Saturday, May 10, 2008
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Mother's Day
She bore me all through her 3rd year undergraduate in Monash University in Australia.
She took care of me all through her final undergraduate year.
She gave birth to another seven children, all of whom are wonderful brothers and sisters that I would never trade for any other people in this world.
She raises all eight of us and nobody else in the world can do a more wonderful job than she does.
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I'm not at all good with words, nor am I with presents, gifts and surprises... so here's to you, Emak.
Thank you for all the wonderful things you've done for me this past 26 years.
Sorry for not being as good a son as I should be.
Happy Mother's Day.
-your firstborn,
IHSAN
Friday, May 09, 2008
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Some tips on how to jump from a rooftop to a tree
From observing a monkey.
1. Keep your hands together flat like a rudder to guide yourself to your arboreal destination.
2. Always overestimate your jump --- aim higher and further.
3. Keep both eyes open. Helps with the depth perception.
4. It helps a lot when you are actually in shape and have hand-like feet.
5. Ignore the pesky photographer with his lousy camera. Especially when he does not have food in his hands.
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For Weekly Photo Challenge --- Magazine Covers, I'd name the magazine Arboreal Three-Weekly or something like that.
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EDIT:
Timages' last comment gave me my 1234 credits. I've been hovering around this number for quite a while, giving Minis whever I got over. Now that I got it I can finally move on now.
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In what ways are you similar to your mother?
I am similar in many ways with my mother.
1. We both have wide feet, which makes it a bit hard to find shoes that fit, because those that fit lengthwise are too small widthwise, and those that fit widthwise are too big lengthwise. As a result I almost always look like Ron McD wearing shoes several sizes too big. Oh, except when I wear my basketball shoes, then I look cool. Hence my collection of basketball shoes.
2. We both enjoy teaching and/or instructing. Maybe because we both are loudmouths and like to speak rather than listen. Nah, not really. But we do enjoy explaining stuff to other people. My mom has been a teacher for almost twenty years and have refused several promotions to administrative positions just because she wants to keep teaching underprivileged students. I, on the other hand, have been called names like 'the walking encyclopedia' (or more recently, 'Mr. Wikipedia') due to my sometimes annoying habit of spitting out random facts and explaining them to my friends without them even asking. As for what we do on a day-to-day basis, my mother is a teacher so she is doing what she loves doing, and I am doing a master's degree, at which time I get to give consultations and advice to other students who are preparing their master's theses and/or undergraduate final year projects. Made me seriously consider a teaching / instructing profession. Like a lecturer or a teacher.
3. We both studied abroad for our undergraduate degrees. And we both majored in Mathematics too. My mom went to Monash University, Australia and I went to University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA. Oh and my dad went to University of Melbourne, and two of my sisters go to University of Miyazaki and University of Malaya respectively. We are an 'M-University' family. Too bad another one of my sisters chose to go to University of Bath instead of Manchester. Otherwise, it'd be perfect. Oh, a potential in-law actually goes to Manchester. Nice.
4. We both have lots of siblings. My mother is eighth of nine and I am first of eight (oooh I think I almost made it sound Borg-like). And we both get along with all our siblings rather well. I love our family.
5. We both have similar political inclination. Hmm maybe I should not elaborate on this too much?
... and probably many more... maybe my sisters can add more to this list!
I just answered this Featured Question, you can answer it too!
Monday, May 05, 2008
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Weekly Photo Challenge - How Was Your Holiday?
Here is my entry for "How was your Holiday?"
All the following photos were not taken by me, as I am in all of them. They are of me and my friends during my last vacation in the States. We went to Chicago for Spring Break 2007 (against the normal college trend), and I spent all my time there affirming and reaffirming the statement "Boys are silly".
Chicago Field Museum
Presenting statues of African elephants
Comparing dental awesomeness with a scaled-down T. rex.
Bite me!
Me and Ivan, extinction of the dinosaurs. I had my tongue out, but it's hard to see I guess.
Me and Ivan, arm wrestling. This goes to show that Ivan's stronger than a T rex when it comes to arm wrestling.
Imitating a dead gorilla
Me and Cassie, molting cicadas.
Egyptian slave pulling stone blocks with 'Ivan the Terrible' enjoying the ride. Too bad there's no whip around.
Other places around Chicago
In front of Adler Planetarium, against part of the Chicago skyline
I was trying to climb on top of the lion but failed. This photo made it look like I was violating the statue.
Rio de Chicago (Chinatown).
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I have lots more photos of the Chicago Trip, but I'll leave it hanging here. Tell me if you actually want to see other photos of the Chicago trip.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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Visitor Stats for this past year
Interesting trend, isn't it. You get featured and lo, the floodgate opens and visitors come rushing in. A month or so after that, they come in trickling and soon after, drop out entirely.
After looking at March 2008 stats I realized that I need to move the location of the counter script, and so I did and after the move, the stats climbed back up, as it should.
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Whosaiditwhere? (Updated with full answers)
I'm bored at work so I decided to make this.
Friends, I invite you to guess who said these quotes in which movie. I'll give you one universal clue: Disney.
1. "Burr-dah!" (Bambi --- Bambi)
2. "En garde, you overgrown pocket watch!" (Lumiere --- Beauty and the Beast)
3. "What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?" (Snow White --- Snow White)
4. "I alone have the information that reveals this weapon's only weakness." (Buzz Lightyear --- Toy Story)
5. "What's the point of going out there, they'll only laugh at me." (Slim --- A Bug's Life)
6. "Sorry, madame." *clue: Les Poissons (Chef Louis --- The Little Mermaid)
7. "Because the finding of this finds you incapacitorially finding and/or locating in your discovering the detecting of a way to save your dolly belle ol' whatsherface." (Captain Jack Sparrow ---Pirates of the Caribbean: The Dead Man's Chest)
8. "I'm gonna hit you so hard, it'll make your ancestors dizzy." (Yao --- Mulan)
9. "In your honor, a Royal Flush." (Hallie Parker --- Parent Trap)
10. "He what in his cup?" (Mater --- Cars)
First one to get all correct will get some kind of recognition from me. Like a Ninja Mini or something. Coz at the moment, that's all I can afford, unless I have more creds.
P/S: I wrote all of the above quotes from memory.
*EDIT:
I shall include more clues if need be.
SarahsD (and her kids) and Cassie combined has managed to guess all the movies correctly (congratulations!).
No one managed to answer all of them correctly, but Cassie got most of them right. =)
Expect something of a similar theme sometime in the future!
Monday, April 28, 2008
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Whose precious?
Someone needs to come home and claim this.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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Hitz.fm Morning Crew Parody - I Got It From My Mamak
I love the Morning Crew parodies... this one is their latest, parodied from will.i.am's I Got It From My Mama.EDIT:
Here are the lyrics:
Hey JJ...
Laparla...
Yeala, where you wanna go ah?
Dunno, you got kereta?
No ah... jalan lah
HERE WE GO!
JJ, where'd you get your canai from?
Rudy, where'd you get your maggi from?
JJ, where'd you get your tosai from?
Rudy, where'd you get your curry from?
I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it got it got it...
JJ, where'd you get your kopi from?
Rudy, where'd you get your nasi from?
JJ, where'd you get your sambal from?
Eh, Rudy, where'd you get your tapau from?
I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it got it got it...
Mamak, looking good from his head to his toe,
Curry overload, body out of control,
Open 24, you can always go,
So happening, also got cendol,
Roti smelling good, they don't use ghee,
It's almost four, it's the place to eat, (apa khabar?)
You can tell curry's been there for a week, (wah sedap!)
Mamak made it hot, I can feel the heat!
So be jolly good and thank your mamak,
He makes food just like a sauna,
Panas, panas, here it comes now, panas, panas, here it comes now,
Oooo
I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it got it got it...
Aney, Aney, Tolong kira please boss!
(Some tamil convo here lolz)
- What?
- Ten ringgit forty cent, buuuttt for you guys - Ten ringgit.
- THANK YOU MACHA!
Eh Rudy..
Ah..
Mmm, tak rasa la. Not enough spice la...
Don't worry, I know what to do man.
Really?
(Telephone dialling)
HEY JIN!
Ow Sh*t, it's the morning crew!
Hahahahahahaha
Ho, you ain't hungry?
Well - I - am,
Take you to a place where they don't eat ham,
Speak Malay or speak Chinese,
A little bit of rice and some black eyed peas,
Where else can you go and eat real late?
Straight from the club and it's food on your plate,
Love Mickey Dee's, but not today,
Think I'm in the mood for some cool teh,
Tell JJ, I think I found a winner,
Me and Rudy, we both missed dinner,
So you know that we're ready to eat,
No durians, now please have a seat!
Come on...
I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it got it got it...
All this food right here, I got all this from my MAMAK.
All this food right here, I got all this from my MAMAK.
If the roti real fine, 9 times outta 10, its coming from my mamak,
If the kopi real sweet, 9 times outta 10, its sweeter at my mamak,
If the cat's really ugly, I bet you, it is not at my mamak,
If the girl's real fine, 9 times outta 10, she's hanging at my mamak,
If you're chilling in Subang, 9 times outta 10, you're chilling at my mamak,
If you're hanging in Ampang, 9 times outta 10, you're hanging at my mamak,
At my mamak!
JJ, where'd you get your canai from?
Rudy, where'd you get your maggi from?
JJ, where'd you get your tosai from?
Rudy, where'd you get your curry from?
I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it got it got it...
Roti make some noise!
If you like kopi, make some noise!
If you like mamak, make some noise!
Make some noise, Make some noise, noise, noise...
(noi, noi, noi, noi, noi...)
Ok, ok enough of the noise, eh - macha, macha, Rudy - Stop with the tin cans la!
Are you serious?
Yeala please
Alrite
Eh, but how's your roti ah?
Ooo, dahsyat man
Eh, eh whatchu got eh watchu wat's that?
Eheh, chicken, lamb, everything inside!
Got telur?
GOOOOOTTTT
ihsankhairir
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- Name: Ihsan
- Country: Malaysia
- Metro: Kuala Lumpur
- Birthday: 2/16/1983
- Gender: Male
- Member Since: 6/27/2003
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My computer was running some tests when I left for lunch break. When I returned to the lab, there was no electricity. Darnit.
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I am so inconsistent when it comes to bowling scores, but I keep winning. I wonder why...
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The time to shave my beard/goatee has come...
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