Sweet (Jeebus) Potato :D

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So i was in Jaya Jusco, Wangsa Maju the other day, shopping groceries (yeah, i do shop for groceries. that's how i roll). I was somewhere walking by the foodcourt when suddenly this one (Indian) voice came out loud screaming "SUDAH SIAP MASAK" <-- yeah, it's in capital letters. It was that loud. I noticed that i wasnt the only who heard that call but for some reason, everyone who heard the call had this carnivorous look in them. Their eyes seems to be saying "FINALLY, I'VE BEEN WAITING FO THAT SHIZ" <-- also in capital. the thoughts in their eyes were that obvious. And thus, a stall in front of the Jusco entrance was crowded instantly. Me, being curious, decided to join along the crowd

Apparently, it was this stall selling chestnuts and baked sweet potatoes. The potatoes were the one that was just came out of the oven and people were swarming over that, grabbing at least a kilo each (like, seriously, wtf?). So i was like, seriously, wtf and bought a 100g of them sweet potatoes when the crowd cleared away just to try a bite. I mean, seriously, what was all the hype about right? Oh, and btw, i noticed the Indian guy selling the sweet potatoes asked me "just a 100g?". Pfft.. well, yeah, how good can baked sweet potatoes be that i would by a kilo for myself.

But first, let me get this out of the way. I like fried/baked potato wedges. i mean, i can never get enough of that stuff. KL's mashed potatoes - i worship his recipe and i cant get enough of that too. Sydney baked corn by The Rocks Market, that was quite a bomb. 

And, to our matter at hand now - baked japanese sweet potatoes; IT WAS THE BEST OF BOTH WORLD! Both all soft mash-y and sweet in the flest inside but hard enough on the outside it was baked! I mean, i dont usually like mashed potatoes coz it's too soft that you have to eat them with a spoon. Baked corn? Yeah, you can hold them upright and it's all crunchy but i rather have something sweet and soft (okay, i'm not being complacent here. i just wanna get my point across) But baked sweet potatoes, it's both baked and soft! And on top it all, it's sweet! It's genius! I mean, seriously, my first bite and i was all "WHHHAAADEEFAAAKKK???!!!" <-- SERIOUSLY, IN CAP LETTERS COZ IT'S THAT AWESOME! I mean, who would have phunked?

And if you think i'm exaggerating, just google up "baked japanese sweet potato" on the net and read up all those opinions on people who've tried eating them. If you think i'm exaggerating, then i supposed it's a flash mob out there of people spazzing out on their dose of sweet potatoes.

In any case, how hard can baking sweet potatoes be right? With that in mind, i took shit in my own hands (....figuratively) and bought some raw sweet potatoes from Tesco yesterday. Yeah, imma bake em one of these days bitches. I'm hardcore like that. Maybe the next blogpost is going to be about that. Wait for it :D

Delaqroux Out.

Caput Draconis

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Today, i realized that i was not able to log in to my twitter account. For some reason, i've been keying in all my possible passwords matched with all my email addresses whole morning (that was an exaggeration of course. My mornings are always spent with productive activities) - and still no log in! Probably it's because of the fact that, much like my blogger account, i rarely come back and post stuffs and thus, my account is probably closed down. Maybe twitter thought i am dead.

Anyways, somehow the word "Caput Draconis" came into my mind. Anyone have any idea what this is? It's been bugging me for the whole day. It's like one of those thing that came up in your thoughts but you cant remember where you got it and what does it mean.

Delaqroux Out.
p/s: okay, here's the truth; the reason why i'm making this short post is because i am getting paranoid that blogger might shut down my account as well if i'm not posting stuffs regularly. Oh well, you can call it a motivation to write too in a way...

Keluang Man Rises?

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I've just watched the recent trailer on Dark Knight Rises and some parts of the trailer somehow reminded me of something that i (day)dreamed of as a kid, that is; to take ownership rights of Keluang Man and make my own storyline take of the animation series.

Yep, Keluang Man. Ring any bells?

Keluang Man is a Malaysian comedy caped-crusader hero based on the animal "Fruit Bat" (Keluang) with appearance closely resemble the ever popular hero Batman. Keluang Man, however, goes around with the attitude of Spiderman/Deadpool - highly comedic and almost ultimately memorable by his verbally annoying remarks towards his enemies. The show was aired from 1997 to 1999, where the series stopped due to its drop of popularity - in which was suggested in Wikipedia that the popularity drop could have been caused by the producers take to make a more morally preachy Keluang Man rather than a hillarious one... @#$% you, morality.

Keluang Man was neither a billionaire or a friendly neighbourhood. He's just purely made of 100% pure annoyance, even throwing racist remarks to people around him. But why is that fine on Malaysian television? Well, Keluang Man, or his real identity, Burhan (yeah, what the fuck), is a fictional OKU (wait, how does that make it okay to be racist on national tv again?). He's a patient in Tanjung Rambutan Mental Hospital who is suffering from... well, some brain damage considering he's so annoying. But Burhan somehow possess this atheletic skill and the habit of escaping Tanjung Rambutan at nightime to look for trouble. His career as Keluang Man begins when Burhan accidentally stumbled on the corpse of the previous Keluang Man (which was only explained to have been shot by a villain but never explained of his real identity) and putting on the costume, he resumes the heroic journey as Keluang Man. Whether or not if he really knows what he is doing but with the Keluang Man identity 'revived'; Burhan caught the attention of all villains around Malaysia who thought that Keluang Man was supposed to be successfully murdered.

The latter episodes of Keluang Man had Burhan's fighting and athletic capabilities explained, alongside his real identity. While the show is ultimately lame on today's perspective (considering there's way more cooler foreign superheroes out there) i personally find Keluang Man's a good attempt to start Malaysian own iconic super-hero league. And why Keluang Man is a better icon IMO than the now-popular Cicak Man? It's because of the take of the story. I consider Cicak Man's storyline to be way more cliche. Keluang Man's storyline has so much potential that the producers should have hired me as their storyline advisor and make it gazillion way more epic - this is where my imagination as a kid came in.

Donning on Keluang Man's costume, Burhan faced villains he never really heard of and villains of Burhan's own past. This is where i think the show could have been made way more interesting (and probably for more mature audience). Burhan could have been made to start using the Keluang Man identity to his own advantage and often forgetting the fact that he is taking the role of a late super-hero, not as a vengeful new one. The show can have audience to question the line between being the public's view of an iconic hero or an undercover villain. The audience can take sympathy of Burhan who, while mentally deranged, cannot figure out this line to a point that he comes close to becoming a villain himself - probably by a scene when he killed a public figure who was actually someone evil or corrupted, and related to his own past. Burhan's brain damage could have been caused by a traumatic experience to which he may often lose control of his heroism as Keluang Man due to his long-contained desire to sought for revenge; all this while masked by his comical personality. At the same time, the directors can have so much twists in the show based on Burhan's decision on his surrounding conflict, that the audience would think that, despite Burhan's mentally-ill identity, he's actually way more sane as compared to how mad the modern society is in perceiving things around them. In all, Keluang Man, with its pre-established premise, had the potential to be both a superhero and a philosophical show at the same time, as opposed to standard hero vs villain storyline.

Anyways, those are just the idea i had when i was... about seven years old? (damn, should have picked a different line of work. sigh). How did the trailer of Dark Knight Rises reminded me of my old ideas when i was a kid? Well, i wanted to have my (alternate) Keluang Man's 'trailer' to start with the national anthem that ends with alot of all-hope-is-lost footages. So there. Lol. Anyways, maybe there will be one day when i'm a millionaire that i can purchase ownership rights of Keluang Man and make my take of the animation a reality.

Til then, here's a sketch that i did on the 'new' Keluang Man. Was doing this in a moving vehicle awhile back and i didnt have any eraser with me. so sorry for the terrible drawing

I drew the mask to be slightly pointier
as the Keluang is more in the family of
foxes rather than bats
(according to some source).
Also tweaked the logo to be sharper because
I hated the original dumb looking face. lol

I prefer the other sketch as this started out
just as a joke. That was when i get to the
head part and got really immersed into
 starting to draw the tones and the
 cape more seriously. But because of
 this, I think the body is
slightly off proportions. oh well.

Happy 2012 :D

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Apparently, it seems like each post of mine these days been starting with me saying stuffs like "gosh, i havent been blogging for awhile" or "damn, it feels good to be saying that again". But yeah, it has been awhile (Almost six months to be exact). Yep, alot of things have happened but i'm too lazy to be doing recaps so yeah, let's get on with what i'm doing now... as if the world cares. lol

Aaaaanyways, i have finished my studies in IPBA (or IPG KBA) and thus - this might not come as anything new to my colleagues or anyone who knows me - i am jobless. No, it's not that i am looking for a job now. I am just in the state of inner peace and patient-most, waiting for the posting notice. And seriously, this posting notice better come soon coz i think i have been terrorizing strangers in Selayang Mall a little too much.

Yeah, when you're stuck in Selayang, Selayang Mall is pretty much the only place you can be (No, we do have pretty good malls around but Selayang Mall is the closest). And when you're at home after a few days and have only been talking to your family day in, day out; the sight of any stranger, all the people that you dont know but can be talked to, excites you... not in a rapist way of being excited, mind you. So yeah, i've been talking around with people from the shop outlets, receptionist, pak guard, taxi drivers etc. and while most of these people (hopefully) reply to me positively that we did go in a good conversation for a few good minutes, some purely freaked out. I guess it's not the culture of Malaysians to be talking to strangers.

For a good reason, most Malaysian guys are creepy.

Putting that aside, I've found myself to have not enjoyed Selayang Mall as much as Tesco Extra outlets. Yeah, Extra. They're like normal Tesco-s but they have the whole building dedicated for their store along with a few more smaller outlets. Weird as it may be, but the sight of things on bargain prices and raw materials for cooking excites me, just as much as my non-rapist stranger encounter excitement. Maybe it's the fact that i'm revisiting the epic fun times i had when i was studying in Macquarie when a nearby Woolworth outlet was my domain. I own that place, bitches.

Okay, shift of topic. It is now 2012 and yeah, i've realized that i've been comparing my wait for the posting notice and the end of days to be much of the same thing. Both is just as uncertain but if it's possible, can i get a confirmation on both? I dont want to be stuck in this state of uncertainty limbo. If i'm not gonna get posted anytime soon, then let me know so i can do something else in my free time like travelling or getting laid. And if the world is ending anytime soon, then let me know so i can do something else in my free like travelling or getting laid. Alright, i am just kidding about the travelling and getting laid part - it doesnt have to be in that order.

Have a good day and an awesome 2012 people :D

Screenshot of my phone at the time of 2012 countdown :D

S.C.U.M

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Now all is right with the world at the moment and when all is too right, some people get bored. So, when people A asked people B, "boredomness sucks. let's start an art magazine" and people B replies, "fuck yeah! let's start an art magazine", people A and B collaborated and started an art magazine because people A got bored and people B said "fuck yeah". Now all is still right with the world, mind you. But from that moment on, the world had SCUM. That's right, representing planet Earth for the first time ever, we, the world, has SCUM of the earth.. and it's free.

So, yeah, SCUM is (probably -we like to play it modest) the first ever free-voiced, independent art and media online publication in Malaysia and we totally came up with that ourselves (both SCUM and the "free-voiced, independent art and media online publication in Malaysia" tagline thingy). So, because we came up with that ourselves, we decided that we're not gonna be like other magazines out there which was came up by other people. And this is good. For one, we want to keep it free. Other magazines will have price tags. Ours just come up with tags without prices. That, or no tags at all. Second, magazines out there kill trees and that is not good for the elephants and primates. So, our magazine will be purely online published. In other words, no trees cut down to make overrated paper and we also save the world's resources of metal because we are not using staplers for our magazine.

Third, and most importantly, because we're not making any sell-out profits from this publication at all, we do not have any paid professional publication body. And that is good too. Why? Well, that means that YOU are our publication body! SCUM will be largely based on readers' contributions of creative works and masterpieces. In other words, we get contributions from readers be it photographs, artworks, literature works (poems, short stories and shoutouts) and anything as long as it have a good vibe (meaning, nothing provoking hatred or whatever that is bad). We wont pay you for your work but we can promote your awesome. With your awesome in our publication, our SCUM will be as awesome.

Finally, our publication is approved by a man by the name Johnny O'Leary, or Larry for short. We're not too sure who he is but he did approved us. So we high-five-d and thought that he is nice and worth a mention.

Anyways, if you like the idea of what we're doing and thought this write-up is very likable, visit us on our facebook group page (http://www.facebook.com/SCUM.malaysia) and click the like button because that really represents how much you like us. Also, the facebook group page will be where we published our issues of magazines (you might need a flash player thingy in your computer but we positively think you might already have it). Additionally, contact us at scum.ipba@gmail.com (also serve as our dropbox if you feel like contributing anything to our issues). We look forward to hear from you and thanks for reading this Johnny O'Leary-approved message.

SCUM Delaqroux Out!

Wide awake at 2.48 (am)

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I is so wide awakes even though I is definitely shouldnt be.

Yeah, i will be having an exam paper tomorrow at 8.30 am and here i am, at 2.48, wide awake. The original idea was to finish my revision early so i can sleep early and wake up on time tomorrow. But i guess there is just something innate in me that still refuse to accept that concept. So here i am, wide awake with nothing to do and thus a rant on my blog, for some reason, seems to be quite a joyous, exciting activity to do.

But seriously, my mind is at a state of a perfect blank-ness that i dont have the slightest idea on what to rant. It's weird, really, considering that i can always find myself writing non-stop without realizing. Maybe it's the fact that my nose is still runny (cold. fuck) and i find that way too distracting to write a proper rant decently. Also, probably of the fact that i am hungry. Dinner was at 8pm, almost 6 hours past. I can never go back to sleep if i am in state of hunger. I hate being me.

Nevettheless, I shall go get something to eat. This is a pointless blogpost. Thank you for reading.
Oh and did i mention that this blogpost was made, once again, using my phone? Blogging with a small screen is not exactly practical. QWERTY keyboard helps to some extent but the limitation is still there. It's just not fast enough as a computer's keyboard..
Anyways, this is still a pointless blogpost.
Stop reading.
Delaqroux Out.

Moving out IPBArians?

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Without having this blogpost to be unecessarily long winded, let me begin with several basic things you need to know; I am pissed, IPBA is asking us to move out of the students accommodation, and i have a good idea to have us not succumbing to this immature, inconsiderate demand. Also, I am very pissed.

First of all, I regard this to be highly immature demand of the IPBA administration because, as much as they claim that they have put quite a lot of thought in it, i think this is a consequence to poor planning and failure to walk that talk they made so much noise of. The call for us to be moving out of the students' accomodation was made a few weeks ago in April. As we are to move out during our second semester, this leaves us only with two months to find for an accomodation outside. This is not only absurd but considering the fact that they expect us to be able to find a place that can only accommodate us for less than six month in Kuala Lumpur - that is stupid. To tell you the truth, the rumour of us having to find a place outside went around as early as last year. At that time, i regarded IPBA's accommodation as being quote shitty end quote (i'm staying in the living room atm.. duh!) that i wouldnt mind staying outside. But that was only when we still have two semesters in IPBA. It is possible to get a place for rent with a minimum contract of a year. But now that we are looking for a place to rent for less than six month, how is that possible for us?

Thinking that it was a good head-start to have some brief idea on where should we be renting, me and my practicum teammates did go for a small house-search around the KL area. Phone calls were made and house prices were surveyed only to find disappointing results. Places advertised for rent are either occupied or the price for renting is insanely high (homes in prime zone of KL, what do you expect?). I mean, if we are to move out of IPBA's accommodation, the only monthly financial advantage we have is just by RM80 a month. A place with three bedrooms costs so much that we figured that only by cramming more people than the house is meant for us was the only solution. Then again, if the house is so crammed, has it ever crossed any mind of IPBA administration that this might affect our studies? Especially we're on our practicum years where C5 IPBArians should have enough matters in their hands already. Also, when we tried to request for a block in IPBA where we, desperately, claimed that we dont mind cramming alot of people in a place as long as we dont have to move out, they responded that over-cramming might be psychologically dangerous (whatever fuck that means?) and might affect our well-being and studies. Huh... so it's alright to have us squatting in a house of 10 people outside? Oh, and if they expect us to find a place for one person or two person stay (like in Vista Angkasa for example), how can they be guarantee that it'd be safe for us? My sister used to live in Vista Angkasa before due to the reason that it's the only available and affordable accommodation around KL (she was studying in UM at that time). How did it turned out? Well, she moved out a few months after. The reason being; too many cases of house break-ins in the area, perverted, wolf-whistling mat rempits hanging about the place, she got pick-pocketed while waiting for the bus, and, ONCE AGAIN, she had to squat in a house of two rooms with six other housemates and she think life was really, really fucked. How is this ideal?

I would like to quote that statement made early in this year that says "asramaku rumahku" and i will like to highlight how ironic it is that we are being chased out of our own 'house' despite we did nothing wrong to break the students' accommodation act or commit any crime. The blame lies within the management that failed to reject new intakes of students despite being obviously clear that IPBA's students accomodation is reaching its accommodating limits. Regard this blogpost as a provocative heads-up to instill anger and fear if you will, because i believe this is exactly what we need to show to the management - of course, not to the extreme, barbaric level; but enough to know that we are standing firm with our rights. This demand of having us to move out on such a short notice, without considering our physical, emotional and financial well-being is a sign of immaturity and poor management skill - things that we are taught in IPBA to not succumb to as future teachers. For those who disagree with me, just regard this blogpost as an angry rantings of someone who has spent hours with his practicum teammates discussing, making phone calls, and searching  for a house to rent outside, and wasted those hours, failing. Ignore this blogpost.

For those who think otherwise, are you still looking for a place to move out?

Delaqroux Out.