Apple iPOD: a review by an amateur
(Tuesday, November 30, 2004)iPOD doesn't need much introduction. everyone knows what it is. for those who doesn't know what's an iPOD, it's a portable mp3 player with gigantic memory space for storage and you're a lame ignorant piece of shit.
looks (body)
from the first look, iPOD looks better than any other mp3 players on market such as creative zen, i-river and etc. relatively, iPOD is slightly smaller than any mp3 player of the same range. at the same time, the unique sleek design of the pod overwhelms every other player in the market making the sweetie irresistable. the front body is marble white in colour meanwhile the back of the body covered with chromed-matel. chrome casing looks great but maintaining it is a fucking
looks (earphone)
cable of the earphone and the earphone is also marble white. the earphone speakers are filtered with a metal membrane thus making the sound shaper. 2 pairs of black cotton buds are also available with the purchase of an iPOD unit. although the it doesn't look as good as Bang and Olufsen's earphone, the comfortable iPOD earphone design deserves every credit. you can wear it for hours without feeling much discomfort.
function
aside from the normal mp3 player's function such as EQ, music shuffle, repeat and etc, there are additional functions such as clock, contact list, calendar, notes and games. features such as contacts and notes can only be added and edited using computer's OS. so it's a unconvenient when you want to edit the contacts.
sound quality
this is what everyone wants to know about, can the sound quality of an iPOD match it's looks? gonna try to give a throughout review about the sound quality. for starters, am not gonna talk about signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio or total harmonic distortion (THD) and neither am i gonna talk about tracks from Kenny G, Mozart, Beethoven. this sound review is based on what i think and songs i chose such as
-songs from Dj Tiesto's Just Be album
-songs from Eminem's The Eminem Show album
-Explosion is the Sky
-acoustic tracks
-rock tracks (such as guns n' roses, creed, korn and etc)
all the tracks are being tested with the original iPOD earphone (which as been run-up for 24 hours for optimal performance). the first impression i get while listening to the tracks is it lacks bass. that bass from the tracks is very clouded and fade. however, the mid-bass and the treble are tremedously impressive. for a device such a size, it could bring out the best of a 128-kbps track. the superb clarity (clarity here meaning you can hear the artist taking a deep breath which normally you can't hear and nothing more than that...) patches up the lacking in the bass department. therefore, iPOD is most suitable for those who likes acoustic, slow rock and clarity based tracks. to jazz and dance music fans, you need to bear with the fade bass-beats. maybe changing the earphones/headphone will help...
overall, iPOD is a must-get ultimate mp3 player.
you wanna get married?
(Sunday, November 28, 2004)1. Do you have a target on when u should get married?
when i'm old enough. when i have enough fun. when i accidentally knocked someone up. ops!
2. When someone says 'marriage', what's the FIRST thing that pops into ur mind?
fucking hell, there goes my weekend. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck...
3. To you, what's the scariest thing about marriage?
wedding dinner - karaoke, drunk ah peks, yam seng, fat bride, basically everything and anything!
4. Who would be the first person u invite at ur wedding except for family?
erm, people whom i respect. people who can behave!
5. If a really really REALLY rich n famous guy/girl that you just met yesterday asked you to marry him/her, what would u say?
i'm your ho' baby!!! yeah! wicked!!!!
6. What if ur boy/girlfriend asked u the same question TODAY?
i'll tell her i can't hear jack shit if we were on the phone and pretend nothing happened if she ask in person and if she insist, i'll just keep quiet and give her a 10 cent smile
7. What do u think is the best part about getting married?
getting wasted on the dinner party. oh, not to forget the bachelor party as well...
8. Color of wedding dress?
ask the women, not me. i'll wear tee and jeans if they allow
9. City or Suburbs?
anywhere. it doesn't matter cause i won't be happy anyways!
10. How many children?
i'm not gonna make my life more miserable
11. Honeymoon?
lots of sex.
12. First anniversary gift?
bak kut teh dinner/lunch/breakfast
13. Name of first child?
like i said, as if getting married is not bad enough, now you wanna talk about children...tsk tsk...
14. Only people with no feelings dont cry at their wedding. Are you one of them?
i'd be crying all right. there goes my freedom, there goes...holy fuckkkkkkkk
15. Finally, you got any specific date about when to have ur wedding?
erm, NO!
darude's music
(Saturday, November 27, 2004)| Opening credits | Korn - Got the Life |
| Waking up | Rage Against the Machine - Wake Up |
| Average day | Blink 182 - What's My Age Again! |
| First date | 311 - Love Song/Coldplay's Green Eyes |
| Falling in love | Sarah Mclachlan - Ice Cream |
| Love scene | Gary Moore - Still got the Blues (i don't think this works...), Savage Garden - Universe |
| Fight scene | Prodigy - Breath |
| Breaking up | Insane Clown Posse - Fuck the World/LMF - Diu Lei Lou Mou |
| Getting back together | The Roots - You Got Me |
| Secret love | Natalie Imbruglia - Identify |
| Life's okay | Blur - Good Song |
| Mental breakdown | Korn - Blind |
| Driving | DJ Tiesto - Traffic |
| Learning a lesson | Zwan - Dangerous Boy |
| Deep thought | Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Flashback | Linkin Park - My December |
| Partying | Modjo - Lady |
| Happy dance | Toploader - Dancing in the Moonlight |
| Regreting | Sarah Mclachlan - Fallen |
| Long night alone | Stereophonics - Maybe Tomorrow |
| Death scene | Guns and Roses - Paradise City |
| Closing credits | 2pac - Picture Me Rollin |
the dark clouds are clear!
(Friday, November 26, 2004)i formatted my pc last night. everything's alright except for my usb 2.0 port. help anyone? i downloaded the service pack 1 and i still don't see any signs of the usb 2.0 port. why is it missing? help, please...
had a bad day yeah, she say you would not understand...
(Thursday, November 25, 2004)song of the moment: Fuel - Bad Day
yesterday was the grandfather father father of all bad day, the new year of chaos, the unleashing of all my muthafuckin bad luck and in easier words, it's just plain goddamn fucking bad.
firstly i could not get much sleep due to unfinished office work that has to be submitted to a government officer at 10 and most of it is left undone when i left the office. not my fault that it's left like that, i was waiting a documentation from my supplier. when i finally woke up, i was already in a mess
not only i my work isn't complete at 10, i only got the documentation 10 fucking 30 am, which was like so late cause the officer was gonna come at 10 for some inspection. after 1 whole morning of rushing, pushing, calling, whatever'ing', i managed to submit the documents. not on time though but it was accepted.
when i finally caught my breath, holy fucking poppins, internet in office was dead. so i just sat there whole afternoon playing solitare
only good news was i got my car back after what seems to be forever only to find out that my car has been torn into pieces. not exactly torn into pieces but my mud-guard came out, the interior looks like it hasn't been clean since a century ago, most of the things that's should be on the car is not on the car, everything was fucking shitty. it didn't even look like my car in the first place.
those are not really bad. i can still live with that. i'm used to having lotsa bad luck
however, when i got home, my computer fucking died on me. some stupid blogger's site was infected with gazzilionmilliondozens of spyware, fucking up my desktop, system files and my browser. it was okay at first but i HAD to struggle to rescue my sick darling. i spent 3 hours hunting down those spywares to it's root manually and via spyware detector. i think i got so addicted to deleting my stuffs, i accidentally deleted my wireless network's system file, fuckkkit. fucking great. i can't fucking get it back, and so broadband internet at home's fucking dead. fuckkkkkkkkkkk...my darling's in a fucking coma now. i didn't sleep much last night cause i was worrying about my darling. (song of the moment here: babyface - when can i see you again)
i have to format my pc tonight. i fucking hate formating pcs. i fucking hate technology. i fucking hate spyware.
pray for my darling people, she needs you help. badly.
world filled with dirty dozens
(Tuesday, November 23, 2004)all of us has seen KL at it's best. the magical sacred place that accumalates multi-racial cultures where people of difference skin colours lives in peace, the Petronas twin towers that shoves proudly into the sky, ever-so-packed clubs, the delicious local delicacies and the compliments for KL stretches to infinity. however, there are some parts of KL that everyone sees but never spoke about. maybe we're going forward too fast, we forget about things from that past that was the identity and foundational of the city. i'm sure there are some of us who wondered why the never replaced the old buildings in the city with new high concrete towers that bears no resemblance to the identity of Malaysia, no? you ever ever wondered that way, fuck off. you don't deserve to live in KL. old buildings should be preserved, not replaced.
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in another part of the word, if you're a phsycho Muslim fanatic love to blow/cut caucasian, worry no more that you're the only sick extremist out there cause another new brand of fanatics is catching up. all thanks to Dan Brown, the author of the Da Vinci Code. i think even Muslim fanatics would salute this new brand of fanatics.
Here's an example of what they did according to Mayor of the town, "Last year they even tried to tunnel into the church. It was like something out of a prison escape film. They began digging in the night, put the soil in bags and put the bags in the hole which they covered with a layer of earth so nobody would see during the day. It was only when someone noticed the flower beds moving that we discovered what they were up to".
whoa, brothas of Da Vinci code, you da man...you godamn-sickfucks. you bear the title of the dumbest fanatic fucktarts in the world. muslims faught for freedom, andyou?
have a nice day.
don't close your eyes
(Monday, November 22, 2004)if anyone asks me what do i do for my spare time, the answer is never sleeping. i can never really sleep when there the sun is shining happily brightly on my ass. even if i only slept for 1 or 2 hours on that day. i always look fucking tired and fucking sleepy because of that.
when i'm not sleeping, i'm either crawling somewhere on the internet chatting or surfing my time away or i'm hiding at dark corner of my room reading. which explains why am i an antisocial freak. (yes i do read and most of the time it's not only porn magazines)
normally, it'll be pumping tunes into my ear, ignore the world and then only i'll start reading my pages. i won't pick up phone calls or reply messages cause i'm transported into whatever alternate reality created by the author, slowly sinking into my own little world, where i feel more secured about everything, nothing related to work comes into view and the best feeling of all, i'm all alone. being the talkative person i normally am, people would find it hard to imagine me being quiet and snobby anti-social. not only that i'm anti-social, i'm also obnoxious and arrogant, not to mention rude when i'm doing my own stuff (mainly reading and listening to cds).
everyone needs some time alone to do their own stuff. some people lacks the DNA sequence to respect other's privacy while others are simply genetically malfunctioned in the subject of privacy.
ps - current i'm reading neil gaiman's neverwhere. i'm only at page 8 cause i fell asleep while reading for the 1,203,586 this year. being a slow reader makes doesn't help to keep my eyes open. i can only read a maximum of 10 pages per night
pps - to me sydney sheldon is not really good. he's always trying to fit sex at the wrong time and the wrong time into his book...
...things you do
(Saturday, November 20, 2004)about a year ago, at a beach, eleanor took me to see my first ever sunset. which turned out to be not so fun after all cause there were a lot of clouds so the sky wasn't really clear and i was there earlier than usual (about 4 pm). well, so much for the enthusiasm. i've never seen a beautiful sunset before actually. sunrise, thousands, or more but sunset, no. i think i'm a sunset-shy person but i had prefered watching the radiating star journeying up...
well, that's not what i was trying to say. i'm gonna start again. i got carried away. period.
about a year ago, near Hari Raya, somewhere at a beach, eleanor took me to see my first ever sunset. we didn't talk much through the whole few hours we spent there, each of us filled our ears with tunes from our portable cd players instead of the conversation. i figured that no matter how close you are to a person, you'll run out of topics sooner or later and i'm not a big fan of the uncomfortable silences. so i told eleanor to bring her cd player. while watching the sun sinking slowly, eleanor and i made a pact about what we should do with our money 3 months after we graduated. i kept my part of the promise yesterday. i wonder if she remembers...
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on the other hand, myn wee left kl yesterday. went back home to malacca for her holidays until her semester restarts again. another of my close friend is going out of town. sigh, the town's getting larger but at the same time, it's emptier.
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i managed to catch up with zoe yesterday to boast about my new toy. she's not pissed off at all. argh, that's so not fun. tsk tsk, i should get something better next month and make her jealous. being my best mate, zoe reserves the rights to know everything that happens in my life so meeting up with zoe is more like making a log/report regarding important things that she needs to know about my life and vice-versa. normally i'll just tell her how wasted i got the other night and she'll tell me how much work she has, bloody workaholic. 'you're getting auntier by the day, dammit'...i told her that and i got 'thwacked' on the head...what heck did i do? you can really tell the truth now more nowdays. sigh!
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well, thanks to Jenny, my weekend was filled with delicious satays. not just normal satay, Kajang satay!!! phooo. it was yummy. i'm a happy man now.
Autumn's ending...it's gonna be cold soon
(Thursday, November 18, 2004)
No one's calling for me at the door.
And unpredictable won't bother anymore.
And silently gets harder to ignore.
Look straight ahead, there's nothing left to see.
What's done is done, this life has got it's hold on me.
Just let it go, what now can never be.
I forgot that I might see,
So many beautful things.
I forgot that I might need,
to find out what life could bring.
p/s: i don't normally post lyric. this is all i could think of now...
to china without alcohol
(Tuesday, November 16, 2004)DAY 0 - like 7 again
Passage from Pan Pacific to KLIA
why is there a day 0? easy, i left home a day before take-off and stayed in pan pacific hotel next to the airport. finally my curiousity broke loose a little (ok, my parents were wondering why i look like i'm been dragged into the airport...so i HAD to ask) and i actually asked my dad where am i going and how long is the trip and shit like that. i had no idea where i was gonna go before that. don't fucking smack my head, i fucking hate china. ops! after dinner, i went for a short walk alone around the airport. i felt like i'm 7 again, looking at aeroplane slowly depart from the runaway flying freely like birds, secretly wishing that i will grow a pair of wings and fly like one of them.
DAY 1 - Yunnan. that's where i'm fucking going.
i flew to Yunnan from Sepang today. it wasn't a direct flight so i had to transit in Bangkok. i reached Kunming airport in the evening. the place didn't suck as much as Shanghai. people are slightly politer than the dumb shanghai assholes. generally, i'm in Kunming, Yunnan. according to the tour guide, Kunming's altitude is higher than Genting Highland. the place is disturbingly much drier and colder than KL (of fucking course it's colder....). we managed to visit Jade Lake in the town of Kunming before they sent us for dinner and back to the hotel. Jade Lake is like Titiwangsa to me except that they have lotsa ducks swimming in the lake. why the fuck would i wanna look at ducks?
my roomate snores like a fucking 18-wheel lorry. i didn't get to really sleep. the whole room sounds like it's wrapped by an clear echo of bus engine running. only without a synchrorized rhythm. i'm so fucking dead. china doesn't rock.
day 2 - deep fried and caves
instead of staying in the city, we travelled out of the urban Kunming to rural area. i got no idea whatsoever what the tour guide was saying cause my mandarin's pretty much fucked. only thing i understood was that we're gonna have friend worms/bee/insects for lunch. yes, deep fried insects. i didn't even think about not eating it. was so fucking hungry from the cold weather and travelling i just munch the cute little whatevers. munch munch munch. believe it, it's not gross and it taste pretty good. my mom gave me a cock stare when i eat too much. ops...
tour bus took us to this cave called Jiu Siang. (i think it's 9 aroma in english. correct me if i'm wrong). it's stone cave with water flowing through it. they made the lights in several colours so that the cave looks interesting. i prefer they don't do anything to it. by the way, i saw some fishes without eyes there.
there's a lot of whores that calls your room or knocks on your door in the hotel in Jiu Siang. they ask whether i needed massage service. sick sick country...
day 3 - lots of stones
got up fucking early to get our ass to Stone Mountain. whole place is a fucking maze and we had to squeeze through a sea of china wankers. it's probably the best natural scenery i've ever seen. those gigantic stones can lean on each other or hang on a thread without falling down. it takes a lot of fatigue to push my way through everywhere. bloody tiring but it's worth it...
after that, it was shopping time. first crystal then herbs and last but not least, chinese tea. my dad said he's not gonna but anything but he spent 2k on chinese tea. it's ironic isn't it? chinese tea is one of my dad's passion and he claims it's VERY cheap there. way to go dad!!!
i also went to a cultural show.
day 4 - i'm on a high
Polluted Lake
i'm back in Kunming again. Heaven's/Dragon's Gate is the site i went to today. i climbed hundred of steps to look at a scenery. it was terrible. marched throught a flight of steep stairs to look at a polluted neon green coloured lake. what the fuck? well, there were pagan temples there but whole china's full of pagan temples. on the way down, dad found this place to sit down and drink. on top of the hill, chilly winds, hot chinese tea and A GREAT SCENERY.
flew to Li Jiang on the evening and the food is fucking bad. dinner was shit. altitute sickness makes me feel light headed when i got off the plane. i was dizzy and felt like i'm drunk and while walking, i get motion sickness. you see, Li Jiang is somewhere near to Tibet therefore, the oxygen is thinner and the preassure is lower (i think it's lower...help anyone?)
day 5 - snow virgin.
Li Jiang is basically all about 1 snow mountain that doesn't have much snow on it. local claim that the it's sacred and holy. for a person who's never seen snow before, it's fun. only managed to look at the snow cause the mountain itself is taller than the Mt. Kinabalu. they also took us to a river that flows from the snow mountain to take photos. the water was crystal clear. even clearer than filtered pipe water. badass tour guide only gave us 10 minutes to take photos and wash out hands.
A Photo Taken on Hills Near to Snow Mountain
they took us to another cultural show.
day 6 & 7 - spend all your dough if you can.
Accient Town
the day market is located in the accient town of Li Jiang. very very beautiful place and everything is cheap. dirt cheap. you can cut 80% off the price they offer here and they will still sell it. there are small streams flowing all over the accient town. my fellow tourist went for a shopping fest here. they bought everything and anything. even things they don't know what to do with. pfttt, malaysians. as for me, i only manage to spend 30+ yuan here (RM 1 = USD 3.8 = 2 Yuan). i know, i'm a bad shopper.
we went to Dali on the afternoon. there's nothing i can say about dali. it's almost the clone of Li Jiang without a snow mountain.
day 8 - i love Malaysia
my tour guide from Kunming took my family out for a eating spree. local delicacies. the food was great and it's so fucking cheap. so so so fucking cheap, i could eat a whole day there and spend less than RM 30. well, i didn't eat for a whole day. after that, they send us to the airport and home. i only reached home at 1 am
Announcement: www.liewxxx.blogspot.com
(Saturday, November 06, 2004)[official]
Please take note that tOOtHpICk/naraskha studio will stop it's activities starting from 7th of November 2004 in Politics of Blogging (www.liewxxx.blogspot.com) for the next 1 to 2 weeks due to personal affairs in china. therefore The Politics of Blogging will be maintained by the guests bloggers such as joyce, lim, cole, minwi and lynnzter.
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now that i'm done with the official official annoucement, it's gibberish time. yes, i'm going to china muthafuckin china. for vacation. yes, i do hate china. a lot. more than you could imagine. i'm not bias, i won't say anything about something if i've never been there. yes i've been there. china's chinese are rude insensitive i-love-spitting-everywhere unhygenic assholes. how can malaysian chinese be so polite and them being such assholes. most of our grandparents or great grandpops' came from china. maybe i too have the same genetic in me, waiting to come out at the right time...creepy shit!
why am i still going to china? well, i was forced to, i didn't have a choice. my dad just assumes that i love china cause i've been there once. i'm beginning to feel why communism wasn't very welcomed by the society. it's horrible when you're not given a choice! this is an outrage!!! i'm gonna call child abuse department to file my case.
nevertheless, i'm having a week off from work. that's worth the pain and agony.
Provoked
(Friday, November 05, 2004)when i was at the entrance of chili's last night,
"you have to wait for 30 minutes"
i got no life if i wait for 30 minutes, well, execute plan B. always have plan B cause plan A is only to put on a beautiful facade. of course, if plan A does work, why go with plan B cause plan A is already da bomb but plan B is not that bad either and apparently plan B is never as good as plan A cause plan B is a fucking backup plan that's why you call it plan B, i don't think anyone would prefer B than A right?
fuck that shit, i'm confusing myself. so i thought the new italian restarant in 1u, Italiani's gonna be pretty empty, it's a fucking TURSDAY night for muthafuckin sake but noooooo, the line was as long as weekends...
"i think you might have to wait for 20 minutes"
hmmmph, i'd pathetic loser if i wait for 20 minutes.
self reminder: reserve a table if you wanna eat next time. saves the trouble.
thank god Dave's was empty. the food's pretty okay, the waiter looks at me funny (i hope i didn't leave my fly open, well, even if i did, so what?)
whatever happened to those good old days where you don't have to line up for food? as a conclusion, i, LiEw xxx, is going BOY'muthafuckin'COTT all types of western restaurant till next year. i'm only gonna in eat mamak/chinese hawker/cheapskate chinese/malay/indian/thai restaurant. i'm gonna save a lot of money and eat lots of unhealthy foul tasting ugly looking food. juicy half done steaks, tasty pasta, red/white wine can kiss me goodbye. helll yeah!!!
i take all that jack shit i said back. that was lunacy. if you want me to wait, i will. without question.
*looks and the sky and whistle*
like bustin' a cap into my skull
(Thursday, November 04, 2004)who's your daddy!!!
(Wednesday, November 03, 2004)i'm keeping an eye on the election.
Lastest update:
Bush: 193 seats
Kerry: 112 seats
well, chances of bush re-elected as the new president seems higher than what the polls say. fuck the polls, it's made to boost cnn's rating. i wanted kerry to win but bush is really going to win, AGAIN. iraq, you are gonna continuously constantly get fuck in the ass, i'm symphatize you.
p/s: i think people vote for bush cause they like to see his twin teenage daughters on tele more. tsk tsk, guys, you've been watching too much porn on cable tele. go out more. shame on you!
this is not funny.
(Monday, November 01, 2004)i'm running dry, i've been reading some of my past posts and i think my entries has been pretty redundant. here's what i've been writing about:
sleep-eat-wank-sustaining injury-eat-sleep-wank-sustaining injury-2pac-cussing-sleep-wank-eat
this is getting boring. been trying to figure out some interesting stuffs that i can write about but my head's empty. other than a few personal occasions which i don't really want to talk about, nothing intestesting has been happening.
so i came out with this idea of something i find interesting...dating. guys normally try hard to impress girls on the first ever date. picking her up with your jaguar, giving her flowers or candies, fancy dinner, jazz music, and other boring typical boring boring muthafuckin boring shits. come on, i think everyone's been on a fancy dinner with some other dude before unless you really hit the jackpot and the chick's a date-virgin. date-virgin my ass! (or patootieee) so i thought here's 5 things i would really like to try on a first date.
1. body surfing!
just imagine, linkin park/korn/deftones/whoever is rocking and you're way up there, you're just laying down, enjoying the music, chilling out, while being transported to wherever the wave of hands brings you to. yeah, that fucking rocks. well, you'll probably lose the chick halfway through destination. look at the bright side, you could easily pick one up in a rock concert. as for the girl, too bad, take a cab or walk home ok? i'll call after i got rid of the hangover...
*well, so the first idea didn't go well, you can't just leave the girl like that, you need to give her some dough for the cab or at least call her and tell her you're humping someone behind the bush so she won't be waiting
2. red
this is gonna be a lil' crazy. ok, you pick her up with your big ass jaguar limo and you go for fancy dinner, make sure you eat a lot cause you'll be going through some hardcore action later. might make you a lil dizzy and tired. (oh please, for one fucking moment, try not to think of sex sex sex) you go the hospital (some 5-star hospital would be advisable) to donate blood. just to prove to her how strong, 'man', and how loving you are (i don't just wanna screw you, i wanna screw you and do good to the society)! she might be scared (yes dude, molest her what else?) and you might too (pussy, bapuk!!!) but it's for the good of human kind so just fucking do it...
3. doing something fresh
what better way to make the night memorable doing something interesting. example? what the fuck? arghhh, you know rollercoaster, go-cart, surfing, rock-climbing (you must be really stooopid if you thought web surfing) weed, e, sweet mary jay. the idea is just something fresh. and please dudes, playing counter strike with your homies is not something fresh...
4. makan! (eat)
don't get me wrong. makaning here doesn't mean those fancy restaurants with a jovial smiling bow-tie waiter, but some hawker stall with rude attitude, table so fucking dirty, you don't even want to lean your hands on, cockroach's playground...well, look at the brighter side, the food is good and you can leave as soon after you're done eating cause if you don't, you can learn some profanities from hawker dude. i'm sure he won't mind cussing at you...
5. picnic
well, go to the beach with a picnic basket and... *yawn*...zZzzzzzz
