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The 47" Appeal

2010-03-09T10:24:00.002+08:00

Mark:
need to get a hdmi cable for my pc so I can hook it up to the tv :D

me:
go sacrifice a cow!
or a na'vi

Mark:
belladonna's asshole will be big enough to fit my whole head

It's freaking March already?

2010-03-01T15:41:00.001+08:00

Plenty of fun things happened in January and February. Naturally, I was way too lazy to blog it and resorted to tweeting and uploading the pictures onto Facebook instead. That being said, for the latest gossip (if you care at all), follow me on Twitter instead of waiting for my lazy behind to update anything here.

January had two weddings...

Sean Minn and Eugene's wedding dinner.

Mei and Yoong FINALLY getting hitched ;)

After Mei and Yoong's wedding dinner.

Clowning around in the bridal suite.

one trip to Bangkok (pictures from Chris' beautiful collection)...

BFFs, lol! :p

and Mei's hen's night (pictures that have been sworn to secrecy) as well as a farewell to Motionworks.

In February I got a new job at Integricity and was in Tokyo, Japan for five fabulous days :D What a great start to 2010! ^^;

Birthdays, birthdays, birthdays

2009-12-29T14:54:00.002+08:00

It only seemed like yesterday when I said goodbye, parted ways with 2008 and welcomed 2009 with open arms. In two days, I will finally be able to give 2009 the finger and peer cautiously into what 2010 might have to offer.

That being said, December has truly been the month for birthdays and festivities--

Ramin (aka Triple R) turned the big three oh:

Triple R trying to pose with the cake. How cute is that! :D And this is him attempting to break the cake with a "pretend" battlefury. All you DotA nerds know what I'm talking about.

Yen, our group baby, turned 26:

And on the same day, Sun and Puan broke the engagement news to us:

Puan, Sun and the proposal; congratulations! :D

And Adam turns 23 sometime at the end of the month... but we couldn't wait and surprised him anyway:

Adam and his brrsss.

Oops, we nearly forgot Jibbs!

Adam and his brrsss, take two.

We even had people from the office! Adri, Adam, Bernard and Toby (who looks torn between confusion and constipation).

Hanim and Aizat. No, Aizat doesn't work with us.

I don't know how this pek yau look came about. Poor Nicole.

Big thanks and much love to everyone who turned up that day (especially Dian, whom we had to resort to begging, pleading and even dirty threats). Also, thank you to Nicole for some of the dinner pictures in this post! :D

KL Swing! had a pre-Christmas karaoke, packed with a Christmas edition of lollicakes:

Aren't they just the loveliest things in the world. Courtesy of Shirl!

Karaoke was just as much fun as it was a revelation: we discovered Chris' inner black man and Adam's inner Korean pop diva.

We had so much turkey on Christmas Eve at Daryl's we had to work off some of the food via Rock Band:

We soooo kicked ass.

And right after, Minn had her Hen's Night. Needless to say, all the pictures that were taken on that night are strictly barred from making an appearance on the interwebs. It's for the greater good.

And OMG. Vee is PREGNANT. So much for three years in the waiting, eh? ;)

Happy (early) New Years too all! :)

In a galaxy far, far away

2009-12-28T05:16:00.004+08:00

Sometimes I wish I had met you in a different time and place.

Where there are no ultimatums as a prerequisite to anything more than a relationship.

We'd be free--and awesome together.

Persuasion

2009-11-26T16:07:00.004+08:00

After a continuous stream of tweets about toffee nut lattes and dark chocolate peppermint hot chocolates from Starbucks and Coffee Bean respectively:

Jaymee says: (4:05:45 PM)
i wan starbucks

Jaymee says: (4:05:46 PM)
fuck

Jaymee says: (4:05:54 PM)
eh stop with ur daily peppermint la!

Jaymee says: (4:05:54 PM)
LOL

sean^2 is nekomatta.com says: (4:06:43 PM)
that is coffee bean lol

Jaymee says: (4:08:21 PM)
yeah...cos i went starbucks they were lke..."nehh we dun have that here"

Jaymee says: (4:08:24 PM)
malu sial

Happy Holidays all! <3

The blasphemous digital age

2009-11-17T17:38:00.003+08:00

I probably shouldn't even write this in the event I get dooce-d from my job. But I am thoroughly annoyed and all I can say is, REALLY??

I got the most asinine request ever at work today:
some dude (cough, speaker for some event of sorts) just complained about his (ugly) face on a website by saying how it's against his religion to have his face artistically cropped/stylized.
And by artistically I mean it's a little to the left, missing the left side of the hair because the picture was MEANT TO LOOK THAT WAY.

Now seriously, just because some hobo is stroking his epeen wanting his UGLY FACE on a website to be BIGGER--HOW is that grounds for "Oh, my religion requires it"? HOW?

Since WHEN did vanity become grounds for religious justification?

Furthermore, where in the fucking [insert book] does it say you will be punished by divine retribution should you only have three quarters of your face showing on a website?

Hideous.

So we didn't have pumpkins...

2009-11-05T00:42:00.004+08:00

and I'm a few days late, but hey...

Happy Halloween to everyone from the kiddies at the Viva Vertical School of Pole :) Hope everyone had a blast this past weekend!

There is no spoon

2009-10-26T14:54:00.002+08:00

Or in this case, there is no next/previous navigation on the site as @yoonkit has so eloquently suggested.

I'm working on it.

The internet sucks hairy balls

2009-10-05T18:52:00.002+08:00

I really do reckon my work would get done twenty times faster if, oh let's say, Streamyx wasn't such a dirty whore and didn't fucking suck as much.

Malaysia has shit for internet. Grade A cow poop.

It feels like TM is harboring aborted fetuses that sit in their servers gnawing at cables screeching for life, justice and all that jazz. There we go, unrecognizable demonic masses running around TM's headquarters because in the course of ripping everyone in the country off, someone forgot to cap their toyol urn.

Seriously?

What the fuck, it's October already!?

2009-10-01T17:47:00.002+08:00

I turned a year older. So did Vee. And the September brats (in order of impending haggetry: Yoong, Cina and Chris).

Vee got married, oh my God. I hate you. Now I will be forever tormented by questions that would unapologetically violate my personal space and sound something like this on a broken tape recorder: "Oh, Vivien is the first to marry in your group! When is it your turn?"

One bridesmaid got so drunk I was carrying her vomit in a useless plastic bag that was apparently used to carry a hedgehog before the dinner because it had more holes than my brain on a normal day.

Emily got engaged. The shameless shrieking and hyperventilating that went on in Envy when she flashed us the ring was unimaginable.

Said goodbye to Ah Pei and Ah Pek who now join the ever-growing Proximity alumni ;)

Raya came and went. I shacked up in Chiang Mai with the folks and PPA-ed my way through.

I also got molested by elephants.

Eau de elephant! Mom apparently had more luck at feeding the beast.

Once I got home, I dragged the boys along with me to IKEA. I went bed sheet looking, they went table hunting (sort of).

Broke my both my legs and nearly peed my pants doing the Skytrex Extreme Challenge--but I beat Shawn up the second rope ladder, so all is good in the world!

Allen facepalm-ing at the idiot jokes Shawn and I are exchanging. The "Seans" representin'.

And finally, I apparently didn't play enough DotA because I'm still not any good at it. +1 to myself for being called a noob as our hopes were down and the other team tore through ours like vultures enjoying a Happy Meal.

I hate you, you AND you. But you, I like.

Play by play

2009-08-19T22:56:00.002+08:00

What happens in a typical fight between someone's squishy priest and your run of the mill shield paladin:

Mark [ ... ] says:
dp and pain on him, woosh cleansed

Mark [ ... ] says:
run run run, scream

Mark [ ... ] says:
stun

Mark [ ... ] says:
runs up and shields slams for 6k, does his holy thing for 4.5k

sean^2 is nekomatta.com says:
lolol

sean^2 is nekomatta.com says:
bye christy

Mark [ ... ] says:
screaming why this stun lasts for 6 sec

Mark [ ... ] says:
finally start to run

Mark [ ... ] says:
hammer of sit the fuck down

Mark [ ... ] says:
dead

It's only so funny to the point of physical hurt because it's true. I still love you Christy <3

Surprise!

2009-07-21T14:42:00.002+08:00

Just when I thought I grew out of it all--

I had the best joint pre-birthday surprise weekend ever with Jon :) With a pole/Mac cake too (the icing was super yummy)! They even got the color of my shorts right lol <3

Much love to everyone who showed up that night and the ones who hid it from me and had to live through a few days of frosty, hissy fits (it was for a completely different reason, I swear) :)

Has not updated in yonks

2009-06-29T15:17:00.003+08:00

Since I last updated, there was madness in the office, the Viva Vertical Polestars showcase and more transpolesition.
The office is also going on a field trip to watch Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen tonight, woohoo! :)

Not so massive list of things to do include: include "Older Post" link per yoonkit's request or simply just migrate blog to Wordpress, write long paragraph of emo spewage (or if all else fails, copy/paste email sent to best friend three weeks ago).

Oh yeah. MJ died. RIP.

Google Maps Malaysia Launch (pictures)

2009-05-19T11:30:00.003+08:00

The official pictures are up!

And Yoon Kit called me a camwhore because of this picture:

The *ahem* "Kawaii" camwhorer with @ditesh, @bytebot, @limyh, @yoonkit, @cerventus, @angch, @aizatto and @arzumy

He said to look up! :p

All sorts of catching up to do

2009-05-18T06:48:00.007+08:00

I realize it's six in the morning but seeing as my arms don't hurt anymore (muscle relaxants finally kicked in, woohoo!) and for some peculiar reason I'm WIDE awake... I thought it'd be a shameful waste to not blog the past two weeks of debauchery for the world to see.

Okay. Fine. I'm lying. I'm actually being mercilessly hounded for the pictures from the Google Maps Malaysia launch last week... and then some.

Nothing like motivation than the evil eye en masse.

As for why my arms make it feel like I'm listening to a banshee shriek every time I try to straighten them... here's a pro tip: don't invert for a full hour if you haven't actually been seriously pole-ing for two months or so. You will hate yourself bitterly come the next morning all the way through the next few days.

Laborious

We worked really, really hard during the weekend of Labor's Day. No rest for the wicked!

Thursday night--

Lola is not drunk--yet, hehe.

Terrorizing the podium with style--Ophelia, Lita and Lola

Credits to Lola and her cam for the pictures.

I obviously don't remember what happened on Friday seeing as I probably slept through. But anyhow...

Playing dress up

Saturday morning--

Vee came back home to check on her bridesmaids--only to find out they've yet to get their dresses (I'm so sorry lol)! She cracked the whip and soon Chris, Mei (another blushing bride-to-be) and I found our way to Vee's seamstress.

Chris is not posing.

The brides discuss about how demure cream looks better than sickly, cheap white. Vee looking absolutely serious.

After much fuss and gushing, Chris and I finally decided on our dresses (with Vee's blessing) and we should be in for fittings sometime mid June. So begins the losing war of a month long diet to look nothing less than spectacular in our bridesmaids dresses come July/August.

Happy Birthday Mei!

Saturday night--

Dinner was supposed to be at a Thai place called "My Elephant." Between Chris and Cina, the name of the restaurant got lost in translation some time during the morning and we all thought we were going to eat at "My Pink Elephant" at the Mansion of Happiness.

There were so many things that went wrong in my imagination.

Drinks and dessert at Leonardo's:

Birthday girl with her cake before we greedily dug into (and ruined) it as a collective.

Not sure what the finance kiddies are doing here. Market analysis? :p

Malaysian Dance Carnival 2009

Sunday--

On that same weekend, the Malaysian Dance Carnival 2009 as hosted at MidValley. Naturally, Viva Vertical had a short demo and KL Swing! had their first public performance!

Watch the pole performance here on YouTube.

I believe there was one picture of the KL Swing! team that is unfortunately on some unknown camera that has yet to show up on Facebook. Mama Ming has banned any of the videos from going up (our shim sham was that uncoordinated, yes it was lol). In defense of the boys and girls, it was our first time and dancing on carpet did not help matters the least bit.

Google Maps Malaysia launch

Let's just say, the launch epitomized Murphy's law of perversion where anything that can go wrong, will bloody indeed go wrong. There was no internet connectivity throughout the event, so much of the demos were seen with our imaginations. Hopefully, none of us were too far off.

Cerventus and I checking out the life sized map marker smack in front of No Black Tie. I so want one for the office!

I am here!

Google Maps Malaysia at No Black Tie, KL

I also have to point out that it's such a small world as I bumped into Ivan:

... whom I assaulted right off the bat <3 Pardon the shakiness, there was no standing still for this one.

The boys: Arzumy, guy I didn't manage to get name (apologies!), Ditesh, Colin and Yoon Kit.

Some of the presenters:

I like how Andrew is casually not posing for the camera :)

If you were expecting Cliff notes of the launch... tough! :p The full video is with Surianee (I think, or Aizat). Feel free to hound them for it :D

And of course, no Google event would be complete without a glorifying tee:

Over the week-end

2009-04-13T10:51:00.002+08:00

Things I've discovered (and took a whack at) over the past week and some that I will probably end up repeating and never, ever learn from:

** IE is a whore and doesn't render display: table-cell; and vertical-align: bottom; at all. I've resorted to display: block; and hacking the padding AND it's causing my face to physically hurt.

** Safari ate up 15 pixels of my layout (maybe I'm just that terrible). I don't know where it has gone to but it's driving me up the wall that I have to hack it. Naturally, the hack doesn't validate so much that it grinds on my anal retentiveness and is about to cause the fattest blood vessel in my neck to rupture.

** Also, IE has a goddamn hard-on for height: 1%; as opposed to an actual height value and some asphyxiation fetish with the line-height property. WHY!? Go choke on some saran wrap...

** While the wMode option in sifr makes IE behave (somewhat); it still doesn't solve the non-stickiness of the drop down menu that you want sitting above the header when you so casually hover over the list. Why must you be special. Why.

** After yonks since Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended, I'm still openly and unabashedly lusting after Spike. I swear, it's his platinum blondie hair. That and I won't lie about still wanting to f--uh, hug his undead brains out.

** The lighting in the MidValley food court does wonders for a little show and don't tell :) Pink is, after all, my favorite color :)

** I've mentioned this on Twitter before, but just because it made my glamorous readership of five burst out in hives laughing, I'll repeat--Adam on what I write on nekomatta.com: "she only writes about emo stuff, food, WoW and batshit emo stuff."

** I am so unforgivably terrible at DoTA I'm starting to wonder if WoW is an entirely different game altogether. My pride is in a deplorable state of tatters and sports a new gaping, bleeding hole after each game I have with Mark that ends with us being gibbed by the AIs. Pro-gaming, my ass.

Office orgy

2009-04-03T17:26:00.004+08:00

>start message to adam mw
>
>dear adam, on behalf of the mw creative team, we would like to know if you will
>be joining us for a tumble in middle valley today. please rsvp, ty!
>
>end message to adam mw

>start message from adam mw
>
>Dear mw team, i formally accept your invitation and currently on the way to the
>valley of legend. - The One
>
>end message from adam mw

It's really not as bad as it sounds.

Psychadelic dreamin'

2009-03-19T15:36:00.005+08:00

Farid's House of Entertainment presents, ninja Gilbert:

Gilbert has never been so pimped out, ever <3

I have noticed the lack of verbal diarrhea in my recent posts (what a foggy brain does to you... and DotA, heh). Don't worry, it's a hiatus that's about to end but for now, another lazy, self-explanatory Facebook album:

Recently, VivaV invaded Schokolart. Nas has the better shots but her album isn't available to public! ;x

Fondue with Nas.

I also spent one long night at the hairstylist's coloring my hair. Here is my amazing (read: cam whoring) artsy fartsy attempt at showing off my newly purple hair to bebeh:

Psylocke purple wannabe... gotta love how iSight makes you 10x instantly more pleasing to the eye.

Oh, and happy birthday to Mooky and Zahir :)

The Hello Kitty office edition

2009-03-06T17:57:00.002+08:00

One fine, unsuspecting Friday afternoon...

Back from a meeting only to see--Gilbert and S&M Hello Kitty!

... Hanim clawed her way through a crowd of giggly girls and that one random guy who stood there pretending to be all cool with a balloon tied to his fanny pack to get our own office S&M Hello Kitty.

S&M Hello Kitty had a great time getting to know people in the office :D

Oh, SEAJam 2009 was great (I know right, you'd think I could be a little more flashy with the adjectives). And I'm really looking forward to pole out at the chocolate fondue place in Solaris this Saturday ;)

I also now owe Hanim a pint of cherry garcia.

Of red, gold and pole

2009-02-04T13:44:00.002+08:00

The Shanghai Night theme pole out pictures are finally out! Much love to Lola :)

Ushering in the year of the ox with much red and gold.

Group shot in the midst of confusion.

The sexy ladies!

And no, I've yet to recover from my frog leaping attempts in swing. I still have groany granny thighs that hate any sort of incline/decline in walking paths.

Leap of faith

2009-02-03T10:52:00.002+08:00

How to kill time on a Monday afternoon:

Beginners' aerials with Dave!

It's so much harder than it looks >.> That and I have problems walking today LOL

25 random things

2009-01-30T10:43:00.002+08:00

Okay, because I got tagged by Sarah and I'm at work way too early (only to find Gilbert in a state of horrific inversion), I'm going to go ahead and fill up this 25 Random Facts About Me note thing.

1. I can't smoke. Laugh if you must (the guys sure as hell did, all the way down State Street).

2. I hate leeches. For the love of God and everything holy and unholy, I *hate* leeches.

3. I didn't name my frog. One of my art directors, Werns, christened him Gilbert.

4. My heart still feels like it's going to thump out of my chest when I PvP in WOW.

5. Public speaking (and performing!) gives me the hives.

6. I loved tables at one point in my life and swore never to use that blasphemy called CSS. Fast forward a couple of years...

7. Following the same train of thought, I swore never to do engineering or anything chemistry related when I left high school. And what did I goto university for? Chemical Engineering.

8. I love to sleep. Oodles and oodles of love for sleep.

9. I'm a hopeless romantic and hate myself for it. Yay, me!

10. One day, I will find the nerve to bungee jump. I WILL.

11. The folks picked my "Sean" from the "Sean" the belonged to the Goddess of Mercy. Oh, the irony <3

12. I break electronic devices much too often for my liking. Shit just malfunctions!

13. Chances are, I can wreck your face with my priest 1v1. Bring it.

14. I would love to able to visit a place that screams snowstorm at least once every year.

15. I love everything about rain--so long as I'm indoors :P

16. I am horrible at forgiving. Only because I selectively remember stuff all too well.

17. I was supposed to climb Mt. Kinabalu last year before I turned 25. Failed.

18. I am a bad judge of character LOL Paulo swears by it.

19. Every office (my dining room doesn't count) that I've worked in so far feels like a meat freezer.

20. I put my hair up when I'm having a bad hair day.

21. My friends are like my extended family (although, my dad sometimes beg to differ, lol). <3

22. I am really emo at heart. Wrist cutting, dark poem writing emo.

23. I love hot showers. Steam rising, blister inducing, skin flayingly hot.

24. I bite my nails. I paint them to avoid biting them.

25. I came to work before 11am on the 27th this month even though it was "forbidden". Cough.

Gilbert's Revenge

2009-01-12T18:39:00.002+08:00

In sniping position

Don't mess with the frog. That is all.

The first week of work and play

2009-01-12T12:55:00.003+08:00

Our little pole performance group with all the VV divas and hunks at PWTC yesterday for the Youth 09 event:

Pole dancers, represent!

Hugs to Miko, Nana, Kenny, Chunky Monkey, Mash, Trix, Raven, Emerald, Ophelia, Ms. Delicious, Emerald and Lola <3

My arms are so stiff now--yes, back on the pole and immediately inverting after a lazy, lazy one month break was not the greatest idea ever. It was also an interesting week for Gilbert. He made new friend(s):

Hello, turtle!

And got shot at:

Uuuuuuuu :(

I found Gilbert stuffed in one of the cardboard document holders today (/cough a few words with you Adam!). Such is the life of an office plushie.

In swinging motion

2009-01-05T12:16:00.002+08:00

I will pole more, I promise. But for now:

Chengos, Ed and the Kl Swing! kids.

KL Swing! hearts Chengos and Ed. Much love for coming out to teach us some moves this past Saturday! :)

Also, work at Motionworks has officially started. I have a massive fort smack in the middle of the room... how's that for space! Rest assured I will bring Gilbert tomorrow to help crowd up my work space :D