The Bonyari Japanese Travelling Band once again came down to KL to charm us with their music. I loved them the first time they were here. Even had them perform at Laundry Bar and the second time around it’s no different! They have a lot of new music this time around and are charming as ever.

They performed at Palate Palette on Divali eve, last Sunday. If you see them performing on the streets don’t forget to give them a donation – though I’m sure you’ll do it anyways as they’re awesome!

Ah, I feel guilty every time I sit down to update this website, and so I end up not updating. Every time I’m not either doing my assignment or studying I feel guilty. I know! That’s terrible, but I have been seriously slacking off in the school deparment lately and the workload has piled up.

And i’ve just started a new shoot, so i have even less time to do school work and more time to feel guilty about it. The new shoot is a kids drama for Astro, called Hikayat Putera Shazlan about a young boy who gets bullied by his aunt who looks after him after his parents pass away, but he has a magic book that helps him. A little bit Harry Potter-ish. I play his aunt’s sister who has recently moved back to KL, and want in on the boy bullying action.

My character is very Morticia Adams – I mean i don’t look like her but act like her just a little. It’s lovely! I have two kids who are like Wednesday and Pugsley. And they had to make me look older so i wear a wig in the show, ’cause I look more like their sister than their mum (ahem!)

I’ll take some pictures soon enough to put up here! I’m shooting with Filmscape and one of my favourite directors, Kabir is directing the first 2 episodes before moving on to direct another drama – of which I hope to be in too

Anyway, I had so much of fun over the weekend (when i was not busy feeling guilty that is!).

I went for a workshop at Lightworks which was great and I came out of it on a very real energetic high. The meditations were very good and I released a lot of things – hence the high! K.B is a wonderful facilitator! Some of the things we worked on were:

1. Overcoming self destruct. This I think everyone needs to work on. We all seem to have a very deeply placed self destruct button that stops us from getting where we want to go, and accomplishing our goals. This was a powerful journey and I will need to do it many many times.
2. Self Acceptance – Releasing Guilt. HAHAH! OK, this one was very powerful too, but I guess i’ll need to do more releasing with this, since I am currently practically runnnig on guilt! Guilt is one of the most useless emotion to have actually. On a vibrational level it runs really low, close to 0. Anger and fear can sometimes serve us – to warn us, protect us – but guilt? No uses whatsoever. So this is a real important on to release.
3. Age Regression. Most of the time we tend to run as adults using programs that served us a children. One would never imagine wearing the same clothes as one wore as a child, but somehow we feel it appropriate to function emotionally at the same level as you were as a child. Of course, we usually don’t know this, so I don’t blame anyone but think about it, how many times do you react to a situation based on some incident that happened to you many, many years ago?  This journey was for exactly that reason and it was a powerful one.

So these were the more powerful journeys we took during the workshop. KB was kind enough to record the whole thing so that we could bring it back and use it again and again.

After the workshop I went to the Annexe to visit Hisham and Peter. Did you manage to catch the exhibition they had there? I can’t remember what it’s called, but it was awesome! The real history of Malaysia – FINALLY! I’m a little bit pissed, because I spent all that time learning all this rubbish history about Malaysia for school. Such a lot of cover up. After which we adjourned next door to the exhibition for Gerome’s Disko Darurat! And danced the night away! Brilliant!

Have you been to wordle.net before?

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

The picture above is the words from my website. It’s bloody cool. You’ll spend ages wordl-ing words!

Also, after ages of being a superstar, Henry found it in his heart to come meet up with me. How blessed I am!

He just recently moved his bony arse to a far away land out of my way and I had to meet him at The Curve. Hanson was also part of the equation and for a wee bit we sat down and chatted about how crappy the Malaysian banks and other general things are. I also brought up the whole guy-pay-for-girl experiment and got quite a different perspective. I’ll tally it one day and put it up.

Henry has got his blue steel look on.

You realise I’m going to say Henry as many times as I can cuz there are a lot of little girls who go crazy over him and will be googling “Henry Golding”  and come to my site,  increase the traffic only to find that it doesn’t have any substantial Henry Golding news and go away disappointed.

HA HA HA HA HA!

(sigh, I am sad…)

Me: I need to go get another phone charger. Lulu chewed through the one I just bought.

Ui Hua: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. I’m sorry to hear that

Me: ……..

At the Sony Ericsson store at The Gardens (it’s right next to the Nokia store)

Me: Uh.. I need to get another charger for my phone…

Man: Wah so fast you lost the one you bought that day?

Me: Uh no, my cat chewed through it again…

Man: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahhahaaa… I mean, here. RM80 please.

Me: ……….

I only have RM100.

Man: Aiya, I got no change. Wait I will break the RM100.

I wait around.

Man: Nah your change.

Me: Oh where did you break it?

Man: At the Nokia store lor…

Ever notice how everything in Malaysia always ends up in the mamak or some restaurant. Basically, everything in Malaysia involves eating. Now this is not good news to anyone who’s trying to a) Eat healthy b) Maintain a healthy weight.

So Ui Hua and I came up with this list of things to do that does not involve eating (and costs less than RM100). The really cool ones are mine and the sub par sometimes juvenile ones are Ui Hua’s. I only put them here so he doesn’t feel left out.

So in no random order:

• JOIN THE GYM. Most gym’s give out a 2 week free trial. Join the free trial, try out all the equipment and join all the classes. When you’re done, join another gym’s free trial! Try Celebrity Fitness (Bangsar Village 2, One Utama), Fitness First (The Curve, John Hancock, etc) or True Fitness (Section 14, Hartamas).
• BAT AWAY. Go to the batting cage at One Utama new wing. It’s only about RM30 for 15 minutes (I think around there). It’s loads of fun and good for letting off some steam!
• GET FREE COUPONS. Scan through local magazines and look for coupons for free stuff like massages, manicures and facials. Or alternatively you can check out the information counter at shopping malls. They always have these discount or free coupons from their vendors. Go wild!
• MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Learn how to make and play a musical instrument.

Building Musical Instruments.

Musical Craft Projects.

• GET AN EDUCATION. Randomly go into a college and attend a class.
• DRAW. Draw on pavements with chalks till you’re chased off.
• TWIST A BALLOON. Learn how to balloon twist. This is surprisingly fun to do!

Balloon twisting 101

Balloon twisting instructions

• URBAN LEGENDS. Test out urban legends to see if they’re true. Check out SNOPES and browse through their urban legends. Coke itself has about a gazillion legends!
• GO GAMEY. Play board games like Cranium, Risk or Taboo. Incidentally if anyone wants to play Cranium please contact me. We’re looking for people to play with (uh yes, did I just advertise that even banded together Ui Hua and I still don’t have enough friends to play a board game?? Yes Watson, I think I did).
• ULTIMATE FRISBEE. Find a couple of friends and play ultimate Frisbee. Good exercise and loads of fun!

And there you have it! I’m sure doing any of the above can keep you entertained for sometime. And best of all, it doesn’t involve much cash.

But, if it doesn’t here are a few more things you can do:

• Go to Borders, MPH or Kinokuniya and read for free.
• Play Paintball! Not as cheap as the rest, but if you have enough people you can have a good game for around RM60 per person.
• Go to a playground and go on all the rides.
• Go to a shopping mall, sit on the kiddie rides and see how long it takes before you get kicked off.
• Learn origami and gift your friends origami animals as birthday presents.
• Visit the SPCA or PAWS and play with the animals.
• Visit the ISA and play with the inmates (err… I don’t know how much trouble we might get for this one! And in case some of you didn’t get it, it’s a joke! Geez!)
• Go to the electronic store and set all the alarms to go off at the same time.
• Go to the toy store and put the dolls in lewd positions.

Got any more to add?