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When i first got a forward message on my Yahoo! Messenger about a guy that committed suicide/ jumped off/slipped off( as prefered by newspapers to uphold the reputation of my University), i didn't give a damn.
"So what, none of my business" i thought.

Becaming road pizza after committed suicide/ jumped off /slipped off from the 18th floor of Ixora Apartments just became the hottest topic around campus.

Conversation would go from something like this:
Mel: Wah, budak alpha jump from Ixora leh!
Stan: If it's suicide. He should just donate all his organs first. Maybe even his money.
Mel: If he didn't had money?
Stan: Well it's still dumb by jumping off. The people's money is wasted by using public services.

To this:
Stan: I saw my YM yesterday, tons of people forwarding messages to me about a guy that committed suicide or various other versions. His friendster also forward. Damn mou liu.
Yong Meng: Ya i heard! Gamma or Delta student leh, very active in CLS one.

Even lecturers are interested:
(while in lift)
Mr. Senthil: Prepared for midterms already?
Stan: Of course. It's just 2 days away.
Mr. Senthil: So the boy that jumped from Ixora, he is a FET or FBL student?
Stan: He's a Gamma student for sure.
Mr. Senthil: Oh, I'm still wondering whether he's a FET or FBL student.
(lift opens, i shrugged and left)

TIP:
If you want to kao or chase a person that you don't know in my University, walk up to her and go about with this conversation:
Guy: You stay in Ixora is it?
Girl: Ya ya.
Guy: Yesterday what happened there ar?
Girl: Oh, (various versions of a human falling down from the 18th floor)...
Guy: So where were you when it happened?
Girl: Some place.
Guy: ....(continues)
Girl: ....(continues)
(Proceeds to take down her number)

There you have it-you've just made the initial step.
Preferably if she lives in Ixora Apartments. Tested effective.
*Outcome may vary from person to person. Age factor: 12+. Guy and Girl each sold separately.
For further information, look at the back of the box for instruction of use.

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How would you want to be remembered?

G.U.T.S.

How exactly to be more successful:

If you tell everyone around you: "I hope to be successful." Then you will surely fail. As your hopes gets bigger, so goes your failure. Because you only hope. Hoping is just a mere qualification of success.
Hope to be --- 60%

The next approach to be more successful is that, you mentally tell yourself:
"I need to be successful." It's ok. But that's not enough. Because sometimes you need to be, sometimes you don't need it.
Need to be --- 70%

Let's look at the next- " I want to be successful." Good progress but there's still a tendency of failure. Again, sometimes you want, sometimes you don't. Some people want more money, some want more property. But at the end of the day after striving hard at it, some just give up and say, "Don't want also nevermind lah."
Want to be --- 80%

" I must be successful !!!". We are getting there. There are people that hope to be, need, want to be and must be successful in what there are doing. But still we didn't make 'being successful' as our top priority. So we grade it:
Must be --- 90%

So we all might be wondering, what's 100%?
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Die also want! If we look at many unsuccessful people, they don't have something. They don't the " Die also want!" spirit in them. Take a look at some couples, the guy chase the girl, the girl chase the guy. The parents protest and object to the relationship.
" I don't care. I love her!!!" Some even scream until they can embed their finger nails into the walls and climb walls." I love her no matter what others' say! Die also want!"
Then you'll be successful. If you don't have this spirit, most of your things you do , you can't get it right.

Seen a baby before? If a baby could talk, he/she will say:
" Mommy i hope to drink milk...mommy...mommy..."
Sorry man, mom wouldn't be bothered and fall straight back to sleep.
What usually happens is that the baby will scream and whine:
" WAAAAAAAAA WAAAAA....NYAHHHHH..NYAAAHHHh..
(whatever sounds kids make when they whine).
And when the bottle comes. The baby attach himself/herself immediately to the nipple.
That my friends is a 100%.

今天你还没有成功因为你没有死都要只是开顽笑

To be continued... Keep updated for Part II
Genuine Urge To Success(G.U.T.S)
A subsidiary of Trystan Motivation Corp.
(a department in my brain to remind myself to be motivated)

人要比车凶

I always say this to some of the people that know me : 人要比车凶
"Ren yao bi che xiong." ( A man must be more fierce/agressive than his car)

If you've ever watched Initial-D the anime series. You'll only hear it in one conversation between the drivers. But when i heard it, it strucked me. It was years back, but today i still remind myself and my friends that seek advice about this.

In life it's the same. You must be in control or else the situation will be.
It's the same with driving(in the case of Initial-D, it's racing), you must be in control of the car, or the car will be in control of you.

Now take charge and don't let the situation or challenges 'dapao' you!

TriStan the Rant.ist

Recently I've met a friend that gives me puzzle of names, usually jumbled up words that forms into names. Most of which are reall easy. Don't need no bombastic Da Vinci code or anagrams or complex algorithm knowledge to solve.

One of the puzzle that the friend gave that struck me was a simple one: Rantist

Thoughts came to mind:
1. The ranter. A very very witty blog that i read.
2. Similiar to the ranter, but as a different noun-rantist.
3. Sounds like rapist or dentist. Urgh. Nevermind.

When arranged properly it becomes: tristan
No wonder.

So I shall continue to rant and rant.

My brother's name is Dennis = Sinned, oh wow.... i finally get it.

So what's yours?

Your neighbourhood hero

I recall when i was in my Beta year, which is my second year in my university. i rescued a girl in a playground in my neighbourhood. It was well past 10.40pm and the area around the park was pin-drop silent.
When i found her she was squatting by the see-saw, sobbing away silently. I arrived short of 3 minutes. The gang had already left her.

She was mugged by 7 or 8 men. She lost RM2000 in that incident and she didn't knew what exactly happened. But she knew who to call.
Still clutching to her phone , i walked her to my house and called a friend and subsequently called the cops. We went to lodge a police report soon after.

Days before the mugging, my housemate's room got entered by a conmen. The conmen asked him to go upstairs to turn off the main water switch. Now, like any sane person, we all know that the main water switch is outside and not on the 1st floor of our house. By the time he realised this, the man sped off on his motor with his wallet and phone. Leaving behind burst pipes and broken toilet with water flowing everywhere for me to fix up later. In the first place he let the man into the house thinking that he was the plumber that the landlord called.

We lodged a police report for the house break in the same day as the mugging, since my housemate thought it was convenient then.

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Today, not donned in my super hero outfit or rather in my normal civilian clothes, the non-opinionated 'Rakyat', i went to get fuel for my friend's car that stopped cos' it went out of gas. It was pouring hard that night and i had to walk 20 minutes in the rain to get to the nearest gas station. The car stopped after fetching a few friends back to the apartment since it was raining and they were trapped in the pouring rain under a shelter.

I can't spin webs or fly through the sky but anyone can help someone else by having a good heart.

You ask this you'll be the president

If you ask 2 questions during Parent/Teacher Association meeting, you'll be the chairman of the association at the end of the month. You just have to speak up these questions during the meeting since no one bothers to speak up during the meetings and it gives you ample time to balance yur chequebooks.

First Question: " How do we raise more funds and money for the school? I see that the school need more money for courts and other facilities."
You ask this and you're ensured 50% of the post of president.

Ask something like: " How's my kids doing in school."
That my friend earns you a post of the secretary.

Figure out the other question that gives you the other 50% of the pie.
So speak up!

Never live in fear

The tradisional mindset from the education system teaches us to make less or virtually no mistakes. The core teaching of the system is to get things right, and if you don't, you'll get rejected by the system. It makes us dwell in fear. Fear of making mistakes. The very mistakes that makes us grow.

I always say this to my friends : " When you fail , don't lose the lesson. Learn from it."

Whenever i see my younger peers, i see it in some of them. Not daring themselves to push the limit and be exceptional. Just merely living the mediocre life.
It's high time to make that change. Believe that you can!

Today for Engineering Mathematics Quiz:

1.What is the total sum allocated for the 880 projects under the 9th Malaysia Plan that our prime minister announced 2 days ago?

2.Which part of Indonesia was worst hit by the recent tsunami?

3. Some i,j,k vector ,angle and plane equations.

After seeing the questions, i was like... Okay... interesting... are you serious you want to ask those in a maths class?

I'll bash you up

First of all let me vent myself by saying a few fucks : FUCK FUCK FUCK !!! Damn you cao bangla! Lakia!
If i know who you are, i'll crush you!

Anyway,

Cool it Stan... your house just got broken into by some pencuri, and thank God nothing of yours and your housemates is stolen except for a box of coins. I just can't come to peace with my mind that some dirty hands went through touching my clothes and undies. Damn...

Finally !@#$!@

Finally i got internet. Damn Telekom technicians. We pay them to be inefficient. !@#*@
I need to teach them how to set the port configurations and the encapsulation modes somemore. Plus they are not giving me a rebate for their slow services, since they are already charging even though the service is not yet installed.

One day I'll buy all your stocks and sell them to your competitors. Just because TM is the only company around, doesn't mean it stays that way. I know just how smart you executives at TM are, you take months brainstorming how to sell your lousy services.

Then after you finished picking your noses in front of the other executive and smearing it under the office desk, you come up with a dumb blue hippo. Ridiculous. And all that the hippo does is nothing but to prance around in shopping malls or at expos just to reel in more people into your lousy service. Fuck you!

Surprise surprise

Wah, my friend is participating in a Beauty Pageant.

Looking into the mirror

Lately, I’ve heard people saying I appear to be the serious stan and this was not the case years ago because I was the happy-go-lucky one! I think too much these days, deep stuff too so forgive the quiet appearance. I still know how to have a good time. It just waits to be unleashed at the right moment ;)

Besides what I’ve said so far, I count myself as a good friend, son and boyfriend (when there is a girlfriend!). I love taking care of the people closest to me and I am there for them whenever they need me.

I value and cherish my family very much because they’re the ones that keep me grounded in this crazy world we call life and are the only ones I know will love me unconditionally despite what I do.

I love my close friends because they are wonderful and are my rocks. Through it all, I’m pretty laid back and enjoy every second of life that is thrown at me.

Management 101

I was in my management class, when i heard a joke that was told by a lecturer that was actually funny for the first time ever over the 4 years that i have been in MMU.

The closest joke that was funny being told by a lecturer here was about a cabbage, a goat, a tiger and a man. And that was lame. It was funny tho' because the lecturer can't pronounce cabbage. He pronounced it as 'cabbek'. And that made the crowd roared.

Anyway, back to the first ever funny joke that came out of the lecturer.

George Bush visited Queen Elizabeth in England. George Bush wanted to know how the Queen could manage her subordinates so well. So the Queen rang a bell, and Tony Blair came in.

The Queen: Tony, your parents has a child, it's not your brother or your sister, who is this child?
Tony Blair: It's me!
The Queen: Excellent. You may go.
As Tony Blair went off, President Bush was astonished by the answer.
So he went back to the States to test the question on his subordinates.

So George Bush called in his Defence Minister to come into his office.
George Bush: Your parents has a child, it's not your brother or your sister, who is this child?
Defence Minister: *thinks for a while*. Erm. I'll back to you with the answer.

After a few days, the Defence Minister still couldn't come up with the answer. And one day he bumped into Collin Powell, so he asked him the question that the president had asked him.
Defence Minister: Your parents has a child, it's not your brother or your sister, who is this child?
Collin Powell: It's me!

So the Defence Minister rushed off and went to the Oval Office to meet with the President and said,
Defence Minister: Sir, i got your man. It's Collin Powell.
The president jumped at his answer and yelled at him.
George Bush: No, you idiot, it's Tony Blair!




Okay, this joke was meant for a silent laugh.

To where yachts cruise by

"Welcome to Marina Bay!" says a big brown sign as i cherished my last few precious moments back home before I journey back to the west. This post comes a little late as CK is eager to get his hands on these photos.

^o^

That's about the reaction when I first saw the place. The place is really like Circular Quay in Sydney minus the colors and splendor.


I felt so free like the seagulls that flew alongside the car that we strode in. Cruising down the lanes that felt so free.

Simply breathtaking. After a few short moments with CK. A security officer came and said:" Boss, jangan main sini."
Okay, we weren'y playing. Apparently we were restricted area. By the way, if i were your boss, I'll kick your sorry ass.

I look better than you.

He went out of the picture for a while. After a while, i looked around to check where he was so i could take more pictures.

Boats and more boats.

A large anchor, which reminds me of the cross.

And there he was shaving and patting his dog's ass. Okay that didn't sound natural.
Let me re-phrase that, he was shaving his hair while putting his hand somewhere near his dog's ass. Okay that didn't quite come out right. Look who's playing now huh?

Bustling in they come

I was at my 'morning shrine' today holding up my cup of iced milo, and i saw this freak, 5 feet 6 inches tall i tell you, flipping through a booklet provided by the University. Like a lost lost sad sheep.

Sheesh! They are so many people. Nerve wrecking little bunch of them. I came to this conclusion cos' they came in the library like they needed air-conditioning so badly, like they would die without it.

Stop bumping into me! Maybe that's why i came up with a prejudment of them.

Into the library they come when they should just bake out in the sun or something.
Flooding walk ways of every kind, staggering around without a direction
Most of them look like geeks and looked lost. *Mek*

Okay, sherpherd is here to guild you about .
"Get out of the library and stop bumping into people !"

Maybe I'm becoming detached from them, that's why i think of it that way.
Last year's bunch was great! Why is it so different this time?
I recall I didn't look that dumb when i first came in either.

A new word a day

Pannasmontata means 'Italian baked cream'

The other day i was at Patisfrance and saw a type of ice cream called Pannasmontata which was explained as italian baked cream in brackets.

I found the name quite intriguing cos' it's the layout design or blog template i use is by Pannasmontata

I knew i was back

Bus conductor: Mana tiket? (Where's your ticket?)
Me: *shows him the bus ticket*
Bus conductor: Mana tiket yang satu lagi ( Where's the other one?)
From his facial expression he thinks that i haven't paid the fare.
Me: Ini saja yang ada. Tadi sudah bayar. (This is the only ticket I have. I've paid already.)
Bus conductor: Pergi bayar kat driver sana! Bayar satu lagi! (Pay the other one at the driver)
Me: I already paid! *looking at him with sharp eyes*

I think the guy beside me paused momentarily to absorb the impact of the shock.
I proceed to look away from the bus conductor and he moves along.

The truth is the driver issues two tickets and didn't bothered to issue two tickets for me, since it didn't made any sense. I only knew they were two tickets issued when passengers that board the bus later had two tickets. Since i board the bus early.

The rudeness felt familiar, I knew then I was heading back to the life and starting the life that i knew so well.

A new facelift

To-do-list #2:
Give your blog a new template.

I've done my template for finding-tryst ® last year on 27 May 2005.

Now it looks better. Tho' it takes time to get used to .

Thank God

Oh my God! I'm so excited that i can't contain myself! It almost felt like an orgasm.
I passed all my subjects this trimester!

Thank you Lord! For giving me that extra edge and instilling effort in me to study very hard for this trimester. Something that i haven't done in a long time.

Good start for the next trimester.

Picture tells countless words

I've flipped through many photo albums over the days back home. The images from the photos just shot straight into my senses into that old forgotten data bank located at the back of my mind.

There's a picture of Wen dancing for Curtin University Orientation Nite 2002, in a pose that she looked like a hot diva packed with her moves. I remember now, why i started dancing in the first place. I was truly inspired back then. She was also a benchmark of all girlfriends. Tall, slim and hot. Epitomes of an ideal girlfriend.

Some pictures totally paralyses me for moments i stared at it. There's loads of picture of me, Dennis, Wen and Sze Ni. We used to hang out back then. Pictures of me shyly taken with Sze Ni. Back then i kinda fancied Sze Ni. But months down the line Wen became my girlfriend.
Talking about chasing her best friend huh?

Can't believed that at one time, long long time ago, i was always hanging out with hotties.
I saw this picture of me and Sze Ni leaning back to back wiping "an invisible window", mimicking a popular Korean series back then, Autumn in my Heart?

I wanted to write all this as a recollection of my memories. I know as i write all this, it will be one of my last recollections of the past. It's like watching a fireworks display. It's always the same. It is not like I've never seen fireworks during Chinese New Year eve before. They are the same last this year as they are last year and the year before that and the year before that. But for reasons I cannot explain, something felt different that night while looking at those pictures...even though it all looked the same. For that brief moment of stolen time in my adult life, I was a child again. I felt the excitement of it. I guess that's how crushes felt like too.

One day i will forget that feeling.