Brrrr Brrrr

What is brrrrr? It is actually the sound a bird makes. And who knew the word is even in urban dicitonary.

So moving on, meet the birdman!!! Yes, he calls himself the birdman.


He is actually the boss of Cash Money Records. Boss of Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Jay Sean, etc. You can check out his Wikipedia page if you want. But I don't want to talk about who he is and all. Its just that I noticed something about him that I find quite funny. After going through youtube all this while I realized that he appears in other peoples videos a lot. A LOT. He doesn't rap or anything, he just stands there, show face and go. Look at these screenshots:

Birdman & Jay Sean

Birdman & Lil Wayne

Birdman & Drake

Birdman & T-Pain

Birdman & Lil Twist

Birdman in Chris Brown's video

If you noticed, he rubs his hands together in almost all the videos right. Standard boss' pose lah I think. I have come across more videos of him standing around rubbing his hands, but I think this is enough to prove my point. Boss mau tunjuk muka, what to do...

Dengue Dengue

Finally back after 2 months...

So I had dengue recently and it was quite difficult to find understandable stuff about dengue on the internet, so here is the why, how, when and all that in layman's terms.

First of all, when you kena dengue, you feel sad all the time. Sitting on the chair while looking at the tv. Looking not watching. So sad. Then your blood platelets will go down. Normal safe level is 150 x 10^3. Mine went down to 25 and there's nothing you can do about it. It just keeps on going down down down. If it goes this low and you injure yourself and start to bleed then there's a problem, so jaga jaga a bit. If no injuries then relax lah no problem.

The only thing the doctors ask you to do is drink fluids ( water, milo ais, 100 plus, etc.) and take panadol. Why water? Actually if you don't have enough water then your blood becomes too thick. Then for some reason your blood cells will burst and plasma will leak out and you can die. Leak from where to where I don't know but it will leak. This is the main problem. So the 3.5 liters per day they ask you to drink is for blood concentration, not platelets.

Next there is panadol. Why? Simply to bring down the fever so that your body cells will function properly at the proper temperature. Makes sense right? So eat your panadol on time and use koolfever.

Around the 6th day of dengue, suddenly your fever will be gone. But platelets will still go down. Next 2 days it will go up and once it goes up it won't go down anymore so no need to worry already. But then your whole body will be itchy and there's no use scratching because its on the inside. So pandai pandai lah tahan.

So that is how I survived dengue. Hopefully you know how it works now. And one more thing, after everything is done, for the next few days, you'll look like a lobster and feel high all the time as if you just smoked weed and got a tan at the same time. So don't be surprised. Just a reminder. And marilah kita bersama-sama cegah denggi...

Quote Quote

After watching glee the other day (episode 3- grilled cheesus) which is about God, I remembered a quote my aunty used to say. Then a few days after that while talking with people I remembered more quotes. So here are some of the cun quotes that I remember for quite some time now:

1. Prayer is personal

My aunty said this when one of my cousins didn't attend some temple function, then my other relatives taruh him kaw kaw. "Prayer is personal" that's all she said, then problem solved.

2. Pain is temporary, but glory lasts forever.

My senior told me this in high school when we were training for a competition. Very motivational. Remembered until now.

3. Why ask 'why me'?

I heard this on tv actually but I forgot which show. The person was talking about a tennis player who always help others, do charity work and all and was one of the top champions. Very good guy lah lebih kurang. But then he got cancer. So people always ask him "don't you wonder why this happen to you?" So he replied "Why ask 'why me' now when I didn't ask 'why me' when God gave me the championship before." Damn deep rite. So don't ask why me again.

4. Things happen for a reason

This one can say it applies to my daily life lah. I just feel that somehow things that doesn't seem right at that moment will make sense at the end of the day. Somehow.

5. For me to know is for you to find out

My teachers always use this when we ask some obvious or silly questions. I still don't get it until now. Lame lah.

6. For me.

My friends back in Kajang use this all the time. If they ask you to do something and you refuse, their first response to pujuk you would be "for me". For example:

Ali: Dei come watch movie.
Abu: Cannot lah got some homework to do.
Ali : Come lah, for me.

Always like this, without fail.

Kejar Kejar

Reminisce: To recollect and tell of past experiences or events.

After reading poems in literature class for the past week, for some reason I thought about how I used to play kejar-kejar in school and how we decide who jadi. So here is what me and my friends used to do in school before.


1. 1, 2 jus

Back in my school the system was water vs bird vs stone. But some people use gun lah, scissors lah, paper lah.

2. Lat tali lat tali tam plom

Everybody knows this rite. Still used until today. In my opinion this is the best way to solve a problem. Simple.

Here comes the poetic part when we want to kira and find out who jadi:

3.

Bi bala bi,
Taman jadi,
Tujuh biji,
Bas stop

I know doesn't make sense but everyone in my school and some people from my neighborhood knows this. I wonder if other people knows this...

4.

Inky Pinky Ponkey,
Father bought a donkey,
Donkey died,
Father cried,
Inky Pinky Ponkey.

My PJK teacher used tell us to use this: "Boys, faster inky pinky ponky and split team"

5.

Pen merah pen biru,
Mak marah I love you.

I stopped using this after primary school though, too romantic, haha.

6.

Police and thief,
Want to jaga,
Police mati,
Pencuri jaga.

This one obviously for police and thief.

That's all at the moment. See how poetic Malaysian children are...

Layan Layan

I read an interesting article in a newspaper recently, not NST but Berita Harian. Wanna know whats the title?

Maksiat di lebuh raya
Kereta dipandu bergerak terhoyong-hayang akibat pemandu hilang tumpuan asyik layan nafsu


What a title lah. Somehow these kind of things sounds funnier when its in Malay right? Here's the link to the article.

Anyway, the story is that some people "layan nafsu" at the LEKAS highway after midnight in their car which is either parked on the side of the road or still moving. Still moving? How lah?

here's one funny line in the article:

"Penduduk mendakwa, corak pemanduan berbahaya itu berikutan pemandu terbabit sedang asyik melayan nafsu sehingga tidak dapat memberikan tumpuan ketika memandu."

See that, the penduduk saw the cars moving dangerously then straightaway they know the driver tengah layan nafsu. How they know? Penduduk prihatin lah must be.

This is in Paroi, Negeri Sembilan where people use the road as a "`port' memadu kasih berikutan keadaan jalan yang agak gelap." Saw that, became port already. I wonder how it became a 'port' in the first place. How come so many people go there to do it? Maybe they had this conversation,

Ali: Bro, aku nak layan nafsu lah tapi takde port. Camne ah?
Abu: Kau pergi highway LEKAS, gelap sikit, boleh buat 'projek'.
Ali: Camne kau tahu?

How they know? Word of mouth? Friends recommendation? Now came out in paper already even more people know lah. More people buat projek.

Remaja-remaja zaman sekarang...

Gaajah Gaajah 2

Saw that, first page of the first volume

??? ???

We discussed a short story in literature class the other day. Title was "Spy vs Spy". Guess what happened to me on that same day? The same thing that happened in the story!!! I was shocked when it happened that I was laughing to myself.

That night, for the first time ever, EVER. I had a chat with my brother's girlfriend. For the first time! Never talk to her before, never even talk about her. At first when she came online I thought ok maybe she simply wanna kacau me, nothing better to do or what. So I layan only lah.

Then in the end the shocking part happened, she ajak me to join her, my brother and some of their friends for some high school gathering! Just like in Spy vs Spy. What a coincidence. Is it the Universe giving me a heads up? Used some emo words to influence me some more. Damn... I didn't go by the way. If I went, confirm will be damn awkward. So sudden. So unexpected. See I can't even think of a title for this post.

What my brother said? Nothing. Cover macho habis...

Run Run

I just noticed something. I'm actually an underpronator or supinator. What's that? Too bad its not a good thing. This means I'm not running how I'm supposed to run. Supination is when you put more pressure on the outer side of your foot. If you put more pressure on the inside then it is pronation. So in my case, apparently I don't pronate enough and I supinate too much so I am an underpronator.

Still don't get it? Then look at these pictures. Both pictures are of the right foot by the way.

Foot roll inward = pronation

Foot roll outward = supination (this is me)

Still don't get it? Then see this website.

Still don't get it? Then pandai pandai lah find.

No wonder always get leg pain. Never run properly. Not only leg pain, my shoes also botak on the outside already. If you see my futsal shoes then you can see the outer part of the tapak like damn botak until the rubber also disappeared. Even my black leather shoe also like that. But just a mild baldness. There, my futsal shoes:

See the base? Outer part got curve already.

So what to do? I was searching online then I found one website to ease the problem. So how? Get new shoes!!! But what shoes? It should have all these things:

• superior cushioning
• soft, flexible midsole
• single-density midsoles
  
• lightweight running shoes

Sounds like a very expensive shoe to me. Don't know wanna get it or not. And I don't think futsal shoes has any of these qualities. Futsal or running? Hmmm...

Anyway if you run a lot and you think you don't run properly, why not figure out your problem. Got excuse to buy new shoes then.

Listen Listen

Do you know any underrated singers? I feel that one really underrated singer is Zee Avi. Our own Malaysian. Have you heard any of her songs? Kantoi or Bitterheart maybe? Well if you haven't then I think you should. No auto tune, just a really really really beautiful voice that makes people's heart melt. I really really respect her for the fact that she doesn't dress up all fancy or wear and do macam-macam to gain publicity like other Malaysian artistes. She just needs her voice.

Her face, as beautiful as her voice...

Check out some of her songs or covers before she got famous on her Youtube channel, Kokokaina.

Another singer that I think is really underrated is Keri Hilson. Check out some of her songs and see what you think. Even from her youtube page you can see that she doesn't have as many views as she should have. Even the retarded gummy bear song has more than 100 million views, how come Keri Hilson only got so little?

And one thing that I notice is that she has a very "sincere" smile. I don't know how to explain it, so see for yourself. I think that her smile by itself is enough to make people like her.

See the pretty face?

So people, please pay more attention to these good singers that deserve more attention than what they are getting now. Don't just simply listen to what everybody else is listening to and don't hate on people just because others around you do, like Justin Bieber. Listen to what you want and why not give these little known singers a try.

Drink Drink

This is an article from the Cars, Bikes, Trucks section (every Sunday) of the NST. Here's the link to the article where CBT will try to solve readers' problems.

Distracting reflection on windshield:

I recently purchased a Perodua Alza Advanced, which comes with a dashboard mounted GPS navigation unit. Unfortunately, when driving at night, the reflection from the GPS screen is obstructing my view, as shown in this photo.

I think this is dangerous for drivers. I hope that Perodua can provide a solution.

- Muzafar Abdullah

Reply from Perodua:

Our findings concur with Muzzafar's claim that the reflection from the mounted GPS unit does obstruct the driver’s view when driving at night.
To overcome that problem, our GPS vendor will supply an add-on cup holder for our customers.

So the next time you see reflections a.k.a distractions (notice the label in the picture?) in your windscreen, get a drink. Who says you shouldn't drink and drive...