Friday, May 06, 2005

Kamelot - Soul Society

well i bet you guys are sick of that nice long metal ballard.
time for another. lol.

the next one's also nice, not like the best from the album as i've showcased the previous ones, but its not so bad. interesting lyrics too. something about heaven and being cynical about it existing. they used the term Soul Society, just like in the anime Bleach. interesting. i wonder if the writer saw Bleach and go the idea from there somehow. lol oh well and now onto the lyrics.

Kamelot - Soul Society

If my soul could revive
From my carnal remains
What does it matter to me
If it all fades to black
If i'm born once again
Then no-one really is free
How could i be condemned
For the things that i've done
If my intentions were good
I guess i'll never know
Some things under the sun
Can never be understood

How can we believe in heaven
Human reason counters all
Ideas of a soul society
My life is just a fragment
Of the universe and all
There must be more than i can see

In the dark we're the same
In the concept of time
We're like a grain in the sand
And we strive for the flame
As if death was our aim
Cause we cannot understand

How i wish there was a heaven
All for one and one for all
A flawless soul society
Our lives are just a fragment
Of the universe and all
There may be more than we can see

I SCORED!

haha. soccer was GOOOOOOOOD. the fact that quite a number of ppl came down just for my sake, i'm quite touched. they called it my testimonial game. total of 10 ppl played, including myself. since it rained earlier, the court was still wet, but playable nontheless. i was happy it rained coz not onli was it cooling, the wet court forced me not to run around recklessly. i tend to injure myself and play less efficiently at full speed coz i have this habit of not able to brake or stop in time, lol. (my malay heritage bloodline limit, haha)

scored 2 goals even. usually at most i score 1 goal onli. i'm so happy. it was a rather expensive game too. why? well basically, behind the court, beyond the fence is a military camp, the ayer rajah camp i think. and, well, if u kick a ball beyond it.. there's no way to retrieve it, haha. and that evening, 2 balls went over . LOL.

the first one was not exactly my fault, as my shot was on target, but someone blocked it and it deflected over the fence. the other was someone else's kick and deflection again. haha.

jokers them all. after i scored the first they were like, "ok we let u score one goal already, give u enuf face already"
KNN! haha, i knew they didnt mean it, but it was funny nontheless.
on another instance, "wah lau.. your last game, see we all come down just to play with you.. better not later when u free u come back and play ah" u see i can still come back and play with the guys, just inform the guardhouse. then another answered "nevermind, he can come back, but he wont be welcome, at most we call security onli" everyone laughed. then another added "yah la, somemore he looks like one of the al-qaeda as well" i'm well into growing my facial hair, and have stopped shaving for a week or so already, to get into my obi-wan kenobi look.

too bad rachel's gonna have to tolerate this for a while, till at least after the 21st may, as that would prolly be the last time i'd dress up as obi wan, lol. then i'll shave everything off cleanly. all for your making out pleasure baby. not like i enjoy my facial hair that much either. and i think i look much more handsome w/o all this facial hair. i bet i can even star in a bollywood movie, haha. =x

2nd last day at starhub. 3 more days before my pay.. man i cant wait anymore. the nearer it is, the more impatient i get.. x_x

work's fine, so far that is. and i noticed how jovial my this post is as compared to the prev one. i hope my head's ok(mentally i mean). most of my team today is off it seems and my row's almost empty. but its rather fucking cold today. must be the rain. i mean, i'm already in my jacket with a hood over my cap, yet i'm still cold, and my hands are close to numb already. i wont be surprised if i have typos in this post. and i'm not the onli one who's complaining. everyone's wearing their jacket, not something u see everyday. some unfortunate souls dun even have a jacket and are having their teeth chattering! lmao

blah. well cant wait to see my rachel soon.. miss her so much..

Thursday, May 05, 2005

am i going crazy?

well, i'm in one of those mood swings. those depressive states. i dunno.
wat triggered this?

well remembering my current financial state. and well maybe a bit of rachel.
agains i smsed if she managed to get to class and all. that was around 12.15pm
4hrs later then she replies with "just got home"
being the insecure paranoid person i am(being goodlooking and a gd bf does not help, i'll still be insecure and paranoid)asked where did she go. went to watch a movie, with her classmates. ok i guess there's nothing to worry. until i asked wat movie

kingdom of heaven

annoyed isnt the word. oh i dun have anything against the movie. its just that, i wanted to catch it with her. i cant recently. why? COZ I'M FUCKING BROKE. till monday that is. then i can start clearing all my debts. its depressing. i feel like crying again. then it hits me. i've been feeling shit for ages, even had that minor bout of not enjoying and lasting long in bed. i've been reading these articles on this disorder jacq has and its starting to make me worry if its infectious. earlier today a gd old fren from #starwars called, none other then one of my 'brother' val. asking if we're dressing up for epi3. told him should be, but i didnt organize the gatherings and whatnots anymore and gave him the organizer's number to check and liase with. that got me thinking. starwars is my life.
as much as i love it to bits, i never once ever had a dream where i could a jedi knight and all. but that aside, i consider myself the best fan of starwars, if not one of the best. why? well there's always wannabes and posers out there that think that actually having a collection of the toys mean that instantly they're great fans. or there's those who actually name their twins luke and leia. or weirdos who hold their hands out infront of sensored doorways and 'use the force' to open the door. i mean seriously, thats fucking bullshit. do these folks bother to read the novels and such? not really. its just the movies. does watching LOTR movies make u a die hard fan of them? no. u need to read the fucking books. hell there's even phd(i think) in tolkien or something. now that is wat i can a real fan. money can get u anything, toys and accessories. but do u have the same fervour to actually pick up their book and comics to read further?
anyway, the fact that i dun and didnt wanna organize anything about epi3 made me realise that something's amiss.

back when #starwars was still filled by the hardcore fans, frens who've i've made gd frens with irl as well, i organized almost every outing and event. i just dun have the heart for it anymore. its worrying me. well it was true that the last outing i organized for epi2 was the largest in #starwar's recorded history(40 odd ppl), and GV screwed things up for us(long story) but i dun understand my lack of enthusiasm for starwars anymore. i still love it, but my heart's not in it anymore.. maybe because the costs of having to get a costume worries me, but to this point? blah i dunno. is this wat ppl consider depression?

coz even when i got rachel, i was happy to a certain extent, but my problems always came back to haunt me, getting me into this depressive state. hell, i have a soccer game to play in 1.5hrs time, i'm looking forward to it, its the last game i'll ever play at the back of my office building with my collegues-cum-soccer-kakis, i should be enthusiastic and excited by it, but why am i not? i tell myself to snap out of it, but i cant. is something wrong with me? i noe that material wealth is important now, but this is ridiculous, i cant function properly.

i'm supposed to be looking forward to my free time before ns, happy about it, but again the money issue again, wat if i dun have enuf to last me till my ns pay? i dunno. my life's screwed. i dunno wat to say or do. even back home when i'm playing my maplestory. i love that game to bits and am entirely addicted to it. but i'm not moved to playing it as hardcore as before. sick of it? far from it, infact there's no other pc game that interests me as maple right now as well. and making me think about all this damn things is actually giving me a headache.

well at least jacq has her hospital food in IMH. wat do i have? tea/milo and biscuits. i get paid every 2 weeks. but few days after my pay, i go broke. dun ask me why. somehow i'm always 'duped' into lending jacq cash, which she doesnt return promptly. infact for the past half yr+. at most cash returned would be in the 20s 30s, but i lent her by the hundreds. and before the week of my pay ends, i'm already back on my biscuits and milo diet. i dun think my pauch went down, but i did notice that my upper and lower arm muscles, and my chest muscles have gone down drastically. maybe its just that i havent been exercising, who noes.

i feel terrible. i'm hungry. i cant let my parents noe. and they're wondering why i'm always protecting my fren(they didnt noe its jacq who's responsible for the starhub debt shit). coz if they knew, they'd flip, and i'll never hear the end of it. as much as how i have ever talked about not killing yourself, and face life and its problems like a man, this is too much even for me. seriously. look, i dun think your average man, has this kinda problems. this is really eating into me. and it doesnt make matters easier that in my whole family, not onli am i the oldest, but on my dad's side, i'm the oldest of all my cousins as well. which means...

I HAVE TO FUCKING PERFORM AND NOT LET ANYONE'S EXPECTION DOWN.

u watch movies and play games, about how the main char has a father who was the great person, pilot, soldier, etc, and they expect u to live up to his standard. its happening to me right now. i'm like living in my dad's shadow. he was the oldest in his family, and since his dad passed away when he was slightly younger than me(i think) he had to carry the whole burden himself. doesnt help that the fact that he has siblings u can count with 2 hands(almost) but being the oldest, the responsibility automatically goes to him. i have to salute my dad. he single-handed, brought everyone up(with his mum of coz), paid for his sibling's education, and his own(he went to poly, just imagine the costs) and still had to buy a new flat when the whole family had to move out of the kampong.

thats one of the reasons why i'm different from those malay stereotypes out there. i was brought up in a well-to-do family, with successful uncles and aunts. my dad made the difference, always sacrificing himself. and where is his eldest son now? fucked in heavy debts, not even helping out in the household. i'm really sorry dad, i wish i could tell u about my problems, but u just wont help. well literally u could, but i just wont hear the end of it.

man, all this is really making me melachony. however that damn word's spelt.

i wonder if any of u guys saw the movie, Alfie. if u did, i felt like how he felt in the end. thats right. granted i didnt fuck as many girls as he did, nor am i as close as looking as gd, but the scenario is so similar.

i cant bother rachel with all this. why? she'll just blast it back at me, telling me its all my fault for even letting money go to jacq. and she wants me to be financially independant of myself. at least she's understanding and caring enuf not to ask me to pay for her things and such. miss her so much. if i had money i could easily just go meet her after my soccer and hang out with her. but i cant, coz i'm broke.

on another note, i feel like a half-bred.
neither here nor there.
i suspect due to my malay heritage, indian blood and extensive mixing and socializing with chinese/non-malay frens.
like for eg, i dun have the crazy skill in soccer nor guitar that my purebred malay counterparts have, but i 90% of their crazy speed. in other words, i'm easily one of the fastest soccer players, but my skill and stamina lets me down and although i'm not so gd in guitars, i can pick up faster than most(dun have the heart to get much into it though) and not onli can i follow some songs by ear, but in the case of Guitar Freaks, i pick it up faster than my rachel.
then comes the indian part, i'm hairier than your usual malay, and when i sweat a LOT. which in turn means i would smell. once, my shirt doesnt smell of sweat anymore. it smelled more of ammonia. not very pleasing to me. hence i have to invest in deodrants and such. sigh. and due to my mixed blood heritage, if i didnt shave my facial hair for a month, i'd prolly be mistaken for oen of osama's men. of coz i'm blessed with sharp features, not so unsimilar from the north indianers. all this reminds me of those 'Bloodline Limit' thing in naruto, haha.

and due to my choosing and mixing of more chinese/non-malay frens, my mother tongue fails horribly. not like i bother or care, but it can be a tad irritating when i really need to converse in malay onli. and so is my malay culture thingy. i wont noe wat to do in traditional functions. it can be rather embarrassing.

anyway enuf of this. i'm getting off work soon, so in the mean time i'm gonna hype myself up for the game..

ps: i'm seriously considering of visiting a shrink

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

The Gods Must Hate me

fucked up day.

stupid day. fucked up dumb customers at work
atittude given by rachel
fucked up starhub debts came back to haunt me

seriously wat the fuck did i do to deserve all this. is it the alcohol? or the blatant love making? wat? both? geez. not like i'm making others suffer, i'm doing it to myself. why is the fucking repurcussion so big?

cust #1
using a motorola surfboard 4100 cable modem, currently on a maxonline 6500 contract. wants to upgrade to maxonline ultimate. unfortunately, he would have to buy a new modem, why? coz his old one doesnt support the speed(25mbps). disputes. wants to get a new modem for free. informed him i'll check with superiors. but after checking his records, he's one badass fucked up customer. so many technical issues and service he complains about. as if that was bad enuf, he always threatens to disconnect or go to another provider. with us giving him freebies like vouchers and such. not to mention having starhub pull his prev contract just coz he wasnt satisfied with the technical specifications, w/o having to pay for penalty. i mean seriously. IF IT DOES NOT FIT DUN FUCKING SIGN UP FOR IT. bastard. gd thing me and my teamleader went thru his record together and realised he was an asshole. so we told him no, and had no choice but to accept it. fucker

cust#2
has some stupid firewall on. and complains about slow access. why the fuck does ppl always think its the provider's problem? i never had any serious issues with my pacnet. nothing. found out later the website itself was slow. fine.
called in again happened to pick up again, say cant surf. cant remember shit wat i did to get him back online. apparently went thru his records, the mofo makes noises at the slightest port scan. hell he thinks starhub's trying to hack him. FUCK YOU. idiot. do u noe, that some of wat the firewall logs detect, are just requests from our gateway and dns server? THATS WHY U CANT SURF U IDIOT. YOUR FIREWALL'S BLOCKING OUR SERVER FROM ASSIGNING AN IP ADDRESS TO YOUR FIREWALLED COMPUTER. idiot.

there were a few other customers, but i cant remember much, i'm too angry to remember anything else.

a collegue apparently forgot to schedule a service call yesterday, luckily customer was patient enuf and didnt scream or shout at me. for that, i went out of my way to arrange an urgent one for him. see? simple. talk nicely. scream and shout, and the less i want to help u. fuck, if there was a system, i'd give starhub reward points to nice customers, and minus points from insolent ones. might as well install a fucking IQ test on the 1633 hotline and onli those intelligent enuf to follow instructions would be able to get thru and receive assistance from us. biatches

now. rachel.
at 11am, i smsed if she was able to wake up for her classes.
no reply
few more later after 12noon(her classes ends then)
still no reply.
call her hp at around 2.30pm
picked up, just got home, was hanging out with frens. after a few dumbfuck customers, i wasnt pleased at all how things were going.
told her i'll talk to her later. now, the line was cut immediately after i finished my sentence. wat does that tell u? which means she was well on her way to cut the line when i started my last sentence, which constitutes as hanging up on me. very displeased.
msged her asking if she realised she hung up on me. no response.
no response after repeatedly smses throughout the whole fucking day. fine
i call, and she doesnt pick up. ARGH
granted she may have fallen asleep. for her sake, i hope that is the case

and now the fucking debts with starhub. back late last year i made the error of signing up a starhub mobile line(w/o contract) for jacq. and now its been long terminated due to nonpayment. of coz from the billing dept, the case has been happily thrown to the credit control ppl, a company called Max Alliance. great. and somehow, although the billing address was at jacq's bf(or ex-bf, managed to break them up somehow, dunno how true is that, long story, another entry next time) but they call my house number and refer to my own address. GREAT. just fucking great.
now they call me and tell me if payment not made by tmr, they'll have to do a house visit. yay.
jacq said she got her dad to talk to natasha(the credit control girl) and everything's settled. but its so fucking hard to trust a crazy bipolar woman anymore. fuck

i hate today. seriously. again i wanted to cry. considering my options of getting onto the roof of the AOS Building(starhub) and jump or something, but nah, too rush for suicide. i need to go in style, and have a well written suicide note for everyone.

UPDATE: finally rachel replies on sms, but u noe with wat? "what thing?"
omg, this is infuriating.

Sunday, May 01, 2005

is it me, or do i have an uncanny resemblance to kamelot's vocalist, Roy Khan? weird no? pardon me for no updates but i'm so bored i just had to post this. for those wondering about my goatie, i was saving this up for starwars episode3 cosplay. roy had the cheek to actually copy my obi-wan kenobi goatie for photos of kamelot's latest album.(previously he also just had that small goatie on the chin, minus the moustache, just like me too -.-") Posted by Hello

Ripley's Believe It or Not

guess wat? i look a tiny bit like kamelot's vocalist! well at least i think so. the photo i'm gonna post was professionally edited by Microsoft Paint. haha. sorry but my pc's way to screwy to use any better progs like photoshop and the like. and since there hasnt been any new photos of myself, i decided to be a cam-whore with my sonyericsson K500i and take a few shots of myself. note that i took off my specs to show how closely i resemble khan. and you folks out there who have trouble disbelieving how gd i look, its ok. not like i'm gonna suffer from opinions from disbelievers. but u still have a chance for redemption. you could do a search on friendster using m.faiz@swirvemail.com and instantly you'll have access to more of my photos! amazing isnt it!? or you could ask around or something. *shrugs*

anyway i think its time i posted a new song. its called Memento Mori. dun ask me wat it means. prolly latin or italian. agains its from Kamelot, haha.

anyway this time its not anything heavy. again its a semi-ballard. really nice
reminds me of something out of Blind Guardian with a touch of Nightwish. again khan's voice is simply amazing.. and this is by far the longest running track Kamelot has ever produced in an album, unless u wanna put the Elizabeth trilogy tracks from the Karma album together, but i doubt that counts.

Kamelot - Memento Mori

Who wants to seperate
The world we know from our beliefs
And who sees only black and white
Distinguish loss from sacrifice
Some day we may come to peace
With the world within ourselves
And i will wait you
Until i close my eyes

When your time has come
You know you'll be lonely once again
And the final winter comes to us all
Life is treacherous
But you're not the only who must pretend

We're a second in time
We're the last in the line
Of the prey that walks the earth
Good and evil combined

I am the god in my own history
The master of the game
I may believe if she would come to me
And whisper out my name
Sometimes i wonder where the wind has gone
If life has ever been
Sometimes i wonder how belief alone
Can cut me free from sin

When you close your eyes
Mementos of summer retrieves your mind
Like a drizzle after noon cleans the air
When the winter blows
You're glad you remember you really tried

And it comes to an end
Even winter... like fall
And we all have our beliefs
Pray for mercy for all

I am a man without a mystery
The deal is done within
I will embrace the coldest winter breeze
And pay for every sin

[Helena]
VICTORIA, NON PRAEDA
MEMENTO MORI

[Mephisto]
UNA VOCE...VOLO. NON VALEO
DULCE ET DECORUM EST
PRO PATRIA MORI
MEMENTO MORI

[Ariel]
So subservant in you embrace
No more denial
No run away
This is the final
My last recall
And that's the price for what we learn
The more we know the more we yearn
Cause we're so alone

I am a man without a mystery
The deal is done within
I will embrace the coldest winter breeze
The journey can begin
I'm still the god in my own history
I still believe that she will come to me
And whisper out my name

Some day we may come to peace
And reach beyond behind the lies
And i will await you
Until i close my eyes...