| It's A Wrap! |
[Jun. 21st, 2007|01:18 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | bamboo, beans, blog, blogosphere, chestnuts, chinese, closure, dean, dragon boat festival, dumpling, dumpling festival, egg, festival, kl, lunar, malaysia, meat, mum, mushroom, nikon coolpix 2100, penang, qu yuan, rice, sabbatical, salted, singapore, solace, yolk, 屈原, 战国, 端午节, 粽子 | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Taman Kinrara, Puchong | ] |
| [ | Mood |
| |  indescribable | ] |
| [ | Music |
| | Ivri Lider & Idan Raichel - Strong World | ] |
Steamed rice dumplings.
It was Dumpling Festival yesterday. Some call it Dragon Boat Festival. In Mandarin, it's called Duan Wu Jie (端午节). It's the fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar calendar, a day of commemorating the Chinese patriot and poet, Qu Yuan (屈原) who killed himself by jumping into the river to show his disappointment to the downfall of the Chu Dynasty he loyally supported during the Zhan Guo 战国 (Warring States) period. Traditionally, people would throw zong zi (粽子) or rice dumplings into rivers in hopes that the fish in the river would feed on these dumplings instead of the body of the fallen idol. These dumplings are usually consisting of rice wrapped in bamboo leaves stuffed with meat, beans, chestnuts, salted egg yolks and mushrooms.
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| The Day My Room Is Mine Once More |
[May. 21st, 2007|03:01 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | aircon, apartment, bed, bro, brother, dream, family, home, kinrara, monday, nikon coolpix 2100, puchong, room, sunday | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Taman Kinrara, Puchong | ] |
| [ | Mood |
| |  happy | ] |
| [ | Music |
| | Ross Copperman - All She Wrote | ] |
It’s Sunday, a week just went by; like sheets of paper you tear off the toilet roll when you realise you’ve reached the hard surface of the cardboard-tube. Or that very last cube of ice left in the freezer you tried to melt slowly in your mouth after finishing a bowl of spicy noodles soup; saving the last bit of relief. You wish for more.
Just imagine. An extension to Sunday, the 8th day of the week. A day between Sunday and Monday when you can continue doing things you are so passionate about that you feel so fulfilled that you are ready to face the new week. But alas, they normally happen when you fall into deep sleep, in a dream so rich and real; you wet your pants, you fall of bed, you cry, you laugh, you talk, you walk out of bed and you even drool.
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My makeshift desktop in the room.
I was up in my own bed this bright morning, contented; happy. For a month, I gave in to mum’s request to let my brother who’s a year my junior have my room. Since I moved to Singapore, bro has sort of taken over my room and even installed a brand new air-conditioning unit before claiming it his own. All this while, no one told me about it. And coming back home, I was disoriented by such arrangement. At some point, I felt like I was living at some hotel, nothing felt permanent to me. The white and blue coloured room which had a little part of me in it is now something else. Part of the blue is plastered with images of him with other people. The table is cluttered with wiring and trinket of things. But I am thankful my books are untouched in the shelves. Some of the CDs are carelessly placed here and there.
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| The One With The Food Poisoning |
[May. 13th, 2007|04:17 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | bbc, bbq, borders, carrin, clinic, cousin, ee won, food, food poisoning, ikea, klinik, meat, medical, mother's day, muscle, nikon coolpix 2100, pain, phad thai, rain, seafood, shellfish, steamboat, sutthisan, thailand, the curve, top gear, สถานีสุทธิสาร | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Taman Kinrara, Puchong | ] |
| [ | Music |
| | Coldplay - Bigger Stronger | ] |
The rain brought cheers to my otherwise vapid and warm afternoon, with not much entertainment except for that Korean movie about a kid and his love for his grandma and BBC's finest TV programme on cars, TOP GEAR. I cannot eat anything but bread and bread only thanks to the food poisoning episode.
Looking out from parents' apartment during a drizzling afternoon.
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The patient sat on the hard bench cringed down, moaning in pain that was twisting in his tummy as his two cousin sisters stood helplessly, nervously watching and wondering what they were going to do.
Oblivious to some curious patrons to the mall passing by the scene, next to the BORDERS book store which is conveniently located next to the washroom, the patient almost cried out in the excruciating pain that came like giant waves of tsunami that hit almost every time he tried to relax. It was as if someone planted multiple punches in the gut and the shock that came with it felt like an elephant trampled on it. It was embarrassing to let the girls see the non-macho side of their cousin. In contrast to the earlier part of the evening at the escalator, Ee Won pressed his firm chest and commented, “Wow.. got muscles eh?”. No muscles no more now eh?
In the background, Carrin was calling her boyfriend for help on her mobile phone. “Jin, where are you? Vince is having a severe tummy ache, what to do?”
“Should we send him to the hospital?”
“Is there any clinic at The Curve?”
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| Hati Yang Terusik |
[Apr. 30th, 2007|03:16 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | english, hati, heart, malay, minda, nikon coolpix 2100, poem, poetry, puisi, seremban, thorn | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Taman Kinrara, Puchong | ] |
| [ | Mood |
| |  gloomy | ] |
| [ | Music |
| | SEAMO feat. Azu - 心の声 | ] |
I wrote a Malay poem tonight. Literally translated as "A Stirred Heart". Thought of sharing. I am going to extend this entry with its English equivalent in a few days' time. Maybe prior to that, someone would like to help come up with its translation. You can be creative, up to your interpretation.
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A building somewhere in Seremban, Malaysia.
Hati Yang Terusik
by Vincent Lai
di celah-celah mindaku
terpautnya cebisan kata-katanya,
yang masih menyelubungi
fikiranku yang kusut.
aku lalai,
pintu hatiku yang lama tertutup,
tiba-tiba terbuka,
terusik oleh isi hatinya.
mentari yang menyinari kamar
seolah-olah mengasihaniku.
sinar bulan sabit yang lemah
bagaikan sindiran yang cemuh.
merana aku sehari
terusik aku sepanjang malam,
dicemari keluhan hati
di setiap pelusuk diri.
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A Stirred Heart
by Vincent Lai
Translated into English from a Malay poem, "Hati Yang Terusik"
1354H, 30 April 2007.
between the corners of my mind
still bounded by traces of his words,
shrouding my clouded thoughts.
the careless me;
once a long closed heart,
its doors suddenly left ajar,
stirred by his innermost voice.
the rays of the sun
that made way into the chamber,
as if took pity on me.
that faint glow
of the moon crescent,
as if a laughing stock.
for a day I was in despair
the whole night disturbed I was,
poisoned by the sighs of the heart
that infected my every part.
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| KLCC Revisited |
[Apr. 17th, 2007|02:08 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | camera, claire, convention centre, eddie, food court, juice bar, kl, klcc, looi, neuy, nikon coolpix 2100, pc fair, photography, suria, yew wai, yuen | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Taman Kinrara, Puchong | ] |
| [ | Mood |
| | cheerful | ] |
| [ | Music |
| | Evan - Nobody Else Like You | ] |
// One of the Petronas Twin Towers //
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