(tm)ing something I wrote

Dammit! Mike the DW thought I stole something from John Mayer. DAMMIT! I'm (tm)ing this here so that if JM ever steals it, I can blast his ass for stealing. Actually I prolly won't.

When a bone breaks and then heals, it becomes much stronger material than the area around it. The only thing is, it needs to be set properly while we stay still.

(c) 2009 Rachel SJ

BTW, on the topic of JMayer... John, I will make sure that the first words of my unborn children will be either 'Gravity', 'Clarity' or 'John Mayer is an alien from out of space', whichever one is easier for them to say. But you need to come to Sabah first. You don't even need to even bring your Gibson. I'll fashion a nice gitar kapok for you from some tree in Tanjung Aru (I'm eyeing that big-ass casuarina tree near the terminal 2).


Yes, that's Sabah, Malaysia.

Dammit... blogspot ain't allowing me to cut and paste the URL. GoogleMap it John. GoogleMap it!!

Swearing Made Easy

The first thing I would learn in any language, are the swear words. It's a self-defense mechanism - my paranoia has me thinking that whenever anyone's using a foreign language around me, they're prolly cussing me out. The rest of the language can come later - after all, even if you can't understand what I'm saying, I can still do hand gestures (including those offensive ones).

When I was a kid, cuss words would defile my mouth like nobody's business. I can't remember my exact reasons why, but I do remember one occasion where I did it cause I wanted to sound cool, like an adult. Oh bite me.. I was only 11 at that time, ELP* be damned!

* Extended Learning Program - spent 3 years at Cleveland wondering what the heck I was doing there

Of course, now that I'm older and *ahem* more cultured, I tend to shy away from cussing. I wince inwardly every time I hear someone say -Expletive Deleted-

-Expletive Deleted- I'm such a prude.

However, I learned three new ways to dirty up my language this evening. I'll prolly forget the other two, but the first one... woo hoo, I'll use that one for a while. I always thought the meaning was something cute or that it was a cute name. Good thing I didn't just spout it off of my mouth - which reminds me of a former colleague who would just repeat swear words he'd heard, without actually knowing what it mean. People, at least please learn what it means. You don't wanna look like a -Expletive Deleted- -Expletive Deleted-

-Expletive Deleted-

This Post Is Sponsored by Maxwell House Coffee, Good to the Last Drop.

Sundays are like New Year Resolutions. You start out well enough, but end up being scuppered by noon. I donno what it was about today, though. By the time I punched in with a wee 5 mins to spare, I was already literally searching for a pillow.

Excusing my class early wasn't so much of a problem. Lab work went without hitches and the conversation was way too entertaining, but by 2.30 pm, my peeps were already suffering from severe too-much-cuti syndrome. Coupled with today being Sunday...

Option 1, keep em for another 2 hours and rack your brains trying to think of things to entertain them with (Hey ho! The circus has come to town!)

Option 2, let them go off by 3.00 pm, so that they'll worship the ground you walk on and think that you're the damn coolest thing to walk on the planet. That, and so that they'll postpone slashing your brand new tires for making them shut up for a full hour in class.

I left my clown hat at home. Meh.

Anyway, when I got home a couple of hours ago, I realized that maybe, just maybe, that cup of coffee I had during lunch wasn't such a good idea. There's nothing more frustrating than launching your body full force on the bed and thinking, oh crap... I think my ribs broke and dammit why ain't I falling asleep yet.

Buh... rain + Sunday afternoon + coffee from lunch = Life is so unfair

Sidenote : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxXQ_pVd-Hk *uhuk*

Sekali Lancung ke Ujian, Seumur Hidup Orang Tak Percaya...

Yes, I'm still on this weird peribahasa phase.

Did a time out and did some penaakulan mantik (logic reasoning) which, thankfully, didn't make my brain explode. Friends-centric thoughts mostly. The "Hey, how you doon?" ones. The fair-weathered ones. The ones who profess to remember you till even if Bruce Willis hadn't decided to sacrifice his life so Liv could be with Ben, but would scram at the sound of the first rumble. The diam-diam ubi berisi ones (I wondered why ubi? why not tembikai or something). The ones who would stick by you, thick and thin, and sometimes even when you're being a super a**hole (what, who, me?)

I didn't come up with any brilliant deductions, at least not ones that haven't been thought of before. But I did notice something... usually the ones who do the Bruce Willis are the ones most vocal about how your friendship means to them. In my case, they're the ones who've hurt me the most.

Much as I'd like to say friends are a dime a dozen, just one Bruce Willis friend would stink your day. Hrm... I can already hear the repercussions from John McClane fans.

Meh. Bring it on. Yippy-kay-yay m*f*

p.s. WTH does "terpeluk biawak sial" mean? Biawak is sial ka? Bukan kaki biawak ni is some sort of good luck charm?

Bagai Kerakap Di Atas Batu...

hidup segan... mati tak mahu...

I've always had problems with Malay proverbs. I have no problems with the bells and whistles of English sayings (Yes, Mrs Cooney & Mrs Teahen, you did much damage!), but the kias-kias of the Malay ones... meh!

Oh I understand the standard ones fine enough.

Ada ubi, ada batas.. lain hari aku naik bas...

Sambil menscuba, alang-alang minum ja air segelen...

Rumah sudah habis bikin, gergaji drill baru on karan...

(the translation's pretty close enough)

Tsk... *roll eyes*

It's when I hear the weird ones that require four hours of Astro Prima/Oasis lessons for at least two years that I get mystified. So when someone sends me email with stuff like "angkuh terbawa, tampan tinggal", I start blaming the school system for not conforming to drama swasta literature! What the heck?

p.s. For one particular person, I hope this isn't what you're doing...

"Calak-calak ganti asah, menunggu tukang belum datang"

This General Ain't Going to Battle... Yet

"No retreat, no surrender"
- Spartan Law

I would never make it in Leonidas' army. I seriously don't have the abs for it. I prefer to listen to someone closer to my own kind... some fella who called himself Sun Tzu, who said

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. "

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."

But I've been blessed that I've got a few smartypants in my circle that give me gems that rival that of Sun Tzu's.

"Kadang kala dalam perjuangan, kita harus berundur seketika kerana berundur bukan bererti mengaku kalah tetapi sekadar untuk mengatur langkah"
- M.D. (he'll remain anon for now)

Translation? In battle, we need to take a step back sometimes, not cause we've concede defeat, but to rearrange formation. Closest saying that I've seen to it is "reculer pour mieux sauter" which is to pick your battles.

Lose the battle to win the war.

Hrm... it sounds so much better in Malay though ;)

Of Glass & Diamonds...

There's a saying here that goes "antara intan & kaca" (that's "between diamond & glass" for you English snobs!). One of my male cousins said that some guys just don't know how to differentiate between them (figure out the euphemism, fellas... it ain't that hard), ends up choosing the wrong one, regrets, tries to backtrack but finds out the diamond's been mined out. Under normal circumstances, you'd prolly say "you moron" or "dumbass", which, surprisingly, has a dictionary.com entry that needs a link to this.

But... what if.. it's not glass, it's not diamond. What if the girl's actually cubic zirconia? But a really uber-tiered cubic zirconia. Wait wait... where do crystals go?