wait, i can do this.... sorry what was i supposed to do again?

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

shorrrrtt.....

due to *ahem*.... 'some" people asking me if i could shorten my "essays".... i'll write a short one. it was a tuesday. waking up early morning, with the nice mist outside. the smell of wet tar and leaves seemed to fumed the air... as a sign of freedom. two birds in the rain cuddling under each other's feather helping each other to get dry. the wet jogging steps of livestrong individuals just keeps giving one the hype to wake up early in the morning. nina simone's feelin good was playing at the background adding some more spice to the start of the day. i smiled. i had a feeling today was going to flow really nicely. suddenly a new song came in... "you maaaaake me come......", "you make me comeplete", you make me completely miserable"..... waking up with the sweats running down my curving face as i do pullups and pushups. pushing myself by shouting "dont be a fcking loser IRFAN!!." what a day it was to be... glorious.... but strangely enough, its been almost a day, and the only best thing i feel i did today was thought about this pantun.....

kambing bau, kambing buruk,
dier berbau, seperti bantal busuk.....

and heard this one from somewhere i dont remember

aku bosan, aku kusut....
aku bukan... sebijik kasut....

that was it... so much action in my life... today.... gloriouuusssss......

Sunday, June 26, 2005

The Legacy of a Pizza Delivery Boy.....

Today was technically my last day of work as a delivery guy. that was three years of my life as a delivery guy. if it hadnt happen, some stuff may have not happened to me. with the job i've learned so many stuff in organizing, time management, management itself, and customer service. so... after being a pizza delivery boy for 3 years, i feel i need to leave some important advice to those people who order food, regardless if it is in a restaurant, delivery, or whatever, as long as it involves food services, this is what you should do, being the customer. why do i say so? because some people are just bloody ignorant. yes you pay for the food, but at least respect the people who make the food. they worked their asses off to do it. they dont live that 'senang' life, or relaxing life.

* if the food is not of satisfactory, KINDLY talk to the host of ur food. tell them your unsatisfactory regarding the food, and do NOT start calling people names, dont start mocking them. it is ALWAYS best to talk to them with a calm voice, WITH a SMILE. only raise your voice when necessary, which is, IF the host themselves ARE being an ASS. if things could be resolved easily, DO NOT go to that option.

*TIP. TIPPING IS IMPORTANT!!! being a delivery guy, come on laaa minimum tip that is on satisfactory level, 3 dollars. we have gas to pay too. we make your food at the same time. we are being screamed and shout by certain 'ghetto' people just for being slightly late. at least have the courtesy to TIP. delivery order, 3 dollars tip is the minimum. kalau order tuh besar sket (concerning above $20), try giving them 4 - 5 dollars. IF you dont have sufficient money, say sorry, and DO NOT, DO NOT, give alasan. almost every nite we go through the same shit. ESPECIALLY if you are a normal customer. ive gone through 'man, i had to pay my bills, i'll give you the tip on my next order' on the same individual every single time. and that fucking pisses me off. kalau tader duit, senyap jek laa. we know you're a cheap bastard already. ALSO jangan buat attitude 'I'm sorry, i DONT tip' ad leave a smirk at the same time. ALSO, do NOT say 'we cant tip, we're students..' pak itam cakap nih kat aku. fuck you. i'm a student as well, i still have the decency to tip. i know people who are doing this work are orang yang susah jugak. bukan nyer org senang. so realize their effort.

HOWEVER, tak perlu bagi tip kalau kat mesia, especially at the expensive restaurants (dome, chinoz, victoria station, wutever). TIPS ARE INCLUDED. sometimes the host doesnt even do anything. and the customer service could even be very VERY sucky. BUT still ALWAYS BE POLITE AND SMILE.

*if its an open restaurant, like how pizza bella is, where you can see how the people cook, DO NOT, DO NOOOOT, sit by the counter for cooking an stare at how they make the food. its annoying. dont your parents teach you not to fucking stare? UNLESS its like a hibachi restaurant where people ARE suppose to watch the skillful chef.

*for delivery purposes, DO NOT make bloody stupid jokes, like, you call dominoes, and then when they pick up, you say 'hi, is this pizza hut?' and then laugh. unless you want spit in your food (i never do that), DO NOT make stupid lame jokes. coz you KNOW that we hear the same jokes at least ONCE a month.

*when ordering, especially for delivery, DO NOT TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO EAT AT THAT TIME!!! try to read the menu in advance. so that you dont stall others who would like to order as well. read the menu thoroughly, decide what you want. when eating at a restaurant, make sure you dont stall, and banyak sangat songeh. banyak songeh, GO HOME AND COOK YOURSELF. if you cant, go to McD's or BKs. tak banyak cerewet.

i think that's it. seriously, listen to it. I KNOW. I UNDERSTAND FROM BOTH SIDES. so if you dont think im right, tell me, and then i'll kindly discuss with you. but if i think that is stupid, why dont you just shove your words up your arse. :D.

gone... one and another... gone.....

this house is now lonely. my great friends, fera, sung, wanzaw and hanim are back home now. we have are 'manly bonding' sessions frequently as well, but still at times, we men still need some women company. otherwise, things are just going to remind me back of my SAS days. its hard enough to not sweat when talking to women, to revert back to that situation, just really sucks my life through.

somehow i miss my friends so bloody much. i didnt cry at the airport. just saw fera, and my heart was sebak. then i saw sung. i DIDNT CRY. i was moooved. its different. heh. but honestly, these are the most matured friends ive ever encountered, ive ever known, and hopefully the friendship would last as long as it can. why? because college are probably the LAST CIRCLE of real friends you could ever have. and the closest in knowing you growing up INTO an adult. so cherish it while you can. no matter how much i bite the dust, left to rot in the gutter this semester, my friends were there to haul me up.

i will miss fera's 'wey', and her sudden talk of life later on when growing up. i will miss sung's joget, and grabbing food with his two finger tips. i will miss marien's sudden seriousness, where her hands will just swing all over the place. i will miss abe's bitching about 'some' people, and how he can become so utterly annoying. i will miss todi's shrieking laugh that could drop me from my chair. i will miss ellias's smell of sambal, and sudden talk 'suke ek? suke?' i will miss anyet's... well everything about anyet, from cute to bloody annoying. i will miss trash talking with taroi mostly about fishing. i will miss kakak lana yang chumil and always smile regardless the situation is. i will miss curik makan at kerk izzy rina's place. basically, i will miss everything. so guys... dont forget me, but miss me. dont hate me, but smile for me. dont frown or be sad alone, coz you know im there for you. when in love, dont forget me, yet invite me for certain dates, even if it requires me to be a tiang. hahaha. best thing i could do is ask another girl out with me, so i dont get more awkward.

all in all... i miss you guys. and i will never forget the main thing of this summer for my closest friends... and its all about... CARPE DIEM. but sometimes it seems like im the only one who havent done MUCH CARPE DIEM. hahahah. all in all.... i will miss all the.......... spontaneity........

(dah update daaaaah. puas? HAH? some people.... PEH. hehehehheeh)

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

What the hell is going on....

so... i woke up today, monday morning, at 7.40 am... without an alarm clock, tried to sleep... but to no avail. did some pull ups, then walked around a house full of sleeping indivuduals... and im lost... lost of what to do... nak pegi gym... yeap yeap (speaking in my biker voice).... thus im updating my blog right now. mati akal btw.....


so... recapp of what happened last week after the feeling like being a duke of hazzard and driving my car off the bridge, honestly... one of the depressing bdays EVER. hahaha. but i really really appreciate what my friends were doing, i just feel like im not actually 'here' the past week. i was at work 5 to close three days in a row, sweating like a pig, surrounded by ovens, fryers and what not. so... as i was working on my last nite for the week... i suddenly had to deliver to the house of the second 'irfan's most hated person in RPI' list. he was going out with another woman, and i was like... wat da FUCK!! i was already slightly in bad mood when i had to go there. then tup tup.. org tuh called.. and salah address. blaaarrgh!! waste of good mood. heh... but my friends... it doesnt end there... nooooo. so i was feeling slightly depressed, thinking about that guy, and as i was coming back from one of my deliveries... driving... out of the shadows, ran out something. and i heard a thump. okay... i just roadkilled my first cat. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGGH!! i felt sooo bad!! what the HELL IS GOING ON???

as i thought things couldnt get better... on my last delivery, my car battery died on me.. luckily my car still went on going as i was still driving doing my final delivery, at a ghetto... NOT a good place to have my car break down. alhamdulillah, it stopped at abe's. so... went up... 11.30 pm, sat down with everyone watching tv... 12.15 am, as i was eating haagen dasz out of the pint (yes i was depressed, i can be a pig if i want to), only to find out, it was already my bday. happy 23rd bday irfan!! ur HALF WAY to 46!! so... the next morning, the plan was to go to autozone and buy a new battery. so i felt so manly, waking up in the morning, did some greasy job on the car, in my jeans and hollister tees(i dont know how necessary was that but im bored thus im entitled to). anywayyyy did all the job, in my car was tod, fer, sung, and ellias. so... on the way, with the new battery on, cranked up the volume in my car, the A/C, and drove all the way. suddenly, like 15 minutes before the exit... radio died, my signal tak jalan, my car jerked, and like im trying not to panic coz the car is still moving fast. tup tup, masuk jekk the finals exit, the car jerks, and traffic, and stop light banyak, the pressure was on me giler babi. kesian fera and ellias. i was soo under pressure, coz like.. wat the fuck was going on. its in the middle of a strange place, and my ride is dying on me. i feel like a cowboy with a dying horse in a native land! tup tup tup, strangely enough the car died depan umah kak zeff (our destination tuh). man... what the HELL is going ON???

so... there, makan sumer sedap, everyone had fun, i was the only depressing disturbed individual there. blarrgh sungguh. it was such a nice place there, but i was concerned about my car too much. ingat nak pi mohican sun for my bday, in the end i just sat down and got worried. luckily, ada mechanic melayu there who owns a bengkel. im like.. alhamdulillah.... not only that, being sad and distorted, my friends gave me a surprise cake!! hahaha... that jumped started (yeap used to much of that term today) my mood again. so in the morning, i woke up at 8... AGAIN... only to go to the bengkel. alhamdulillah, usually the workshop closes on sunday, but the abang knew i was travelling, he helped me out for just that weekend. that lifted my mood as well. not only that, i got to learn more about cars!! i wish i knew him earlier, i would've gone there and worked as a mechanic. everything cost me 150 bucks... campur battery, 200 bucks... but im happy enough to know that i got my friends safe. walaupun tader duit dah, the car managed to go back to Troy safely. oh, AND, at kak zeff's place... ada pool. hehe. best giler. mandi banyak2. puas siut. and ive decided not to say 'OMG' anymore. this is all because i like to perli girls by imitating them, and im saying that instantaneosly now. bloody embarassing. i feel like sotong.

so... on the way to troy, the funny thing happened was that, i was at the toll, on the 65 miles per hour highway, and after the toll, i heard angin coming out from my door, so i thought tak ketat laa from the toll tadik. so i asked todi if i should pull and close. he said should be okay. turns out... NOT. hahhahahahaah. the door terus terbukak, and i was driving with one hand on the wheel, and the other pulling the door. pastuh tgh kelam kabut tuh, todi holding the steering to make it level, ellias from the back trying to help me hold the door, in the middle of the highway, at nite, when... suddenly it hit me, dude, it was at the toll, and i opened my window to take the ticket, i didnt open my door. BLAAARGH!!! so my door WAS ketat. bloody embarassing. like wanzaw and kerk said.. 'serious tak kelakar'. but it was 10 minutes later. hahahahahah. sampai2 balik troy, feeling slightly depressed, and went to sleep.

only to wake up at 7.45 am, without the ring of my alarm clock, mati akal nak buat per.... did pull ups, played doom 3(which is a kicking ass game, AND made in TROY RPI, take that gamerz of the world!!), but still felt i need to do something else, went to the laptop, updating this, aaaaand after this pi gym, coz i think im bloody sugar high. damn redbull. havent drank that for a while. had to drink it last nite.

one of the things i learn in this trip... when you work at petronas... or i mean anywhere, as a part of growing up... ALWAYS have a back up plan, like business or sumthing. coz... u never know. u dont want to be doing work for someone for THEM to make money. and you dont want to WORK for money, until, if anything happens to ur job, you'll be in deep shit. at least, with a side income, it could help one to survive while s/he get something else to do. hopefully, ya Allah, dapat ler keje buat cool movies for mesia. one day... one day.....

and also.... thanks to my buds... trying their best to cheer me up. i'd probably really be the dukes of hazzard if it werent for u guys. carpe diem is da shit.....

Friday, June 03, 2005

Breeze Driftin On By.....

Well its been roughly two weeks after graduation, and i'm already sending people off, saying our final goodbyes, seeing tears shed and feelings shared for the last time. what can i say... its life isnt it? lately been talking with my buds about life a lot. life involving women. well better yet, life involving relationships. doesnt it sucks how some people cant actually savor relationships and taking it for granted. BUT at times these things are unavoided, so we cant blame people for being so called flirting, fooling around, or whatever. at times... things just... well cant work out. as for me... i probably dont give a fuck about it anymore. if it should happen, it will, sooner... or later... maybe way later. if not... there's always others.

Midwest passed by last week, and my friends... its the best midwest ive ever seen. congrats. even with only 25 active members, you guys pulled it off really really good. kudos.

I'm so lost of what to do right now. well not really lost. hahah. now i feel more relaxed than ever. always hang out at barnes and nobles, sometimes alone, sometimes with fera. i could just hang there up until 3-4 hours. sometimes even more. ntah laa. sometimes being there, reading a book, by the window, while sipping my coffee (i dont really drink coffee except in barnes and nobles). and that feeling, that quiet relaxing feeling makes me feel like im in france. hahah. always wanted to go to france. but yeap... terlepas. ntah biler ler dapat pegi. harap2 sooner... or later. heh. hoping to go with someone, but turns out things just dont really work out eh? maybe later.

next week, i'll probably be hiking somewhere with my friends. harap2 jadik ler. probably even bring in my fishing rods, and feel the breeze driftin on by up in the sky. now all i do is just hang out at bookstores, tomorrow i'll probably be chilling at borders and catch up with more reading.

ive read this book by terry goodkind, wizard's first rule. holy shit... i was boring for the first quarter.. but then holy shit... it just gets better and better!! i've never thrown a book so far coz i couldnt take the sadness it just drag me down with every word, every chapter. but somehow i think the writer has a twisted sex fantasy of a dominatrix. because one of the evil creatures is somewhat dominatrix. they play with their victims by sex and whips. hahaha. for a moment i was imagining myself being those shoes myself. hahaha.

well a little bit more countdown to reality. insya Allah, ntah by august i'll be working my ass off for petronas. a part of me is making me feel so sad. i dont know why. hmmm. anyway... till later....