My experience in Australia part 1 : Not yet in Australia

I packed my bags and began marking my checklist to make sure I did not miss anything. 1 year old toothbrush? check. Pirated anime DVDs? check. 3 for 10 el cheapo underwears? check. 'Did I miss anything? Anything else I should bring along?' those thoughts circled my mind. The perfectionist within told me that there is still empty space in that luggage of mine and it must be utilized. I figured more anime is vital to my survival so I had those stashed in. Back then, survival is a matter of killing time without lifting a finger, hence emotional yet very abstract animations like Lain and Technolyze presented itself as the perfect solution. Most of my peers, who were "too cool for school" condemned anime, therefore effectively condemning me too in the process. How could they? Little did they know that with a keen eye and an investigative mind, so much could be felt and experienced just by watching anime.

With physical packing done, I move torwards my laptop and gave life to it with a flick on the power switch. Then I began yet another checklist. 'Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 installed? excellent' I mumbled. 'Final Fantasy 7 and 8 is in, good. Too bad I'll have to sacrifice Final Fantasy 9' I sighted as each of them were a fascinating game itself, the highest calibre of interactive materials. Moving on, I clicked the option "show all hidden files and folders". In a way, the next checklist was equally as important for survival as animes can be. It also involves killing time but now you'll be using your fingers. All 5 to be exact.

Pleased with my collection of Sky Angel series and also the many great flicks of Rika Nakamura preloaded, I packed my laptop into the backpack and locked up my luggage. 'This is it' I thought. I shiverred as feelings of nervousness and excitement spiked up my spine, it may have originated from my butt. I am about to embark on a brand new journey, one that I have never attempted before. Living the life in Australia. The adventures, a brand new playground, and new people to mingle with. Of course I did not discount the possibilities of getting laid while pissed drunk, infact that was my top fantasy for this journey. Never would I have imagined that somehow it.....

It never happened.

Snippets

Did you notice? The clouds in Malaysia are aplenty hence the reason we have little to no stars to enjoy at night. During the afternoon however, the clouds move ever so slightly. Like giantic snails floating above the sky.

7-11 has its own bakery but no bread yet. At least you have the promise that their bakery is freshly baked. Knowing the operation hours of 7-11, I doubt the "freshness" of their bread.

Take time off, relax and enjoy. Soft tissue paper is essential for comfort. Magazine with hot babes and gossip news that is irrelevant to your life. Estasy shitting session ensures.

Fat and ugly dude relaxing touching is his leg as if its a piano. Has two schoolgirls hanging out with him.... hmmmm girlfriends? Unlikely.

Kindori Kimochi

Anyone heard of Kindori? I take a firm stand that their ice cream will excite your tastebuds and leaves you with a very kimochi experience. Established by our Minister of Health(please google if you don't know who is our MOH), Kindori only has one branch located at the 3rd floor of Berjaya Times Square. If you know where is the entrance of the 3rd floor cinema, you won't miss this.

So what differentiates this ice cream parlour from the rest of the competition? For starters they use fresh-milk(I think low fat milk) as a base for the ice cream. The next ingredient is frozen fruits which they claim to have retained its freshness for the flavour of your choice. Sounds cool so far but get this, they blend the ice cream right infront of you.

Here are the cheerful employees in Kindori. No matter what language you converse with them, if you're chinese they will reply you in mandarin only. Nothing fatal I guess, but most of the time there is three to four workers. I'm not sure if the headcount matches with the size of the small parlour. There is definitely room for cost reduction here.... owh shit my business mind is suddenly turned on. Excuse me.

Here you can see the fruits on display. From the looks of it, they are certainly frozen. Hard as a rock. Look at the hand, good hygiene practice there. You're not going to get any fist hair on your ice cream. Hooray! for that.

If you order strawberry, they'll pick about four pieces for your serving.

At RM8.90 per serving, I suppose its balanced in terms of value vs taste/uniqueness. What you see here is the whole package. The ice cream is of adequate proportion, nothing too generous there though.

The flavours I have tried are strawberry, mango and grape so far. My recommendation only goes to the first two. Grape tastes like rotten mash potatoes mixed with yam. Maybe someone farted when I tried grape. I'm not too sure.

Seating wise they offer you two choices. This is the barstool as you can see. Squeaky and a wee bit too bouncy for my butt. I suppose if you wanted to check out the crowd(chicks), this is where you should place your ass. If yours is an enormous one then don't bother because the stool is curved in a weird way and you might just slip off. Its like sitting on a big soap.

The sofa is cool. Position yourself there if you want to appear laid-back and just chillout with your cute ice cream.

There you have it folks. Kindori Ice Cream is tantalizing, fully approved by my standards. Only issue is with the employees in terms of language prowess and the stools.

The Ad-less blog

I used to have ads in my blog. Once upon a time I dreamt that the blog fairy visited me. She(a little fat lady with wings) told me that I should have ads in my blog, and with enough visitors daily I could be jobless and buy a house with the ad revenue alone. To give me a good start, she sprinkled some magical dust on my computer and said that it will attract thousands of hungry readers to my fruitful blog.

Then I wake up to reality. Google analytics report zero visitors on my blog for months. What a wonderful beginning...

The first I tried was Google Adsense. Besides pitching ads that has nothing to do with my blog, those text links are rather mundane to look at. Sometimes when I go blog surfing, I'm amazed as my eyeballs get stabbed non-stop by Adsense. It seems the trend lately is to plaster text ads in the middle of your post, cleverly camoflaged in terms to size and color. Actually as far as Adsense goes, the real trend is to paste them anywhere you can. For example...

- Below site banner
- Beside site banner
- As the site banner (!!!)
- Before a post
- In the middle of a post (I find this very retarded and irritating)
- After a post
- At the left sidebar
- At the right sidebar
- End of the page

I am going to vomit my heart out and ejaculate my soul if I catch anymore blogs overflowing with Adsense goodness.

Nuffnang was the next one I gave a shot at. Their ads ooze coolness and it actually does make your blog look lively. Only problem with them is most of the time I am presented with a...

Nugget. I registered for the purpose of having nice graphics spice up my dull sidebar. Probably my blog does not have enough visitors to serve ads yet. So I just dropped the code from my site since I wanted smashing graphics(read:intresting ads) and not a nugget most of the time. Simple as that.

So there you have it dear readers, the reason why there are no ads in whoisafternoon. Nothing to distract your reading or sore your eyes. My awful posts is bad enough.

* I'm not saying this blog will be ad-free forever. Who knows I'll throw in some nice, non-intrusive ads in the far far future...

Rage against the machines

In my years of experience with computers I must say this is the most mind boggling error message that I have encountered. From what I can decipher, the fan is out of control. Well I can accept that, this is cheap stuff after all.

"Your CPU Fan may control by itself!"

I don't quite follow. First its out of control and now it MAY(very vague...) control itself?

Then I have to hit enter to exit. Who the hell designed this shit? Can't I hit the escape key to exit? That would make more sense to me.

Exotic sushi pleasures

Ohaiyo gozaimase! You there. Yes you sir. May I interest your stomach with a good meal of sushi-sushi? Ahhh sorry for the interruption on your shopping walking. My name is Miyagi. Uncle Miyagi. Since I sense a very intimate bond with you my dear customer, please address me as Miyagi-chan.

Come please come. Look at the flowers and white rocks. Savour its beauty with your eyeballs. This is your gateway to a whole new realm. A journey so wonderful, like movie Chronicles o' Narnia. Can you feel the warmth emitting from the inside sir? Yes... very kimochi. Owh, watch your step sir.

Big battle station and our fine samurai warriors sir. They fight many hours to bring you well sliced maki. Do not be frightened by serious face and sweating forehead, it is because of dedication. See hand washing? It is our very proud policy to have hands washed every minute. Your soba will be bacteria-less and virus-less.

Him? What about him? Let us proceed to better matters sir. He is just lowly dishwasher. No sword for him.

Notice besides hard labour we also employ hardy machines to do our work. Ah ha! The wasabi bucket has arrived, in time too. You are fated to dine here it seems.

Let us begin with the appetizer. Tender eggs and fake crab meat maki. A light and refreshing start for a meal.

Next we deliver maki with generous proportions of raw delightful salmon. Think of them as "happy" salmon. Do remember sir, these salmon are fresh. You are like a canadian bear now, eating live salmon at the waterfalls.

More salmon, but we offer you vegetables and real crab meat in the middle. This is to let you honor the taste of real crab when you compare it to the fake one earlier. Also some crab eggs on top for decoration... no worries they are harmless and are actually quite tasty. Yes, you can eat the eggs sir. Domo... domo...

Allow me to pamper your tastebuds with the legendary eel meat that is UNAGI. Good for vitality and fabled to enchance man strong-ness when consumed. I am living proof of that sir hehehe. Anyways mixed with loving eggs, this is a fusion of the rising sun with local delicacy named "nasi kerabu".

I see you have acquired a taste for unagi? A fine passion sir but the previous dish was just a teaser meant to tickle your curiousity. I now reward you enormous slices of unagi, with rice wrapped around kawaii eggs and soft cucumbers.

The finale arrives, are you ready? Grilled spider sushi. Just kidding sir. This is a soft shell crab. Excuse the cruelty in this dish, the orange eggs are from the same crab too. In my experience, many shy away from such a dish as you will be chewing on the kani's organs too. Not you sir, no you are bold and worthy of our restaurant's hall of fame. Our staff and I bow down to your glory.

Now for the bill sir...

Gaming trends

Tiger Woods. Mozart. Beethoven. What do they have in common? Yes they're all child prodigies. How about professional gaming?

Babies. Roughly 7 to 8 years old only. Don't be fooled by the innocence, both of them have fine-tuned precision and killer instincts. Guess what game they're playing?

Here is a shot of the little brother commanding(shouting at) his sister on what to do next. Demonstration of leadership skills.

As you have witnessed, kids are ripping in cyber cafes. But what about those dark and dim arcades?

Mmmmm long hair, short skirt, nice legs and high heels. Where do you get em'? In arcades of course...

Time crisis player here. More pro than her boyfriend is. No shoes for optimum reload/dodge. Muscular legs because of the training I guess.