{"id":606,"date":"2006-04-10T03:53:27","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T03:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2006-04-10T03:53:27","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T03:53:27","slug":"travel-laine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Travel-Laine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a nice, lengthy blog entry in the vein of travelling<\/a>. Yeah, that’s why I have a blog category for that, for those stories that eventually become anecdotes, y’know?<\/p>\n

Anyway. On Friday, the plan was to bring stim-girl and birthday-girl to the gay bars. Yeah. So I called at 6pm, and birthday-girl was about to head over to stim-girl’s house. In an unrelated daze, I wandered into Amcorp Mall, plunked some coins down for Daytona at the arcade, and released bummerness and frustration… in manual transmission.<\/p>\n

See, even in moments of down-ness, I intend to do something that betters me. I’ve been good at automatic and a bit of braked drifting in intermediate, but I was shit at manual, and all that 1-3-4 in the last curve.<\/p>\n

So I called birthday-girl at 7pm, and she wasn’t there yet! So I headed to Midvalley out of nothing-to-do-ness. Took the LRT to Bangsar, and hopped onto a free bus. Why’d I go there, despite having been there many times that week? To check out one phone price, in one shop. I have also been checking out digital SLR lenses of late, because really, that matters more than the dSLR body itself. Evil temptation. The Sigma 28-200mm F3.5\/6.3 was small and cute, and relatively cheap, though not too far in price from a Canon. Yeah, all the talk about Canon 350Ds has been getting to my head.<\/p>\n

I bumped into Jenifur<\/a>, also walking aimlessly in a I-don’t-go-home-that-early-on-Fridays daze, and we took a bus to Pasar Seni, where I hobbled on to KL Sentral to meet stim-girl and birthday-girl. We took the monorail to Bukit Bintang, and took the scenic walk to Little Havana, place of wonderful hawaiian pizza with extra stretchy cheese and pineapples.<\/p>\n

I planned that we’d get a foot massage between then, and the gay bar we were going to. Yes, birthday-girl was a newfound lesbian, and I’d jibe her repeatedly, saying she was gonna get some tonight. Because well, it’s just fun, saying what you’d normally say to a cowardly guy, to a lesbian. Yeah. So I get cheap thrills from different situations.<\/p>\n

We didn’t have time for the foot message (oh well, there goes the first ever time I’d pay for a foot massage, since I’ve always been freeloading off OSIM chairs) so we walked past Frangipani, and we reckon it was guy night. Uh, right, pass.<\/p>\n

We then got on the newfangled RapidKL buses, quite funky those. Got us to Medan Pasar, right smack in front of Liquid. I was initially apprehensive, thinking it was mostly a gay but not lesbian hangout. However, all apprehensions flew out the window, and I stopped guarding my butt with my hands when I saw how empty it was! (And entry was free, and I’m a sucker for free things y’know.)<\/p>\n

Inside, there was a private party in The Studio<\/i>; there was a big congregation of girls in one corner, and the gays were sitting outside looking cool. The girls got up to dance, and again, I suggested that birthday-lesbian dance with them, since she was checking them out. But she was chicken shit. So we danced together in a sad circle and later lay flat like starfishes, absorbing techno beats from the cushions.<\/p>\n

Another friend finally experienced the electro-clash dance rock goodness that is Twilight Action Girl, and so we headed to Zouk in a cab. Oh no, Zouk got smart and started charging RM20 for entry to The Loft on Fridays! Us being broke, we were hesitant about entering, as we would not be able to get a cab back after that.<\/p>\n

I then saw DJ Bunga<\/a> at the entrance (who has the funniest blog ever), and he said, “hey, you went inside justnow, right?<\/i>”<\/p>\n

“Uh… no? How ah?<\/i>”<\/p>\n

I then realized that I was supposed to say YES!<\/b> and bring me and friends in! We waited another round before getting in for free.<\/p>\n

Different types of alcohol do well to give me a good rest on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Sunday morning; I went to Midvalley to catch V For Vendetta<\/b> (and catch up) with Leech<\/a>. She wanted to eat Japanese food, and uh… well, I shall clarify this, as much as I’d hate to have to, knowing how many hot chicks like Japanese food.<\/p>\n

I think some<\/b> Japanese food is a rip-off. Such small units of food! (No wonder Japanese are small.) I don’t fancy seaweed, and Japanese crackers are just a weiiird kind of salty. I’m alright with wasabi though, but I’m allergic to a lot of sea creatures. And hot green tea is served in a tiny cup! (Okay, so I didn’t know it could be refilled.)<\/p>\n

Teppanyaki Sungei Wang rocks though. I love the flavor and the whole oily fried meat thing with crispy crunchy things on them. Too bad some people<\/a> hate taugeh, eh.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo, back to V For Vendetta. Cool movie. Too bad they didn’t really explain why people feel the need for control. Control versus freedom will never be a stable seesaw. In a sense, it seemed like an infantile rebel-call. We are just sheep, waiting for someone to lead us.<\/p>\n

At least the army is trained, and it knows and understands why it has to move as one unit.<\/p>\n


\nSo yeah, we had Bento. With what little knowledge I had learned from some diagrams online, I attempted to eat my large Bento meal using chopsticks. I had to say, that chopsticks allowed me to appreciate food slowly, and bit-by-bit. Whereas if I used a fork and spoon, I’d mix up rice and morsel, and not be able to savor it as intimately as I did with chopsticks, alternating between sauced meat and plain rice.<\/p>\n


\nI hopped on a bus to Central Market, and found these buskers with amplifiers!<\/b> They even have a mike.<\/p>\n


\nThere was also an inebriated man, enjoying the music.<\/p>\n


\nTerima kasih! Yeah brader<\/i>, you rock too!<\/p>\n

The buskers then apologized and said how they meet people from all walks of life.<\/p>\n

I then headed to Pertama Complex and finally found a shop that sold the elusive Metallica – Some Kind Of Monster<\/i> rockumentary DVD. Had to order, though. The only Chinese in the place were the handphone salespeople.<\/p>\n

I then met up with Gabra<\/a> superstar to watch Gubra<\/b>. He brought some friends, and then some surprises (which you’d see on his blog soon enough).<\/p>\n

I prefer the prequel, Sepet, though. Gubra was more life-documentation than Sepet, which was love-progression. And it didn’t help that we came in a bit late, and only saw the other characters much later. They didn’t get much screentime, and only seemed to serve the purpose of rehashing old Petronas ads. Still, that will touch hearts and make us laugh at the irony.<\/p>\n

I preferred Gubra’s film quality to V For Vendetta’s. In V For Vendetta, there were a few scenes where there is a conversation between V and Evey, and the film quality changes; for example, when it points to Evey, she has an apparent lo-fi digital motion blur, as if she was being viewed from V, in cyborg-vision. She was also often slightly off-focus. Gubra, however, had no such problems, with well-done focus transitions, and excellent color rendition (though there was a green cast in the outdoor night scenes.)<\/p>\n

I think it’s quite scary how I’ve become a Director Of Photography by accident.<\/p>\n

I also think it’s quite scary how I’m writing this blog entry; I think I’ve been reading too much Lainie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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