Maharaja Penang

I am a proud penangite. I love everything about it. The food, culture, people, history and many more. There's no place that could ever compares with my Penang. Makan pi la apa pun, tapi last2 nanti cari nasi kandaq jugak. Nasi kandaq ganja special recipe, mana tak sedap. Unlike college, I met lots of friends from all other states in Uni. So whenever I had the chance, I would promote everything there is about Penang. And it's good, for a change, to hear outsider's opinion about Penang, the host-state where they study. 

I'm proud if I stumbled across status-status fb/twitter orang luar yang tulis 'woah, nasik kandaq sedap', 'pesta penang best', or 'jalan-jalan tgk heritage penang'. Of which Im sure that they will have a good time, or at least learnt something from their penang-experience. Tapi..kadang-kadang tu ada jugak jumpa status or updates yang tak best. Macam 'penang ni panas gila'. Or some spoilt brat tulis 'uols takdak ice skating rink ka?, tmpat iols ada 8 skating rink'. -_-" Salam middle finger utk ang, sbb klu ang check betul2, kat kompleks bukit jambul dulu ada ja ice skating, cuma skarang dah takdak. Because ice skating is not the 'in thing' nowadays.

Ok aku melawak ja. Kami orang penang penuh dengan sopan santun. Kami tak buat salam middle finger atau warning orang ala-ala meme ni. Paling kuat pun kami haria sampai relai jaa. Haha. Okay joking aside, lets make it clear that I'm not an ethnocentric. I never feel in any way, that our culture is superior than any other cultures. It's just that I want all my friends to have a good time during their three/four years stint staying in Penang. Maybe Im a people pleaser, so kalau orang kata biskut tambun atau jeruk kedai ni tak sedap, aku nanti usaha juga cari biskut tambun or jeruk yang sedap hoping that he/she will change his mind.

My friends who knew my people pleasing nature would always ripped me off complaining about Penang, because they know it ticks me off and annoys me. Sometimes they would join forces just to see that smirk on my face. They enjoyed to see me defending penang's honour eventhough I ran out of points to argue. That bad huh? okay fineee. but fyi, no, kalau kawin dengan mamak penang, depa tak mangga grill and kurung bini depa. Anak mami lani boleh ja kluaq jalan-jalan pi ropewalk or pi chowrasta. And bila kami cakap kuah gulai, it refers to kuah kari, not just any kind of kuah. Okay I ran out points. Next time pulak.

Monday Couple

Monday blues la konon. Penang cuti Thaipusam. Nah, bersempena mundane monday.

Jam Tangan Licorne

I don't wear a wrist watch, but I really do love 'em. I can't really remember when was the last time I ever wore one. Perhaps maybe three or four years ago. Back in the days, I used to have a Tissot which I bought around 800 bucks. It was a bargain, I bought it during a sales. Six months after, I knocked it on a goal post when playing futsal and it stopped working. Brought it back to the shop and the dealer said that the damage wasn't covered in the warranty, therefore I had to pay for it to be fixed. And to get it fixed, I had to fork out around 700 bucks. That's almost like buying a new one! Bloody hell. 

Then only I understand the maxim 'Lot of people can afford to buy a Mercedes, but not a lot of people can afford  the maintenance'. If you're looking to buy something pricey, make sure you're in capacity to maintain them. I learnt my lesson. Nasib baik jam ja, bukan kereta. In the end, I decided to not get it fixed, and let it collects dust in my drawer. And ever since then, I never wear a watch. Yea I could buy a cheap rip off watch from the pasar malam, just for the sake of time keeping, but I would never feel the same. Once you had the taste of a good, quality watch, you would never go back.

It's not the luxury, nor the brand and price. But the feeling it provides me whenever I wore it. Whenever you found something that really fit your style and made you feel so comfortable, it is unlikely you'll look for others. Take my Predator futsal shoes for example. It was the only shoe that suit my playing style; wrapped nicely to my foot's shape and size and provide so much 'umph' in my futsal-experince. After the shoe all worn out, there's no other shoe that could replace it. Even shoes that were more expensive could not 'complete' me like the Predator did. lulz macam awek pulak

That is why I didn't wear a watch all these years. I keep telling myself that my next watch is going to be something fancy. I will wait up, get myself enough dough and find the perfect watch that I really want. Ok ni macam bini pulak. A watch that can last a lifetime so that I could inherit them to my kids. You get the idea. In the mean time, I'm just browsing and learning about all there is about watches. My dream watch would be a Panerai, perhaps a Patek if I married a rich woman could stretch my budget. But lately, I have grown to like mechanical watch.

I don't know what about it that attracts me. Probably the craftsmanship, the movement, the escape mechanism and that  it never use a battery that you have to wind them up yourself. It gives you that kind of old school feeling, unlike the standard quarts and digital watch available in the market now. Of course, these kind of watches are expensive. But I just found out about the Chinese Standard Movement watches, and to my surprise, their watches are top class. The time keeping is reliable, probably you don't even have to adjust the timing your whole life at all. And most importantly, it is cheap. Maybe I should splurge out the cash now to buy this little watch-gasm?

Ideals

Four posts in four days. Wah, on a roll ahh this fella. hehe. jangan warm warm chicken poop dah la. lama-lama nanti update sebulan sekali ja. lulz. Isu 'listen' baru-baru ni buat aku teringin nak tulis pasal pembodohan mahasiswa. Regarding mentality and attitude of our mahasiswa which frustrates me times and times again. Yes, I believe people are different and they are entitled to their own opinion. Having said that, kalau seseorang tu ada opinion yang tak mainstream, tak semestinya dia salah.

I took a finance major and psychology as my minor. Hampir setiap minggu aku disuap dengan pelbagai teori dan model kewangan yang penuh dengan unsur riba, yang menindas masyarakat dan cukup zalim. Dekat kelas psychology, aku disuap pulak dengan pelbagai teori-teori psikologi yang sangat bizzare mcm Darwin evolution theory yg ckp mankind comes from monkey,oedipus complex yg ckp you are sexually attracted to your mother and wants to kill your dad, and other weird stuff.

You see, no matter how much truth is reflected in this lesson, or no matter how much these things are accepted worldwide we ought to think for ourself and never let our opinion be of those from the textbook we read. Jangan nak jadi pedantic sangat by simply accepting and believing whatever that we've been told. Orang cakap A, kita pun cakap A, sebab apa, ouhh sebab ada dalam textbook, sebab ada dalam newspaper. Sebab satu dunia pakai sistem tu. So kita ikut ja lah.

Kalau orang cakap kat kita 'free education for all in malaysia is not possible' kita pun tepuk tangan dan setuju. Orang yang terlebih pandai pun mula lah nak quote some stuff he read in Google Scholar without for even a second challenging or criticizing the idea. Yes, whatever they told us might contain the truth, or half the truth like those financial models I learnt. But ask yourself, is this ideal? Is this what we want for the future generations? Orang cakap kat kita 'Come on, be realistic, reserve negara sekian sekian, GDP negara sekian-sekian, it's mathematically impossible kita boleh bagi free education'.

Peduli apa aku kalau mathematically impossible pun? Im an idealist, not a realist. We live by our ideals, and that's the only reason I woke up everyday and live my life.  To see a better day. To say that something is not possible is like killing our aspirations and hopes. Instead of saying 'not possible', why don't we all just strive and work harder to realize these ideals?