I am at it again. Please pity this blogger for his compulsive procrastination. For the past month, nothing had been posted by this genuine slacker cum imprudent wiseguy. Despite all attempts at imposing a schedule aimed to promote self-discipline, the author vigilantly guards his comfortable lifestyle of vice that include slothing and gluttony. I honestly am regretting my inactive status. The last 4 weeks had been wonderful as well as exciting. National elections was held on the 21st of March. Also, during this period of time, I went out longer with and met more friends and former schoolmates than the past 3 months since school’s over. It was a great, eventful experience. As so, I will try to address the issues and situations that had happened during this time. Oh yes, yesterday I turned 20! Okay, so I’m getting older. Nothing to be joyous for. Except for the fact that I got free food for the entire length of that day. “It’s Amazing”-Boss-level Vampire The good news so far. ‘Vampire hunting’ became a hobby. ‘Hunting lair’:Prangin Mall’s Console Game Centre, 5th floor. Watch me as I and a fellow game patron CK aka kimochi boy fought of waves of horrendously animated poligon monsters with a craving for crappy dialogue. With our plastic, sensor guns we took out round after round of ugly baddies. While senselessly swatting of the Slaves of Dracula, this particular blogger jolts, shakes,shrieks and shouts curses such as “Shit! Shit! Taste my wasabe, damn blood sucking abominations! Arrggghhhh!!” (while unleashing a trail of bullets) It’s good to be an artificial Buffy with testicles. “Call her again and I will screw you!”-Viknesk Kumarr The superb expression of a tutor-tutee (and beyond!) relationship on the rocks. The most memorable statement so far by a fellow buddy. This sums up the nature of a guy with an IQ of 140. Not bad, isn’t it? Vivid, and full of emotion. Utterly direct and straight to the point. No spin. No complications. Just undeviating comment (not to mention threat), in this instance, of my relationship with my friends and their love life. Not to worry, our brotherhood is still as cordial as ever. It should be said that, with the enormous ammount of time we have between weekends (working days for most of us, ironically), we had become a closer ‘sorority’ of sorts. Yes, I do deliberately meant sorority. A sisterhood is more implicit to our current social behaviour. Why do I say this? The word ‘emotive’ becomes relevant within our conversations. Their seemed to be a more humane, a more approachable and a less aggresive touch in our chitchats. Maybe it’s because the tense world of STPM and irritable exam questions are over. No more pressure to claim being in a ‘better’ rank and position than everybody else. No more baffling enigmas about the mysteries of the universe in mathematical form. No more annoying sarcasms from equally disturbing (and disturbed) classmates. Just, a clear, silent moment where everything, every goal, every aspiration , melts into our present reality like ice to water. Nothings supposed to be anything, nobody’s suppose to be anybody. Not to worry, this Zen-like sensation will be overtaken by a condition called ‘boredom’. “I have a fetish for ladies’ fart because they represent irrepressible urges!”-KC @ Kimochi Boy My fair Viknesk would disagree. As will most other males sane enough. Unfortunately, there aren’t many. Topics on the brink of conservative Malaysia are our delight for the last 30 days. This includes every possible ‘turn on’ from curves to character. Gossips mostly consists of the ‘ideal’ assets of a few ‘noticable’ lady colleagues. Here is a selection of our most intimate ‘exchanges’: CK: Did you know that Melon’s bum is curvy and perfectly streamlined? VK: Wow. (panting) CK: That’s because it’s comparitively large. For Square’s sake, it juts out from skirts and pants alike! Clothes just don’t fit it! VK: (speachless) CK: Once I did told her about it, as in “Nice Ass!” VK:Low-life! CK Well, it’s better than KT because he literarily talk to ladies’ ‘cups’! Other matters of interest includes the strange and forbidden entity called the female mind. It just doesn’t make any sense! You were just doing something and here comes a smack of disgust or contempt for no apparent reason. Here’s a fictional (yet realistic) account: VK: Okay, F=MxA. Force equals mass times acceleration. Got it? DR: Hmmph. (looking away) VK: Err...did you get it? Because if you didn’t... (DR breaks in between) DR: (Facing VK with a heaped up expression): What do you think I am? Stupid? Of course I got what you mean! Please! Just because you’ve such a brain doesn’t mean that you can look down on us! I know I’m stupid okay? You will never understand what idiots like me are feeling. VK: I’m just trying to make sure this tutoring session is interactive. DR: You think I don’t know what you’re thinking? I know you’re trying to shove all of your crummy ‘intellect’ into me. You think you are so great isn’t it? Since when you became that qualified to be my ‘tutor’? VK: I thought you asked me to. DR : Don’t take advantage of me anymore! I know what you’re trying to send me to with your ‘Force equals mass and acceleration’ thing. It’s one of those dirty male jokes right? Don’t think I do not know what it really is about! You’re a pervert! Bitch...(walks out of room, baffling VK) “After long consideration, we feel there is a need to set up an independent body”-EC chairman Damn right they do. Even though I wasn’t yet eligable to vote, it still does bothers me when such an important event is wrecked with confusion. Not to mention that it too had the shortest campaigning phase (just eight days!) in this counrty’s history. This is compounded by the lame excuse given by the chairman, that it was because of ‘national security’;the state, in a limit of longer than a week, could not run with a caretaker government What were they doing? Didn’t they started printing and scheduling for it since parliament was dismissed? Or when the PM stated the subject in early March? Why did the EC not publish or announce a more comprehensive guide to local election officers? What’s with the rife at Selangor and a few other states? Enough of the inquiries. Anyway, as expected BN won as it always has with a 2/3 majority. The biggest ‘shock’, as is asserted by the mainstream media, is the loss of PAS in Terenganu and various other state seats in the heartland. A sudden, negative turn for fundamentalism? Not really, to me. Over the past five years, PAS’s victory and image had been hyped up. This, along with the oftern ridiculous statements made by their party chiefs and leaders, alienated and terrorised many into thinking that they were ‘Taliban’ style bureaucrats and politicians. It is often forgotten that the gains in PAS in ’99 were due to a protest movement rather than a real burgeoning move for a more theocratic state. Felt threatened by these self-imposed moral guardians? Seen the ads posted and articles written about their potential ‘extremism’? In spite of the fact that they do hold up an ideology and system similiar to what were propogated by the Taliban, PAS isn’t the Kalshnikov wielding warrior fanatic fighting a bloody cause. They continue to choose the ‘civilised’ option of gaining power. By going ahead and getting involved in a voting system, they refute most violent actions as this option isn’t particularly ‘savvy’ among the majority of the rakyat. That isn’t to say that there isn’t a dip of radical ideas with them. By the contrary, they do want to impose a more extreme version of a religious state as compared to the others. However, we shouldn’t just go along with these scares as if their were an ala Iranian Revolution waiting to happen. Fear had too long influenced us in our choices. Do you know what our citizens love to hear and encovered in? Stability. Moderation. All fine values apart from that if taken to the instant where even change is to be annulled, this very state risks being stagnant. Why don’t we try being a liltle bit ‘possesive’? Why don’t we ask for a better transportation system? Why always enthrust on Perodua or Proton as the alternative? Why can’t their be an efficient way in dealing with congestion? What about the garbage? Aren’t most Malaysian towns, excluding perhaps the Klang Valley, dirt-laden? Why are our Municipal Councils members chosen from the top ? Why not ask for them to be directly selected from the bottom? “You sloth! No work, no pay yet money flies into your pockets!”-Kevin It is arguably the best description of my life, post-STPM. Kudos to Kevin who doesn’t have any free time for his good pals, as he’s busy partaking in a sacred ceremonial rite with the opposite gender named ‘dating’. Hopefully in will stop being a one-way affair, with Kev unconciously chatting to an inanimate object rather than his precious princess.