exaggeration and tall tales galore

Monday, February 09, 2009

Purple button-down shirt

I was watching snippets of the Grammies(between flipping to Evening on HBO and my brother squealing "What's on 555?? Come on, you said you wanted to watch the Grammies, this isn't the Grammiieeesss".

Isn't it great Adele won for best new artist? Isn't it a bit of a joke that The Jonas Brothers were nominated for same category? Isn't the Grammies a bit of a joke?

Anyway, it was Thaipusam yesterday, and I almost didn't realize it were it not for the small, page-ntah-ke-berapa feature on yesterday's papers. I'm pretty sure it would have gotten the usual page 2 or center spread special were it not for everything that's been happening in Perak. I was reading Aijud's latest post and I'm sure that sums up what a lot of people feel in regards to the topic pretty accurately as well.

In concern with everything that's happening there, I am wary to actually take a stance and openly agree and condone one party while disagreeing with the other. Nothing's ever black and white is it, it's just this blanket of gray with people on both sides wholly believing that they're in the right. So I echo Aijud's sentiments and say it makes me all annoyed and sighing and furious.

If anything, I feel sorry for that Jelapang MP's family. Even though the papers haven't verified it, there are rumors that say they're facing criticism from the public, even so far as the market refusing to sell vegetables to them. If that's true, I truly feel sorry that they're bearing the brunt of it all.

Defections? I read in the paper that while there are no anti-defection laws in the UK, they are rare and only happen in certain circumstances like when a member left the Labour Party in protest to their stance on a war(was it Iraqi or Afghanistan, tak ingat). Comparing that to the defections here, we just seem a bit lame, tak?

Well, what does my opinion matter anyway.

I'm off for a couple weeks, I wish you all well. Stay clear of forest fires, please(shoots dagger eyes at Kelly, Azrieal, Shao, Aina).

p/s: Thank your for the tag Firdaus! I like tags, whee(I know I keep saying this every time I get tagged and it's stupid, but it's my way of saying thank you). I'll do it once I get back, so I'll start thinking of the things to write starting now,heh.

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

In the moonlight, on a joy ride

Salutations!

I owe a lot of the songs I've come to know and love to the blogs I stalk. Whenever I suggest a song here, I feel a bit silly because perhaps everyone just skims over that part of the post and don't take heed of it, or they've already heard the song ages ago, but a part of me would like to believe that someone out there will perhaps discover an ace of a tune they didn't already know, just like how I did when reading other blogs. So bear with me and brace yourselves.

Say Hi - November was White, December was Grey.
Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains (I'm excited to listen to them, perhaps a purchase of the album may be foreseen in the future?)
Alphabeat - What is Happening (I want to be a tambourine-playing lead singer of a Danish band churning out catchy songs too. I love the video!)

Speaking of silly. I'm putty in my cats' paws. You can get annoyed all you want when a cat spills over its food bowl, or bites you, or ignores you even though it can clearly hear you calling it. But when it meows outside your door plaintively, hops up onto the couch and snuggles up comfortably against you, or when it lies down facing you and reaches out its paw to touch you and keeps its paw there while it sleeps, out goes the annoyance, and you're a goner. You get all warm and fuzzy inside, you feel this outpour of love and affection for this delightful creature, and that's when the cat knows its' got you. And it chuckles diabolically inside its head and continues mapping out its plan to dominate the world while pretending to sleep in the cutest, most aww-inducing position.

Oh, check out this other song by Alphabeat(please), called Fascination. It's so upbeat, 80's-influenced and dance-able to, it's ridiculous. Fantastic. I need more happy music.

I have this happy feeling in the pit of my clavicle, it's all warm and caramel and it's just about approaching worrying level. At times like these no problem seems unsolvable, no ambition unachievable, no worries worth worrying over. It feels like I want to go dancing, that the prospect of being alone is unrealistic, that I can gather up all the friends I ever felt awkward with into a huge hug.

I have a feeling Alphabeat has something to do with this.

I wouldn't mind feeling like this more often.