Nah, it’s “thank God my sister got a promotion”. And what better way to blow your increment other than treating your siblings at an overpriced restaurant. I am not a big fan of Fridays, but if other people are paying, then I’m eating, that’s my motto. The menus are awesome, but the prices are not.

The last time I went to Fridays was with my father, and that was like millennia ago. My diet is effectively ruined by the way. Big honking steak smothered in red wine sauce and mashed potatoes with crispy bacon is not exactly healthy, but somehow that 2 huge broccoli begs to differ.

Diet ruined, might as well go all the way. I think it was called Mud Pie, and it is one of the best desserts ever, next to the Brownies at Hard Rock Café. I know there are better desserts out there, but when you live in JB, this is as good as it gets. Singapore is just a bridge away, but a visit to Max Brenner can make your wallet scream bloody murder.

But I’m still proud of myself though, coz I only drank 2 cans of Coke Light tonight. Whenever we go to places with free flow sodas, I usually drank more than that. 7 cans are my personal best. What a proud moment that was.

But being sick doesn’t give me the privilege to binge just yet. I am still on my diet, just in case you guys forgot. You did? How could you!? Here, reread this regarding my reinvention. I’m talking it slow and steady. I do not want to pass out in public from the lack of food. Since I’m at home currently, here is my lunch just now:

I know, pathetic and sad. Trying to lose weight is hard! I wish I could be like one of those people that stick their finger in their throat, and vomit. I tried it before, nothing. I even tried the back of toothbrush, I just end up making my face all red from trying to make myself purge. I guess I’m not bulimic.

I am not trying to get too thin, just enough that I can look like one of those Hedi Slimane’s model. I read on his Wiki page that Slimane survives mainly on baby food. There’s definitely something wrong with his brain, but if I am able to fit into any of his creations, count me the luckiest guy in the world. Wait, I think there’s something wrong with my brain too. Why do all of the sudden I wanted to become super thin??? Ok, this is the sickness talking so do not pay any attention to it.

While I was having my sad and pathetic lunch, I quick channel flipping, I saw Nigella Lawson! Oh my God, I cannot believe it. She knows when to cheer me up whenever I’m down. My sad and pathetic lunch turns absolutely divine and delicious (please read this line with a British accent) once I saw her on screen. Oh yeah, my sickness would be gone sooner than I thought.

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The Best Picture category is really unpredictable. Let’s recap, shall we:

Babel won Best Picture – Drama while Dreamgirls won the Best Picture – Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes.

At the BAFTAs, The Queen won Best Picture and The Last King of Scotland won Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, which I find rather odd since The Queen was also nominated in the same category.

Little Miss Sunshine won Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The award is equivalent to Best Picture.

So it kinda took me by surprise when Jack Nicholson (hey, why the hell did this guy get to present the same award back to back?), together with Diane Keaton, announced that The Departed won Best Picture. It was a really good movie and deserves all the accolades although I was kinda hoping Little Miss Sunshine would take the biggie. I guess Hollywood is not ready, just like last year when they snubbed Brokeback Mountain.

The rest of the winners were predictable. The acting categories are again dominated by Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Hudson (wawaweewa!!) and Alan Arkin.

Finally, Scorsese get his much needed Oscar. Although from the look of it, it was like a pity Oscar.

The Best Foreign Language Film, another Oscar upset when crowd favorite, El Laberinto del Fauno from Mexico lost to a German film. What the fuck?! Recount, RECOUNT!!!! El Laberinto del Fauno won more awards than that German film, and definitely better. Damn Oscar politics!

For the rest of the winners, check out this link: The 79th Annual Academy Awards

This one is pretty easy to understand though, the guy is driving a CLK. Damn the car is fucking fabulous! The color was deep black, with bling bling hip-hop rims (the really big ones), dark tinted mirrors, and it was fierce yet classy. How I wish I was the one driving the car. With the golf clubs stickers all over the windshield, you can pretty much guess it by now that they guy’s wallet is fatter than his gut. But even with the awesomeness car like a CLK, the guy is not. And the girl looks like Olive Oyl.

But it’s not the car that make them interesting, or the way they look, or why they are together, but the fact that they don’t speak each other’s language. I mean literally, the guy is talking in English all the time, while the girl talks in Mandarin, and they understand each other. This is the first time I’ve seen people like this. People interspersing English with the occasional Chinese, Bahasa Melayu or Tamil, we can see that all the time. But this is breaking news to me. I feel like they should have subtitles.

I can’t help it, I’m jealous of them. They look cute together. Like 2 tiny puzzle pieces, nothing in common yet when you put them together, they fit. And that CLK, my oh my, is to die for!

So, how are you today? Before I go to sleep, want to say hi to people from:

San Diego California US
Savannah Georgia US
London England UK
Milano Lombardia Italy
San Marino
Szeged Csongrad Hungary
Islamic Republic Of Iran
Taipei Taiwan
Edmonton Alberta Canada
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Delhi India
Turkey
Slovakia
Hong Kong
Bangkok Krung Thep Mahanakhon Thailand
Las Vegas Nevada US
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Argentina
Israel
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and the lovely Malaysians!

Thank you for visiting, even if it was by accident.

Until that day comes, I’m going to indulge myself with something more intellectual. I’ve been feeding myself with garbage (hypothetically) like gossips and shopping, I don’t even know myself anymore. I bought two rather interesting book yesterday, Stephen King’s Cell and A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka. You know what they say about King, that guy is not even trying anymore, but reviewers raved about Cell, so I’m gonna give it a go. And of course, movie adaptation is underway, just like King’s previous works. Maybe Quentin Tarantino should direct. When was the last time he directed a horror flick?

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, the title is kinda catchy don’t you think? You shouldn’t judge a book by its title, but this one sounds like a winner. Never heard of Marina Lewycka before, this is her first book. It won some awards so it should be good.

I was about to get another book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez. The title is very very inviting. I would read anything with the word “whore” in the title but the book is so thin, and was priced like any other fiction. My Doraemon manga is thicker than that book. Maybe I could get my sister to buy it.

Being the cheap label whore that I am, I already thought about buying a pair or two, but I couldn’t fit into any of it! Damn you fat, DAMN YOU! Argh, this is so frustrating! My niece bought 2 pairs, and I am so jealous. Now she got to prance around in Ed Hardy.

The film won The Grand Prix of the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk and also a special mention in the Crystal Bear category at the 57^th Berlin Film Festival. Berlinale baby! It doesn’t get any better than this, with the exception of Venice and Cannes. Still, that is pretty amazing. Crystal Bear today, Golden Bear tomorrow. Or maybe even the Golden Palm and Golden Lion!

Congratulations to Yasmin Ahmad and the crew for making such an amazing film. I haven’t watch it myself (I will, promise) but I just know that it will be an unforgettable experience, just like when I watch Sepet and Gubra for the first time.

And to Yasmin Ahmad haters out there, I just have two words for you, SUCK IT.

I am such a pervert, even when it comes to food. Well, that’s the price you pay for being fat and hungry all the time.

People are already putting their money to see if little Britney here is the next Anna Nicole, which is saddening.

This is from Perez:

A spywitness who saw Britney at the hotel's check-in desk, says, "She was crying and apparently intoxicated. She kept saying: "Nobody wants me anymore".

Of course nobody wants you! Who in their right mind would want a bald girl? I know I don’t (unless you’re Sinead O’Connor, hehehe)

I’m back! But I’m still very much in holiday mood.

Just a quick hi to people in Brooklyn New York, Phoenix Arizona, Ann Arbor Michigan, Jersey City New Jersey, Marietta Georgia, Reston Virginia, Hayward California, Mountain View California, Grass Valley California, Woodbridge Virginia, Osceola Indiana; you guys in United States rocks! Let’s pray the democrat wins next year, GO HILARY!

Not forgetting people in London England and the rest of United Kingdom, Denmark, Iasi Romania, Philippines, Calgary Alberta Canada, Ontario Toronto Canada, Oslo Norway, Dominican Republic and Kuwait.

And also the awesomeness Malaysians for their non-stop support. Come in and say hi!

In the meantime, I’m going to spend some time with Eliot, Kipling and Rand.

But I’m not going to let that stop me from realizing my dream. So today, in a bid of becoming the first “Domestic God”, I made dessert. I know it sounds lame as hell but it’s a good start. I learn this from the “Domestic Goddess” herself, oh-so-perfect Nigella Lawson so credit goes to her for the recipe. And I got a confession to make. The reason why I learn this recipe is because I want to impress a girl with my cooking prowess but she turn out to be a total bitch, so that went buzz.

I don’t really know the name of this dessert, so I’m going to call it “Ari” since I did some modification to the recipe. Originally, Nigella used raspberries but I couldn’t find it anywhere so I substitute it with strawberries.

Ingredients: Strawberries (chopped and frozen), Sugar, Yogurt (berried variants) and Oatmeal Cookies

First, you need strawberries. Chop the strawberries into tiny pieces, pour a table spoon of castor sugar, mix it, and put it in the freezer. There’s no need to freeze it actually, but it will give it sorbet-esque quality once it’s done. Take out the chopped strawberries out of the freezer, put it into a blender, and blend it.

Next, take a tumbler, and pour half of the blended strawberries into it. Then, take the yogurt, and pour half of it on top of the strawberries. Remember the oatmeal cookies? Ok, take out around 2 to 4 pieces of the cookies, crush them and sprinkle half of them on top of the yogurt layer. Pour the remaining strawberries, yogurt and cookies and you will have something that look like this:

Easy isn’t it? It’s a great way to impress a girl, but I only manage to impress my parents and sister which is not a big a deal. So remember girls, Ari Miraj can make yummy treats and he is quite a catch.

And it is the year of ze “PIG”! Whoopee, I was born in the year of the “PIG” but of course. So pray my good luck too ok? I had been on a streak of bad luck, and I really really really need some of that good luck.

You know, a few weeks back I read a book by Lillian Too at the bookstore, it is the book of the “PIG” zodiac. Now, she said in there that my perfect match is a girl from the “RAT” year. I finally found a girl who is a “RAT”, and she turn out to be the nastiest piece of shit ever. Thanks a lot Lillian Too! I better not see you outside coz I am so going to kick your ass!

Anyway, have an awesome celebration you guys! And sending me Ang Pow would not be the worst thing in the world, if you know what I mean, hehehehe……..

This is my last post for the day. Going out tonight to catch Rocky Balboa. Hopefully it’s good. The last Sylvester Stallone movie I watch was…….ok I can’t remember as it has been too long.

Before I end this post, I want to say hi to people in Alaska Palmer USA, California Sunnyvale USA, Georgia Atlanta USA, Lima Lima Peru, Bolivia, England London UK, Centre Tours France (I love Paris! Can’t wait to together-gether in Paris!), Italy, Japan (kawaii!) and New South Wales Sydney Australia. Come in and say hi people!

And not forgetting my fellow Malaysians. I love you all!

FUCK OFF!

Screw that! I may be one with nature but there’s no way I’m going with the flow. Being with Ari Miraj is like being with an atomic bomb, you must always know when to disarm him when you accidentally set him off. But the thing about this mess I was unfortunate enough to get acquainted with not only set me off, but she adds enough plutonium for me to blow up the earth. What the hell is wrong with you? Enough is enough, go get a fucking life of your own. Yeah, so I have my blog, what’s wrong with that? I don’t go around screwing my brains out with ciggies and booze. You want to fuck up your life? Go on, no one is stopping you. But just make sure you have the guts to face the truth when it smack you right on your pretty little head.

Life is not all vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. There’s all sorts of flavor you need to taste and some of them, is not good. And you love God, don’t you? Well, here’s something you need to know. Just because God doesn’t answer your prayer doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about you. God can’t just answer every prayer and suddenly give you everything you want. That takes all the living out of life. If God answered all our prayers, there’d be nothing left for us to do ourselves. Life is about problems and overcoming those problems head on. And growing and learning from obstacles. If God just fixed everything for us, then there’d be no point in our existence.

I’m sorry (yes, I’m apologizing now) that I can’t be with you. Wait, let me rephrase, DON’T want to be with you. Why? That’s because I’m a mess myself but I thought maybe you could help me overcome that. But it looks like I have to do it myself since you are a bigger mess than I am. And I just don’t have the energy and all the time in the world to fix that. You just have to find some other guy that you can “play” with. And hopefully, he’s just as fucked up as you are!

Oh, and you have dignity don’t you? Here’s dignity for you: STOP BLAMING GOD AND OTHER PEOPLE FOR THE SHIT THAT YOU BROUGHT UPON YOURSELF!

That’s right, Olay just came out with this product (not available in Malaysia yet, I think) that apparently smoothen out skin imperfection using thermal technology. It sounds like a mini micro-dermabrasion to me. My sister got this in Singapore, and it doesn’t hurt to try, does it?

At this rate, I am willing to try anything to fix this catastrophe known as “my face”. If “polishing” is what it need, then so be it.

Come in and say hi, and thanks for visiting!

So, what do you think of my new color scheme? The gray (or is it grey?) is getting really old, and kinda dull. I need something more upbeat. I experimented with a few schemes, from black, red, to pink, and then to purple, but all of them end up looking really morbid and depressing. Since I’m in my very happy, zen, and one-with-nature phase, I thought green is really fitting. I only change the color, but left the old template intact coz I like it very much. Don’t fix it if it’s not broken.

I updated a few links, adding more crapper and I deleted that stupid Malaysia’s Top Blogs icon since that website went buzz. And If you like to do link exchange with me, please leave a comment with your weblog address. REMINDER: My blog address is http://www.arimiraj.com

Worst of all, the song that was dedicated to this “ex-boyfriend named Ari” is a song from a D-list singer, Vanessa Anne Hudgens. For God’s sake, can’t she choose a better song? If I were this “Ari”, I would be very very very insulted. There are so many great love songs out there that she can use to get her ex back.

If I have an ex-girlfriend (which I DON’T, just FYI), songs that can maybe melt my heart and make me less of an asshole would be Nouvelle Vague – Don’t Go, Portishead – Sour Times, Jehro – All I Want, Sarah McLachlan – Sweet Surrender, The Corrs – Time Enough For Tears and Mary J Blige – Be Without You, just to name a few. Now you know what kind of songs I like.

I asked a few guys for their opinion on something, and that was like a week ago. And here’s what they thought.

Well chances are she's playing you. Put some spin in your return

yea man..totally...she got no one else then just trying to scrounge on you..probably jobless or something.... but then maybe.....wait...wtf...you gotta be kidin..there is no maybe... crazyy~!.... you falling for the oldest trap in their book man.. be strong.......there are other fish in da sea..

that kind of gal.. sounds cannot go.
better know her in person before say i lap U, U lap me

Dude, she's jerking you around. I suggest you put as much distance as possible between you and her, before she does something that really rips your heart in half.

Don't worry about not having girls swoon at your feet. I know that feeling, I've felt it ever since I left secondary school. Don't let that get in the way of meeting the right girl one day.

And trust me, this is not the right girl. She wants you for something. I can smell it coming.

tell her to stop bothering you la. I kena before also but I stood up and said, DON'T BOTHER ME. Then she fat lan char but I ignore la. Her loss for mistreating you at first.

Even if you want to try it out, please don't get too involved in it....you might regret doing so

she bluff la. Everyone also say like that. Besides, how do you know it is true since it was a phone conversation.

My advice would be to play her out the way she played you out, only you have the mighty upper hand now.

Make use of that. Feck, have a one night stand with her if you want to make it out to be some personal game. I would do that if i'm in your shoes. No one fecks with my feelings and then comes crawling back and expect to be little miss princess.

She reeks of danger, and not in a good way. If you want to hook up with her, just make sure you keep yourself detached from her. Real good.

I don't get one thing though...how can you still like someone who ignores you for months? Personally, I wouldn't give a girl like that any time of my day, no matter what she says to me. At that's just putting it mildly...

While my advise should be taken with a pinch of salt, its always wise not to dwell in this situation for too long as the mind wanders into funny and stupid misconceptions.

For what's its worth, the girl is probably in her lowest point, forced to grovel for attention from someone she rejected ages ago. (no offence)
It is obvious that in her state of mind, anything's fair game.

I think there is a prawn behind the rock. Why the sudden change of attitude? I think she might be suffering from financial problem and the best solution is you. That or maybe she felt very lonely. Is she around 26 years old? If so then she might be desperate for someone. Maybe that is a good sign for you but you better becareful. Don't get too excited and fall for her trick.

play along and see what she is up to
i am sure u and all of us wana noe, wat is her motive for the 180 degree u-turn.

but of coz u must be sober enough and dun let her take advantage of u.

lose ur bodi nvm, dun lose ur money ok

It isn't that hard to see what she wants. Pretty rare that a woman would sell herself so cheap unless she has an ulterior motive. And love ain't it.

Let me correct that.

You're not in deep shit, she is.

She's trying to get any way possible to bail her out. Who knows, she might probably owe some ahlong money or shit, and you are the convenient victim. Think about it for a moment.

You barely know her, who knows what she might have gotten herself into, and looking for some stupid idiot (you) to save her ass.

So frankly, f*** that b****, screw it. Offer is automatically terminated due to the passing of a reasonable lapse of time.

She, can go die.

You, just laugh and pretend you don't know her.

All I can say is that she's manipulating you. Better keep your distance away from her dude. You don't want to end up in a pit full of shit.

I don’t think I need to explain anything as it's pretty self-explanatory. And there’s more from where it came from.

This green antibiotic is only for 2 weeks. If the acnes are still there, I had no choice but to take a drastic measure and use much more powerful drugs, which I really hope I don’t have to. You know, in a way, I am lucky that I can get drugs for free, or I would be pimping my ass right now trying to get my fix.

Maneater, make you work hard
Make you spend hard
Make you want all, of her love
She's a maneater
make you buy cars
make you cut cards
make you fall real hard in love
She's a maneater, make you work hard
Make you spend hard
Make you want all, of her love
She's a maneater
make you buy cars
make you cut cards
Wish you never ever met her at all!

Let’s calculate shall we? What’s the average amount of money people usually bribe the cops. RM30 to RM50 is the going rate if I’m not mistaken. I’m going with RM30. So you give the cop RM30. He stops another car, and that person also decided to give the cop RM30. Let just say he stop 10 cars a day. RM30 times 10, he can make RM300 a day. In one month, he could be making roughly RM9000! Do you make that much money in a month? I don’t think so. Those buggers don’t even know the difference between Sean Penn and Phnom Penh, and you are giving them your money.

Let them issue the stupid ticket. I know, when you pay the ticket, it could set you back around RM150. So what, at least you know you did something wrong, and you are doing the right thing by paying the ticket. Do not give those bastards any more benefits other than the one they already been abusing for God knows how long. And whatever happens to driving responsibly? The speedometer is damn tempting when it has not reach 200kmph, but please, it’s for your own good.

Remember, when the giving stops, the taking will too.

I already thought of not getting it even though the price is right. I am through with impulse purchase, buying stuff that I don’t really need. But when I put the hoodie back on the rack, the zipper caught my attention. DKNY JEANS people!! Now I have to get it. Pray tell me, where in the world can you get a Donna Karan piece for RM39.90!? This is why I love Reject Shop. The place is like a Pandora’s Box, you never know what kind of “treasure” you will find.

The problem now is where and when in the hell’s name should I wear this?