The grass is greener on the right side.

Keedos, do try everything once, or twice so you know what we're talking about. But never be excessive and become obsessive. It will fry your brain sooner, or much later. Eight f*cking years, and i finally don't schedule around this anymore. The grass is greener on the reality side.
Weeds Season 5 Teaser :: A Brief History Of Weed
(that's one education + fun montage, with all the facts we need. and i like the marching song for this teaser, even without visine)

And then there was Katie Melua.

Katie Melua is without a doubt one flawless singer, songwriter and musician. Made a massive début in 2003, when she was only 19. She is now amongst the seventh richest British musician under 30. Fortune is estimated at £18 mil. And she's worth every penny!
Katie Melua :: I Cried For You



The year two thousand and nine has been rhyming nasty from a to z. I'm throwing the doormat away. It's been crap all along, and it doesn't pay the bill to be nice candy. So the shit just keeps hitting the fan, one day after an other, one month after..i just can't bother. Everyone should just mind their onion really. Be the best you can. Now, i can't even be arsed to type about this. Just ask eachother about the future. The sky's the limit..since some moron decided there's a limit. Moving on. This song is inspiring, we like getting down to the facts.
Katie Melua :: Nine Million Bicycles
«There are six billion people in the world,
more or less, and it makes me feel quite small,
but you're the one i love the most of all.»



CAKAP FRENCH :: vélo (velo) = bicycle

Blonde Redhead's rebirth.

I came across this band about 4 years ago, when epitonic.com was still running fast. Such a pleasure it was to browse through infinite new coming indie band from around the globe. Shame they just haven't updated anything since then.


Blonde Redhead comprise of Japanese Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simon and Amedeo Pace. Discovered by Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley who then went on to produce the self-titled debut album in 1995. The song "In Particular" from the album "Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons" (2000) caught me in a trance. Kazu Makino's singing reminded me much of Jane Birkin, partner in crime of French legend singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. Erm, Jane is a legend of her own too really, speaking french with the brihtish accent..and a lot of silent "h" and "sh" in her speech. We love her back home :)
Blonde Redhead :: In Particular (LIVE)

Once I came across the above mentioned album at RockCorner (thanks to An-drou's wide range of music library), I had to get their late following album, "Misery is a Butterfly" (2004), which was already on the rack. In between the making of these two albums, Kazu Makino's experienced a horrifying accident, being tramped by a horse. (Trust me I got knocked out twice from a horse and it ain't pretty when they hit your head). The recovery was long and reflects much in the visual and lyrical imagery of the following song from the album, "Misery is a Butterfly".
Blonde Redhead :: Equus
« Sometimes i think i must, just let you be, let you be a horse.
All i want is to be a rider. Afraid I'm so afraid, to lose you.
If someone looks at you, turn into donkey, pretend you are lame.»

At last the dark and gloomy days were gone, the band released the album "23" in 2007 which most of you are familiar with for its deep crying satisfaction. TEYH ROKKINYO!
Blonde Redhead :: 23



CAKAP FRENCH :: rêve (ʀɛv ) = dream

Arab Strap - The Band..i must specify.

I wrote this post last night, but considering I had started uploading this video when Jesus entered puberty, and was still waiting on Sunday 26th July 2009@1am for it to finish, I went to bed and left it for today. At last now..

Arab Strap were an indie band from Scotland, which were a central part of Glasgow's influential late 1990's music scene. Alas they split in 2006 but they have remained strong in my playlist. The music video is just blah, but hell with it, this song is crystal pleasure in sound. I know i want a piano.

Arab Strap :: Dream Sequence

Some of you may know, what Arab Strap means. If not, just wiki-wiki-it.

CAKAP FRENCH :: Fruits de mer (fʀɥi/də/mɛʀ) = seafood (translates directly to "fruits of the sea"..don't ask me why)

Put your red nose on.

Red Nose Day - The greatest minds in advertising brainstorming.
Do something funny for money. A substantial way to contribute our great work and raise money for multiple charitable associations around the globe. It took place this year on March 13th, and raised £78,237,675 up to date.I can't wait to put my little red nose on in 2010. Must team up and brainstorm on an idea NOW.



I heart a good commercial, really.
But I found myself very controversial. I don't believe in globalization. I believe that every country/person has a different culture which must be embraced and need not to be invaded by manipulators and ideologies coming from the biggest brands out there. But a witty manipulator must get some recognition :)

Durex Balloons - Latest commercial 2009 (which of course has been banned).
So kiut the spank.



The Greatest Remote Control - Loewe
Brilliant, witty and the greatest remote control. Now i believe. (keep in mind, I am very teh gullible)



CAKAP FRENCH :: bouré (/buʀe/) = drunk / full (double meaning)

Beverly 90210, we flushed you.

Yesterday, @alushaness and i decided to get our half-deposit back from the agent as we felt unease about the apartment somehow. There's construction starting right opposite the residence, and we seriously weighted the pros and cons. We both agreed to continue searching for other more reasonable places to shift to.

Our appointment with @AgentSharon was set for 1pm at her office, and having spoken to her over the phone the night before, we knew we were in for a heated argument to get our deposit back. According to @AgentSharon, the owner had requested for a full payment of the deposit (which totaled up to RM6787..WTF!!!!) in consolation of the pull-out. @alushaness and i knew we had to stand strong on the only Black & White agreement we had signed. Whatever we had not signed would not be relevant to the discussion. Here is the ONLY document we had in our posession:

Our copy of the Agreement to Rent was very basic and @AgentSharon did not take the time to fill in the important points. Leaving all these info blank allowed us to get out of this conflict.

The thing is @AgentSharon filled in those blank spots only AFTER we had signed the agreement (probably the night before, right after my phone call..), and her argument was then based on her NEW document. We considered that completely irrelevant f*ck information to our pull-out, since we both had never seen the filled document before. You can't simply make us sign a document and later on add in additional info to it. bodohbodohbodoh.

We kept our cool while keeping firm and confident. @AgentSharon being a professional Negotiator, she assured us (all these in whispers) that she was trying her best to help us, and she left for a while to call the owner and re-assess the case.

DONE, they agreed to give us back our FULL money (DAMN RIGHT!!!); 15min for them to write the cheque, and thef*ckoutofthere we were. High-five @alushaness cause we handled it like pros. who's the real negotiator now :P

CAKAP FRENCH :: négocier (negɔsje) = negociate

Who gonna drop acid on Mickey?

It took me 15longass minutes to log into my blog for a new post. I'm still new at this yet, i do understand clearly what "Sign in" means. But to my great surprise, after typing in my username and password, blogspot brought me back to my very first blog, which dates back from 2005 and had only 3 miserable posts (laughlaughlaugh). One of them deserves a re-post. It's an extract from the book NO LOGO by Naomi Klein. This book is a fascinating journey starting with the birth of branding, leading to mass marketing and how it has affected our society to struggle between corporate power and anti-corporate activism. It is part sociological thesis, part design history, and it goes something like this.

The art of being in-between:

"Following the late ethnologist Michel de Certeau, we prefer to concentrate our attention on the independent use of mass culture products, a use which, like the ruses of camouflaged fish and insects, may not 'overthrow the system', but which keeps us intact and autonomous within that system, which may be the best for which we can hope .. Going to Disney World to drop acid and goof on Mickey isn't revolutionary; going to Disney World in full knowledge of how ridiculous and evil it all is and still having a great innocent time, in some almost unconscious, even psychotic way, is something else together. This is what Certeau describes as 'the art of being in-between', and this is the only path of true freedom in today's culture. Let us, then, be in-between. Let us revel in Baywatch, Joe Camel, Wired magazine, and even glossy books about society of spectacle, but let's never succumb to the glamorous allure of these things."

SPOT ON. (fullstop)

Watch the music if you can't listen to it.

Phoenix will be playing on the 1st of August in Jakarta at the Bengkel Night Park. I am STILL planning my extended weekend there, alas, my change of leave dates from work has yet to be approved. The ideal itinerary would be to arrive on the 30th July in Jakarta, hang with makcik @jade and let her drag me to the best makan spot, cause I'm still thin as a toothpick. I need some meat god damnit.!! Then we'd come back together on the 2nd August to Kuala Lumpur. We'll see what monday brings us, in the meantime, here's Phoenix :: 1901 music video:



While I'm at it, you all should check out Passion Pit for they are SUPERB!!! Here's :: Sleepyhead (LIVE) for you:



I'm off for more house hunting now. Checking out Sunway Damansara, TTDI, more BU and lunch with @ening. I'd like to think I'm also celebrating tonight, but lately things just flip around to a flop.

CAKAP FRENCH :: couilles en or (kuj/ã/ɔʀ/) = golden balls

Department Of Eagles :: No One Does It Like You

They can play in my pocket anytime they want.

Beverly Residence aka 90210 Wannabe

I have spotted this residence in BU11 before it was even completed. It holds only 36 units, 3 floors, and as I strongly suspected (and prayed for), the 3rd floor units come with their very own rooftops. That alone, sold it to me.

After being turned down by 8 previous agents, all saying their units had been taken up already, @alushaness finally found one available unit, on the third floor. About 1200sq feet for the apartment, plus 1030sq feet at the rooftop. Oooh that damn rooftop is calling our names for some fierce babi BBQs..I can see us in our inflatable little pool, sipping on a pina colada with a little umbrella poked in the cherry (though you know it really is just gonna be a can of tiger or something..).

Here are some pictures we recently took during the numerous visits to the apartment. (OH OH I'M HAVING A DEJA VU RIGHT NOW..sharp and clear, i know my colleagues are coming back from a meeting noow..waiting for the main door to beepbeep..yes?no?..ok maybe it's a Deja Vu of a previous Deja Vu; which really just makes this a flashback. DOH.):

While it clearly seems to be the perfect bachelor's pad, @alushaness and I are both reconsidering the place, because of $$$..let's not live beyond our means yeah. We'll be looking for more places over the weekend. Good Luck to us!!!

CAKAP FRENCH :: toit (twa) = rooftop

Damn you domain names!!!

What a pain in the butt it is to find a domain name for a blog. But with the fairy help of my good friend @alushaness, we came up with a pretty good and simple name: PAKAI BUANG PAKAI (I almost said “buah”there..), translates from bahasa directly to “wear throw wear”. Nevertheless, in my country of croissants and escargots, I translate it to “use throw use”. Rediscovering all the good things that are disposable in life and to not take things too seriously.

It might have started from the (very traumatizing) flashback of when my mother once bought me a set of disposable underwear for my first trip to Bali when I was 16 (SIXTEEN FFSake!!). Despite my mother's good intention, I threw the set of disposable underwear before they were even made disposable, thankyouverymuch, and I had my first tattoo inked instead.

I then remembered the good old, or just plain old disposable cameras we all had. Since my current NIKON COOLPIX5400 is short of breath and my nonexistent savings are nowhere to be found, I’ve resorted to using disposable cameras for the time being. Scanners have been fun too. We’ll see what comes outta that little box. :)

P.S: I’ll be teaching you a “French word for the day” at each post. As we all need to know how to order a “croissant” and scream out “SACRÉ BLEU!!!!” while the waiter spills coffee on your …

CAKAP FRENCH :: jetable (ʒətabl) = disposable