Give me that JiveBomber!

This is so gonna be my fucking wishlist! The only question thing is, which one? *woot woot*

All photos courtesy of Streething

This is a only a part of a marvelous collection from Adidas ObyO (Originals by Originals) by Alyasha Owerka-Moore from the very famous brand, Freshjive and Fiberops.

The second collaboration on the Adidas ObyO is Kazuki Kuraishi, a very famous Japanese designer who's done works for Neighborhood, Clot, and Surrender, among others.

The last one is Jeremy Scott. Who is he? Check it out here : Jeremy Scott.


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Feature: Kugiran Negara ke United Kingdom Enterprise (KNUKE)

I got to tip my hats off to these guys who started this whole project. They started off last year when they brought the good people of Kugiran Hujan to perform in few venues all around United Kingdom. They called it Kugiran Hujan ke UK Foundation.

Kugiran Hujan

It was a brave effort back then and this year, they hit it harder. The lucky bands who made the cut are Estrella and SevenCollar T-Shirt. They will be going to UK from 29th of March to 5th of April. So for those who are there somewhere in the Brit Land of Rock, join the party! For more info you guys can check it out at KNUKE Website!

Estrella

SevenCollar T-Shirt

Before that, they will be having a gig called Sounds Unite: Estrella & SevenCollar T-Shirt UK Tour Pre-Departure Gig. Check out the details at their Facebook Event.

One last thing, join KNUKE Facebook Group for more infos on their latest projects HERE!



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Why people change? Can people change?

Most people never really change.

Sad, but true.

Some people never even try.

But those of us who do try often experience great frustration and disappointment as we encounter the same limitations over and over again.

Life can start to seem downright repetitive.

Human nature cannot be predicted. We all think that we know somebody. That means we believe that we know how a friend or family member would react to a situation. We think that we know this at least about people we are very close to. Do we really?

If that were true, relationship would not sour. Because our partner is surely a person we know a lot about. But suddenly we are confronted with a partner about whom our feelings change or vice versa. Why does this happen?

I am not sure whether people change at all. But surely the way they behave or act is so unexpected that we feel they have changed. In a relationship a couple may have been having the best time together. Both partners think that they are made for each other. There is a belief that their goals are same and that their thoughts are same. They are a perfect couple who are in deep romantic love and who seem to be unable to live without each other.

Can such a couple change? Yes! even a couple which shares everything perfectly changes in relationship when decisions about values have to be taken. If one of the partners has very strong values about something they will not surrender that under any circumstances. For example, you have a sense of what is right and what is wrong.

I also have my sense of right and wrong. If I believe very strongly in my sense, I will never accept what you want me to do. If you think that lie is "OK" if life can be carried on and if I believe that lie is unacceptable, can we ever share the same relationship?

This test does not come immediately after the relationship, but after some months or years. We suddenly find that our values are in strong conflict with our partner and whatever effort we make is useless to change their point of view. At that point love turns bitter. As if suddenly some sour thing was added to a sweet.

But what if people change their personality/opinions/stands/characters five times in a year? It's like a cancer. We call it The Stages of Grief.

First time, she agrees with her boyfriend because she's in love.Even to the worst things that happened, yet she did not say anything because SHE SAID SHE'S IN LOVE. In fact, she conspired with her boyfriend without once tell her boyfriend what they did was wrong. It's called conditioning.

Second time, they broke up. Well you know they broke down period. This is when The Stages of Grief attacks.

Stage one: DENIAL (This isn't happening to me!)

Curses and madness. Suddenly everything went wrong. Her boyfriend was a bad person, he was cruel, she has done nothing wrong but when he left her bla bla bla shit shit shit. She can't believe it's really happening. She thought it's just a practical joke. It's not.

Stage two: ANGER (Why is this happening to me?)

She starts to tell EVERYONE about the break-up. She starts telling bad things about him, defending herself like she's an angel, like she's never done anything wrong. Stupid.

Stage three: BARGAINING (I promise I'll be a better person if...)

This is the interesting part. Now she starts to use her empty shallow brain, and realized she was stupid for acting stupid, but the fact that she is stupid. She starts to say sorry to him, said she was depressed, she did not think straight, she was unstable bla bla bla yea yea all those hormone shits.

Stage four: DEPRESSION (I don't care anymore)

See, I've stated in stage three about the excuse of being depressed. Now this is the real depression. She calls or SMS and telling him that it's totally over and she has moved on. She wishes him all the best in life, good luck, and she finally realized that shit happens and sometimes things are just not meant to be bla bla bla. This whole thing would be a lot easier if she understand the situation and dealt with it with concious. Well, damage has been done ain't it?

Stage five: ACCEPTANCE (I'm ready for whatever comes)

Now this, ladies and gentlemen, is the trickiest part. I wrote up there besides the 'ACCEPTANCE' word "I'm ready for whatever comes". Truth is, there are two situations that could happen.

Situation #1: She accepts the whole idea of a 'break up' or 'the end of a romantic relationships' between the two of them. And then she moves on, try to mend the pieces of her broken heart, and build everything back. This is what everyone should do after they ended a relationship.

I always said, "I cry, I wipe my tears, and I move on". And, if she's lucky she'll find a new guy (or maybe a girl) and start a new one. Hard, but not impossible to do.

Situation #2: She thinks that her ex-boyfriend or even maybe, the world serves an unjust act to her. So she starts to dig for his mistakes or his "little black book" from unreliable, dubious, devious, highly questionable and definite untrustworthy sources. And then she uses all these complete bollock "facts" (as she may call it) to threaten her ex-boyfriend or blackmail him whatsofuckingever. This is what I call the other side of the Acceptance. Why, because before this she kept everything enclosed. By everything I mean those dirty little stuff she did with him without any force and obviously she did it because she wants to.

I mean, if you did not want to do it, why did you do it?

Now she blames him for everything they did together. TOGETHER. It's a two-way traffic okay. Blaming disease is what I would define as "the manic frustration of a bipolar person and the incessant need to control at least one thing in their life".

Yes I'm crazy! Send me to the psychiatric institution NOW!

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10 Best Moments in Slam Dunks!

Those who know me, I'm a basketball freak. Since I was in secondary school, I play every goddamn day. Of all the skills, I almost did a slam dunk. But it's either I was too short, I was too heavy or I was just a plain lazy ass mofo. Anyway, just for you guys to enjoy some of the greatest moments in NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Competition.

Guess who's the number one? My all-time idol.

Vinsanity

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Have A Gun?

It's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.

- Clerence Worley, True Romance

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Novel: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

I can't believe I never reviewed anything regarding books/readings/literatures. I was browsing my 'Naughty Labels' and no, nothing on books. Dem mi! That's why I'm still one of the ignorant fuckers, I don't read books. Well actually I do read books. What the hell am I talking about here??!!

I don't wish to go off-road, so I will tell you about this one book I read when I was having my recent new year holiday in Langkawi. Thanks to Mr. Rubinder Singh who was kind enough to lend me his book. So I took some free times to read, before I went to sleep, after I woke up, while chilling under the coconut trees, in the bathroom (no, it's different 'book', not this one).

One of the rarest breed, The White Tiger

The novel is titled The White Tiger. It's written by Aravind Adiga. It's a story about Balram Halwai, the son of a rickshaw puller who was born in a village in heartland India. Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coals and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape - breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga, into whose depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations.

The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias (not two Indians). Balram's journey from darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable.

This is rather deep. I love this book. It gives me a whole new lot of perspectives of other countries, cultures, light and darkness, reality and fantasy, in this case, India respectively. Aravind Adiga received a very special and prestigious award for this book, The Man Booker Prize. This award promotes the finest in fiction by awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or Ireland. This prize is the world's most important literary award and has the power to transform the fortunes of the authors and even publishers!

Mr. Adiga with the 2008 top award

For those who's looking for something not really normal, as in different from any other books you've read all these while, I suggest this book. Maybe you'll have a different perspectives in life afterwards. Just maybe.

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Dry your eyes, and move on...

Is there really plenty more fish in the sea?

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Tips For Better Life

Life has not been very sunny these days due to a lot of obstacles, competitions, among others. But we always forget that the most important thing in life is to have a happy and healthy living. These are some tips for better life.

1. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.
Walk more. Walk more.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
In my case, I sit in sauna room everyday for 20 minutes after work. Hotness.

3. Sleep for 7 hours.
What's better than to sleep 7 hours or more?

4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
Create more values for yourself.

5. Play more games.
Video games, poker games, board games, any games! (naughty bed games woot woot)

6. Read more books than you did in 2008.
Already did! (I read two books last year)

7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga (personal preference), and prayer.
They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.

8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
You'll be surprised these groups give great advises to you.

9. Dream more while you are awake.
Let loose your mind, and let your imaginations run wild!

10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
In my case, consume more "natural herbs" hahaaa!

11. Drink plenty of water.
No, A LOT of water.

12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
Just ask them to watch funny YouTube clips (Japanese funny game shows)

13. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
But watching Gossip Girls is good though wakakaa..

14. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
I don't see why people always remind/blame other people of the past when they failed to achieve something in the present.

15. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
For example, instead of asking people to boycott Jewish/Zionis products (because of the war conflicts and whatnot), why don't we insist people to consume local products or any products that doesn't associate with Jewish/Zionis. You ask them to boycott, yet you don't give them options.

16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
Why is this so hard to understand? Life is about learning, and there's A LOT of learning curves. Learn until you can cope up with those curves!

17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
To a better health!

18. Smile and laugh more.
Start with Pineapple Express. I mean it literally. Not the movie.

19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
In my case, I don't know why a lot of people hate me (as some people told me). Maybe I know why, but don't they ever think that A LOT of people hate them too? Acts of jealousy. Definitely.

20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
Why soo seriouss??!!

21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
Some people are just stupid they want to win even though it's truly their stupidity. Some get it, some don't. Some will get it, some won't. Those that do, do. Those that don't, they fucking don't.

22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
Some ignorant fuckers just won't learn. Not me. Grow up.

23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. Don't compare your partner with others.
Comparing disease is the worst.

24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
Yep, don't blame other people for making your life miserable, upside down and sinking.

25. Forgive everyone for everything.
To err is human, but to forgive, rock on!

26. What other people think of you is none of your business.
Yup2, and who you are is none of their fucking business as well.

27. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
You just don't know if it's gonna turn better or worse. Until then, just continue living.

28. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
But keep few good friends who will help you through your good and bad times, rather than having a million useless "friends".

29. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
Read "Secret" - The Laws of Attraction.

30. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
Be grateful everyday and work harder without negative feelings.

31. The best is yet to come.
It will always come, in different forms. Just truly believe.

32. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
Get up stand up!

33. Do the right thing!
Don't stop going for what you believe is yours!

34. Call your family often.
A woman is nothing without a man, but a man is nothing without his family.

35. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.
This is the simplest among all.

36. Each day give something good to others.
Anything that make others feel goooooooooood ;P

37. Don't over do. Keep your limits.
Respect your limits. It'll be useful.


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Tagged by Arry Strawberry

I've been told by others that doing all these "TAGGING" things are only for lame people, or outdated, as they may say. And slowly, that idea of "lame and outdated" went in my subconscious mind. I never done any TAGGING, because I think it is LAME and OUTDATED (*Lame = not-so-cool-and-attention-seeker, *Outdated = They have these kind of shits on Friendster, Myspace and God-knows-where online community portals).

But now, surprisingly (well okay not really surprising, I'm a cheapskate) I started to read what people write about themselves based on the questions that were given to them AND I myself started to write or responded to some of the TAGGINGs.

It's fascinating, humorous, and interestingly we can imagine or visualize the character of the person who writes about themselves. Seriously, go read few of your friend's TAG, and compare. And this thing shows how well these people know themselves, because most of the times, we don't even know ourselves, we don't even bother. Ignorant fuckers i would say.

So here is mine. Tagged by Arry Strawberry (not here though). Please be remind that few questions lost in translation. I'm not sure where it went, it just lost. And these answers were few days back. I don't wanna change it based on today's answer because it'll be uncool. Why? Go figure.

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
A doctor who monitored me when I was still in my mum's womb

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
I weep all the time

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
Depends on where I write it

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
Chicken

5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
No for now

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
I don't think so. A lot of people hate me

7. DO YOU USE SARCASM?
Yes

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?
I would like to keep it because it is believed to to help protect the body from respiratory infections

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?
Yes whenever I'll have the opportunity

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?
None that I can remember

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
Depends on who I came home with

12. LOST QUESTION

13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?
Mud pie at TGIF. Does it count?

14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?
Are they cocky

15. RED OR PINK?
Red

16. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?
I sweat a lot

17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
Someone I can't mention here

18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO COMPLETE THIS LIST?
It's up to them if they think this is LAME then they don't have to

19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?
Camo berms and no shoes

20. LOST QUESTION

21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
N.E.R.D

22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?
Grey

23. FAVORITE SMELLS?
The next person to me when I wake up

24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
Mazro

25. LOST QUESTION

26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
Basketball, rugby and soccer

27. HAIR COLOR?
Black with grey hairs

28. EYE COLOR?
Dark brown

29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
No

30. FAVORITE FOOD?
Mixed grill

31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?
I'm a movie enthusiast, I watch all

32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
Black

34. SUMMER OR WINTER?
Tropic

35. HUGS OR KISSES?
More

36. LOST QUESTION

37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
No idea

38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
All

39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino

40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
Mouse

41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?
51st Grammy Awards

42. FAVORITE SOUND(S)?
Good musics

43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES?
None to be honest

44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?
Florida maybe

45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?
Define 'Special Talent'

46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
Kuala Lumpur GH

47. WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK?
Those who I tag

48. HOW DID YOU MEET YOUR SPOUSE/SIGNIFICANT OTHER?
The strangest place and the weirdest way - future


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Special Valentine's Day Poetry: My Immortal Rose

I'm just a hopeless lover. Happy L.O.V.E Day to everyone.


My Immortal Rose


What happened to us was unexpected
You walked out of my life, I'm so devastated
I'm so sad baby to let you go away
To keep you happy and make you stay

I'm not dating anyone, I'm just dating your shadow
I know I'm irritating, I thought you already knew
Coz in my mind there's only one person I adore
I won't give up for someone I'm dying for

I won't give up for what I believe is belong to me
Somehow I still believe someday you and me
Just a piece of my heart where I keep you close
I keep you inside me coz you're my immortal rose

I still wanna tell you that I Love You
I miss the old days when you called me "boo"
Please find your way home and come back to me
Coz I'm still waiting for you under the love tree

Just a piece of my heart where I keep you close
I keep you inside me coz you're my immortal rose.

Undying rose

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Bandung-Jakarta Trip (Day 5)

January 31st, 2009

Dee-d woke us up almost 10am for the complimentary breakfast at the hotel cafe. Then they both decided to move to another hotel, a 4-star called Hotel Century. Since it's Dee-d's birthday that weekend, they wanted to spend some nice quality time in a good hotel suite.

About 12.30pm, me and Zaha walked to Kemang area to look for lunch. Found Krispy Kreme, had few doughnuts. The doughnuts were fine, quite nice to be exact.

Gen-2 in the house!

Kemang Food Fest. D'uhhh...

Krispy Kreme yummy yummy...

Can't remember the names

Nice yo!

Ryan came to pick me for a meeting with Andaru, the owner of Nanonine House. Before that we sent Zaha to the internet cafe nearby. Ryan and I rushed to Tribute, one of Andaru's shop that sells foreign brands to the likes of Vngrd, Wrong Wroks, Stussy, Rockers NYC and few more good brands. really like the Vngrd tee and hoodie, but it's too expensive for my budget.

Tribute Boutique

After the discussion, Adhi and Nadya came to Tribute and pick me and Zaha later, to bring us to Segarra, a posh restaurant at Ancol. The restaurant was really nice, only thing was it's booked by BCA, one of the largest Indonesian banks for their annual dinner or something I don't know. So we couldn't get the beach side table. It's kinda frustrating but we managed to get a table inside, so it's fine.

Proud yo!

I'm so ugly I had to snap my picture like this

Segarra.. Segarnya...

I'm gonna say this again: niceeeeeee......

Sadly we didn't manage to get the beach side table

At Segarra, we were joined by three beautiful ladies, Azza, Raina and Hana. They're Nadya's friends.

And the party started

I initially wanted to order Wagyu beef but the price wasn't so friendly. Yeah you see a 200grams of Wagyu beef Grade 8 was around RM80 (240,000 rupiah) and a 180grams of Wagyu beef Grade 9 whopped RM100 (300,000 rupiah). Instead I ordered myself a broiled lobster (as seen in the picture below). Cheaper and still sounded expensive, no?

I'm hungry now!!

Zaha and his usual "wicked" smile

Two lovely couple, Adhi and Nadya

Raina & Azza (demm she's hot!)

Adhi, Hana, Nadya, Azza, Raina, Zaha & muka sundal

Made our move back to the hotel around 9pm from Segarra, but the traffic was soo bad (I will blog about traffic jam in Jakarta some other times) we reached hotel at 11.00pm. Took a quick bath and whole lot of perfumes and we went to Public, one of the main clubs in Jakarta. Unfortunately they were organizing an event where all the guests must wear white tops. So we decided to move to the next club called X2. X2 had an event as well, with Timo Maas hitting the decks that night. So Jojo, Zaha and me went in.

Three rascals, Zaha, muka sundal & Adhi

*Note on the Timo Maas Event: Nadya, Adhi, Raven, Ryan, Putra and another friend didn't manage to get in the club because they were under 21 years old (except Adhi, he's 24). Even Nadya who's supposed to be 21 this year also was declined, since her 21st birthday will only be in the month of October. It's kinda stupid, because Jakarta, known for their great clubbing scene in the region, had these kind of rules. But yeah whatever. Anyway, so sorry guys!

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Bandung-Jakarta Trip (Day 4)

January 30th, 2009

Called City Trans, a shuttle service company to Jakarta. Our shuttle scheduled to depart at 1.30pm WIB (Waktu Indonesia Barat) and we departed on time.

That's heavy yo!

Waiting for the cab to take us to the City Trans terminal

This is the 6-seater shuttle. Cheap, and convenient!

Mukaku macam sundal kata 'langau' yang menghurung

We reached Jakarta about 3.30pm WIB, and took a taxi to Prapanca Hotel, a 3-star hotel nearby Kemang. Kemang is one of the main attraction area in South Jakarta, mainly for the food, entertainment, and shopping.

We reached hotel at about 5.00pm WIB. Rest for a while, until Ryan, a friend of mine from Jakarta who's currently studying in MMU Cyberjaya came by to bring us for a dinner.

It's tiring

Went to a row of warung (hawkers) and had some local food there. It was so-so, they put too much pepper in every dishes. Tasted weird.

Ayam goreng Jawa (tasted the same fried chicken everywhere else)

I like this, it's called Es Kopyor (coconut blend or something)

Martabak Telur. Niceeee

Too many pepper in the dishes..

So does this Mee Rebus. Tasted like Maggi Sup with a lot of pepper

Owh I forgot to tell you guys that there were soo many beggars in Bandung and Jakarta. Soo many, literally. Almost everywhere. Which comes to two things,

1) I feel sad for them. They're so poor and I feel sympathy.

2) I can't give them anything because if I did, they will tell the other shenanigans and a whole lot of them will come and beg from you. Which is disturbing and bad.

After dinner, we went to a local distro boutique called Capital. This shop carries local brands to the likes of their own label, Capital as well as Jakarta's finest graffiti artist Darbotz, Notorious, Footurama and few other local brands. Met with Putra, a friend who's working part time at the shop. He's one crazy ass motherfucker I'm telling you. Funny like shit haha.

Capital Boutique

Talked for a while and then we thought of chilling and maybe we could watch a live performance. So Ryan took us to a lounge/restaurant called The Trip. It's almost like other places in KL, like Palate Palette or No Black Tie, to name a few. And then Raven, Putra and Edoz came down to chill with us.

The Trip in the trip

Wi-fi'ing' while waiting for the live acoustic performance

So does Zaha

Jojo (half faced), Ryan, Raven and muka sundal

Watched a live acoustic performance there, and trust me the band was great. The singer's voice was almost like Eddie Vedder or David Cook, and the likes of them. And the guitarist, happened to be the second singer also had a great voice. Damn they could be a rockstar in Malaysia if they're here. More, the band was great also. Good lead guitarist, good bassist, and good percussionist. I could go there everyday to watch them perform. They performed many cover songs like Semi Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind, Daughter - Pearl Jam, Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry, Drugs Don't Work - The Verve, Love Song - The Cure, and many more good ol rock songs, in acoustic set. Just so relaxing.

Jojo and Dee-d made their move earlier about 12 in the midnight. Our friends, Nadya and Niken came by just after Jojo and Dee-d left. we stayed there until 2.00am.

Something scares Nadya and Niken.. I wonder what..

Nadya's boyfriend, Adhi came to pick us and drove us around town for a while, checking out 'cool places' and then we went back to the hotel about 4.00am and slept like a baby.

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Sun is Bursting! Revenge of the NERDs!

See the flier. I will say no more, I will definitely be going, for one obvious reason.

Just to help you guys decide.

N.E.R.D - Everyone Nose (Live at Jimmy Kimmel)

For more info, go to SUNBURST KL 2009!


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Bandung-Jakarta Trip (Day 3)

January 29th, 2009

The third day was quite a ride.

Made our move early in the morning (8am!) to Tangkuban Perahu, an active volcano uphill of Bandung. We rented a car+driver from Cipaganti, one of the biggest car rental companies there.

A small cowboy town, on the way to the volcano

Stopped in the middle of the trip for breakfast. We had Bubur Ayam (chicken porridge) which is the main breakfast meal for the people around there (and maybe the whole Bandung, or even Indonesia). It's nice though.

Dee-d and Jojo were hungry I guess..

Bubur ayam ini lebih sedap daripada Bubur Ayam McD!

Very nice view, almost reaching the volcano

Reached the top of the mountain. It's kinda cold, maybe as cold as Cameron Highland (but I can't be too sure, I haven't been to Cameron for quite some time). We were crowded by the local sellers and guides there, offering souvenirs and shit. And they were kinda aggressive, if any of you guys planned to go there, make sure you have local friends or something otherwise there's no way out for you but to buy the stuff they sell. So once you bought the souvenirs, not only you get the stuff, but also you bought their sad stories (it's sad honestly, I won't lie but yeah that's a good marketing - sad and depressing stories, don't we all love soap dramas?)

That's active yo!

We could smell the sulfur (macam bau belerang)

See the awesome view behind Yours Truly

Posing jejaka-jejaka kesunyian wakakakaa

I can't remember this wood's name. But it's really unique!

Note on the Tangkuban Perahu Volcano: It's an active volcano with around 12 active volcanoes all around it, but only two that can be seen because the rest releases dangerous chemicals to human (cyanide and arsenic and shit). The last time it erupted was around 1969-1970 (can't really remember).

We trekked down the top of the mountain to the crater about one kilometer down. Then had some hot mud massage, which was told to us to be a very healthy massage (the mud is rich with minerals and whatnot). It was nice indeed, you'll feel 'lighter' after the massage.

Stopped to catch some breath

Alalaa chomeynyee.. Anak sapa neh..

Volcanic crater

Hot mud massage

Free-of-charge massage, but with a catch (dem yuh!)

It's genuine volcanic mud!

Zaha camwhoring himself

After we done with the volcano mountain, went down back to town (Dago), had a Nasi Padang lunch. Jojo and Dee-d split with us, they went to Pasar Baru, a place like a market selling textiles and whatnot. I've been told by a friend, a lot of Malaysians go there to buy stuff as well. Must be true.

The restaurant where we had our lunch

We made our move to some more distros, and then went to Paris Von Java (PVJ) in Sukajadi. There's a distro shop here in PJV, it's called 16 D'Scale. Had a meeting with the brand owner, Awey for some projects *hint hint*

No Label Stuff boutique

Sixteen D'Scale boutique in PVJ

Very nice interior, simple but elegant

They are one of the premium denim brands in Indonesia

We went back to the apartment around 12 midnight. Watched Entourage Season 5, and off to bed.

The next day would be our trip to Jakarta.

Dem yuh!