Firdauz takes 5

this blog is coming to an end. For good.

The bad news is that, i’m almost done writing and art directing the worse drama in my life.

Meet the worse new me.

Starting next week, you can almost say good bye to Firdauz takes 5.

For what it used to be, a lunch-dating platform or whatever, there’s almost a 10-year guarantee i won’t make a come back.

Almost. Auf Wiedersehen.

And 2008, felt just like yesterday. And if i remember correctly, yesterday, i was happy, mostly.

And not so broke.

Life, used to be special, i guess. It used to ….. ermmm satisfy. And it was damn easy too.

You know what went wrong? I grew up. That’s what went wrong. That’s what went terribly wrong.

So, I’m learning again, slowly, to find happiness again through the simplest thing in life : masturbating.

And sleeping, i guess.

Hai adik-adik. Nama saya adalah Cik Katak Scooter. Scoot-scoot!

Cik Katak Scooter dilahirkan daripada tanah liat merah jambu-u-u.

Walaupun Cik Katak Scooter berdada leper seperti lapangan terbang terminal tambang murah, hati Cik Katak Scooter suci dan murni. Sungguh suciiiii. Sungguh murni. Mmm…

I don’t know why some people get cancer, but they get that, and if you ask me, they don’t deserve it.

Stop cancer from touching the flesh of all the good people. Stop it. Period.

Let’s hope this is not the final entry. Should it be, I hope it becomes an avenue that people seek for some good guidance, InsyaAllah.

– Raden Galoh of onebreastbouncing

Another good person, a fighter, died of cancer.

I do not believe God does not exist. I know for sure, He does not exist. And thank God, that he does not exist.

…

If evolution is impossible, life loses all meaning.

- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on the existence of God.

Thought that he’s funny.

asked Shun Yau, holding a milk carton that was 4 months older than its expiry date.

“I don’t know. Probably Michelle’s.”

Because you know, Michelle’s tummy is like what and when? Permanent obesity and was expired 10 years ago?

What? Sexy is your name?

Like Mizz Nina, orang gemuk sekarang semua mengaku seksi. Mengada.

“Lelaki sekarang ni,” kata perempuan-perempuan tersebut, “semuanya tak boleh diharap. Lembik macam popsicle.”

“Aah kan. Lembik, tapi sedap juga!” perempuan kedua ketawa kecil, mengekek. Entah apa yang kelakar sangat, hanya Tuhan Semenanjung yang tahu. Tuhan Borneo, kalau pengetahuan itu sampai kepadaNya, kemungkinan besar, pengetahuan itu akan diban dalam bahasa rakyat.

“Baiklah, sebelum kita mendengar lagu Korea tan tan tan shorry shorry..”

“Ah, Korea. Cair!” Balas perempuan ketiga.

“Yeah, poodle dengan kimchi memang sedap! Terbaik. Mari tangkap gambar ala-ala Korea.”

Klik. Gambar dipetik.

“Ouh, cantik la gambar ni! Lolli-lolli-lolli pop!” Entah apa yang direpekkannya, hanya Tuhan Semenanjung yang tahu.

“Ya Tuhan Semenanjung! Hebat dan gagahnya lengan kamu! Sudikah kamu menayangkannya sekali lagi? Cuma sekali! Sungguh… (tidak terkata)”

“Macam ini?”

“Oh Tuhan Semenanjung! Sungguh tidak terkata..”

(Mata besar berkaca-kaca)

Oh Tuhan Semenanjung. Aku sungguh, tidak boleh berkata apa-apa.

Well, i hope you’ll like it. Remember when you told me you wanted a happier life — a car and a house and a wife and two cats, well have you gotten any? How’s life anyways, you’ve been gemuk aren’t you Firdy?

Talk to me sometime yeah. I’ll be you’re friend, no matter what you have and don’t.

Friends forever, older Firdy. Love, lots of love. Signed, Original Firdy, (before you became someone else).

How often people call me wanker even though i never got caught. And more often than not, i surfed porno sites to get the vision, the wild feeling of being on a mission of finding the chemistry of being sexually stimulated.

I talk crap, but i tell you truth, the whole truth of who i am.

Not in a shy way, i admit i’m an avid wanker. I do this on a regular basis: i wank, i go to sleep. I wake up the next day, no different than the shitty person i am.

How la, i so sad =(

For reasons i can’t tell, it’s no secret i like to talk things that never relate to anything.

So, i thought one day i’d become a professor. I wrote this in a buku laporan under cita-cita and filled them with so many red colours, the shades of my mom’s scolding and the colour of what i’ve become.

I’ve become too amusing, to myself. I laugh, and i laugh forever.

Suet Lee is back. And according to the law of gravity, she weighed less on the moon. Though she might float on fresh water, and that is extraordinary, her waist circumference may not be used as the golden measurement to build any nautical flotation device.

I mean like, come on guys. So what she’s fat. She has feelings! Yeah she has tummy, she’s not a kangaroo!

Wankers. Pffft.

that religion, for each one of them, is an idea — it’s a thought — men produce when they do not know the truth, and are lacking of any real evidence.

So, they simplify.

There was a supreme being, who created everything.

There was a man, and he had a wife, and we are the offspring of this lovely couple.

Simple idea, but powerful and emotionally moving, and quite frightening when the supreme being they create, is also the only one who is able to do so much harm to you, in an afterlife, if you don’t listen to His demands.

His demands can really be as simple as “never-ever doubt Me, for the evil ones are relentless.”

There is a real evidence that, theologically, i’m the evil one, and yes, is relentless to find out the truth, and suggests others to do so.

So, what’s the truth then? Men of course, didn’t come from the upper regions of a mythical place of joy. There’s not even a single evidence of that. We came from the biological evolution of genetic information. Plenty of evidence.

It’s a tragedy that we all know how genetics plays a crucial role in life, yet, we want to believe there was a poetic beginning: There was a man from a mythical land of joy, and he had a wife, they did something bad — ate a forbidden fruit, didn’t brush the teeth, or something like that — and were sent to earth, and we are their offspring.

It’s kind of a fucked up place to live, but yeah, after we die ah, if we follow whatever the Man says ah, we go back to the mythical land of joy loh.

Don’t do that. Don’t believe. Think.

Life can be a joy too, here, in this godforsaken place.

Everywhere; in a train, in a cab, — while walking –, in a bus, in a city full of — hehehe, i do not know how to complete this sentence, so i’m gonna write the first awkward word that comes to my mind instead, i hope — people, wandering and wondering about things, and i’m no different from them, often i wondered about getting killed. Trains colliding head-on, I die.

Angry man on a speeding bike, draws a gun, shoots me and the cab driver, I die.

Bus happily hits the concrete shoulder of a flyover, i try to save a girl that would later be my girlfriend, but before i could find any girl i like in the bus miserably, i die.

The stories that i often tell to my sorry self are the stories of where i die, before i know how everything ends.

Dying seems — perhaps, i miss home. In where i actually originated from.

***

A diary, of today’s, of the first person who spoke to me

Sara offered me a green plate with a slice of a birthday cake on it, “It’s clean,” she nervously asked, “Do you want this cake? It’s clean,” and repeatedly assured, “It’s clean.” I thanked her with a confident thank you and a smile and wasn’t really sure what kind of a wrong person i projected to her that she had to sound so nervous about a slice of cake.

How really kind people can be. To make an effort to offer a slice of a birthday cake even to a person she thought might decline.

“Happy birthday Robb,” was what seemed appropriate to say while eating the cake.

Later that evening,

Vernice was selecting the right bottle — the correct blue water drum to be replaced for the hot-cold water dispenser — and i quickly zipped my ugly self with a black sweater and did the manly job: replacing the water drums.

Nobody likes to see a fat kid lifting a water drum. So the black sweater had made the evening seem more appropriate.

I watched what i thought i really liked

And i liked it a lot.

Fresh, another Leo

I asked Fresh when her birthday was, thought of a perfect gift and later changed my mind — waiting for her birthday to arrive could be a boring experience since i already had the list. 4 movies for her to watch — i thought of getting her the DVDs.

• The Hours (2002)
• The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)
• Revolutionary Road (2008)
• The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)

Those are the movies i appreciate for what they are but don’t quite enjoy as much as my girlfriend, Anis does. Somehow, i could always relate Anis with Fresh: their interests and likings.

Veen Dee and her artwork

I thought thats a good start. To never be afraid to start drawing.

With Michelle, i’m always too honest and say things i wouldn’t say to others

She had good intention, though perhaps no experience with heating up pizzas with a microwave, she made it sound like it was really an easy job.

She had good intention and overly dried, hardened slices of pizza.

I don’t remember saying thank you, i may have said it but anyways, thank you, dear. Next time don’t be so overly confident with things you’re not so sure of.

On a second thought, i blame the microwave. Stupid microwave.

Shun Yau, who introduced me to simple programming

I’m no programmer but i enjoy dabbling in javascript, — as long as it’s easy to be done and exciting — and for every javascript, we all used jQuery as the framework. It came to a situation where i needed to make a slider work in reverse.

Move a slider from left to right and its value is from 0 to 100. Put the slider on the far left, and the value is 0. Move it to the far right, it’s 100.

I needed to reverse that. Visually, the only creative solution i could think of was using CSS3 transform for modern browsers and DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Matrix filter for stupid IE, but boy, that’s cheating.

I told Shun Yau about it and he said, “You actually can make a 100 become 0 and a 0 become 100, using a simple formula.”

“Really? How do i do that yeah?” i asked.

“You see, when you move a slider to far right, it’s value is now 100, right?”

“Uhuh,”

“You minus that with 100 and multiply by -1. You see 99 minus 100 is negative one and negative one times negative one is one.”

I worked out the math;

(X – 100) x -1 = the new reversed value

so, if X is 100;
(100 – 100) x -1 = 0 (the new value of X)

and if X is 0;
(0 – 100) x -1 = 100 (the new value of X)

Thanks to Shun Yau, the slider works in reverse now. Such magic and how i’m still fascinated by simple math.

***

Of course, every story of mine begins with me fantasizing to die. And if i die, i’d like to be cremated and my ashes buried without any headstone. I like a terrific quick death — by that, i mean fantastically tragic, most awesome — and a simple and quiet afterlife, not that i believe in any, just you know, if i die, i die, thats the end of it all.

But if i die too slow, and don’t get to die in the most awesome way of dying, i’d like to spend the last hours of my life with Anis, and alone with her.

Because dying with Anis on my side, means a lot to me. It could mean though i may have failed to learn the meaning of life, i may have failed to embrace the religion she always wished i would, i may have failed heaven and hell and everything in this life, but i will not fail her one thing. This particular failure, isn’t mine. If found, please return it to the nearest loser who may look like your current boyfriend, or an ex-boyfriend, assuming, you’re a girl stalking what i write before i die because you often wonder how low of an IQ does a stupid curly-haired boy have. It’s actually pretty low.

I will not fail to love her, until the last breath of my melodramatic life.

I will not fail to love what she loves, and if i don’t, it isn’t time for me to die yet. My life is a soap opera, best done theatrically. Best experienced without any logical and reasonable excuses other than what i feel, excessively.

And in my deathbed, i will find every strength to repair my dying soul and fix every injury and become her best friend.

And if she finds this funny and cheesy and ridiculous and unnecessary then it is what it is.

Funny things i write for tonight. I die, i die. I love, i love. What i like, i write. What i don’t, i wont. How stupid i can be sometimes. But i’m never clever to begin with.

Tell me the truth, Frank, remember that? We used to live by it. And you know what’s so good about the truth? Everyone knows what it is however long they’ve lived without it. No one forgets the truth, Frank, they just get better at lying.

- April Wheeler, Revolutionary Road.

Richard Yates reminded me that, sometimes, i lie too much — to other people, to myself, and often i conceal the truth just because i actually am pretty good at it.

I got better at being politically correct. I even lied to myself, and got better and better at it.

in this life of mine, i really do not know what i need, or need to do.

So often, i give people what they demand for, and what they say they need. Login names, passwords, money, madness, my own freedom, reasons to hate me, sadness, virginity at least once, i gave them away, in hope that, i may learn a thing or two from doing so.

I never really learnt anything, actually.

Sometimes, it’s just so hard being alone and stupid. And during these silly times of mine, i’m often reminded of those good people and silly friends whom i may have hurt or lost contacts with.

One day when i actually learn a thing or two, i’ll bake a cake and share it with close friends and tell them, “hey, when you’re feeling dumb and lonely right, you let me know. I know what to do.”

I do not know what to do. I’m only 16, this year, my IQ is.

Last night, while still was very much a 100% proto-malay, i sent out an email to the programmers. It read,

Title : I lazy to google

Hello awesome programmers,

What’s the difference between jQuery

1) .append
2) .add

I want to add an html element inside a div.

*i also very lazy correct grammar =(

You know who i blame for my Ah Beng’s grammar ah? Yenmay loh.

She always “i lazy eat lunch”, “i lazy walk”, “i lazy do, you do la.”

Stupid Yenmay always talks like that one. Well me? I’m a proto-malay. I like to complain. And spoon-fed. What else do like? Bumiputera discount? That too i think.