How I spent my days (before and during my birthday)..

Song of the day:
Kanye West featuring T-Pain
"Good Life"

Don't get excited!

The way I spent my time this weekend is never gonna be interesting enough to make anyone feel excited.

BUT...

I think it is worth mentioning them on my own blog.

After all, it's my blog and I can do whatever I want on my blog, right? Haha..

So, on Friday (17th October 2008), after having OT (initials of the phrase overtime), I headed back home, had my dinner and then sit on my bed while watching TV and surfing online. 

Then, predictably, I fell asleep without even switching ma TV off.

I know I know, energy wastage, I know, stop reminding me!

I slept from 9 pm Friday night to 3 am Saturday (18th October 2008) morning, when I saw my TV showing an old drama during the 3 to 4 am slot (which I usually watch anyway due to my early sleeping time during weekdays) but this time, I couldn't be bothered to wake up and watch the show since the show wasn't as interesting as the previous one.

I continued to sleep until I woke up at roughly 11.45 am Saturday morning.

Once I woke up, I started chatting with Eng Xiang and Aifen (if I am not wrong) online.

Saturdays have always been boring for me and till now it's the same old thing.

I chatted the whole afternoon while watching an old traditional Chinese costume drama on NTV7.

And also, I took a bath and then went out to have my ocassional car ride at roughly 5.30 pm.

This time around, I took my car to Tmn Universiti, a place which I've not been visiting for quite some time due to my job commitments which usually leads me to town more than to my old varsity.

I also have other reasons for car riding around the Tmn Universiti area, which of course cannot be announced here.

Usually, I have my car ride with my MP3 player in full blast while listening to various songs, ranging from hip-hop to my favourite alternative rock.

While listening, I twisted and turned to look for the stuff I wanted to look for, but of course to no avail due to the number of houses in that area.

Well, after feeling satisfied, I headed back home to meet my parents for dinner.

After dinner, I started to facebook and found that Kin Lik was the first fella to send me a birthday wish. Thanks to him!

While doing that, WeeJie and me had a huge discussion about Arsenal.

Well, I was moaning throughout the discussion about Arsenal and he almost got fed up with me and changed our topic to something else.

Then, he sent me an interesting quiz/questionnaire thingy which is basically a personality test.

Click here to go to the personality test page.

And this was my result:

Paranoid: Very High
Schizoid: High
Schizotypal: Moderate
Antisocial: Moderate
Borderline: Moderate
Histrionic: Low
Narcissistic: High
Avoidant: High
Dependent: High
Obsessive-Compulsive: Moderate

Try it and understand what these terms mean and you'll be amazed.

Then came the big game after the un-anticipated international break, Arsenal vs Everton.

I didn't watch the game at the beginning but I livescore it.

As I've predicted, Arsenal went down 1-0 as usual, only after 9 minutes ffs!

I was damn angry but I was joking about it with WeeJie.

But at the beginning of the 2nd half, we equalised and I walked to my living room and switched on the TV to watch it.

van Persie scored the leading goal and then my beloved Walcott (I'm straight okay) scored the 3rd, which basically made my day.

"Such a simple goal which would have solved our problems earlier," I kept saying that.

After the game, my dad was the first family member to wish me happy birthday.

My other family members were either busy with their own stuff or sleeping.

I headed back to my computer and found that Eng Xiang sent a birthday message too. Thanks to him!

Midnight followed after that.

25 minutes after midnight, I received my first sms greeting.

Guess who was it from???

It was.... AMIRA! Haha...

I was soooooo happy that she was the first one to sms me.

Amira, thanks a lot for the sms greetings. Really really appreciate it. 

SMS birthday greetings have been one of the most important birthday greetings for me nowadays. 

Nothing beats SMS birthday greetings, especially those early ones when they reach you just minutes after midnight (of your birthday). 

In the past few years, I would receive quite a number of early SMS greetings during midnight but I anticipated now that they would be much fewer and that actually happened.

Nevertheless, I felt really happy to receive Amira's birthday greeting so early.

We exchanged a few SMSes before I shoo-ed her to go to bed.

I slept at 4 am and then woke up at roughly 11.30 am.

And to my surprise, I received 4 SMSes, each from Serena (Siangling), Tong, YiXian and Chek Ru.

If you can't remember who they were, Serena (Siangling) used to be my MSN buddy from KL, who's now studying in USM, Penang; Tong and YiXian were my godsisiters, whom I think are more like my friends (than godsisters) now; and Chek Ru used to be one of my old pals' girlfriend, who's still keeping in touch with me.

Also, as I usually leave my computer on overnight, I received a message from an old pal who's currently in Sabah.

Well, I wanna take this chance to talk about old pals and my views/opinions about them.

My definition of old pals would usually involve those who are very close to me, i.e. those who have studied with me in the same class or conducted activities during my Interact Club and Sea Scout days.

Nowadays, I don't really give much attention to any of my old pals due to several factors.

One is that they won't really give a damn about me since they've their own lives now.

Secondly, most of my so-called old pals are "supposed" to be better than me and thus they think I'm redundant.

I'm not saying all are like that but the feeling they gave me are like that.

Thirdly, they always give me that "can't be bothered about Kelvin" kinda attitude, especially when I try hard to keep the friendship going and stuff.

This attitude annoys me to the max and makes me think that the "friends forever" thing is actually crap to be honest.

Therefore, if any of my old pals are reading this, please, don't blame me for not joining any gathering because to be honest, some of you are very ignorant about stuff.

Moving on, I spent the rest of my afternoon chatting with Eng Xiang and Aifen again while ocassionally received SMSes from different people, i.e. my unit trust agent new friend, Yuki or Charis. Thanks to you too, Yuki!

I also received a lot of facebook birthday greetings, from people like Chee Wei, WeeJie, Gigi (an Arsenal fan friend from Hong Kong), Kugan, Zhe Yuan, Lih Kang and somemore la who I can't remember.

But nobody beats one friend who actually made a sacrifice for me during the afternoon.

She called me from Melbourne, Australia just to talk to me on the phone because of my birthday.

She's none other than.....*drumrolls pleaseeeeeeeee*

AIFEN!

Hehe. Just to refresh your memory, Aifen is a friend whom I got to know during a Golden Key UTM event known as Appraisal Night 2006.

We kept in touch after that night and chatted online numerous times even after she graduated shortly after the event.

We sometimes exchanged SMSes and also we chatted online whenever we have the chance to.

Common interests kept us together as friends and now even when she's in Australia, I'm glad that she doesn't forget about me la.

That's what I call true friends la.

No matter how far the distance is, communication shouldn't be a problem, but many of my old pals basically just give up on my friendship with them when distance comes into the fray.

Special thanks should be given to Aifen for the sacrifice, which also became the highlight of my day.

After all the excitements in the afternoon, came the traditional Lye family celebration.

It always starts off with a dinner thingy, where my cousin would usually be invited to join the dinner together with all our family members.

After dinner, we'll always have a "cake-cutting" ceremony. A short and simple one, and the main character would usually be the type of cake, not the birthday boy or girl. Haha.

Anyway, it has been a pretty simple 24th birthday but it wasn't a bad one.

However, I still haven't had my special birthday till now, the dream birthday that I've wished to have.

I'll blog on that one day la.

Till now, tata. (:

Now we know why...

Song of the day:

Melee

"Imitation"

I was thinking a few days back about the chaos the world has been facing lately.

The USA financial crisis, the milk and melanin incident, and in football, the various unresolved problems like racial abuse etc.

I've been searching for a phrase to explain why all these have been happening and are still left unresolved.

Today, a super quote from my idol, Arsene Wenger, came up with the best quote I've ever seen in my entire life.

"Arsene Wenger: Stupidity IS contagious, from Setanta Sports", as shown on Newsnow.

Ya, Monsieur Wenger was referring to the racial abuse Sol Campbell has faced at Fratton Park in last weekend's game against Tottenham "I'm a top 4 team" Hotspur.

I mean, the Frenchman is correct about this.

From the beginning of the human race, it has been bragged that humans, Homo Sapiens, are the most intelligent spesies in the world.

Well, I don't admit it but nor would I deny it.

However, let's fast forward to today's world. Will you still see humans as the most intelligent?

Let's see.

Financial crisis? Do animals really have such problems?

Note that the current financial crisis is all man-made disaster.

The entire financial system are made by the so-called "intelligent" humans.

And they play with the system to earn profit, gain personal benefit etc.

So the "who cares about the future" attitude is always there, ever present.

Once the consequences of such attitude come in, we then have a man-made crisis, i.e. this financial crisis.

A lot of these crisis actually happen due to human's stupidity.

I don't know how to describe it but stupidity can be very contagious.

Another thing I wanna talk about is the mentality of "what the majority do is correct".

This one is stupidity at the highest level.

Take the average Malaysian society for example.

A lot of Malaysians are very inconsiderate when it comes to car-parking.

They resort to all sorts of parking methods, be it legal or illegal.

Some even don't care about their vehicles blocking other people's way or endangering other people's lives.

And the worst thing of all is that people do it because others do it.

Isn't it stupid for them to say that? 

What the society always does IS NOT ALWAYS CORRECT!

I mean, this is the consequence of a democratic society. Looking at what the majority do. So the minority follows the majority.

If I continue with this, I'll end up slamming democracy because I'm not really a big fan of this system.

Don't get me wrong. This system is good but it requires an extremely ideal environment and people to implement this system.

Well, like I've said, when people put the blame on society when they do something wrong by saying others do it too, these people have already contracted what I call stupidity.

Think about it.