Mixed Crumbs

A lot of them are in deep warm poo poo huh. 52,000 of them.
Don’t worry, it will be over soon. I think.

Any of you have a swimming pool at home?
If so, do you happen to love climbing?
And if you do, do you have extra cash to burn?

If your answer is yes for all the three questions, then I propose that you check out Aqua Climb. No no… it’s got nothing to do with hanging transvestites or having them climb on you, perv!


Ain’t this cool. No crash pad needed. No need to use chalk.

Go to their site at AquaClimb.com to find out more. Apparently AquaClimb is the child of Pyramide USA.

A leader in the wall climbing industry. If any of you decide to install one could you let me in?
I have not been climbing much for more than 4 months. Bouldering to be exact. I missed bouldering at Nomad’s. It seems my feeling is mutual with a number of my fellow climbers.

Received a message in Facebook last few days. A project to get the Nomad wall reconstructed on our own and the news alone is exciting. A few have already volunteered to help setting up the wall. Be coolie in short. *hands up* *whip whip*
Hope it works out because I am missing the climbing, the walls and the friends.

Those of you who loves collecting soda cans and dust at home should consider stocking up some Pepsi now. Why?
Because they are heading in a brand new direction for their branding and packaging, that’s why. Breathing a new life into an old brand.


The brand new Pepsi logo is suppose to represent a smile. I see a smirk.
And I don’t like the new look. Too clean… too polished for my liking. Really “yat pek si” this time.

Do many of you collect these cans and bottles? I do know a few who collects Coca Cola bottles. The soda cans tend to spring a leak after a few years… the top or bottom would spew its content creating a sticky mess… be it in your cupboard or shelf or altar. It seems the irregularity in room heat and pressure over the years does that. Prolonged expansion and contraction finally made the aluminum cans give in huh. Air conditioned rooms help solve the problem. Yay… contribute to global warming just to preserve some not-so-limited Coke bottles. Smart. Mother Nature should spank those ignorant collectors. Not those who rummage through trashcans and drain.

For the kick of it… here’s a list of Pepsi’s slogans. I have no idea there were so many.

* 1939: “Twice as Much for a Nickel”
* 1950: “More Bounce to the Ounce”
* 1950: “Any Weather is Pepsi Weather”
* 1957: “The Light Refreshment”
* 1958: “Be Sociable, Have a Pepsi”
* 1961: “Now It’s Pepsi for Those Who Think Young”
* 1963: “Come Alive, You’re in the Pepsi Generation”.
* 1967: “(Taste that beats the others cold) Pepsi Pours It On”.
* 1969: “You’ve Got a Lot to Live, and Pepsi’s Got a Lot to Give”
* 1975: “Have a Pepsi Day”
* 1977: “Join the Pepsi People (Feeling Free)”
* 1980: “Catch That Pepsi Spirit” David Lucas composer
* 1981: “Pepsi’s got your taste for life”
* 1983: “Pepsi Now! Take the Challenge!”
* 1984: “Pepsi. The Choice of a New Generation” (Commercial with Michael Jackson, featuring Pepsi version of Billie Jean)
* 1986: “We’ve Got The Taste” (Commercial with Tina Turner)
* 1990: “You got the right one Baby UH HUH” ( sung by Ray Charles for Diet Pepsi )
* 1991: “Gotta Have It”/”Chill Out”
* 1992: “Be YoungER, Have Fun, Drink Pepsi”
* 1993: “Right Now”Van Halen Song for the Crystal Pepsi Ad
* 1995: “Nothing Else is a Pepsi”
* 1994: “Double Dutch Bus” Pepsi song sung by Brad Bentz.
* 1996: “Pepsi:There’s nothing official about it” (During the Wills World Cup(Cricket) held in India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka)
* 1997: “GeneratioNext”.” With the Spice Girls ”
* 1998: “Yeh Dil Mange More”(In Hindi/Urdu meaning “My heart wants more”)(India/Pakistan)
* 1999: “Ask for More”/”The Joy of Pepsi-Cola” (Commercial with Britney Spears/Commercial with Mary J. Blige)
* 2000: “Aazadi dil ki” (In Hindi meaning “Freedom of the Heart”)(India)
* 2003: “It’s the Cola”/”Dare for More” (100th Anniversary Commercial)
* 2003: “Yeh Pyas Hai Badi”(In Hindi meaning “This thirst is too much”)(India)
* 2005: “Wild Thing”/”Ask For More” (With Jennifer Lopez & Beyoncé Knowles)
* 2006: “Why You Doggin’ Me”/”Taste the one that’s forever young” Commercial featuring Mary J. Blige
* 2007: “More Happy”/”Taste the once that’s forever young” (Michael Alexander)
* 2008: “Yeh hai Youngistaan Meri Jaan!” (India)
* 2008: “Pepsi Stuff” Super Bowl Commercial (Justin Timberlake)
* 2008: “Рepsi is #1″ Тv commercial (Luke Rosin)
* 2008: “Pepsify karo gai!” Commercial ( in Urdu meaning “Wanna Pepsify!”) (Pakistan)

Am in a bloody lousy mood.
I just lost  RM180 just like that. The bloody dog chewed on it. Gone… my power adaptor gone. Dead.
Feel like kicking it and hearing it yelp. Argh.

What rotten luck. Wonder if any compensation would be made to me or will it passes me by.
Can I pummel the fellow and bury her head in? Argh.

The run is this week. Sunday. *Blank stare* *Blank Stare*
Have not been doing any run for the past 2 weeks due to the frequent downpour. I did most of the running in lala land though. Which does me no good at all.

Anyway I am trying to get some new sounds. Sounds from Snow Patrol.

And yeah, my sentiments were correct. The parking operator down in Kelana Jaya lrt station was out to get the extra RM1 I had in my pocket. The initial ploy to scam us all was by using the pathetic excuse that the extra plot of land had been reclaimed and no longer be available for us to park our cars. Hence the reduced takings has unfortunately forced them to increase the parking price from RM2 to RM3. Although I am not too happy about it but it’s their arguement and standing by it.

Three months down the road and the fuckfaced management finally opens up the so called reclaimed land and voila… show me the money!!! Bloody fools. And nothing had been done with the extra money that they have collected from us so far. The parking experience is still as shitty as ever. Nothing new done to the premise. The spots where water lies stagnant remains. The area where the green stalks strive and play continue to expand. The mud and sand starts to form their own swamp or hills. Same old shit. No explanation given to us drivers. As usual it’s custom for many of us to sit and sulk about it. The way I am doing it now. Complaining about it online.

I could only see a new paybooth and a couple of new uniforms. But after 4 plus months, the new uniforms have already lost their crease and the collars flapping like an abandoned mongrel’s ear with grim yellow sweat stains.
A few weeks back they even had the nerve to do a promotion to have reserved parking space at a fixed amount each month. But after 11am it will be let out. What kind of idiot would get the package I would like to know. If you want a nice parking space, for god’s sake, wake up early and be there.

The new petrol price is not something to smile about. Do I hear some shithead cheering anywhere? The increase was so much higher and don’t ever be fooled by the little crumbs they leave for us to peck on. Boo…

I am hungry. Enough of this. I want to eat Hokkien mee.

Ever since the climbing gym in Summit closed, I have not been climbing as much as I would like to. Especially on weekdays. I have been to Camp5 to climb but it’s just not the same to me. It may have a bouldering cave envy of many, indoor lead climbs that kicks ass or showering bath that washes you away literally (I really love to bath in Camp5) alas something is still missing. Like an absent molar on my lower jaw where my tongue keeps flicking and rubbing, against my gums and the two tooth standing guard over a gaping hole. I miss my Summit Climbing Gym. Have not been climbing much outdoors too. None at all, truth be told. Well my schedule on Sunday has gone through some changes and that is also a reason why I am considering climbing on Saturdays.

Anyway running has taken over for now. To make sure I spend more time on my feet I have joined Mizuno Wave Run that will be flagging off on the 19th October 2008. It’s a 10km run. My second 10km event. My first was in 28th August 2005. It was a feat for me to be able to finish it. I blogged about this in my first blog in Xanga. I even got myself a hamper from a luckydraw then.


So far I have only managed to do a 7.5km run around my area. 2 plus more weeks to go before the event, my friends seems to be quite excited about it. I suspect my spike in jogging around might be related to the purchase of a new pair of running shoes. Haha. And another reason I joined the run was because by paying Rm35 in exchange for a running vest worth RM53.90 and a chance to get a shoe bag seems to be a good deal.

The same goes for the IOI Community Run in November. That is about 7.3km. Another Tshirt for RM15.
For details about this : IOI Community Run

Any of you joining? We can meet there and run ya. Do leave a message here if you do.
I forgot to mention that both of these event, it was girls who asked me to join. My guy friends all sigh… *shake head* One was my housemate SY and the other is JC.

Yup I have a new housemate today. Was expecting it as another housemate of mine has asked permission whether we still have room to accommodate another. I just shrugged my shoulders but I could tell from the look in her eyes but most importantly the tone of her voice. It’s more of informing me than asking permission.
So when I saw her coming back in just now, it seems that she knew what I was thinking. “She is inside the car” she said and went back out.

I was rushing to go out for an appointment so I went up for a bath, a very quick one indeed. Got dressed and dashed downstairs. Before I stepped out I manage to steal a glimpse. She is cute all right. Adorable. But I did not stop for introduction. Save it for later. Maybe I shall get a hug from her, on pretext that it is customary for new housemates. Will try and take a picture of her. Not voyeur.

Chattering and laughters boomed from the customer service department as I walked in. That is the only area buzzing with activities on a Monday morning. A handful of racketeers has already huddled together trading stories and opinions. Ignored them. My smart ass remarks will come later, after I get some breakfast, and it was Cantonese-style Yee Mee and Deep Fried Spring Roll today. Never laid a finger on the Tapioca Pudding/Cake. Never tried. It just don’t look friendly enough to be introduced to my system.

Planted myself with a loud bang against the partition and eyes darted in my direction. A weak smile and started poking at my food. The yee mee is a bit on the salty side and I had successfully managed to throw on my plate a compact mess of noodles, it lies there in dead calmness. Just like how a dead talapia would look, baking itself in a puddle of murky water, in this case my carrot and spring onion littered gravy. Fished for loose noodle ends from that pool and swallowed. Chewed on the thick mess but gave up soon after. I always kept food wastage at a minimal but today was not that day. So I headed for the bin, picking up the momentum whilst hoping that no one would notice me slamming a plate of noodles down. Two meters away from dump site and my boss appeared. I smiled. Looked happily at my food and poked it once. He went pass soon after a word of morning. Glanced left and right… coast is clear. Slam dunk!

The Score
Abner - 1
Cantonese Yee Mee - 0

New plate. 4 pieces of spring rolls. Re-enact the sit, bang on partition scene and munched. This time my ears cocked up on certain keywords and try piecing the stories they are exchanging. It seems my colleagues are tuned into some mild Tales from the Crypt and are quite excited about it. Well, for the guys that is. Apparently 3 of my colleagues was at work yesterday, a Sunday, from 11am - 3pm… 2 girls (i am being kind here) and a guy. They claimed to have heard noises and one of it being the sound of typing on a keyboard originating from my place or near my place. I sit in the far end of the office corner. It freaked them. The fact that the elevator was going up and down dinging and donging on a Sunday afternoon was not comforting. The last straw came when presence was felt sweeping across the small room. She felt as if someone was leaning inches from her cheek. They decided that they rather get screwed by the boss today.

I noticed that the two girls had puffy eyes today. Wonder if they were kept awake by the incident or …

Anyway, where their story ends is where we began. We add spices. Or one might prefer the word comforting them. Relayed to them that how lucky they were that they do not have printer or photocopy machine in there with them. What in the world would happen if the machines went about working on their own. About ‘them’ crawling out of 15″ monitors and getting stuck when they could choose the new 19″ Dell LCD Flat screens.  Or how your colleague turned out to not be your colleague when they answer your calling by twisting their heads 180 degrees back to talk to you in deep hoarse voices.

It seems that sounds of tapping on the Customer Service glass door with no one in sight is common. Oh and several of us flipped our punch cards to blue which is for the latter part of the month but only to come to work to find it in red. The girls are sure they left it in blue and they were the last to leave the office. I was puzzled today too, to find my card showing the red part. I remembered flipping it to the blue when I left on Friday night. And I was the last few to leave too. I am sure I won’t be the last few to leave today though. It’s still the Hungry Ghost month.

It’s good to be back online. My bandwidth usage exceeded it’s limit last month. One of the blogs hosted on my server generated too much traffic that it brought the curtains down on the rest of the blogs. It’s amazing that only one single post was able to do that, but of course it was through the tagging on StumbleUpon that made it all happen overnight. Abnerd.com has not even come close to have 500 First Time Visitors but on Week 29 itself, the Tuzki Icon on BunnyFairy.com managed to get 82,664 First Time Visitors. Bloody hell… what is a freaking crazy figure. And one post alone. The madness eventually delivered coup de grace on my normal hosting package.

Nothing prepared me for it although I kept getting emails informing me of my domain is about to exceed it’s bandwidth limit. Final straw came on July 28th with the title… The domain has reached it’s bandwidth limit. Dang.

So may I ask any of you how should I keep it in check. Hopefully the craze will not last and the figure has dwindled to about 3k plus before we went offline.

On the other hand, it’s Hungry Ghost month and I am tempted to share some encounters here. Just did so with my colleagues.

I would salute/respect/appreciate the police force if they storm into suspense-bullet-hailing-high-profile-bank-robbery scenes to neutralize the robbers. Or climbing onto their car roof’s during high speed car chase downtown while trying to shoot the wheels off the bad guys getaway vehicle. Or jumping off bridges and landing and rolling on top of buses in their pursuit of thieves alike. They could even offer themselves up for hostage during tense situation. I don’t care really as long as they don’t come and bother us with their little slip of white trash… tucked nicely under our wipers.

I wish I was caught speeding instead. At least I could help their family buy some fish or new school bag for their kids after they had their “minum teh” rounds. My key was not even in the ignition. You dicks. Go sit on a wheelchair man. Don’t go driving around wasting petrol and let the ink bleed on pulp. Jerk offs. Yes I share a common interest with a lot of people.

Tomorrow I will have to park legally. The LRT station’s parking space has been reduced tremendously. The previous plot of land has been reclaimed and that means that the station parking lots has gone down and this makes the mad rush worse and the kind management sees this as a prefect reason to hike the price up by another ringgit to RM3 since their profit has been slashed. Duffy should scream her latest tune deafening them in process… and everybody goes:

You got me begging you for mercy
I’m begging you for mercy
I’m begging you for mercy
I’m begging you for mercy
I’m begging you for mercy

Why wont you release me yeah yeah

(continue till you lose your voice with your middle finger in the air)