...they gave me a zippo lighter last year, which i promptly lost within 2 days...but i felt so bad that i bought another zippo just like it so that they wouldn't know the difference...

these are the people who make the stay in my company a little more worthwhile. if not, i'd be long gone. if any you girls (all 12 of you) ever read this, thanks once again, you've made my day...including you, ssm...sorry i scolded you this morning...it's just work.

cheers. =)

popcorn

popcorn. i love popcorn. there's something about eating the fluffy overpriced piece of corn which makes watching movies all the more enjoyable.

cheese popcorn is my favourite, but for some reason, they don't have that here in singapore anymore. they used to have it though...at the orange julius in the OLD cathay picturehouse...back then when seat allocation was done by writing your number with a pencil on a piece of very tearable paper...but i guess the cheese popcorn went obsolete with that as well with the passing years...

as a kid, i used to make popcorn all the time...my brother and i would share a pot of freshly made orville redenbacher's microwave popcorn while we watched cartoons in the afternoon. sigh...boy do i miss the flintstones...and scooby doo...and heathcliff...and the jetsons...and sesame street...hehe.

but guess what i found the other day at giant supermarket:



sunny days!!! cheers. =)

dear ms. nokia

dear ms. nokia,

it has been 9 years since we have first met...from the time when i was a young-punk freshmen in nus, and you were just a black and white 3210 with snake games...to yesterday when i was an extremely dis-satisfied customer and you were the ever-hanging and sloth-like 3230...and while i don't regret having had you in my life, i must admit that the last couple of years have been rather torturous.

i was holding on only because i felt that you would improve over time...that you would find a way to get past your blemishes...that you'd at least come up with a new design that doesn't resemble something you wore in the past 3 seasons...but alas, my loyalty has it's limits too, and i have finally had a change of heart.

yesterday evening, while walking in suntec city during a singtel road show, i saw a certain ms. sony-ericsson:


sony ericsson k800i

and the best part is, i only paid $118 for her. the rest was absorbed for some reason or other...i'd have gotten her for free in fact, if i had traded you in, but common sense told me that i'd fetch a higher price with the second hand dealers outside.

ms. sony ericsson can be synchronized with my sony vaio laptop, which makes things a lot easier in terms of transferring my images and music (which you could never have done)...ms. k800i has a 3.2megapixel camera too (compared to your pixelated 1.3)! almost as good as my other love, ms. nikon coolpix...and she has mobile blogging capabilities as well! and guess what else? singtel even threw a threesome package in the form of ms. canon selphy!


canon selphy compact photo printer cp720

having said and done all that, i did shed a tear when i finally took out the sim card from your bosom last night...and i did take one final whiff of your battery pack as it was being discharged for the very last time. sigh. it didn't have to be this way...but then again, this is not goodbye, but merely farewell...may our lives cross paths again...


sincerely,

moby sky

(p.s. - does anyone wanna buy a secondhand nokia 3230? hahaha.)

ouch

i played sepak takraw again last night...but i've really overdone it this time. my groin's on fire, my thighs are as tight as my company's budget, and i can't help but walk like the main character of the new musical in town:


hunchback

spare me please...i promise i won't exercise on consecutive days anymore!!! i'm too young to be a bell ringer!!! argh!!!

actually ah, i think it's more like i'm too old to play takraw already...ouch. now that's painful...

healthylifestylesky

1. audrey dropped by my office today to park there for a while she did some work nearby...so i passed her some complimentary carpark coupons (shhh...don't tell anyone):

audrey: hello!
moby: hey...here're your free passes...
audrey: thanks...how're you? *stares at moby's tummy*
moby: good good...
audrey: i can see that... *pokes at moby's tummy with finger*
moby: ...


2. i met my mom for lunch today:

mom: you seem to have grown rounder...
moby: yeah, i wanna get a more friendly look...it's the in thing now.
mom: hahahaha...yeah right.
moby: ...


3. sms history to pei hwan this evening:

moby: you'll never guess in a million years what i'm doing now...
pei hwan: you're having a professional facial??
moby: hehe. better. try again.
pei hwan: you're getting a bikini wax??
moby: try again.
pei hwan: you've fallen in love with joseph / jason!?
moby: sheesh...i told you you'd never guess...
pei hwan: what? you going to tell me or not??
moby: i went jogging...hehe.
pei hwan: =0
moby: i told you. hehe.
pei hwan: must be munnster's challenge on your blog comment...hehe.
moby: nope. someone told me to do something about my tummy the other day. so i did 50 leg raises just now, before i went crazy and decided to go jogging. haha.
pei hwan: who is that someone huh?
moby: my girl. hehe.


jogging route

there...i did it. happy? 2.38975km...in 11 minutes.

i don't know what possessed me. maybe it's the deep fear of being cast as the lead role for my company's christmas play: "ho ho ho"...or perhaps it's the anguish of watching pair after pair of relatively new pants become unwearable...or rather, stretched-to-the-maximus.

and run i did...ok lah, jog lah.

but don't ask me why i stopped at jalan ampang, or what happened on the way back...just know that buffy the poodle is extremely adept at alerting the whole neighbourhood of the presence of mee pok and coffee spewed on the sidewalk.

bitch.

cheers. =)

november's here

i'm listening to:



"when i look into your eyes i can see a love restrained...
but darlin' when i hold you, don't you know i feel the same?
'cause nothin' lasts forever and we both know hearts can change...
and it's hard to hold a candle in the cold november rain.
we've been through this such a long long time just tryin' to kill the pain...oh yeah...
but lovers always come, and lovers always go, and no one's really sure who's lettin' go today...walking away...
if we could take the time to lay it on the line, i could rest my head just knowin' that you were mine...all mine...
so if you want to love me then darlin' don't refrain...
or i'll just end up walkin' in the cold november rain...

do you need some time...on your own?
do you need some time...all alone?
everybody needs some time...on their own...
don't you know you need some time...all alone...

i know it's hard to keep an open heart...
when even friends seem out to harm you...
but if you keep a broken heart...
wouldn't time be out to charm you...

sometimes i need some time...on my own...
sometimes i need some time...all alone...
everybody needs some time...on their own...
don't you know you need some time...all alone...

and when your fears subside, and shadows still remain...
i know that you can love me, when there's no one left to blame...
so never mind the darkness we still can find a way...
'cause nothin' lasts forever, even cold november rain..."

- "november rain" (guns n roses)

not that anything is wrong...hehe. i just think it's a nice song with great lyrics...and i still can't get sick of it after all these years. what's your favourite rock ballad?

and oh yeah, november's here...haha. cheers. =)

"cam"

i got a msg from an ex-girlfriend, ct on msn just now:

ct: hi
moby: hey hi...what's up?
ct: cam
moby: huh???
ct: i want to see you.
moby: what? are you drunk???

*ct goes offline*

moby smses ct: eh, are you ok? just checking cuz you smsed me something funny just now lah...

*20 minutes later, ct calls moby back*

ct: hi, did someone sms me?
moby: haha...err...this is moby...
ct: huh??? why??? what happened???
moby: err...you msned me some weird shit just now... *relates weird shit to ct*
ct: what?!! oh no...i must have left my msn on just now after i used it in the internet cafe...
moby: internet cafe? where're are you???
ct: india...
moby: hahaha. well done...some indian guy was trying to sneak a peep...hahaha.
ct: sorry sorry...it wasn't me...
moby: haha...i was pretty shocked...that's why i smsed you...but are you ok?
ct: yeah...i'm fine...except that the worse thing that's happened to me in india had to do with you...
moby: haha...great...i guess this wouldn't be the first time either. haha. take care.

lesson of the day: be careful...especially with your msn accounts. it's pretty easy to impersonate someone else online. sometimes this veil of secrecy can be damn irritating...

btw, i'm not taking ct off my msn "blocked" list till she comes back...and even then, i might just keep her there...i'll take her out when she finally gets over it. haha. cheers. =)