Fridays ...

It's Friday ..... at long last.

** Phew **

'Nuff said.

Why can't I sleep?

It's 0300am ... and I can't sleep.

Not that I'm not tired .. fact is, I'm bloody tired.

I just can't fall asleep.



I think my insomnia is back.

Dammit.

Feeling frustrated ..

Why is it that whenever you seem to get in to a good thing ... there is ALWAYS someone around who is determined to make your life miserable?

Why is it that whenever you FINALLY find something you really like .. there's always some fucking control freak around that spoils everything?

Is this some unwritten law somewhere that states that you can NEVER be too happy? And that for every good thing you find ... there must always be some asshole to 'balance' it?

Why cant people just live and let live?

Perhaps I'll feel better tomorrow after a good nite's rest ...
but I doubt it.

Film Director Dies

Anyone remember this movie? About the chinese VCD seller and the malay girl he fell in love with? It was called Sepet and the movie bagged several international awards .. including the prestigious Asian Film Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2005.

The movie firmly established Yasmin Ahmad as a filmaker to be contended with .. besides, her themes for most of her movies tended to deal with social issues usually not touched by other local filmakers.

Apparently Ms Ahmad collapsed during a presentation on Thursday (23/7) and had to be rushed to the hospital - she was reported to have suffered a stroke.

And last night at about 23:30 hrs she passed away - the full report by NST online here.

I guess Yasmin Ahmad was the only filmaker that made me look at Malaysian made movies in a different light - most local productions are .. well, let's just say it's not what would appeal to me personally.

But Ms Ahmad had that special way of looking at things .. at situations and somehow managing to capture it on camera .. telling a story thru her eyes. It was refreshing and unique. It made me want to see more and expect more.

She will be dearly missed in the industry.



R.I.P Yasmin ...

And once again ...

I guess almost everyone would know by now about Mr Teo Beng Hock who was found dead whilst being on an 'invitation' by the MACC .. can't say im surprised .. read about what Mr Wong from Malaysian Insider has to say about this here.

I only hope that after all the hoo-ha has died down .. people won't forget that this was a guy who was actively serving the community .. and paid for it with his life.


UPDATE :

I found this tribute by Teo's fiancee Ms Sher Wei on www.youtube.com .. and what she read out during his funeral moved almost everyone present to tears. Go to the link and watch for yourself here.

I only hope that whosoever was responsible causing Teo's death .. pays dearly for it.

Random

You know what?

I dont know whether it's only me ... or whether it happens to anyone else but .... it always seems to rain in the morning whenever I need to get up really, really early ( like this morning ).

And on those days when you DO get the chance to sleep in .....
you can't.

Cos on THOSE days ( re:weekends ) you ALWAYS somehow automatically wake up at 0700am.

What's worse .... after the early morning rain .. you'd be facing this :











































And you get into the office with a face that looks like it has been treated with sour juice or something .... anyone have the same experience?

Random ..

I was at my friend's place the other day in IPOH ... when I came across this fella.

Meet Milo.

According to my friend, he's called Milo cos he resembles the dog 'Milo' from the movie 'The Mask'. And like the movie, this Milo also has got a pretty large head .. hehe.

What do you think?

What a Nite ....

So as with every other nite, after checking my mails and doing some work on my laptop .. I went to bed last nite anticipating a good night's rest as I had to be up really early today.

I distinctly remember going to bed at about midnite and just as I was dozing off .. I could have sworn I heard something breaking .. like glass being shattered. But since the noise came from outside, I just figured it was somebody running over a bottle or something ..

A few hours later, I heard people yelling ' Fire! Fire! ' .. looked out my bedroom window and saw this .....














Quickly I put something on (it was hot and besides, I like to sleep in the nude, ok?) ran outside and saw this ..














Apparently it was a car that was parked in the backlane just directly opposite my house ... and it was on fire .. by then, a huge crowd of people had already gathered .. I called the emergency numbers ( 994/999 ) and guess what?

THERE WAS NO ANSWER !!

Sheeesh .. good thing I had the number to the police station in my area .. the policewoman said that she would notify the Fire Department .. who came by pretty fast .. see the pic below .. you can just make out the fireman ..














Here's a zoomed shot .. the heat was tremendous and I couldnt get any closer .. besides, there was an explosion just a few secs before .. musta been the petrol tank ..














I later discovered thru my neighbour that the glass shattering I heard earlier was from the same car .. somebody or some people had smashed the car's windscreen .. and the later returned to burn the car .. this was later in the morning at 0700am when I took this pic below ..




























No wonder it was so hot .. the flames caused a long burn marks next to the wall where it was parked ..

































Dunno who this guy pissed off ... and by the way, the car was a Toyota Wish .. methinks the owner of the car either owned someone money or something ... or maybe he was holding back on his employees' salaries?

PS : The car was already gone by the time I got back home at nite .. I sure hope this dont happen again tonite ... sheesh ..

Random

Woke up this morning .. looked out my bedroom window .. hmm, still dark out ... and realised that the time was correct .. it's still dark out cos it's raining ..

Just too bad I gotta get up and go to work ... dammit.