Wednesday, June 25, 2008

amazing stupidity

what i experienced today was experienced by my cousin a few months back..

i was in need to go to the loo after a streak of journey to the banks, on my way to do my long awaited retail therapy. drove to the nearest petrol station, went into the toilet, happily relieving my bladder and ploop ! my car key went into the hole.. yeap, into the toilet, the hole in the ground.. without pause the first word came out from my mouth was "shit ! shit !" and scream my cousin's name.. her series just got contagious...!

also without thinking i put my fingers into the hole, took the key, wash both my hand and key at the sink and out of the toilet.. of course with wet key the remote didn't work. unlock the car using the key then yeah.. it kicked the alarm..

didn't really care about the alarm and everyone was looking at me, i did the most important thing first - washed my hand again with soap, wet tissues, hand wash and perfume.. luckily i got a bottle of water in the car and i use all 1.5litres washing my hand and the key (owh, and i just realized that the bottle of water was air zam-zam that mom gave me a few months back).. heheheheh, at least i know now that my hand and key are really holy clean.. ;-)

after that i start dialing darling's no, told him what happen, ask him how to switch off the alarm and he ask me to do something that made me just hang up the call - read the manual..

tried calling my friend, the previous owner of the car but no to avail..

ok, read the manual seems to be my only choice..

stupid manual didn't say anything about any switch.. i know there should be a button, just couldn't find it.. the only thing that the manual says is to press the unlock button at the remote.. idiot ! the remote is not working la..

ok, think.. was sitting in the car with the alarm still deafening my ears, with 3 patrol cars parked just beside me (but of course the 6 uniformed so-called pdrm officers didn't offer any help, so much of cepat, mesra & betul.. what rubbish !), i started unscrewing the remote, dissemble it and start blowing and wiping the water marks..

thank god it worked !! am so proud of my d.i.y. solution, and off to shopping ;-)

yeehaaa... lesson learnt...

c'est la vie !

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

down...

i had a bad day today..

got up with nothing much to do except doing a dvd marathon - 24, prison break, csi, brothers and sisters, boston legal, one tree hill, desperate housewives & monk. more to come - criminal minds, hustle, smallville, supernatural, ghost whisperers, bones and more csi..
very unproductive week..

realized that i lost my ic, driving license and 2 atm cards. for the life of me i cannot remember when or where. instinct says it's somewhere in the house but i already tear apart my apartment and still to no avail..
for the second time in my life, am an immigrant..

fought with client about payment. contract says the terms of payment are 40% before the show, 10% a week before the show and 50% no later than 30-days after the show, which is due tomorrow. i received our first payment less than 3 weeks before the show and that was it. i was pressured by my team and of course i trigger happy too. for an international show and multimillion dollar company, i am hoping that the client would wanna avoid humiliation..
now is blackmailing time..

yesterday i got a call from my cousin and her bro-in-law, laughing their lungs out after looking at my photo which was taken at her wedding 12 years ago.

today my darling called laughing his bladder off after looking at my photo which was tagged by my senior in school. pix was taken 16 years ago.

i told my good friend that any of my photo taken from 1983 - 2001, if to be published anywhere, i'd die. she laughed her heads off too..

shheeeshh...

c'est la vie...

Saturday, June 14, 2008

anak manja mommy & ayah

commonly, when anybody knows that i am the only child in the family, the first reaction was "aaa, anak manja la ni"..

sheesshhh, i wish..

when i was still schooling my parents were not that patient with me. i got scolded, screamed at, kena sebat with rotan, kene sebat with belt, kena pukul with their bare hands.. i don't remember being slapped but am not surprise if i did. i melawan of course BUT never reported it as kena DERA. maybe that's how kids during my time were brought up. however we don't like how our parents treated us, we still respect them as our parents and live with it.

unlike kids, teenagers, adults nor parents nowadays. the teachers can't even touch or talk to their students anymore. if they dare to do it, the teacher will be transfered to some other state or worst terminated.

my real name is spelt in strange way, not how it normally does. so, my school teacher always write the wrong spelling. once in my primary school days, my dad wrote my name on a big piece of cardboard, came to school and gave it to the teacher.

once a friend ring me at home when i was out and asked my dad when would i be back. my dad's answer was "entah, saya pun tak tanya kenapa awak pulak tanya ?"

my mom would put in the best school in town, fetch me from school during her lunch break then go back to work. cooked for me in the dawn so i'll have food when i come back from school, entertained my friends when they sleepover, studied with me even cried with me when i am sad.

once, i broke up with a so-called boyfriend in college, i cried and cried and cried. mom came into my room hug me, said "if mommy can cry for you i would but you don't have to do it alone, ok.."

once my parents told me that when they are old and i am too busy to take care of them, i can send them to the old folks home but the expensive one lah and i will have to pay for it.. but since they have their own house, i will have to pay for a hunk and a babe to be their in-house maid ;-)

yesterday, my cousin & friend were talking about kids upbringing and she told us what her mom told her, exactly what my mom told me.

my parents brought me up with a very very strict environment, NO to everything, MUST DO to all the must dos and DON'T to all the don'ts. i rebelled but still respect them. teachers can scold me and my parents would agree. all are for the best of my education & life. it went on until i earn the papers.

when i started working, having my own income, my parents told me that they have taught me to be a person and that i can do whatever i want with my life with ONE condition - in anything i do, not to humiliate them..

i have to admit that i did, once. one thing that humiliated them and i do regret it. but they did not disowned me and we handled it like a family. that is why until now, don't anybody, not even their siblings try anything to hurt my parents. not if they wanna know how my sarcasm works.

45 minutes away from where they live, i don't go back as much as i think they would want me to. last year i think i went back only 6 times. this year the family definition has changed, thanks to my darling who coincidently live only about 10mins away from my parents so that makes me go back on weekly basis.

despite all that, now, for sure, i know that my parents are very very proud of me. i know these for fact coz i can see their happy smiles when they saw my car parked outside in the morning then when i got up, breakfast is ready. the only reason they ask when am i going back to kl is to know if they have time for dinner with me.

now i admit that i am my mommy's and ayah's anak manja :-)

c'est la vie...

Thursday, June 12, 2008

therapy..

i quoted from my darling after i told him about the cyber attack - "budak spastik macam tu jangan layan lah... dia syok sendiri je tu"..

and i just have to do this, for the fun of it, wanna entertain the high and mighty side of me.. i googled my name and found something very therapeutic...


johndesilva.blogspot.com

KLPac peeps: DATO’ FARIDAH, thank you so much for giving us all the opportunity!
LINA HASBULLAH, the very definition of a super-cool woman! NICK DAVIS, for being more than a Stage Manager to us all! SURENEE & YUE MAY, thank you for doing such a great job on the publicity! SAZALI & THE TECHIES thanks! MIKE & IAN, thanks! Box-Office and Front of House staff, thank you so much! Hoping to see all of you again soon!


www.xanga.com

On Friday night, I was given the privilege to witness... BROKEN BRIDGES - THE MUSICAL.
.... After the show, Colin, who starred as Ming's father, Wong took us for a backstage tour of KLPAC! It was really nice, we got to see the dressing rooms, the backstage area and a whole bunch of other interesting places. Unfortunately, the assistant stage manager who admitted us in got a shelling from her superior :P We were a lot more grateful after that... So thank you, Colin and Lina for the tour!




and i found these on page one of google search.. soothing....
eddy's, none except for his own overselling blog..

oooohhh, am being sooo childish.. spank me !

c'est la vie !

i need a wishing genie...

lately, my mind is playing harsh games with me.. chill !!

there's only 6 things that can make me happy now :-

1. cheque from the play i stage-managed in may
2. cheque from the play i produced in may
3. cheque from the event i emcee-ed last week
4. a good lepaking session with bunch of crazy friends / cousins / darling
5. a good pool session with bunch of crazy friends / cousins / darling
6. a retail therapy, alone..

okay, 6 is my lucky number...

c'est la vie !

Attn to Mr. Eddy Rusdi

today i read a blog that personally attacked me as a director. it was a long one, and the word refers me as "pengarah yang meraban & tak profesional" (refer to http://artsloveddy.blogspot.com)

there, how not professional am i to state his blog add on my blog ?

my cousin said everybody is entitled to their own opinion. agreed. so do i.

before i give my opinion, i want to correct this boy for mentioning 'the actors studio' as when i directed this play i was already NOT ATTACHED with 'the actors studio'. i proudly claim that the production was produced by own company along with the production team. 'the actors studio' do not get any credits with regards to this production.

so obviously, eddy, you don't know any bits of my credential, so get your facts right before giving your opinion.

as a director of the play, of coz i do have some dissatisfaction about the whole thing. from pre-pro right up to the end of show. but i keep my opinion to myself as i appreciated everybody's effort trying their very best to satisfy me. from day one i understood the word teamwork, i learn that even if you have the least dissatisfaction, you don't complain. just don't complain coz it'll make the production look bad as a whole. or at least if you can't contain yourself from the dissatisfaction, you go directly to the face of the person you are dissatisfied with and tell them off.

in my 10 years involvement in events & theatre management, i did just that, makes the whole production so much better. we tell off or crudely fucked off everybody and the results were superb. yeah, not everybody can take that then maybe, eddy, if you are not up to it, then maybe arts is not your forte. boy, IT IS a cruel industry.

i was told that i was too hard on the casts. i felt it was a bit unfair (speaking from my own experience) because when i landed on my first job, no one, not a single soul gave me a chance on that matter. i was treated the same like other people in team, regardless that i was new. i was fucked upside down, leaving no rooms for mistakes. i have to step up aggressively to put myself on par with the experienced one.

ok, back to the said eddy and the play. my opinion on him (since he has a lot to say about me), to me eddy portrays as someone who is good to hold a character as a hero bangsawan. that's all. don't really know him in person, but acting wise, onstage, i don't see him fit in multi characters as he only has the very ancient malay look and cannot speak english to safe his life.

i planted the "real-life" concept in the play, making sure whatever they act onstage make sense to the audience and to themselves. eddy did commented to me about it during one of the rehearsals. i rejected, of course, as his comments were only good on theory, not real life.

i repeated my comments so many times on a certain issue of the play, which eddy refers to my not being professional. well, eddy, am sure if you directing a play and your cast repeat the same mistakes, you tend to repeat your direction. or are you so noble that you gonna just let go of the mistakes and let everybody do what they want ? you are the director after all. what's the use of it ?

another thing that i think eddy was pissed off about is the payment. giving business talk to eddy, in my opinion is close to useless. so let me just say these - business people have contract terms on when they should pay or when we should get paid.

taking credits for calling other friends to join the production or allowing us to use the studio for free was lame. we, the two directors, were banging our heads when we had casting problems but we did have a plan b. allowing to use the studio was your offer, eddy. the production has already calculated the cost of studio renting. yes, thank you for letting us rehearse in the studio for free but if you want to take credit on that, please, please, send me the invoice.

eddy also wrote about "jiwa" in his blog. jiwa, according to eddy was to know yourself. eddy, i hope you already know that you have an inferiority complex in you as you don't even have the guts or jiwa to even identify yourself in one specific text message you sent to me. what were you trying to do ? letting me guess who it was from and if i didn't guess it right, i would blame your friends for it ?

i do have plans to stage this play on a bigger scale. yes eddy, since you have the opinion that you are better than me, why don't you try write a play about tanah melayu evolved to malaya then to malaysia, a play that started from the 14th century right up to now, in 30 mins, must include narration, songs, dialogs and dance. owh, plus only 2 weeks of rehearsal with 20 casts.. come on eddy, you don't even know how to act as a civilian reacting to the tunku abdul rahman's character.

your 14 years and my 10 years experience, come on, lets do a comparison chart. 14 years of acting experience is that your standard, eddy ? for a first time director, even i don't think you have achieved the national level, boy. indeed, you are not yet strong and sturdy !

so eddy, i hope now you can swallow whatever i just said as i did swallowed your words. owh, and i also hope that your english is enough for you to understand whatever i just said ;-

signing off, the proud director of 'a case of belonging', performed at berjaya times square for the reception dinner of WCIT 2008 on may 19, 2008 - lina hasbullah.

c'est la vie !

cheers !

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

silent treatment

when i come into the entertainment industry, i was taught by people with extraordinary discipline & commitment. that was almost 10 years ago. it has become my lifestyle and i practice it in all aspects in my life.

my ex-boss once said after giving a 4-months-rehearsal schedule "no excuse for coming late or not coming at all. only acceptable excuse is if you are dying or dead".

so, i apply discipline & commitment in all of my concerns including my love life.. big expectations but simple to comprehend. how to find excuse for your lover if he told you that he's going out with friends and the next time you heard from him is 20hrs later ?

i can't, of course so hence the silent treatment ! mind you, for someone who is NOT stupid nor naive nor a nincompoop, i can find thousands of reason why he DID NOT inform me of his whereabout ! my 20-hrs worrying sick, the ball is in his hand now..

c'est la vie ! still suck !!

p/s : the excuse was - mobile batt died ! what ? two mobiles died at the same time ? am sure some of us would make a point to plug it to the charger after got home safely, spend 2mins to switch on the mobile and send one simple sms - "i'm home dear".

obviously it is something impossible for some people !

yeah sure, again, it's my way or no way, therefore one main rule in my endgame - i don't tolerate loose ends..

Monday, June 9, 2008

Petrol Daze...

from 1.92 per litre to 2.70 per litre !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my car's fuel tank capacity is 65 litre.. so if i were to fill full, i have to pay RM175.50.
that is roughly a week journey !!
so in a month, i have to spend about RM702.00 for petrol !
ok, the govt is subsidizing RM625 a year..
let see... - RM702 x 12months = RM8,424 - RM625 = RM7,799.00
who's gonna subsidies me that 7k ? maybe i should start selling myself...
sigh...

oh yeah, i do have to work..
plus other expenses on hand e.g. car loan, tel bill, hp bill, electricity bill, apmt maintenance bill, my f&b and groceries and toiletries, cigarettes, quit rent, road tax and insurance, personal insurance, study loan repayment, cats food, entertainment expenses, money for parents, car maintenance, etc etc etc...

with these kind of expenses i have to have at least RM6k fix monthly income, man.. and the prime minister ask us to change our lifestyle ????? does he even know who he is talking to ? does he even realize that in actual fact with regards to one lifestyle, nobody, as in literally nobody, is stupid ?? one choose a lifestyle as they wish..

what lifestyle do we change ourselves to ?
live in trees ? eat roots & grasses ?!!

ok, increase the cost of living.. why is our ringgit malaysia still low in value ? salary rate has not increase.. cost of products and services have increase tremendously but people are earning the same amount in years.. tak kesian kat rakyat ker..

we pay tax to build up the country and we also have to pay to live.. hmmmm..

c'est a vie !! sucks !

Monday, June 2, 2008

naughty weekend

i spent the last two weeks with jack bauer, watching him in action in all seasons 1 - 6. then spent weekend with my darling, watching horatio caine and team in action in season 4 & 5. burn, baby, burn ! ;-)

after all my heroes solved all cases and my darling left me to wait for another weekend before we can meet again, i had to keep the brutal, naughty mood.



found these on the net. so, is anybody up to any truth about oneself ?

AQUARIUS
You have an inventive mind and are inclined to be progressive. You lie a great deal. You make the same mistakes repeatedly because you are stupid. Everyone thinks you are a fucking jerk. You enjoy sucking cock.

PISCES
You have vivid imagination and often think you are being followed by the FBI or CIA. You have a minor influence on your friends and people resent you for flaunting what you mistake as power. You lack confidence and are a general dipshit.

ARIES
You are a pioneer type and think most people are dickheads. You are quick to reprimand, impatient and scornful of advice. You do nothing but piss off everyone you come into contact with. You are a prick.

TAURUS
You are practical and persistent. You have a dogged determination and stick-to-it-ivness because you never do anything right the first time. Most people think you are stubborn and bull-headed. You are nothing but a fucking asshole.

GEMINI
You are a quick and intelligent thinker. People like you because you are bisexual. You are inclined to expect too much for too little. This mens you are a cheap bastard. Gemini's are notorious for thriving in incest.

CANCER
You are sympathetic and understanding to other people's problems which makes you a sucker. You always keep putting things off. This is why you will always be on welfare and won't be worth a shit. Everybody in prison is a Cancer.

LEO
You consider yourself a born leader. Everyone thinks you are an idiot. Most Leo's are bullies. You are vain and cannot tolerate honest criticism. Your arrogance is disgusting. Leo's are thieving mother-fuckers and enjoy masturbating more than sex.

VIRGO
You are the logical type ad hate disorder. You shit-picking attitute is sickening to your co-workers. You are cold and unemotional and often fall asleep while fucking. Virgo's make good bus drivers and pimps.

LIBRA
You are the artistic type and have a difficult time with reality. If you are male, you probably queer. Chances for employment and monetary gain are nil. Most Libra women are whores. All Libra's die of veneral disease.

SCORPIO
The worst of the lot. You are shrewd in business and cannot be trusted. You shall achieve the pinnacle of success because of you total lack of ethics. You are perfect son-of-a-bitch. Most Scorpio's are murdered.

SAGITTARIUS
You are optimistic and enthusiastic. You have a reckless tendency to rely on luck since you have no talent. The majority of Sagi's are drunks. You are indeed a worthless piece of shit.

CARPICORN
You are conservative and are afraid of taking risks. You are basically a chicken-shit. There has never been a Capricorn of any importance. You should kill yourself.




hmmmm.... hey, don't shoot me, i am just the messenger...

c'est la vie !

cheers !!