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in a couple of hours, i will be jetting to BKK/Koh Samet. So i wld like to wish all of you lovely netizens a Happy New Year and may 2006 be a better year for all of you. But before i leave for this much needed getaway, let me share with you a couple of my fave things for the past year.

agent_yun's Top 5 albums of 2005 (in no particular order...yes this is very subjective, but this albums kept me buzzing for the year)

franz ferdinand-you could have it so much better/album's selling point - all the 13songs!
bloc party-silent alarm/album's selling point - upon hearing the guitar riffs on 'helicopter' u will immediately get hooked.+ kele okereke vox is soothing like vicks vaporub.
doves- some cities/album's selling point -one of the most underrated british bands.just listen to song number 5 'the storm'
kanye west-late registration/album's selling point- kids,hiphop is more than just listening to eminem whining abt how he wld buy his kid a mockingbird.production on this album is bloody good,amazing collabos and yes, i am a hiphop fan.fashizzy mah nizziess.the only rap album worth buying.
coldplay-X&Y/album's selling point-need i say more?
notable mentions- sufjan stevens,beck,MIA,new pornographers,editors,the rakes,the decemeberists,the observatory

word of 2005 - 'sachiok'(dunno if its the rite spelling) - means cool/nice/attention grabbing.
i first heard dis word when one of my colleagues, a Malay hanyut wannabe, who upon seeing my handphone said" Phone lu sachiok.....brape sak kau beli?" yes sachiok is my word for 2005. this hancur kids, i mean hanyut kids can write up their own thesarus if they want to.

lousiest month of 2005 - august..NDP duty was hell. Sporeans love fireworks. I just dun understand why they have to drag their OLD parents andBABIES knowing that there wld be a crowd. can watch TV wat!

movie of 2005- Batman Begins.The best Batman movie ever.Chronicles of Narnia comes a close second.

dumbass moment of 2005-Zoukout.dun ask me y.if u noe, u noe lah.hahaha.

most memorable moment of 2005 - Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe 2005.i know i am not alone in this but during half time, i nearly cried and made a lot of empty promises to God so that my team wld stage a miracolous comeback to win the match.It worked didnt it?hehe.

2006.....i am on the wrong side of my twenties....damn it......Have a good one u'hear?

At the lapangan terbang antarabangsa Changi aeropuerto, 9+am. One of these kids is doing his own thing, now it's time to play our game, it's time to play our game! Elfian repra-zents (the melayus)




The guy hiding behind the glass panel is Shah Rukh Khan...brother.




The PNSD + PKTC phamily. Now we see some color contrast. Heh.




Watching some mile-high action LIVE! (Misterrr, can u pls hide ur teeth plssss. Thank you.)




At the Chulalongkorn Airport. (Heck sorry but i dont know the real name of the airport aye. Elfian reprezents again!)




That's my homie Andy Lau. My roommate. Heartlanders duo. We're tight. Los Santos for life dawg.


Now the next pic is the best of all pic. Im sure, most of you would be wondering where Rudi Voeller is now, after resigning from the Germany coaching post (like you all know liddat who Rudi is). And so, we have spotted him, in Bangkok itself. Yes readers. It's true. I guess he's now working closely with the Thai FA.



TA-DAH! Da man from the wasteland (circled). Here at the pub we were at, drowning his sorrows with black cat and good ol john denver classics. That white grinding thing is that Shakira woman i was talking abt.

Posted by: King Haku /  12:58 AM 3 comments

And so, after such a happening nite, so looking 4ward to a good nite's sleep. Alas, all that was destroyed by loud bangings in the door. Bloody hell, it's 7.30am and those crazy mofos are banging at our doors. They seek pleasure in disturbing people still snoozing. Last year, lesser people went for the trip, and so, not once did anyone knocked on our bloody door for 3 whole days. Suckas. To top it all off, those same mofos called our line. Smelly Vag. Both me and the sidekick were too gonked out to even do anytin. And so we slept, till abt 9 coz we wanted to catch the free breakfast. Major disappointment that one. Upon reaching, there were few people left, and food were still quite a lot. Too bad no more eggs, and the rest were juz akons, i mean beacons. Aiyayai. Pork here, pork there, ham here, ham there. And so i settled for a sumptious breakfast of toast n jam n butter. Marvellicious. My ass.

As soon as that was done, went back up, instead of following the crowd who went straight out after breakfast for shopping (and i found out they reached Pratunam way too early coz shops werent even open yet. serve them rite for trying to knock down my door, suckas!). In my room, only then i continued with my sumptious breakfast of myojo mee soto cup noodle, all the way from motherland. The sidekick went back to sleep, that bummer. I had the perfect roommate. The other colleague, Mister Gaylord himself, bunked in our room, persuading us to go out early, and ended up sleeping too on the same bed as the sleeping dude.

Eventually we got our asses up at abt 1 and prepared to go out abt 2. Feeling like a regular visitor there, so take our own sweet time. Moreover, remember the mantra, it's a $5 trip. Took the underground station, which was wayy to similar to the outram train station so i felt like i was heading to work. Geez. And they dont have like our green ezlink cards. They use a much cooler casino token look-alike. The instruction when buying the 'token' (the ticketing are similar to ours) read 1. select destination 2. insert coins 3. exchange token for a card at counter.

And so we did in tat order. Coz we were expectin a card for us to tap our way thru. At the counter, the dude gave us baht in exchange for the tokens and we said nooooooooo. We wana ride da train mister. And he said the security dude over the other side will show us. And we actually used the token to tap our way thru. Hah. Juz when we tot we'd keep the token when we alight, discovered that at the exit, u need to INSERT the token in the slot, instead of tapping. Ahhh. So desne.

First stop was Siam discovery centre. Concentrated mainly in that area. Went to bookstore to check out any Playbaht mags. More of high end stuffs here, like an adidas boutique, converse, quicksilver, and what nots. Again, like last year got meself ORIGINAL levis which was cheap there at the boutique. 505s for like $60. Late late lunch was at the so-called food court wif a twist. Their deco very the nice, all white n red, super dope. Furniture as if philippe starck was at work here. And get this, there was a dj spinning his shit while we were eating. He looked kinda lonely tho in his console way up there, no one swaying to his beats as they were too busy tucking in their pork mee i guess. This was definitely a great idea for those on a budget, but yet wanna go clubbing. Come here, eat, then dance awayyyy. So if u goin bkk and on a tight budget, seriously consider my idea n u can thank me laytah.

Next we attacked MBK. Nothing much to get here as the damage has already been done with some tees and jeans. So had dinner at Black Canyon Coffee, and my silly mates couldnt resist the local delicatseen of fried pork sausages. Those buggas. Swine.

After much shopping, n contemplating of chilling at Starbaht, we eventually went back home, i mean hotel. Grinning from ear to ear with my loot. More shopping to be done amigoes. This time, i shall sleep wif my door open so then, they cant possbily break down my door rite??

And so i am back fellow comrades from my short trip (again) from the land of the smiles. No people, i wasnt there negotiating with Thaksin in regards to the unrest in Yala Yala, nor was i there persuading him to buy Liverpool, (probably the best club in the world). I was there for my highly-subsidised departmental trip. In any case, the department shall not be named in view of the Durai case. Seditious. Anyways I only paid $5 for it and the rest was subsidised. But, I have to admit, it really was a $5 trip. Here is why..... (watery watery effect as we go back in time)

One day, this story brings us back to last thurs, 15/12/2005. Meeting place was Terminal 1 gate wateva for Garuda airways at 0900hrs. As usual, i was kinda late so reached there at 0915. Thankfully the plane has not left yet. Fast forward, plane flew off at 11.30am. Gotta tell ya theyve got a kick-ass Macdonald inside the boarding area. Ekcellent view.

By golly, i was quite sure that Garuda wasnt a budget airline, but when i got on, it sure felt like one. The plane was the same size as the Airasia plane i took the last time round, only tat this has a business class on the first section. Diff between the classes, bizness has 2 seats on each column, while economy had 3. Oh well, $5 trip i told myself. Lucky for us, there was at least one cutie stewardess in the plane. The rest were like, maybe can rank them as nyai or ibu.

Touched down Cheng Kai Shek (sorry i dont know the Thai airport name) airport at 12.30pm local time (time will now be referred to as the Thai local time, o-k). The Thai immigration is kinda kick-ass coz they have this weird gizmo on their passport chopping area. U gotta look at it and not anywhere else and the people chopping ur passport will actually be monitoring u. Its actually a camera device, and they use it to match ur face wif tat on the passport. Coolness!

Took the haprak bus to our hotel, highly anticipating tat it'd be some kinda high-class hotel full of social escorts. I kinda forgot tis was my $5 trip. As it turns out, yea it was a $5 hotel. Crappy i tell u, craapppyyy. Its called Ratchada City Hotel. Pls dont go there. The location is freaking ulu. No view at all. Imagine having a hotel somewhere in, like Sungai Road, no major landmark nearby. Best part was the door's peep-hole, where u cant see thru it coz it's scratched. And i tink my house toilet's better. And the cupboard looked like there'd been a fight and a hole on it. They have a balcony but u cant get to it coz it's locked. (wat the hell?)

So yea u get my drift, it sucks. Check it's website. I couldnt even locate it on the bangcock map. http://www.ratchadacityhotel.com/ . It's in a developing area n is still developing.

Reached it like 4+ and the first thing on my mind was to get some sleep. Jet lag lah konnon nye. And best part was, they were showing the pool vs wateva match LIVe! So yea, good reason too stay in a while. Remember kids, it's a $5 trip. Nothing to lose.

Eventually went out at 7 as one of the guys knew some local dude who was gonna bring us ard. This guy that spoke in mixture of hokkien thai, n 2 overexcited aunties who seemed to speak to me in Thai as if i understood a single word she was saying. So the whole lot of us took up 2 cars n a cab, n first destination was to some seafood area, and i was hoping real hard no Golden Mile fried rice laden wif pork tis time round. It was a nice place. At the entrance only, saw like women (or was it men??) dancing in their undies on the seond level. Prob that was for 'business' class only. We were there juz for the food. Lucky for me, being the minority, my voice was heard. I requested for a seafood only cuisine and voila, evryone else ordered only seafood. The prawn fried rice was excellent! And so was the tom-yum-goong. The overall place was nice, had like a lake in the middle and some Thai gig goin on. The beer ladies were cute. And that overexcited auntie still continued talking to me excessivly as if i understood her whole philosophy. Like, wateva ladyyy. She seems to understand my hand gestures, tho i certainly felt ramming my fist up her throat. But she was nice lah. Wats tat chinese saying, chicken hand and leg move differently. Means we talk diff languages, but hand gestures suffice.

And so we were full, time was abt 9+ or 10, time to hit the sack i guess. But nooooo. Our host had other ideas. Wanted to bring us to some discoteque. I dont tink anybody would wanna do the macarena wif our stomachs full of fried lice and prawn. So they die die wanted to bring us to kalaoke. I suspected it'd be some hip place.... for our parents and grandparents, as old as them. And my worst fear came true. As if the ride wasnt far enuff, it sure was a hip place..... in pre-VietCong 1970s. 'twas a small pub. Very few people. Beer ladies were like old, cept for 1 saving grace. We were the biggest grp there. And so the togok session began. (At this point of time, pls note Im straight edge hardcore SxE so i dont drink). Only thang i got high on was Coke in glass bottles. It rocks! And dirty too! At first evryone shy shy. Eat eat, talk talk. Suddenly, one got high, and they brought the house down. N'mind there was no chick to dance with. The old aunties became their dance partners. The old beer lady was gyrating her hips, i swear i tink after downing a few bottles, to them she'd look like Shakira. Not wanting to be a spoilsport, urs truly was boogeying the nite away and showing them my specialty of my one-legged macarena dance routine. Old time favorites like Venga boys and Ricky Martin's 98 world cup song, we sang along with gusto. Oh how cheesy. But more cheese was abt to come. Being among the ORD personnels, we were invited to the singing podium to belt out a song or two. So obviusly we only chose one. And good lordie, the poison chosen, none other than Backstreet Boy's As Long As U love me. Yeayea. It was an emotional nite mah. Me gonna ORD soon. No more senior to take the fall or rap. Wahahahahah. Me and my heartlander partner, we sang it wif passion n only true lovers know (im not referring to him loving me), we were so good that a lady, who was a customer actually went up to the 'stage' and gave us each a flower. My oh my. My first time to a KTV bar and my performance actually warranted a flower. To bad some drunken monkey took it and like chew it or sumtin. I was so touched and inspired. So ladies n gents, look out for my upcoming gigs at substation or youth park k. I love you all...

The nite ended aptly wif 'I will survive' and soon, we were back to our hotels. Lucky for us, our host didnt join in the crazy BO-TAH-BO-LAMPAH! cheers and drinking matches, if not i tink i'd be the one behind the wheels. Hahaha. As for me, there i was, chilling wif my glass of coke, still replaying the scenes of my stage performance over n over again. You areee, my fireeee......

And so denizens, i yam off to Bangcock again 2moro. At the rate that im goin, mite as well i get a PR there. Can either join the Aiiiyyaaa clan and pose as thai cops harassing people. or open stall at Chatuchak and sell tees, pirated cds and wheat. Hopefully this trip i will bring back with me interesting n juicy stories, then got rubbish to write here.

On another note, happy belated birthday to the 2 dinosaurs, Abang Wandi and Agent Yun. Cepat cepat lah masok meminang.

In the words of great men who have walked this way... "ORD LOH!"

i shld have taken music lessons in YMCA when i was six. you know...go thru all the grades, get super classically trained and go overseas to further my musical knowledge. skali my supercool parents who allowed me to go overseas when i am still a teenager,trunkcall me n tell me that i am to enlist for NS......me doing well overseas decide nah...no need ah...i am doing well here y go back n serve NS....no need ah.....what i didnt noe is that with every action comes repercussions...and i cant go back to my country cause i cabut NS.now i have to ask my parents to visit me once in a while so i wont get caught and be forced to serve NS. now i am in my early 40s and doing well as a musician. i think my parents are too old n frail to fly over the continents to visit me...well i shld come back, by this time surely the gahmen would not want me rite? alamak.they still remember me lah.nevermind i am prepared to face the consequence. 5k...easy..can judge a couple more music contests n get money from it. dun care wat ppl say.

nonsensical.idiotic.we have young men going to jail for desertion, AWOL and all this after enlisting for NS. but then comes mr pianist who needs only to pay 5k for not serving NS at all.and he still can say he is disappointed with the bad press he's been getting. wahlaueh.let me play you some musical chords.chord F,chord U,chord C,chord K. hit them on your piano if u can please.

i noe this is very subjective but i just need to get it off my chest.

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