<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:07:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>nekomatta</title><description>the little girl in a woman's mind version 2.1</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/index.htm</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>188</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-215556423221420401</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-17T10:07:01.507+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>rant</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wow</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><title>Death Knight Nekomati</title><description>First off, +1 to those who got the joke in my DK's name ;p I have to say, the first three levels being a death knight are by far the &lt;strong&gt;best&lt;/strong&gt; levels in WoW I've ever played. You pillage, maim, steal and kill your way through the little town of Havenshire in order to learn the ropes of being a death knight. It's also a nice touch that you have the Lich King whispering little bouts of encouragement like "Finish it!" when you're stabbing some townsfolk and/or a member of the Scarlet Crusade in the face. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, they took morality and clubbed you over the head with it. Poker stabbing humans for information? Check. Using your skeleton drake to chew on Scarlet Crusaders to replenish mana? Check. Hey, I even get 15k experience for using the Neural Needler (cough).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, my paladin is getting ass raped by death knights running in packs of five in Hellfire. Seriously. I had this shit for brains blood elf death knight who tried to gank my paladin, only to be owned in return... THREE TIMES. Do you know how much time that bastard cost me!? Ok, I lost round four because a level 65 death knight rode by and helped him out (I was 62 then! :p). But I returned the favor in the fifth round and sat there after one swing watching Yonne's lock light him up. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She's never making it to 80 by the rate this is going T_T&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to playing death grip volleyball with the lowbies.</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/11/death-knight-nekomati.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-6102513207628180901</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-14T18:33:53.544+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>musing</category><title>Not knowing where it spun out of control</title><description>Bumping into someone from the past whom you've not met for yonks can sway either way: surprisingly pleasant or just plain catastrophic. I mean, if someone was important enough to you, you probably wouldn't be &lt;strong&gt;completely&lt;/strong&gt; out of contact the first place, yes? Unless of course, something... remarkably unsavory took place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until today, I can't really pinpoint when the switch flipped and caused the mangled mess that was my relationship from the last half of 2005 to early 2007. But then again, with relationships it's always almost the usual suspects: someone got detached, someone tried holding on, someone didn't bother trying, someone found someone else, someone didn't care, someone started caring, massive chaos ensued, the world imploded and everyone walked away angry, uncertain and broken from the half truths, betrayal and the lingering doubt that perhaps everything they had was merely a convenience then.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will never know.</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/11/not-knowing-where-it-spun-out-of.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-1400507491651930772</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-06T04:08:48.854+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><title>High</title><description>What they did during Talent Hub's 3rd anniversary dinner:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m3TedJwM1PY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m3TedJwM1PY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And no, I'm not really peddling the balloons. Really.</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/11/high.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-402495080102990050</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-02T18:44:33.100+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pole</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><title>Saturday night fever</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2469528&amp;l=48bdc&amp;id=8638945" title="Retro Night on Facebook"&gt;Retro night&lt;/a&gt; at Talent Hub's 1st Anniversary Dinner:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/110208/retrofever.jpg" alt="Retro fever!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heaps of fun and fros with platforms and poles! ;)</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/11/saturday-night-fever.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-9126599902283021290</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-31T06:21:54.066+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pole</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>birthday</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><title>October round up</title><description>&lt;strong&gt;Happy Halloween&lt;/strong&gt; everyone! :) Work has been mad hectic... so much so I'm sacrificing sleep to blog, heh. Here is the really, really long ass post that was promised earlier in the month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Starting off; we (Chris, Cina, Yen, Yees, Emma and I) went to Korea! :D Since it's been yonks, I've already forgotten the names of most of the places we went to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-plane.jpg" alt="Taking off!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Taking off!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We landed in Seoul and took off for Insadong where we met up with Yees and Emma:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-insadong.jpg" alt="Insadong" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because lunch was &lt;strong&gt;a whole mouthful of bad&lt;/strong&gt;, we started snacking in the airport while waiting for our flight at Jeju Island. We love cake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-airport-cake.jpg" alt="Aaaaah!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-airport.jpg" alt="Group shot at the local airport" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once we got there, we got onto the bus which had the most ghetto looking, retro stylin' interior. They use green and pink neon lights for lighting at night. No joke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-bus.jpg" alt="Jeju's ghetto looking bus" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went to see some dragon head shaped rocks...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-rocks.jpg" alt="Dude, where are the rocks?" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;while Yees worked the camera...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-yees.jpg" alt="Yees being cute" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... and found this amazing seaside place to eat, right on the rocks :p The locals had set up a sashimi stall behind a cluster of rocks--raw octopus and abalone with &lt;em&gt;shoju&lt;/em&gt;! YUM :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-seaside.jpg" alt="Seaside dining" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-seaside-yum.jpg" alt="Digging in" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had to climb some mountain in Jeju on day two :p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-mountain.jpg" alt="Starting the hike" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The view from the top was spectacular! There were heaps of people coming up by the time we got down o.O And some of us had shaky knees from walking downhill :p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-mountain-top.jpg" alt="The view from the top" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the massive climb, we went to check out a folk village... and no, it's not the ones that were preserved just for tourists; there are people who actually live in them. Very old school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-folkvillage-hut.jpg" alt="Chilling out by the hut" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had lunch (at least, I think this is what we had for lunch):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-hotpot.jpg" alt="Hot pot" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After lunch we went over to chill out by a waterfall and cam whored even more:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-waterfall.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-waterfall-action.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we headed off to another place with more rocks. Fun, right? But the highlight of this part was the silkworms! Just incase you're wondering: no, I didn't finish it (ech!) and crunchy, creamy texture with a bitter aftertaste ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-silkworms.jpg" alt="Silkworms!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also braved the rain to visit a root garden without umbrellas lol&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-rootgarden.jpg" alt="Root garden, Yees is drenched" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Day three was "Everland" day. The morning kicked off with abalone &lt;em&gt;juk&lt;/em&gt; and then a obligatory group shot by the windy coastline:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-jeju-juk.jpg" alt="After juk" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're wondering what Cina was doing with the hand gesture... it's the &lt;a href="http://www.rcdb.com/id3938.htm" title="T Express (Everland)"&gt;T-Express&lt;/a&gt; pose (keep reading :p). We said goodbye to Jeju Island and headed off to Everland, the land of candy, coasters and crack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-everland-guide.jpg" alt="Everland" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this is the T-Express:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-everland-t-express.jpg" alt="T-Express" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the first drop at a whopping &lt;strong&gt;77 degree decline&lt;/strong&gt;, waiting in line for it was terrifying. Dr. Emma was about to backpedal if not for Cina blocking the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-everland-t-express-line.jpg" alt="Waiting in line to sit the T Express" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;77 degree drop kids, it's like being hurled off a wall, no joke. From far, the drop looked like cake... two seconds of thrills and chills, nothing we couldn't handle yeah? So wrong. Oh, so wrong. Turns out the two seconds felt like TWO YEARS of free falling... heck, Dr. Emma started screaming even before the drop T_T That ride was not fun :p But we sat it for the sake of saying "Yeah, the T-Express? Been there, done that."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-everland-t-express-after.jpg" alt="We survived the T Express!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emma and I braved a few more rides that tossed us around in the air like they were flipping pancakes. The attendants were doing the macarena and talking in high-pitched "YOOHOOO"s every five seconds. What do they put in the water!?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-everland-emma.jpg" alt="Getting strapped in with Emma" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also got ears for -almost- everyone :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-everland.jpg" alt="Everland" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had more grilled stuff for dinner. For the record, I don't recall what it was I was doing when that shot was taken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-dinner-bbq.jpg" alt="BBQ dinner" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-more-bbq.jpg" alt="BBQ dinner" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next day, we went to see yet another mountain (for the view, naturally). Emma hiked all the way to the peak despite the tour guide specifically telling just us to not hike to the top. Yes, we were the rebel group in the tour :p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-some-mountain.jpg" alt="Some mountain..." /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The skies were amazing that morning:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-some-mountain-yen.jpg" alt="Posing by the sky line with Yen" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-some-mountain-group.jpg" alt="Group shot!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-some-mountain-nosmoking.jpg" alt="No er, smoking?" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Does anyone see that "No smoking" sign there!? Seriously :p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After our relaxing morning walk, we went to the fish market and had lunch in the makeshift shops that were really just the shop keep's boat lol&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-fish-market-road.jpg" alt="Fish market" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-fish-market.jpg" alt="In the boat" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, more food (it's a gastronomical adventure :p)! Sashimi of sorts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-fish-market-nom.jpg" alt="Aaaah!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went to Nami Island; serene and romantic despite possibly being visited by every other teen couple in South Korea. And yes, this is where they filmed Winter Sonata. They even have bronze statues of the two main actors, heh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-nami-trees.jpg" alt="The scenic tree shot on Nami Island" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-nami-group.jpg" alt=":D" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next day, we went to visit the ever popular Dae Jang-Geum movie set and had some fun there:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-daejunggum-kitchen.jpg" alt="Cooking with Yees in the kitchen" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-daejunggum-cart.jpg" alt="Carrying Yees around aint no easy task!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Carrying Yees around ain't no easy task!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-daejunggum-argh.jpg" alt="She volunteered, I swear!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;She volunteered, I swear!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-daejunggum-jump.jpg" alt="JUMP!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think we got hauled off to the Ginseng place after this... and naturally, had ginseng chicken for dinner (or was it lunch, hmm)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-ginseng-chicken.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We headed back to our chic little pad in Seoul where I proceeded to plug in my mac and sat there until my withdrawal symptoms went away. Also, I managed to catch the infamous Starcraft gaming channel :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-seoul-crib.jpg" alt="Casa Ville" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went to roam the streets of Seoul...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-seoul-night.jpg" alt="Streets of Korea at night" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were streets and streets of neon lights, vibrant buzzing and the somewhat usual techno/hip hop coming out of random bars. The people here don't seem to sleep :p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the last day of the trip with our tour group, we went to learn how to make &lt;em&gt;kimchii&lt;/em&gt;. Well, being a tour and all... they don't actually expect us to "make" anything. So, it was really just 15 minutes of us rubbing soggy cabbage down with pre-made chili paste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-making-kimchii.jpg" alt="Making kimchii like a pro" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being touristy, we took pictures at this square that had a fountain built smack in the middle of it especially for the view (see that sexy mountain behind and how the fountain sits a little of right? Yeeeah.).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-seoul-mountain.jpg" alt="Another mountain shot" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We made our way over to the Folk Museum and then proceeded to get lost in a massive (previously somewhat restored) palace:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-seoul-palaceguards.jpg" alt="Guards guarding the palace" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-palace-group.jpg" alt="Group shot" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-palace-group-tree.jpg" alt="Chilling under the tree from all the walking" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-palace-yees.jpg" alt="Picturesque with Yees" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We even had time to play some court games!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-palace-game.jpg" alt="A game of arrows?" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, I don't remember the name of the arrow game... but Emma schooled us all lol&lt;br /&gt;Now that touring was more or less done, it was time to shop! We were dropped off at Myeong Dong (I think! :p) and Yen tore into TheFaceShop and Laniege... and proceeded to buy almost everything :p Emma came in a close second with a truckload of everything else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-myeong-dong00.jpg" alt="Myeong Dong" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-myeong-dong01.jpg" alt="Myeong Dong" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-myeong-dong-emma.jpg" alt="Emma having a blast in Myeong Dong" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Emma and Yees off to Japan the next day, Chris, Cina, Yen and I went for our own adventure... starting at Lotte Mart. We had to try their Bulgogi burger in the Lotteria:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-lotteria.jpg" alt="Lotteria" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wasn't the greatest, but hey :p We also went shopping... for instant noodles. Now this may be silly, but the obnoxiously CHEAP thrill of buying instant noodles/candy/snacks in a foreign country completely overrode any logic :p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-lottemart.jpg" alt="Instant noodles!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;LOL @ Yen's "Oh my god, are you kidding me..." expression in the background&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After that, we went over to Dongdaemun (it's either Dongdaemun or Namdaemun -_-) to do more shopping and at the same, Cina wanted to check out the baseball stadium. We looked for it and wondered if the directions were wrong... and this was our reaction when we realized they had &lt;strong&gt;PAVED&lt;/strong&gt; the stadium down to make way for more shopping complexes. We had actually walked around what was previously the baseball stadium wondering if it had sank into the ground...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-dongdaemun.jpg" alt="Dongdaemun stadium blues" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also went to check out the man made river that was a darling spot to chill out away from the hustle and bustle in the streets above. Yes, above. The river (with smoothly paved walkways on both sides) runs underneath the main roads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-dongdaemun-bridge.jpg" alt="Bridge above the river" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our last dinner in Korea was by far the most delicious :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-bbq-dinner-chriscina.jpg" alt="Chris and Cina" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/korea-bbq-dinner-yen.jpg" alt="Yen" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We headed over to the DMZ the next day and explored the third tunnel. Going down was awesome... but coming back up was a massive chore. I'm not exactly the most fit person on earth so the 320ish meters at a 11 degree incline almost made my heart explode! :p Sorry, no pictures were allowed! :p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whew, that was our South Korea in a nutshell (more or less).&lt;br /&gt;October was a month of birthdays (amazing shots ninja-ed from Lola and Yen) starting off with Kyeth's at Euphoria, MOS :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/kyeth-bday-sunway.jpg" alt="Waiting on Kyeth" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;We're sipping on lychee martinis in the Sunway Lagoon Resort's lobby while waiting for the birthday girl to arrive!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/kyeth-bday-pose.jpg" alt="Posing for the camera" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kyeth got a pole cake:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/kyeth-bday-polecake.jpg" alt="Kyeth's pole cake" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And we all love the cake :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/kyeth-bday-cake00.jpg" alt="Kyeth and Sherlyn, the other birthday girl!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Kyeth and Sherlyn, the other birthday girl!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/kyeth-bday-cake01.jpg" alt="Vee and Lola" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Vee and Lola&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/kyeth-bday-cake02.jpg" alt="Aaaah!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Aaaah!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy birthday Awesome! ;p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/kyeth-bday-group.jpg" alt="One big happy!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was also Fiona's birthday and we had a pseudo surprise party (she saw it coming from a mile away :p) at Palete Pallete:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/fi-bday-group.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And did I already mention how much we all love cakes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/fi-bday-cake00.jpg" alt="Fi handing out her cupcake cake :D" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Fi handing out her cupcake cake :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/fi-bday-cake.jpg" alt="Adam munching on the icing" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Adam munching on the icing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lola made Fi chug it! And this was after the flaming too :p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/fi-bday-chugit.jpg" alt="Fi chugging it with Lola" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/fi-bday-yen.jpg" alt="Yen being attacked!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And to end my amazingly long post, here are some random "Pole Out" pictures:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/zanzibar-sean-kyeth.jpg" alt="Hanging with Kyeth at Zanzibar" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Hanging with Kyeth at Zanzibar; yes we came prepared!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/zanzibar-boys.jpg" alt="The boys at Zanzibar" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The boys playing it cool at Zanzibar!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/103108/solaris-raw.jpg" alt="Raw @ Solaris. Pole family getting drunk and dance-y ;p" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Raw @ Solaris. Pole family getting drunk and dance-y ;p&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/10/october-round-up.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-1440346321083446617</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-20T18:05:00.410+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wow</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><title>Nekolicious...</title><description>is my ret paladin. And the cause of my sleepless nights.&lt;br /&gt;Even though very much under-geared with level 27 bracers on a 53 and cruising through the lands of Azeroth at an unforgiving average latency of 700ms, everything she touches is destroyed by holy light (hey, hey and I don't even have Divine Storm yet) in seconds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the godly power is... &lt;em&gt;addictive&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I sat there... nuking boars, Lost Ones, basilisks... the random orc or two... vultures... until there were &lt;strong&gt;NONE&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And shafted myself in the process since all I can think about now is to haul ass to 70 so I can nab my PVP gear :/</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/10/nekolicious.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-5307756221921328908</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-10T10:39:46.084+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>rant</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pole</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swing</category><title>Swinging high</title><description>It's &lt;em&gt;finally&lt;/em&gt; Friday and yesterday was an &lt;strong&gt;amazing&lt;/strong&gt; night of lindy (thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.klswing.com" title="KL Swing!"&gt;KL Swing&lt;/a&gt; for bringing Sinclair to town :))! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So yes, this back pain I've been complaining about--yes, the same one that feels like my ribcage is splintering through my back whenever I sneeze... it's amazing how I don't feel a thing when I'm running on an endorphin high lindy hopping and pole-ing. Sad it only triggers when I have to wake up early in the bloody mornings only to groan to the tune of a seventy year old broken rocking chair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah, the addiction to dance &amp;lt;3</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/10/swinging-high.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-6254843913715579751</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-07T12:04:27.746+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>rant</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><title>It's not dead...</title><description>... just &lt;strong&gt;super busy&lt;/strong&gt; with work, pole and the giddy excitement of &lt;a href="http://www.klswing.com"&gt;swing&lt;/a&gt;! Yes, swing is &lt;strong&gt;finally&lt;/strong&gt; coming to town :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Promise the pictures from Korea (together with many, many colorful commentaries) will be up this weekend :)</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/10/its-not-dead.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-3918670343445561391</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-22T02:33:40.969+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>rant</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pole</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><title>Weekly shortcuts</title><description>Adam (don't remember the flippin' address! ;p) has an epic fail of a learning curve with Bluetooth connectivity. In his defense, my own curve took a sinusoidal dump when my mac spun its wheels of death looking for an "unfound Bluetooth PAN."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later in the same day, I bumped into &lt;a href="http://accordingtofiona.blogspot.com/" title="According to Fiona" rel="friend met"&gt;Fi&lt;/a&gt; who said I looked completely different and &lt;em&gt;normal&lt;/em&gt; out of the studio. We sometimes pole in our knickers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got ambushed at Pebble's station while illegally delivering mushrooms from Fay's table. That highly confused and a bloody month too early for Halloween psycho chick with the guitar and feathery head gear isn't me. Really.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Serious discussion with TJ as to whether or not I've ever tossed a "flaming bag of poo" onto my neighbor's porch. Them crazy Brit kids... and I never knew a douche was a poo bag. I thought it meant shithead and/or something to flush your girly parts with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the peanuts in the &lt;em&gt;rojak&lt;/em&gt; at Batai are clearly spiked--makes for pro-as-fuck brainstorming sessions after lunch, no shens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helped Ed pick out a purse for his co-worker. Such a pretty Pucci package :) Down with the Ferragamo! The Bottega was nice too... cough. But after all the deliberation, he reverted and decided &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; to buy it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://addictedtopole.blogspot.com/" title="Addicted to Pole" rel="friend met"&gt;Nas&lt;/a&gt; rocked the Hangback and we floored the Superman (by floored, I mean we started &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; the floor to get used to the pain lol):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/092208/superman.jpg" alt="The seriously-holding-some-shit-in-look: the Superman, sorta kinda" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;seriously-holding-some-shit-in-look&lt;/strong&gt;: the Superman, sorta kinda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more pole action: &lt;a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2415924&amp;amp;l=402ba&amp;amp;id=8638945" title="Pole-arity"&gt;Pole-artiy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Had couples therapy earlier for &lt;a href="http://www.aizatto.com" rel="friend met"&gt;Aizat&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://ditesh.gathani.org/blog/" title="The Dude" rel="friend met"&gt;Ditesh&lt;/a&gt; with Ditesh unleashing his inner female Gujarati. Wretched humor from the car all the way to A&amp;amp;W for drama between waffle bites... i.e. Ditesh with a shocking find and Raj offering penance:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/092208/waffledrama.jpg" alt="Sleeping with your ---. Aha! I knew it, you fucker!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"I'm sleeping with your *******" "Aha! I knew it, you fucker!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to download the image to add your own captioning :P &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although I find the occurrence of social/verbal retardation amongst &lt;em&gt;certain people&lt;/em&gt; curiously, albeit perversely amusing (in a purely professional "you dumb fuck, that's an inkblot" manner of course), I am simply too tired to put up with it any longer. I am bowing out (read: &lt;strong&gt;STAY AWAY FROM ME&lt;/strong&gt;). It has been fun sticking a bloody railroad spike through my forehead every other time but I've &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; got better things to do. I'm not your emotional crash dump outlet. Been there, done that and safe to say I'm not a better person because of that. Rest assured, I will invoice for the therapy sessions accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please drown yourself in the aquarium on the way out, thank you. &lt;em&gt;Thank you very much&lt;/em&gt;.</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/09/weekly-shortcuts.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-8123246879893135800</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-12T12:50:03.444+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pole</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>birthday</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><title>Somo pole invasion</title><description>Happy Birthday Lola! :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2447321&amp;amp;l=e58e2&amp;amp;id=8638945" title="Somo pole invasion"&gt;Lola's Birthday&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tagging &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; 51 pictures on Facebork is hard work hehe Commentary includes (but not limited to) the adventures of hiding from Lola at the start, Adam and Jon getting smacked around by Lili and featuring the "Chug it!" chant :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/091208/vv-family-00.jpg" alt="One big happy family!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;One big happy family!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/091208/vv-family-01.jpg" alt="One big happy family!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/091208/vv-family-02.jpg" alt="The long island toast" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The long island toast&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/09/somo-pole-invasion.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-5213797661484749024</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-11T15:14:43.472+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pole</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><title>Backstage from the Cloret's Pole Dancing Finals</title><description>Since Facebork decided to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; upload my pictures, I have to do this manually and blog it :p&lt;br /&gt;After many, many weeks of dedicated pole training, pole burns and blooper shots, Friday turned out &lt;strong&gt;AWESOME&lt;/strong&gt;! Much love and grats to the winners: Lili (1st), Sam (2nd), Auto (3rd), Zoe (4th) and Kyeth (5th)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you to everyone else who attended! ^^;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I only have the backstage shots because I was obviously not out front during and after with my camera :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/pietro-00.jpg" alt="Pietro strutting his stuff in his opening act" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pietro strutting his stuff in his opening act&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/hannah-pietro-00.jpg" alt="Hannah and Pietro rehearsing" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Hannah and Pietro rehearsing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/hannah-pietro-01.jpg" alt="Hannah and Pietro rehearsing" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/hannah-pietro-02.jpg" alt="Lola giving last minute pointers" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lola giving last minute pointers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/audiocrew.jpg" alt="The stage crew" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The stage crew&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/adam-ninja.jpg" alt="Adam and a ninja shot of himself :p Cam whoring more than the rest of us hehe" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Adam and a ninja shot of himself :p Cam whoring more than the rest of us hehe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/the-stage.jpg" alt="Our glam stage for the night" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Our glam stage for the night&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/contestants-00.jpg" alt="After lunch--Emerald, Miss D, Jon, Kathy, Adam, Lola" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;After lunch--Emerald, Miss D, Jon, Kathy, Adam, Lola&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/contestants-01.jpg" alt="The contestants watching on--Auto with the thumbs up and Kyeth in motion trying to run out of the frame" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The contestants watching on--Auto with the thumbs up and Kyeth in motion trying to run out of the frame&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/contestants-02.jpg" alt="Hanging out with Lili and Nana" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Hanging out with Lili and Nana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/contestants-03.jpg" alt="Sexy in red--Kyeth, Bernade, Nikita" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Sexy in red--Kyeth, Bernade, Nikita&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/lola-liang-00.jpg" alt="Dry run: Lola and Liang, our emcee" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Dry run: Lola and Liang, our emcee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/bernade-room.jpg" alt="Bernade hanging out in the changing room" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Bernade hanging out in the changing room&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-contestants-00.jpg" alt="After makeup (clockwise from me)--Nana, Kyeth, Nikita, Bernade" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;After makeup (clockwise from me)--Nana, Kyeth, Nikita, Bernade&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-contestants-01.jpg" alt="Miss D and Kyeth by the dirty hallway :p" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Miss D and Kyeth by the dirty hallway :p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-contestants-02.jpg" alt="Everyone sitting cool waiting for the event to start... they start freaking out 20 minutes later :p" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Everyone sitting cool waiting for the event to start... they start freaking out 20 minutes later :p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-contestants-03.jpg" alt="My turn to grace the dirty hallway with Emerald and Miss D" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;My turn to grace the dirty hallway with Emerald and Miss D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-contestants-04.jpg" alt="Kyeth and Bernade in sizzling red!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Kyeth and Bernade in sizzling red!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-lola-00.jpg" alt="Kyeth and Bernade with Lola" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Kyeth and Bernade with Lola; LOL@Kyeth's expression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-sexy-people.jpg" alt="Pole divas backstage--Miss D, Kyeth, Bernade, Nikita, Lola, Emerald" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pole divas backstage--Miss D, Kyeth, Bernade, Nikita, Lola, Emerald&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-contestants-05.jpg" alt="Vivyn, the sexy duo (Ivyn and Janice), Sam and Nana" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Vivyn, the sexy duo (Ivyn and Janice), Sam and Nana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-contestants-06.jpg" alt="Group shot with the duo, Nana and Vivyn" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Group shot with the duo, Nana and Vivyn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-contestants-07.jpg" alt="What a large bruise that is! :p" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;What a large bruise that is on Sam's knee! :p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-contestants-08.jpg" alt="Isaac making his debut into the group shots hehe Bernade and Zoe upstairs looking (most probably) at Lili changing :p" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Isaac making his debut into the group shots hehe Bernade and Zoe upstairs looking (most probably) at Lili changing :p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-lola-01.jpg" alt="Lola all dolled up checking up on us" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lola all dolled up checking up on us&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-missd.jpg" alt="Miss D and her self promo :p" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Miss D and her self promo :p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/ivi-lola.jpg" alt="Vee and Lola" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Vee and Lola&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/090808/backstage-missd-pose.jpg" alt="Miss D and more shameless self promo :p" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Miss D and more shameless self promo :p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If anyone has the FINAL group shot on stage they'd like to share, much thanks if you could send a copy over :)&lt;br /&gt;I hope everyone had as much fun as I did on Friday night! :D See you guys in class/pole access this week and babyyy, you can leave your hat on ;)</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/09/backstage-from-clorets-pole-dancing.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-425533433596448220</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-03T04:24:15.333+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>rant</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><title>Miserable</title><description>I'm down with a &lt;strong&gt;massive&lt;/strong&gt; fever that comes cozily with achy breaky joints and the frequent drifting around sleeplessly with the uncanny sensation of a budding, explosive supernova in my head.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That and the only reason I'm writing is to complain about the banana I just had. Of &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the accessible fruit in the kitchen, I had to eat this one NORMAL looking banana--that turned out to have a &lt;strong&gt;massively mutated seed&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I kid you not. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would've snapped a photo, but the mushy leftover of what was the middle section of the banana &lt;strong&gt;AND THAT GOD FUGLY BLACK SEED&lt;/strong&gt; wouldn't have made spectacular imagery. Plus I was too disgusted and was busy scrubbing the insides of my mouth out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I die before the day of the &lt;a href="http://www.cloretspower.com" title="Clorets Amateur Pole Dancing Competition"&gt;competition&lt;/a&gt;, it's because I've been infected with the alien variety of the banana and its banana-lings have exploded out of my stomach.</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/09/miserable.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-4444050260760909203</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-21T15:14:34.121+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><title>Artsy fartsy Thursdays</title><description>What I'd probably look like manga-fied:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/082108/nekomatta.jpg" alt="nekomatta!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;nekomatta!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The eyes were easy to pick considering they literally &lt;em&gt;disappear&lt;/em&gt; when I smile... that and my cheeks definitely need to be rounder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yes, I did shamelessly ninja some cleavage inside. Courtesy of &lt;a href="http://www.faceyourmanga.com/" title="FACE YOUR MANGA"&gt;FACE YOUR MANGA&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;***Ninja edit conversation with &lt;a href="http://silverzephyr.blogspot.com/" title="Crazed avenue for pent up dailyness" rel="sibling"&gt;sis&lt;/a&gt; over msn:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Doodie, does my profile pic look like a manga me? hehe"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"LOL With the retarded smile, yeah :p"</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/08/artsy-fartsy-thursdays.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-6437469887107601825</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-16T17:30:06.610+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pole</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><title>Po-pole-arity: the Media Workshop</title><description>In before everyone else (thanks to Burger and Jon for some of the shots hehe):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2432326&amp;l=f3533&amp;id=8638945" title="Clorets Amateur Pole Dancing Competition Media Workshop"&gt;Clorets Amateur Pole Dancing Competition Media Workshop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the time the media got there, we were pissed &lt;strong&gt;exhausted&lt;/strong&gt; from our morning rehearsal--I used up way too much energy flinging my head around to our group's song in the morning :p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, long sleeves and jeans: &lt;strong&gt;bad&lt;/strong&gt; idea. Trying to climb the pole with jeans: equally as &lt;strong&gt;bad&lt;/strong&gt; of an idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really thought the yoga room was going to be cold... and owned myself in the face. But it was a &lt;em&gt;super&lt;/em&gt; fun experience :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy the pictures and the colorful commentary... I'm off to Camerons, woohoo! ^^;</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/08/po-pole-arity-clorets-amateur-pole.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-7844680144550823281</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-11T04:35:13.143+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wow</category><title>Spirit of Competition</title><description>In honor of the &lt;a href="http://en.beijing2008.cn/" title="2008 Beijing Olympics"&gt;2008 Beijing Olympics&lt;/a&gt;, you can now get your very &lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt; pet Chinese dragon by participating in your battleground of choice :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/081008/dragon.jpg" alt="Spirit of Competition!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Spirit of Competition!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both the mage and druid have the dragon but my priest somehow can't seem to get her hands on it :/ No, it's not by top healing in the battlegrounds (tried it, I swear :p)... which makes me wonder how Kitty got hers o.O&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, if anyone finds out... let me know, or I'm going to have to resort to ninja-ing killing blows by way of Shadow Word: Death to get my dragon on Chibi!</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/08/spirit-of-competition.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-9211891754156813426</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-07T03:19:18.675+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>web stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><title>Make way for Clay</title><description>Over the weekend I churned out quite a few hours building the front of Hotlink Rewards' ClayCam site. While I'm pretty nifty with CSS (which is unfortunately not reflected in this ancient build of a blog :p) I ran into a brick wall or &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; trying to get jQuery to &lt;strong&gt;NOT BREAK&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But after hours of thumping my head against the table, shit finally works! :p Yes, I'm now the queen of bludgeoning pretty little jQuery plug-ins to bend it to my wicked ways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;jQuery plug-ins that were modified, butchered &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; bastardized: &lt;a href="http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/"&gt;ThickBox&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://stilbuero.de/jquery/tabs_3/"&gt;UI Tabs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some of my favourites before I go into the wall of text (tomorrow!) that was my weekend of screaming, testing, debugging, more screaming and more testing:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="lbox clay clearfix"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotlink.com.my/hotlink/claycam"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.maxislabs.com/claycam/admin/uploads/004.jpg" alt="American Bald Eagle" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;American Bald Eagle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotlink.com.my/hotlink/claycam"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.maxislabs.com/claycam/admin/uploads/013.jpg" alt="Batmobile" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Batmobile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotlink.com.my/hotlink/claycam"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.maxislabs.com/claycam/admin/uploads/030.jpg" alt="Why so serious?" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Why so serious?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotlink.com.my/hotlink/claycam"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.maxislabs.com/claycam/admin/uploads/016.jpg" alt="Pink demon cow" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Pink demon cow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotlink.com.my/hotlink/claycam"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.maxislabs.com/claycam/admin/uploads/009.jpg" alt="Giraffe" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Giraffe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotlink.com.my/hotlink/claycam"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.maxislabs.com/claycam/admin/uploads/043.jpg" alt="Teh Donkey" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Teh Donkey!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotlink.com.my/hotlink/claycam"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.maxislabs.com/claycam/admin/uploads/047.jpg" alt="Happy feet" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Happy feet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotlink.com.my/hotlink/claycam"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.maxislabs.com/claycam/admin/uploads/108.JPG" alt="Pole dancer... er, feet" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Pole dancer... er, feet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotlink.com.my/hotlink/claycam"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.maxislabs.com/claycam/admin/uploads/104.JPG" alt="Optimus prime" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Optimus prime&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotlink.com.my/hotlink/claycam"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.maxislabs.com/claycam/admin/uploads/091.JPG" alt="Bassett" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Bassett&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotlink.com.my/hotlink/claycam"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.maxislabs.com/claycam/admin/uploads/088.JPG" alt="Wall-E" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Wall-E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotlink.com.my/hotlink/claycam"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.maxislabs.com/claycam/admin/uploads/078.JPG" alt="Octopus" /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Octopus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pixelatedly squished images courtesy of yours truly's lazy ass. To see the clay pieces in all their glory, drop by the clay gallery--I'm running short on time here! :p  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'd tell everyone to get their &lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt; piece of clay but submission is closed for today (server got swamped and went down a couple of minutes :p)! But don't forget to request your &lt;strong&gt;on-demand&lt;/strong&gt; clay piece tomorrow at &lt;a href="http://www.hotlink.com.my/hotlink/claycam" title="Hotlink Rewards ClayCam"&gt;Hotlink Rewards ClayCam&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;No CSS was harmed in the making of ClayCam. jQuery however...&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/08/make-way-for-clay.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-5191686730628390285</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-31T13:49:23.573+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pole</category><title>Plug and pole</title><description>Don't laugh, but I finally submitted my &lt;a href="http://www.cloretspower.com" title="Clorets Amateur Pole Dancing Competition"&gt;pole video&lt;/a&gt;! Kudos to all the other beautiful &lt;a href="http://www.vivavertical.com" title="Viva Vertical"&gt;Viva Vertical&lt;/a&gt; divas who entered :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The things I do for the love of pole ;x</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/07/plug-and-pole.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-4893867998343172116</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-30T11:56:24.776+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wow</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><title>Embracing your inner spiritual self</title><description>The &lt;a href="http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Illidan&amp;amp;n=Chibineko" title="Illidan - Chibineko"&gt;Chibi&lt;/a&gt; tribute post:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/073008/priest-tee-redux.jpg" alt="Radial whoring: World of Warcraft Priest class tee!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Radial whoring: World of Warcraft Priest class tee!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nekomatta.com/images/073008/priest-tee.jpg" alt="The sleepy look: I know, I was half asleep and in a rush to get to work." /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The sleepy look: I know, I was half asleep and in a rush to get to work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Super sexy priest tee from &lt;a href="http://www.jinx.com/" title="J!NX"&gt;J!NX&lt;/a&gt; came, woohoo! :D I have the mage one too ^^;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;p/s: For the record, that guild was Yonne's idea -_-&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/07/embracing-your-inner-spiritual-self.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-2985877655242034743</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-26T00:28:19.863+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>birthday</category><title>The best birthday text</title><description>"In Legend Resort, Cherating. The swimming pool reminds pa the of time you can actually swim. When you said 'Pa I can swim already!' Happy Birthday."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:)</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/07/best-birthday-text.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-106793856738444005</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-25T01:54:55.768+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pole</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>web stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wow</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>musing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>birthday</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>drama</category><title>25 on the 25th</title><description>I do this every year, so I figured why break tradition? :)&lt;br /&gt;I kicked off year 25 with an excitingly anticipated conference call with the lovely Sara, whom I &lt;strong&gt;finally&lt;/strong&gt; got to speak to after years of working with and Kevin! :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in no particular order, here's a recap of the fun, glamorous and obnoxiously horrific things of how "24" went:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pole&lt;/strong&gt; dancing lessons--and all the wonderful ladies at pole class :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pole dancing--on a stage with my awesome partner Misty in a club in front of a large audience... with really only &lt;em&gt;(mom and dad, please turn away and not continue reading this line)&lt;/em&gt; a &lt;strong&gt;corset&lt;/strong&gt; and those sexy pinstripe undies with red ribbons on the side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Discovering &lt;strong&gt;Cyberjaya&lt;/strong&gt;--I swear if I never got the job working at RSB, until today, I still wouldn't know how to get to that god forsaken place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Team RSB&lt;/strong&gt;--Rails Rumble, lots of Ruby on Rails, fun with CSS, a few Facebook applications and more geeky shit :) Oh... and AGILE... and converting from Dreamweaver (I only use split screen view! :p) to TextMate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Team RSB--oh, the fights! Going to war and defending your shit. Thank you :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Took &lt;strong&gt;public transportation&lt;/strong&gt; to KL at eight in the bloody morning. Don't even ask.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got a &lt;strong&gt;Macbook&lt;/strong&gt; that traveled with me all the way to Chi-town! :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chicago&lt;/strong&gt;--graciously hosted by Diana, Andrew, Jaime and Owen smack in the middle of winter &amp;lt;3 Much apologies to the guys shoes' which I puked on at the dueling piano bar after my orgy of drinks, heh. And Super Bowl! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vegetarian food&lt;/strong&gt;--like, seriously. In all my past 23 years combined, I've never had as much vegetarian food as I did working in Cyberjaya for those few months :p Every thing's a mushroom. Or bean.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Advertising at &lt;strong&gt;Proximity&lt;/strong&gt;--I architect information, hah ;p And boy do I still hate Flash :p Admittedly, we have shit for internet but at least we get free beer and truckloads of processed sugar :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My fuck-me-red &lt;strong&gt;iPod&lt;/strong&gt; died. DIED.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gave the &lt;strong&gt;second chance&lt;/strong&gt; thingie a second try. Didn't work out too hot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Swung around an obstacle course four stories up in the air with the crazy kids at Standard Charted. Oh, the &lt;strong&gt;drinking games&lt;/strong&gt;. Much love! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Doing stupid shit on the &lt;strong&gt;webcam&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mage went &lt;strong&gt;frost&lt;/strong&gt;... and priest snagged the &lt;strong&gt;2000&lt;/strong&gt; rating with Cibo (and a little help from sassy Higgins hehe).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rediscovering what it means to have an "actual job" and how it cuts down dramatically on your social life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Revisiting my teenager years of indulging my currently not-so-secret any longer teeny boppy &lt;strong&gt;girly crush&lt;/strong&gt; fantasies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bumped into unpleasant clients (thankfully only two!)--the worst of the two being a &lt;strong&gt;misogynistic&lt;/strong&gt; a-hole (pretty much self explanatory).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whored my liver out to Turborg just so I could get to the &lt;strong&gt;KL Music Festival '08&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Salsa&lt;/strong&gt; classes--just started! ;p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Streaked my hair &lt;strong&gt;red&lt;/strong&gt; and adopted &lt;strong&gt;green&lt;/strong&gt; contact lenses in the name of vanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bumping into people with &lt;strong&gt;subzero PR skills&lt;/strong&gt;. Yes, again, God kills a lolcat every time I have to tolerate this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two of my friends are &lt;strong&gt;engaged&lt;/strong&gt;! :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obsessing over a track from the &lt;strong&gt;Ministry of Sound radio&lt;/strong&gt; for ages without knowing the title (simply because it's so obscure I couldn't find it)--only to find it on someone's playlist on the first day at Proximity (thanks Yee Ee :D)! I have the track but sadly, I still don't know what it's called.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that's that; I'm still high on my fever and both my brain and fingers have rebelled and stopped working... although, I'm not sure if I should include HTML5 to that list :x &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pictures will come tomorrow! :) &lt;strong&gt;Happy Birthday&lt;/strong&gt; to all the other July babies out there! :D</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/07/25-on-25th.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-3615929959240435690</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-24T02:58:20.911+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>rant</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>drama</category><title>Drip; pass the tissue please</title><description>I'm sick. A day before I turn twenty five. This &lt;strong&gt;blows&lt;/strong&gt; and is a humongous fail of &lt;strong&gt;epic&lt;/strong&gt; proportions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; close to falling over dead with a leaky, gunk oozing faucet of a nose and I can't even get five minutes worth of sleep to save myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add to that the possibility of needing to show up for work at a client's site on Sunday. &lt;strong&gt;S-U-N-D-A-Y&lt;/strong&gt;. I think my gums just started to bleed from the acid that's moving up my esophagus at the very thought of Sunday morning work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, God kills a lolcat for every stupid, ignorant cowpile text message I get. For the record: God killed three lolcats today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be kind to the lolcats and stop. Just stop before I shoot you in the head.</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/07/drip-pass-tissue-please.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-8499958194922653699</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-14T22:06:57.031+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>rant</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pole</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>drama</category><title>Of fire and frost</title><description>"Did you need all that Dark Iron ore?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Nopes."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Can use it to make a lock box for your cold undead heart, like Davey Jones &lt;em&gt;*ducks*&lt;/em&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Davey Jones had a squishy heart. Mine sparkles, from the frost."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"LOL touche."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been a long, long disastrous weekend of misplaced laments and wisdom that fell on deaf ears. Thank the divine entities for Saturday night at Genting and Sunday &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=44120956&amp;l=2e6ec&amp;id=8638945" title="pole-arity"&gt;pole-arity&lt;/a&gt;.</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/07/of-fire-and-frost.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-8856980076025335227</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-11T11:14:54.570+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>rant</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>madness</category><title>Water, oil and fire</title><description>"He thinks as long as he gets my dad's approval, everything is automatically OK to go with me. I &lt;strong&gt;stared&lt;/strong&gt;. Long and hard."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Well it is important..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Really wanted to ask, '&lt;em&gt;Wait... you went to the UK to study right... or is that some unknown province in China situated in a prehistoric cave of male chauvinism that I'm completely unaware of?&lt;/em&gt;'"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"and once he tames you, your opinion doesn't matter."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"HAHAHAHAHA TEA UP NOSE"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I think pushing my face through a burning hot metal grate would feel a lot less painful than having to put up with the impropriety of an epic fail of a casual date... /facepalm</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/07/water-oil-and-fire.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-4297088690269852592</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-08T15:32:39.145+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>web stuff</category><title>XFN-ed</title><description>The blogroll has been officially &lt;a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn" title="XHTML Friends Network"&gt;XFN&lt;/a&gt;-ed! :) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, Twitter's constant fail whale is really becoming a pain in the behind. Being twittertraitortastic, I hopped on the &lt;a href="http://www.identi.ca/seanx2"&gt;identi.ca&lt;/a&gt; bandwagon and signed up for an account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But no, I've yet to migrate over...</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/07/xfn-ed.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23031974.post-7103051647258972833</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-30T17:43:27.036+08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wow</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>musing</category><title>The cryptic sunset</title><description>Someone once told me that if I had nothing good to say, I shouldn't blog. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I just have to say that despite my random bitching I had an amazing June and am looking forward to an amazingly fantabulous July :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would be even more amazing if the GC is still in proximity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see what you did there. Ah, addictions ^^;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ninja edit: arena rating requirements on honor gear &lt;strong&gt;sucks&lt;/strong&gt; bollocks! WTB 1700 rating boots!! &amp;gt;/ Yes, I'm a baddie.</description><link>http://www.nekomatta.com/2008/06/cryptic-sunset.htm</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (nekomatta)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>