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Nawooz will be away for a while. Sorry for the lack of updates this week. A lot of work, but here comes the “play” bit.

Redang here I come!!!~

[24 - 26 June 2007]

I suffer from neck pains and stiff shoulders a LOT due to my poor posture. Yesterday whilst working, I had one of those Wadafak(tm) muscle pains around my left shoulder blade area. It would be alright if I didn’t move it. When I did move, it felt like someone was using a knuckle and driving it into that muscle area. Another way to describe the pain would be, someone pinching that muscle and not letting go.

Needless to say, it’s one of the most irritating pains I have once in a while. As I’m in the office, most of my medical supplies are at home. I do carry some odds and ends with me, hence the “walking pharmacy” terms among close friends, but nothing for muscle/joint pains. I would have killed for a tube of Mentholatum Deep Heat Rub at that point of time, but alas, there was none to be found. The company First Aid kit is sorely lacking in this department. I made a quick call to the Security Room downstairs and was told they had an analgesic spray. Oh Joy!!!! Turns out, it was some weird spray that didn’t provide any relief at all. I made my way back up to my cubicle, all the while walking like a robot and with a twisted face due to the dull pain.

In the end, a colleague named Prem (bless her soul) went down to the sundry shop and got me a bottle of Ammeltz Yoko Yoko. It was Godsent I tell ya!!! It has that nice minty burn when applied and I HEART it very much. For those, who’ve never heard of it. Here is how it looks like:

It’s much better than the Salonpas and Tiger Balm patch I tried. The Salonpas patch could do with better adhesives. It’s very irritating and painful when it keeps coming off along with a couple of body hair. Yeowch! The Tiger Balm patch was worse, I didn’t get any relief from it at ALL!!! It sort of just stuck there looking pretty I guess. If you are like me and fancy a little minty burn action, then stay away from these two products:

RAWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR~~~~ The pain is still killing me, but thankfully my wifey packed the Ammeltz Yoko Yoko bottle in my work bag. Love ya MLM!!! Muackz~

*runs off to bathe in Yoko Yoko*

Backdated post. 

Once in a while, I suffer from iamus stupidus. On Monday evening, I suddenly had a stroke of utter randomness. Seeing that it was an Australian Public Holiday, I decided to surprise my wifey with dinner and a brand-spanking-new handphone, since her’s was pretty old and wonky.

I head on over to Digital Mall, PJ to do a little phone shopping. The first two counters made me feel like the invisible man. So I moved to the third counter. I should have smelt a rat, when they were so eager to entertain me. I bet they were smiling in their hearts, on the killing they were gonna make. The Chinese have a crude term for victims like me, “sui yee” or waterfish. They were like sharks smelling blood on me. I found it odd, that a particular phone wifey liked, was priced so much more than what I had anticipated, but silly-billy me stuck on to this counter.

I don’t know how they did it, but I was slowly swayed from one particular model to another. I ended up making the purchase without much hassling too!!! Must be the caffeine. Gotta cut down on strong coffee from the office pantry. Anywho, the phone was a Nokia 6131 since the woman fancied flip phones…but not for long. A storm was brewing.

My wifey checked online and found that the so-called original Nokia phone was actually a rip-off. It was way more expensive than it should have been and it was NOT an original Nokia set, which I specifically told the sales person I wanted. She made a phone call to Nokia and confirmed it was not a original unit. Not even by their authorized distributors. Super Wadafak(tm)!!! The missus was ultra-mega-super-duper P.I.S.S.E.D!!!

She took the unit back and kicked up a storm the size of Hurricane Katrina and settled for a replacement of a Sony Ericsson K810i. By the way, Sony Ericsson rocks mah socks!!! I’ve used many other handphones, but SE still gets the “thumbs-up” from me. Anywho, wifey squeezed them by their balls literally and I guessed they really really messed with the wrong person……person’s wife. Muahahaha. Serves them right. I’m a nice buyer to deal with, but they had to pull a fast one on me. Now they have to face my angry wife. Shiver me timbersssss..Arrrr! Where was I, you ask? I was stuck in the office working. Else they would have had two very pissed of people squeezing their balls. One for each.

Lesson of the day. Don’t ever ever con any person, who is a nice buyer. BUT NEVER EVER EVER con one, that has a wife, with a tiger’s temper. RAWRRRRRRR!!!~

P.S. The SE K810i is really one sweet phone. Wifey loves how it plays her favourite chinese drama serials with no issues and it helps, that it houses a 3.2 MP camera as well. But my SE W810i wins when it comes to annoying the neighbourhood with my playlist. Nyek nyek nyek ^___^

Blog.com is being such a n00b today. I just lost my entire post, which took me about 30 mins to type. Now, I’ll have to re-type it all over again. Blehks! On with da post…

My parents used to take us for picnics during the weekends. We’d usually end up at some waterfall nearby. One of our common haunts was, Templer’s Park. No point going there now, it’s over-commercialized and over-exploited. Plus, it’s no fun swimming, when you keep thinking about someone pissing or worst still, pooping upstream. The social mentality has just not changed. ~__~ Butttttt, this is not a post about piss and poop.

On one particular outing, my dad caught a lil birdie. It was a common Mynah bird. Nothing too special, except this bird was abused previously. Someone had tied a piece of rafia string around it’s legs and it was wounded due to this. Cruel!!!!! So we took the fella back home to tend to it’s injuries. It took a couple of weeks, but it’s leg mended and we decided to set it free. The bird flew away, but THEN decided to come back. (o.0) So totally unexpected result.

It didn’t have a name until one fateful day when it started talking, or rather mimicking human speech. It’s first word was, “Mama” and hence we named it Mama. Mama could imitate other bird calls or even cry like the baby next door. Awwwsummm bird! The only UN-fun part was when we had to feed it. Mama liked crickets, which could bite with those ugly jaws. *shudders* Mama also had a bad habit of pecking our fingers when grabbing the cricket.

Unfortunately, Mama died one day and the whole family grieved. I guess my Mom took it the hardest. Mom had a wet kitchen out back and Mama used to keep Mom company during her cooking stints. This would explain why my Mom is so reluctant to get pets. Her resolve is further strengthened when our doggie, Floppie, died not too long ago. She now dotes over our ancient cat named Amber, who is like a super-duper grandma among cats. She is close to 70-80 years old, if compared to human years. Amber used to be a crazy cat, but is a sweet old lady now.

Anyways, I recalled Mama, the Mynah bird when I witnessed a bizzare incident this morning. I had to work this Sunday morning and my wifey wanted to go back to her rented room in PJ. We took the Damansara NKVE/PLUS highway exit due to this. I was minding my own business and driving behind this black Proton Perdana, who was also using the SmartTag lane. All off a sudden, I noticed this black object falling from the sky and it actually hit the Perdana’s roof. What the TOOTiness right. The Perdana didn’t even stop after the “hit-and-run”. The impact should have created an audible “bang” on the roof, but nope. The Perdana went on it’s merry way.

I found out later, that the victim was a common Mynah bird. The same breed as Mama. Poor thing. I figured that it was trying to perch atop the powerlines above the highway and got electrocuted. Either dead by roasting or a broken neck by the collision with the car roof. Freaaaaakyyyy I tell ya. RIP poor birdie. Say “Hi” to Mama if you’re in Mynah heaven for us.

To further demonstrate what happened at the scene, I, Nawooz, have exhausted my creative juices with this n00bish MS Paint sketch. It depicts the Wadafak(tm) scene I encountered this morning. Behold my 1337 hax0rz MS Paint skeelz. Mwahahahahaha. ^__^

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