it's NOT people don't give you CHANCE, it's YOU that don't give yourself a chance!

tOdaY, i have learnt something. Something that is happening right in front of my eyes.

I saw Mr Tall today. Mr Tall got a stroke couple of years back, and he has got problem with walking and coordination since then. And today is the wedding dinner of one of his friend's son. He was invited to the dinner. Even having walking difficulty, he still went to the dinner. He must be thinking that it is an honor to get invited, so he attended. But for the whole night, he speak not even a word. He walked past his long time buddies, he dared not look them in the eyes, he just walked past them, without even greeting them, without even saying a word. His buddies were surprised. Some were feeling disturbed. Some understood what is happening. Mr Tall must be feeling too humiliated and having no face to see his buddies. In fact he has been behaving like this ever since he got the stroke. Mr Tall must be thinking that no one want to care about him anymore, or maybe his buddies will make fun of him.

Whatever the reason, I can say that ALL his buddies don't want to see him like this. They wanna see a happy, smiling, confident, and talkative Mr Tall as he always is before this, even the one with a stroke. I know it is saddening, heart breaking and humiliating to have problem like this, but the least that can be done is to TRY to live as happy as possible with what you have left. Agonizing over it only makes things worse. It feels bad on yourself, it feels even worse on your buddies. YOUR BUDDIES WANT TO HELP YOU, BUT THEY COULD ONLY DO SO IF YOU ARE WILLING TO LET THEM HELP YOU! THEY WANT TO SEE YOU HAPPY!!! THEY WANT TO SEE YOU BEAMING WITH CONFIDENCE AND SMILING LIKE A CHILD!!! AND THEY WON'T FUCK CARE WHATEVER PROBLEM THAT IS TROUBLING YOU AS LONG AS YOU ARE HAPPY!!! Then it comes to me this conclusion:

"IT'S NOT PEOPLE DON'T GIVE YOU CHANCE, IT'S YOU THAT DON'T GIVE YOURSELF A CHANCE!!!"

I know that SHIT do happens. And if it HAPPENS ON ME SOMEDAY, i hope that i'll look back at this post, and I'LL SLAP MYSELF IN THE FACE, OR MAYBE ASK SOMEONE SLAP ME IN THE FACE, AND HOPEFULLY AFTER THAT, I'LL BE AS HAPPY AS ALWAYS, FACING EACH AND EVERY MOMENT WITH CONFIDENCE AND JOY.

bReAD...

Today onwards, for the next 2 weeks, will only be bread for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner and for supper too. No others...just bread. All the cooks has quit becoming cooks, and what is left is just 2 burnt-out cooks that just got too tired of cooking in this month of Ramadhan.
So, everyday I will say hie to the bakery shop ownner. And BTW, Baskin robbins is just a few shops next to it. I DO THINK ice cream with bread will be a GREAT combination, don't you think?

HoUSE no. 22

This is House no. 22
The tenants of House no. 22, and what they are doing at the time of writing.

Tenant #1: SH chai
Currently doing:
Facebooking, searching each and every youtube video of "Gee". The part he liked most is the ass moving part. Initially, he was searching for the guitar tabs for "Gee", dunno why he deviate. Anyway, he succeeded in playing the song on his new baby guitar. His fingers can't climb tree yet, but soon will be.

Tenant #2: Sam chai
Warren buffett, warren buffett, and warren buffett. The book was bought over from Toh chai. 700+ pages and still havent finish half. When he get bored of reading, he "harvest the moon". Just now. he was searching for the ice cream recipe, and Cheong chai agrees to be joining in the fun. Ho po lui char version 3 is gonna come out soon also...

Tenant #3: Toh chai
I don't really know what he is doing all this while, coz he guards his privacy as good as guarding his virginity. When i go to the toilet once in a while, i passes by his room, i see him on his QC3headphone, him facing his laptop, sometimes smiling, sometimes face blank, sometimes laughing to himself!!?? He no need to eat. No need to drink. Just give him a laptop and internet, he can survive already. FB is his diary. He use FB as a MSN replacemet. And if you want him to eat dinner, just shut off the internet.

Tenant #4: Ding chai
His bed is here, but the person is not here now. He not died, he just disappear for a few weeks. Same character as Toh chai in terms of FB and internet dependency, but this guy talk a bit more. His golden phrase is "CiaW TaK Jorrr!" But talk is 108, do wohhh....I CUT!

Tenant #5: Wenpin chai
No internet sure die also for him. But what differentiate him from the other 2 in his room is his SKILL of sleeping. He can SLEEP and ONLINE simultaneously, WITH THE LAPTOP ON HIS CHEST NEVER SLIP, OR EVEN DROPPED. He should be the only person who can do it. Sometimes he'll come over to Sam chai room and say "HOU SIEN ARRRRR!!!". Half an hour ago, he just did that.

Tenant #6: Cheong chai
First thing he do is to connect to SKYPE, and talk to his son. No wastage of time FB. Sleep the earliest among all, and earliest to wake up. BTW, i think he sleep liao already at the time of writing.

Tenant #7: Kang chai
All he do is SLEEP...then wake up at night and become the ghost. But this ghost likes to karaoke in the bathroom, living room, and his room. Sometimes play the Romance of 3 kingdom to pass time.

Basically, all tenant has got own way of passing his time in house no.22. Everyone is SIEN most of the time, but I don't think we will have to suffer long. It is already TIME TO END. IT HAS TO END ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

[ you see what SH chai and sam chai doing? You see our kitchen how BIG??? And the kitchen floor, who to MOP??? ]

[ this room if no internet, will die one... ]

[ F04... F04... F04... i still left 1 brief only nia...you still wanna F04! ]

i am moving…mY bLog

All people, I have an announcement to make. I am going to move my current blog www.lifelikemovie.com to blogger here at www.lifelikemovie.blogspot.com starting from now. In another 2 months, this site, this domain, this layout will no longer available for viewing. But worry not, coz i have been trying to replicate all the posts into this new place.

To mark the moving of the blog, with a different layout, I need to save the printscreen of the old and new blog. This will serve as a memory for me, or maybe you.

OLD LAYOUT

www.lifelikemovie.com
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NEW LAYOUT

www.lifelikemovie.blogspot.com
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The reason to move > I found that what I wanted to do is 99% available in a free blog out there, and there seems to be more customization available nowadays, compared with limited functions those days. Nevertheless, owning a private hosted website still offer far more value than a free blog, it is only that I have been underutilized it all this while. It should be for people with many readers and full fledge website, not some sMaLL fLY like me. So, Mr weBHost, thanks for all the quick and good support for the last 3 years, it's greatly appreciated. Your service is good, and the price is one of the cheapest i can find in Malaysia. Just want to let you know it is NOT your fault. By the way, i am hosting it on www.ipserverone.com all this while, for those who is interested, just go there and check for yourself. Value for money, nice service. Enough said. If there is another chance of me to require a webhost in the future, it's surely YOU.

And i would like to thank all who drop comments, and i am sorry for making so few posts. I must make more posts!
And as i always say, i will make this blog a better one!

p/s: those who want to make comments can make it at my new blog at www.lifelikemovie.blogspot.com.

Last word, BYE-BYE...but then HELLO again!

veGeTariAN OyStER sAuCE!

I do have one colleague of mine who has this super-duper-healthy-conscious-eating habits. There will never be too little SALT. There will never be too little SUGAR. And AJINOMOTO is prohibited when cooking. Not even those fish and chicken seasoning is allowed. BELACAN will be a total no-no. Coz he say is very very dirty. I could still accept all that. But there is just that ONE thing that makes me really MAD at him. That is the VEGETARIAN oyster sauce. He insisted on cooking using that one instead of the normal oyster sauce. How on earth can an oyster sauce be vegetarian?

How is it possible, that an oyster, which i think is NOT a vegetable, be turned into a VEGETABLE, and packaged into a bottle and sold as oyster sauce? Or is it that thoSE sPEciaL oysters, only eat nothing but vegetables down the sea bed?

Or is it POSSIBLE that somehow man has created an alternative flaVouR from cheMICAL that exactly matches the one of an oysTER? Or mAybE it is possible that the chemical somehow is also derived from the natural oySTER itself?

Any of the possibilities above are a lot more scarier than taking beLACANs combined with ajiNOMOTO and mixed together as a seasoning cocktail. Hence, the next time I see him doing it aGAIN (putting the vegetarian oyster sauce into the dishes), I'll grab it and throw it back to his fACE. And i'll make sure the next morning when he wake up in his bed, he'll be surrounded by hills and hills of oysters by his side...nabeh...

the days are getting bLuurrrr…

I don't know what to say anymore. Days are getting BluURRReR by the minute. I can't even recall each morning what day it is of the week, let alone the date itself. Time really got wings one. I can't believe that it already has been 3 months since New Year. I have been smoking sand particles for tHAT long already. horraY!

I haTE myself, for not having a DEFINITE dream in my mind. And i felt that i am not being in control of my life at all. It seems like i am one of the SLAVE in the world of MATRIX, where MATRIX is the imaginary world created by the POWERFUL to blind us from the TRUTH in order to USE us to realize THEIR own dreams. The more I watch the Matrix, the more I feel I am NEO.

Morpheus! Hand me the RED PILL now! Yea! NOW!

Excuse me...I wanna curse lioa...CHAO ZEE BYE!!!

The MATRIX

236
00:23:15,977 --> 00:23:17,978
We don't have time for 20 Questions.

237
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,856
Right now, there's only one rule:

238
00:23:21,149 --> 00:23:22,483
Our way ...

239
00:23:22,818 --> 00:23:23,901
... or the highway.

240
00:23:30,450 --> 00:23:31,534
Fine.

241
00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,871
Please, Neo, you have to trust me.

242
00:23:36,456 --> 00:23:39,083
- Why?
- Because you have been down there.

243
00:23:39,835 --> 00:23:41,043
You know that road.

244
00:23:42,045 --> 00:23:43,671
You know exactly where it ends.

245
00:23:45,882 --> 00:23:48,134
And I know that's
not where you want to be.


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276
00:26:47,897 --> 00:26:50,274
Do you believe in fate, Neo?

277
00:26:50,442 --> 00:26:51,525
No.

278
00:26:51,943 --> 00:26:52,985
Why not?

279
00:26:53,236 --> 00:26:56,030
I don't like the idea that
I'm not in control of my life.

280
00:26:57,115 --> 00:27:00,451
I know exactly what you mean.


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294
00:27:46,289 --> 00:27:48,165
The Matrix is everywhere.

295
00:27:48,416 --> 00:27:50,125
It is all around us.

296
00:27:50,377 --> 00:27:52,336
Even now, in this very room.

297
00:27:53,171 --> 00:27:55,381
You can see it when you
look out your window ...

298
00:27:55,632 --> 00:27:57,966
... or when you turn on your television.

299
00:27:58,385 --> 00:28:00,928
You can feel it when you go to work ...

300
00:28:02,472 --> 00:28:04,139
... when you go to church ...

301
00:28:04,557 --> 00:28:06,642
... when you pay your taxes.

302
00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:10,688
It is the world that has been
pulled over your eyes ...

303
00:28:10,939 --> 00:28:12,523
... to blind you from the truth.

304
00:28:14,734 --> 00:28:15,984
What truth?

305
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:21,782
That you are a slave.

306
00:28:23,284 --> 00:28:25,577
Like everyone else,
you were born into bondage ...

307
00:28:25,829 --> 00:28:30,499
... born into a prison that you cannot
smell or taste or touch.

308
00:28:30,792 --> 00:28:32,084
A prison ...

309
00:28:32,335 --> 00:28:33,460
... for your mind.

that you are a SLAVE

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313
00:29:00,363 --> 00:29:02,656
This is your last chance.

314
00:29:02,907 --> 00:29:05,242
After this, there is no turning back.

315
00:29:05,702 --> 00:29:07,161
You take the blue pill ...

316
00:29:07,495 --> 00:29:10,539
... the story ends, you wake up
in your bed and believe ...

317
00:29:10,790 --> 00:29:12,583
... whatever you want to believe.

318
00:29:12,834 --> 00:29:14,168
You take the red pill ...

319
00:29:14,419 --> 00:29:16,378
... you stay in Wonderland ...

320
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,590
... and I show you how deep
the rabbit hole goes.

321
00:29:29,476 --> 00:29:30,684
Remember ...

322
00:29:31,519 --> 00:29:34,563
... all I'm offering is the truth.
Nothing more.


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599
00:56:38,144 --> 00:56:39,686
The Matrix is a system, Neo.

600
00:56:41,439 --> 00:56:42,731
That system is our enemy.

601
00:56:43,358 --> 00:56:45,692
But when you're inside,
what do you see?

602
00:56:45,944 --> 00:56:49,738
Businessmen, teachers,
lawyers, carpenters.

603
00:56:50,198 --> 00:56:52,783
The very minds of the people
we are trying to save.

604
00:56:53,034 --> 00:56:55,994
But until we do, these people are
a part of that system ...

605
00:56:56,246 --> 00:56:58,163
... and that makes them our enemy.

606
00:56:58,331 --> 00:56:59,540
You have to understand ...

607
00:56:59,791 --> 00:57:03,127
... most of these people are not
ready to be unplugged.

608
00:57:03,378 --> 00:57:04,962
And many of them are so inert ...

609
00:57:05,213 --> 00:57:07,631
... so hopelessly dependent
on the system ...

610
00:57:07,882 --> 00:57:10,592
... that they will fight to protect it.

many are so INERT...

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1126
01:36:07,178 --> 01:36:10,513
This is loco. They've got Morpheus
in a military-controlled building.

1127
01:36:10,765 --> 01:36:15,143
Even if you somehow got inside, those
are agents holding him. Three of them.

1128
01:36:16,437 --> 01:36:20,356
I want Morpheus back too, but
what you're talking about is suicide.

1129
01:36:20,608 --> 01:36:22,192
That's what it looks like ...

1130
01:36:22,359 --> 01:36:23,401
... but it's not.

1131
01:36:23,652 --> 01:36:26,029
I can't explain to you why it's not.

1132
01:36:27,114 --> 01:36:30,825
Morpheus believed something, and
he was ready to give his life for it.

1133
01:36:31,076 --> 01:36:34,078
I understand that now.
That's why I have to go.

1134
01:36:34,371 --> 01:36:36,873
- Why?
- Because I believe in something.

1135
01:36:37,041 --> 01:36:38,666
What?

1136
01:36:39,376 --> 01:36:41,085
I believe I can bring him back.


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1248
01:52:06,761 --> 01:52:09,722
Sooner or later you'll realize,
just as I did ...

1249
01:52:10,056 --> 01:52:12,349
... there's a difference
between knowing the path ...

1250
01:52:13,101 --> 01:52:14,393
... and walking the path.


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1276
01:57:56,569 --> 01:57:58,695
You hear that, Mr. Anderson?

1277
01:57:59,447 --> 01:58:02,449
That is the sound of inevitability.

1278
01:58:05,036 --> 01:58:08,371
It is the sound of your death.

1279
01:58:09,290 --> 01:58:11,625
Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.

1280
01:58:11,876 --> 01:58:13,502
My name ...

1281
01:58:16,506 --> 01:58:18,548
... is Neo.


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1326
02:07:59,254 --> 02:08:00,963
I know you're out there.

1327
02:08:01,215 --> 02:08:03,049
I can feel you now.

1328
02:08:03,467 --> 02:08:07,095
I know that you're afraid.
You're afraid of us.

1329
02:08:07,429 --> 02:08:09,263
You're afraid of change.

1330
02:08:10,724 --> 02:08:12,058
I don't know the future.

1331
02:08:12,226 --> 02:08:14,811
I didn't come here to tell you
how this is going to end.

1332
02:08:15,062 --> 02:08:18,022
I came here to tell you
how it's going to begin.

1333
02:08:18,982 --> 02:08:20,566
I'll hang up this phone.

1334
02:08:20,818 --> 02:08:23,903
And then I'll show these people
what you don't want them to see.

1335
02:08:24,154 --> 02:08:26,030
I'm going to show them a world ...

1336
02:08:26,281 --> 02:08:28,032
... without you.

1337
02:08:28,325 --> 02:08:31,953
A world without rules and controls,
without borders or boundaries.

1338
02:08:32,204 --> 02:08:35,915
A world where anything is possible.

1339
02:08:38,544 --> 02:08:39,877
Where we go from there ...

1340
02:08:40,129 --> 02:08:42,088
... is a choice I leave to you.

CHOICE

aLoNG-tHE-hiGhWaY

On my way home, I drove along the expressway of 200+ kilometers, at an average speed of 110 km/h, which comes to 2 hours of super duper boring journey. To keep myself awake, I kept my mind busy with these:

aLoNG-tHE-hiGhWaY {Click to view larger image}

1. Imagining how nice it would be if one of the roadside is planted with sunflowers along the 200km stretch. Butterfies will be flying around and birds will come in flocks. The other side of the road should be planted with nice grass carpet, with occasional banyan trees every lamp post distance.

sunflowers!

2. Thinking about the ho po lui char recipe I just got from a master, and trying to recall on every step and recipe that he has taught me.

ho-po-lui-cha

3. Listening on the David Tao CD (original one) which seems like "zharr-ing" me on every line of its lyrics...cau cee bai!

katriNa

Everyone... happy Chinese New Year!
Today is already the 15th day, I guess is the last chance I have this year to wish you all. So, again..."gong hei fatt choy!"

shORT StORiES i reaD somE wHerE…

A GRAIN OF RICE

The daughter of the Chinese Emperor was ill, and he promised riches beyond compare to whoever could cure her. A young peasant named Pong Lo entered the palace. With his wit and bravery he restored the Princess's health, and won her heart. As his reward, Pong Lo asked for her hand in marriage. The Emperor refused and asked the peasant to think of anything else he would like.
After several moments of thought, Pong Lo said, "I would like a grain of rice".

"A grain of rice! That is nonsense! Ask me for fine silks, the grandest room in the palace, a stable full of wild stallions, they shall be yours!"

"A grain of rice will do," said Pong Lo. But if His Majesty insists, he may double the amount every day for a hundred days."

So on the first day a grain of rice was delivered to Pong Lo. On the second day, two grains of rice were delivered. On the third day Pong Lo received four grains, and on the fourth day, eight grains.

On the fifth day - 16 grains
On the sixth day - 32 grains
On the seventh day - 64 grains
On the eighth day - 128 grains

By the twelfth day the grains of rice numbered 2,048. By the twentieth day, 524,288 grains were delivered. And by the thirtieth day 536,870,912 grains requiring servants to carry them were brought to Pong Lo.

In desperation the Emperor did the only honourable thing he could do and consented to the marriage. Out of consideration for the
Emperor's feelings, no rice was served at the wedding banquet.

tHE lala cook in LALA LaND!

tHE lala cook in LALA LaND!
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Last week, i went together with a bunch of lala chai to the lala beach.

We had a lot of fun searching for lalas beneath the sandy beach.

We pick and pick and pick....and pick and pick and pick...

We also saw some lala girls around picking lalas next to us.

Every lala boys turned LALA-ed at that moment.

We then went home on the lala car

I opened my lala laptop

I searched for ways to cook lala on my lala net

Then i successfully found 4 lala recipe

We soak the lala

We clean the lala one by one (Yea, hear me say again...is ONE by ONE)

I am the lala cook. Yes, i am.

After spending hell of a lala time, i succeeded.

Everybody was having a lala wonderful time eating lala.

The table is full of lala.

One of the lala boy ate the most lala that day, his lala shell mountain was the highest.

Every lala boy was shitting lala for the next few days.

The lala stories continues as long as there is low tide...

I am lala-ed liao...

la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la

Here are the 4 lala recipes to share with anyone who likes to get lala-ed.

LaLa rEcIPE no 1
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LaLa rEcIPE no 2
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LaLa rEcIPE no 3
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LaLa rEcIPE no 4
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