Il Ham Mai Hum

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

I haven't been giving my posts their well worthy titles as the skin that i am using now does not show them. Better late then never i suppose. I'll just copy paste their title onto my posts. =)

Malay foodstuffs, British Cabbage, unreplied messages.

I don't think i could ever survive for more than a year without traditional, hot and spicy malay food. Ironically, my mom said that i had a western tongue as during my childhood, i tend to prefer western food as in fish and chips, steak, pasta and all the other angmoh delicacies. For some reason or another, i tended to feel proud each time my mother said that as it sort of gave the impression that i was unique and different from the rest of my family. I became what the malay people call as "bodoh sombong" or stupid and arrogant. I shied away from malay food. Thinking that it was too hot, too oily, too greasy and that it'll make me fat ( i was really fat and chubby back then). The moment of magic came during my Sec 3 years. For some reason, my tongue had had enough of the angmoh food that i was so fond of and told my brain that it was time to try out the food that was right under my nose, begging to be eaten the whole time.
My tongue tingled with glee, my eyes watered at the sweltering heat of the spice and my brain thanked itself for making me eat it and from then on i was hooked. Now, I am seldom called "orang jawe tak macam jawe kalau tak makan pedas" or a javanese?? person is not a javanese person if he/she doesn't like spicy food. Mind you, i did not embrace the whole jing-gang of traditional food. I still have me dislikes such as Laksa, Nasi goreng and Tempeh. So the next time if any of you invites me over for some malay food, dont be disheartened if i do not eat any of the above. =).

I saw that Floyd (Lloyd?) cooking show on Discovery Travel and Living and i discovered that British Cabbage was actually introduced to the British my the Romans when they were taken over. How cool is that...(i hear some italian guy gloating in the background) =). Oh how i long to be a cook/chef. Now i have second thoughts on whether should i join the culinary course at TP. I am not too sure right now. Maybe ill just have to discuss it then with my parents later on and see if i have any future in it.

I started to get worried. But it was actually a false alarm. =). Happy times. happy times.

ilham26 @ 8:13 pm
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Monday, February 26, 2007

The cage. An exciting place where football comes to mind and heart and play. And i was there from 4-6 playing my heart out. Well not literally. It was fun while it lasted. Laughing, shouting, dribbling, shooting, cursing. A place of mixed emotions skill. Yes i may not be as skillful as the other guy beside me but i do play decent football. I pulled of some tricks that i am very proud of and i definitely got my $2.20s worth. Well it was $50 but there were loads of people there.

We went up to the changing room and Juff discovered that the storeroom was open. But i will speak no more of that.

Returned home, shagged with an aching back. I felt like an old man, clutching my back like i've got osteoporosis or something. Took a bath, prayed and had my dinner.

Eventually i ended up watching this documentary with my dad. It was about the Haj ritual. The annual Muslim ritual to Mecca and Madina that was started by Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. Oh how beautiful it was to see Islam's place of birth. Yes it wasn't as dramatic as seeing it in real life but i guess right now i could only afford to see it through the TV screen. Seeing the pilgrims engaged in an intense spiritual state, I felt that i really wanted to go there and insyaallah i would. Going to the place where i face everyday for prayer, the Kaa'bah. Maybe even die there. That would be absolutely splendid. Getting buried with the Messenger of Islam and the rest. Getting a one-way, all expenses paid, no frills ticket to heaven. Everyone who performs the haj wants it., only a handful will get it. But it wont be nice to the loved ones back home though.

Well not right now obviously. You have to be well behaved, patient, forgiving. I am, unfortunately, quite impatient, I spew vulgarities as if it were like water, I still oodle (oogle?) at women, I still laugh at the weak and innocent, I make fun of the less fortunate, I cant read the Quran fluently, I only know a handful of prayers, I do not understand the prayers nor do i make an effort to do it. All this needs to be rid off before i could even think of going there.

Maybe one day, when im married, with grown up kids, still strong enough, rich enough then maybe.

Im thinking of organising another Cage thingy next week...WHO WANNA JOIN!!?? we need at least 15 people la. then fun. =D

ilham26 @ 9:56 pm
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Sunday, February 25, 2007

So its been a hectic past few days for me. Complete with...some stuff, some Ghost Riders, some seafoods and some other stuffs. Apparently now i am not given access to the top of the top of the ladder and it might be some time till the gates would be unlocked. Either that or i would be kicked into the abyss, joining Lance but lucky for him he has his WOW and me, nothing. But after a long time thinking about the thing, i too think that it might be too early. Oh well...

Well 2 days ago, i went to watch Ghost Rider with the guys. And how corny it was. Corny complete with the storyline, the characters and the script. It brought jagung to a whole new level. Compare it to the starwars' script and people would view starwars as having the most realistic script ever made. And the storyline personified and perfected that...cornyness. I would have fallen asleep if not for the special effects. Yes, bikes and skulls with flames and flying devils and cars being blown up and babes with hard, perfect round boobs really gets me tingling. But even so, kudos to the special effects as without it, the movie wound be a bust.

Denny went along with us that day. He just returned from Indon and keeps telling us of how he misses Singapore. Well i would too with its closed protected environment with squeaky clean hygiene all around. We kept telling him, if he wants to like even go to the toilet here it would cost him 99999999,999999999999 rupiah so he might as well stick with us. Lol. Ironically, he was richer than all of us la so yes, he'll have the last laugh. We threatened to beat him up if we ever saw him playing with the sand on any of the beaches here. =). How great friends we are.

After the movie, we proceeded down to PasirPanjang for a seafood dinner. It's the first time that im eating seafood with my chinese friends and they gave the seafood some very very weird names such as:
1. stingray (hang he)
2. chut chut
3. gong gong
4. lala
5. doa tao (mussels)
(THANX LANCE XD )

The seafood was delightful but i was quite surprised to hear lance say that the stingray was hot stuff. To me it was nothing compared to Bik Rofa's stingray but hey, beggars cant be choosers.

Nothing really important or eventful happened yesterday. I just went to play some football with my malay friends and yeah it was fun while it lasted. Still need to get used to my new shoes though. They're hard and stiff and quite slippery. Oh and i talked on the fone with someone last night. It was sweeeeeeeeeeeeet. Too bad la for something that i wont post here in case my family members see it and start pestering me to tell them more. =D. Focus on Faris and his SECRET PERSON you guys! XD

Here are some pictures :

I realised that the pictures of the aftermath of the seafood eating session was a way bit too disgusting for you people to see. So ill post pictures of my new pair of shoes =D. New shoes must boast MAHZ.

Oooh lala!!

OOOOOHHH.

Leg + Shoe = SWEEEET

Forgot to cut off that tag sia...

Check out its booty baybeh!

ilham26 @ 2:02 pm
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Baa baa black sheep have you any....flowers.
Yesssss girl yeeessss girl 3 bags full.

LOL that song always gets to me.

So here i am, at 3.53 in the afternoon and with nothing to do. Well, i do have something to do. In my previous post i told you guys about the incredible event that happened. So now i am going to use that money to buy me a pair of nike tiempo shoes. In my opinion, nike makes the best streetsoccer shoes la. I do still love my old pair, but they are just too slippery to be played with and with my feet being very injury prone, its better to spend a hundred on a new pair of shoes rather than hundreds in hospital bills if i get seriously injured. I will be meeting lance at 4.30 at queensway (house of football shoes) lol. And then Carol and Bridget will be meeting us there too. They are at orchard now for Bridget's interview. So all the best to her =D.

Had a good 2 hour game of squash with Lance, jas and Govind. He's very friendly but his' smoking habit scares me a little. I cant blame him, i was that addicted to it last time too. But thanks to someone ;) i am now smoke free. Except from my sayang. As in my shisha. I love...HER. lol. She has been in her dark old casing for quite some time now but i have to wait for a big occasion to bring her out to the masses. hehe.

It was fun, squash i mean. Very different from tennis, the racket sport that i love. My right arm felt very du lan after the game as its been ages since i used it for sport. I perspired quite a bit and it felt good. Better than sitting here playing the computer with my body crouched down.
After that they followed me around funan centre to look for my wireless adapter. Went to a few shops to compare prices but at last settled on a $55 one (dont tell my mom! i pocketed the change =D). After that we went to some food court to eat as all of us were very very hungry. Famished. Whatever. I ate Nasi Padang and my word it was good. I had ikan pari masak merah (Stingray), Ayam masak...lemak??, some veggies which i think was kangkong, a fishcake and lots and lots of sweet soya sauce. Just the way i like it. Who in the world would not love to eat traditional malay food? It rockss!!.

After eating, we took a short walk towards The Durian so we could catch the 106 bus there. Nothing has changed, except that i saw a whole lot of stupid mat reps with their weird sense of dressing and weird hairdos.
All in all, it was a very exciting and fun filled day for me. Its good to have friends like them. I am so lucky =).

Tonight would be do or die. Whether i would get to the top of the real ladder or be kicked in the face into the abyss. Only time will tell.

AND GOOD ON YOU REDS! Liverpool FC did the unthinkable by beating Barcelona, the so called world's best club, at their own back yard; The Camp Nou. Or Nou Camp. Whatever makes you happy. Me, clapping and silently shouting and screaming my silent lungs out at 3-6 am in the morning told me that today would be a great day for the REDS and their fans who can hold their heads up high and say that the club they love and support kicked Barca's arses. GOOD ON YA!!

Here are some of them pictures. I decided to put my spin on some of them =)

Govind with his powerfull backhand blast.

Now kids, thats how you serve.

Jasden's time to shine.

I don think this needs captions.

I have fat and hairy legs.

Chill lance chill. haha

Clone clone.

My yummy yummy nasi padang.

Good on ya bellamy! He's teeing off!!

The score says it all.

The 2nd liverpool goal WOOOHOOO!!!

The starting 11.

New RB signing Alvaro Arbeloa. He's not bad last night.

Balls to you =)

El Capitano Vs El Capitano

ilham26 @ 3:44 pm
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

So this extra holidays, well extra since after the release of the results, has been a real drag for me. Waking up late in the afternoons, sleeping late at night. I have no point in life and it has definitely taken a toll on my fitness and behaviour. I tend to be more impatient and tend to be more cranky....NOT!. Ok im just as per normal but i do get really bad back aches. Just like last year, when I stayed up late in the night playing the computer =). I did not find a job as i think no employer would want to employ someone who could only work for a month and a half. No no no (this phrase reminds me of someone). So i developed an ingenious plan on how to spend the rest of my holidays without lazing around most of the time (well i blame my broken down oven for that XD )...and the ingenious, incredibly wonderful plan is....To learn how to cook from my bibik! YAY.
(note that i dont say maid as it is so fucking disrespectful to say it like that la.). The future is bright for Chef Ham!! (ok that was lame).

There is nothing like cute Japanese and Jojo songs in the morning to brighten up your day. =).

Apparently i have plans with lance and jas and dua liap today. Playing squash and going to the gym( i think). Ooooh its been like 658276921876989210761932 thousand alien years since i last played squash. I think i forgot how it was like. Yes i most definitely forgot how it was like. Oooh i cant wait. Unfortunately my shoes are all wet from yesterday's footy game so it looks like i have to play in squishy2 smelly shoes today.

Something totally incredible just happened today!!. There i sat down about 6.50 in the morning, just finished my prayers and feeling fresh from the ablution water splashed all over my face. And then the incredible conversation took place followed my the incredible event!! :

Me: Umm... ma, if you have money or get your pay, can you give me money to buy new street-soccer (i cant believe i used this word) shoes, my shoes now da haus* la then its very slippery when i played yesterday. ( hopes very much plus a very innocent but hoping smile XD)
*the sole is...umm..u know old shoes la. =)

Mom: ( Starts to search for her purse).

Me: Gosh! (silently). Omg omg omg (in my mind).

Mom: (translated from malay via my C6 O level malay translation) How much is it?

Me: (trying my best to sustain a very wide grin) Umm, maybe just give me a hundred la and ill try to get a good one like last time which was about $83 so it can last me for a year.

Mom: (hands over da MOOLAAAH) Nah, be thrifty, i dont have enough money.

Me: Thank you!!!! (kisses the top of her hand when taking the moolah & then skips happily into the room like some drunk bitch. ).

As you see, im not rich, like a certain someone who told her mom that i was ;). So these situations are very very rare indeed and that's why i am very excited and thus couldnt sleep so that is the reason to why i am writing in this post at 7.43 in the morn. YAYNESS!! =).

I've been having that feeling since...thursday. Those who know will know and those who dont know but knows me will eventually find out. Yeah. It is a feeling package, full of sweet, du lan, happy and excited feelings. But unfortunately being "it" for one year plus has made me very impatient. But i just cant help it. I just hope things will turn out for the good and the way i pictured it. More or less on that path. I just want to get through that last barrier to nirvana. Lol.
Wait for more posts to see how this saga unfolds. =)

Here are some random pictures that i've took from my phone...it more or less describes the hectic pass year that i have lead :

New snorkeling gear.

Mooolah!!!

Innocent...NOT!

That cat is so huge.

LOL!

I LOVE YOU!!

I LOVE YOU TOO!!

EHEHEHE

Feeling a wee bit sexy there.

Elf warriors of the West.

It took split second timing to capture this.

Lance Tay the dumbshit

HAPPY BIRDDAY!

Lol

Lol more.

Ummm...

A Dubai mosque's interior..very nice..

Drunk bastards..

Sleepy bastard.

Oooh my birdday present!...note the milk-------->

Smoking gives you bad teeth.

I just said it!!

Sheep looking at one hot sexy babe.

Freddy: eh eh come take pic in girl's toilet!!!

Drunk lobster. haha

ilham26 @ 7:24 am
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Sunday, February 18, 2007

So its finally the year of the pig. Seeing many happy smiling Chinese people walking around in flocks with their families, all dressed up to go around and meet their extended family, with good wishes, prosperity and questions of "when are you going to get married and when are you going to have children" in mind. Oh and lets not forget the most important aspect of CNY in the little children's minds...the hang bao. Proud will they be of the students who had received distinctions on their O results as they could brag, boast and show off their so called 'intelligence' to their family and receive much more congratulations and well wishes (if i were to ever meet one of those people i would punch his face) (i dont hit girls...i hit on girls =P).

I come from a very close family. Extended family included. So it seemed quite weird to me when reading about people saying that close family bonds are very important and that you should keep your family close at all times. For me that is a definite yes. You wouldnt have to even tell it to me for me to know that that is important. But unfortunately there are other people out there who aren't as fortunate as me to have such a close knit family. Hopefully i would never have to feel that sort of thing. Its sad to read about them. Children deserting their parents. May those type of people burn in hell.

I could seriously hear lance, carol and jasden telling me that this year would be bad for me since its the year of the pig and that its NOT HALAL. hahha bunch of idiots =).

So far so good, ive been continuing by daily exercising routine that ive started 2 days ago. Except that i have not gone for a jog due to the heavy rain in the mornings and to even have the thought of jogging at night gives me the shivers. No i am not scared, just lazy. But the weather seems fine at night for some reason.
Me lance and jasden are now vying for the top spot of getting the khong-est body by the time the Poly term starts...winner will...win something..we haven't decided on that yet. Reason for this contest? to help use get back our so called hot bods in time for Poly...to hit on da ladies ;). hahaha.

I feel that ive been getting very close with someone now. I mentioned about her in my previous post i think. Yeap. Although we are exs, it seems that we are far from that. The relationship i had with her was quite the topsy turvy one. I am at a split road and am still thinking of which path to take. But i could tell that she has changed a lot. For the better i think. No more miss innocent. She's quite the..wild person for the past year but apparently she has toned down. From what i heard la. We might be meeting soon and it would be very nice to meet her after all this time. I will take a pic of her and post it here so you would know who i am talking about =).
And i am not ashamed of talking about people i like or had a relationship with here. Its not that im keeping any secrets or something. I would so dearly looove to satisfy you people's curiosity...so hopefully on to the next post in a few days time =).

Some random pics of yours truly.

My side view of my hairstyle doesnt usualy look like that ok.
I have long alien fingers. wooooooo.

Brothers...or city rivals? =)

ilham26 @ 8:40 pm
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Friday, February 16, 2007

Happy Birthday Lance!. And by that i mean you are not in the " I am sixteen going on seventeen" clan anymore. hah. But all the best for your 17th year on this earth so as not to become a useless burden to society (as my uncle happily describes me).

As today was Lance's birthday, me, carol and gabriel came up with a plan to bring him out. At first it was a plan to sabo him but then we we're too lazy and lance was very clever in predicting sabo-ing techniques so we ditched the sabo-ing plan and went ahead with the movie outing.
The day started well. With me waking up at exactly 11. Something happened after that but i will talk about it later on. I met carol at 12.30 (we were supposed to meet at 12). "Janji melayu" at its best (carol you find out what that is). We proceeded to lance's place where i called hannah a few choice words via msn. Apparently her mom was behind her and from what we were told by hannah, her mom had heard me and she was unhappy. Obviously she would be. But i, like any other uncaring person, did not give a shit. =). We carried on disturbing other people through msn but at last set out to The Cathay. Ate our lunch at Ya Kun Kaya Toast. Superb toast. But i had to go and spoil my half boiled egg by pouring too much soya sauce on it. What a shame.

We watched Epic Movie. A hilarious movie, somewhat like Scary Movie but with a little less sexual humour and a little more senseless humour. I give it a 10 for laughs =).
Carol had another surprise for lance so she and gabe went off to buy him a cake with candles to top it off. We had a wonderful time but alas not a wonderful birthday song for lance. Still then, i had to tank in a huge chunk of cake which i did not manage. Oh well.
Lance then went out with his fam fam to some thai restaurant which he said was very good. I do hope he had a great time with us today.

Ive been tanking my anger and frustration at blogskins.com due to their vast amount of girly2 and love2 and romantic skins. FUCK CHEEBYE ALL ROMANTIC SHIT WHEN DO THEY MAKE SOME FUCKING NICE SKINS FOR ME THOSE MOTHERFUCKIN PUA CHEEBYES.
=).

OK ok so what happened this morning was. I plucked out enough courage to call Suriani, my last ex. I dont really like referring my ex girlfriends as exs as it just looks like i'm labeling them. So i'll call her my friend =). So i called Su ( i call her su) to ask about her O level results as on the day of the result release, her phone was engaged. In the end her mum was the one who picked up the phone (as expected as i knew she was in school). I had a real nice chat with her mum....well, her mum did most of the talking of course. I just responded with the Ya's and Ah's , but dont get me wrong, i listened with every bit of intent and attention i could master, well being an avid eavesdropper, kaypoh person and a "mulot macam juboh ayam" as my dad describes me. It turns out that Su had been living quite the hectic lifestyle the for the past year. Well since she DITCHED me. hah. But i dont hold grudges. I did eventually get her number and did eventually sms her and did eventually get a reply and did eventually end up talking to her.
Cant wait to see her in person after all these YEAR (its been a year actually).

BUT my absolute priority is to...exercise. Ive been lazing around for 2 months and it has taken a huge toll on my stamina and fitness. But the main reason one exercises is to have a hot bod and my bod is far from hot and my face keeps getting rounder and more chubby. 6 in a scale of 1 - 10 according to jasden. I would like to bring it down to four by the time i start poly so i have to start now :)

Press this please! It is a song about the malay culture. Very real very true very cute. So please listen and watch =)

And here are some random pictures that i found from...some people's multiplies. HEHEHE.

That's me doing a super-kawaii.
My lil sis looks messed up.

Getting horny-ly cute with green balls.

A van load of people makes the medicine...go down.

That's a future Liverpool FC star you're looking at.
And thats faris doing some sort of malay dance move.

Just look at my brother's hot sexy body.
And that is Petr Cech's helmet that im wearing there.

Ladies, kindly NOT view this picture please.

Faris' bag touched my ding-dongs.
And that helmet hair did wonders for my confidence.

The old and new Federers and Sharapovas.

The pro teaching the noob. Im the pro obviously.

Faris TRYING to pull off a normal-kawaii.
Sofia smiling for the guys who sent her those scandalousssss letterrzzzz.

The true meaning of...UP YOURS?

ilham26 @ 12:46 am
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I love you for reading my nonsense. Okay you can stop smiling now.