Went out with Adek, Afi, and Johan today for lunch, 2 of which (obviously not Adek) rarely have nasi kandar and therefore really need to know about this place. I haven't had a fix since I got back from Penang a few weeks ago, and frankly, Line Clear can't hold a candle to this joint. Zainul Nasi Kandar, in the parking lot food court opposite New Town PJ next to the Metereological Department. Best daging masak hitam EVAR, and there's sotong goreng on that plate, along with telur masin, sambal belacan, mint sauce (!), and for once, kubis goreng instead of taugeh. And papadum too. I cleaned my plate. Literally. I turned the plate upside down when I was done and nothing fell off. And no, Ili, I didn't buy nasi padang to bring back... tak cukup duit :p
Since it was cheap movie day, Johan and I decided to take in a movie and went to watch Harry Potter again (for me, not for him). I made plenty of appreciative noises whenever Malfoy came on screen - and the Katie Bell chick - whilst Jo groaned in time. And seriously, Hermione's cleavage? Goddamn, I want cleavage like that. Guh.
Bought soil on the way back home so I can replant my cacti babies, whom I really need to name all of soon. Photos of that when that happens. In the meantime, here's one of my best friend:
Torrent updates: almost 2GBs done on The Sims 2, 13 more to go T_T
Me, that is. I was in Singapore the whole of last week, and how nice it was to gorge myself silly on food, see friends I rarely get to hang out with, and actually kiss the boy instead of typing it out in texts or chats. Now I'm back here in the boondocks and I feel my throat starting to itch again (blasted fan). On the other hand, I'm dowloading The Sims 2 (full set!), and starting school next Thursday.
2 more years. 2 more years to Argentina.
¡Está aquí mi computadora nueva!
It's New Year's Eve! How are you celebrating tonight?
By posting up these lists! hahaha. I really have no life.
Anyway. I can go on and on about 2008. But I'll just post up these four lists, then maybe say something at the end. How about that?
2008's albums:
Clearly shows how I am not part of the hipster gang whatsoever. Here are my favourites, in random order:
- Rogue Squadron- I can has mixtapz? -_-
- The Last Shadow Puppets- The Age of the Understatement
- Portishead- Third
- The Roots- Raising Down
- Erykah Badu- New Amerykah Part One
- Hujan- Hujan
- Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
- She & Him- Volume One
- TV on the Radio- Dear Science
- Oasis- Dig Out Your Soul
- Estrella- Estrella
- Sore- Ports of Lima
- Naif- A Night at Schouwburg
- Ludacris- Theater of the Mind
- Gnarls Barkley- The Odd Couple
- Coldplay- Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
- Weezer- Red Album
- Bloc Party- Intimacy
- Flight of the Conchords- Flight of the Conchords
Should I, or shouldn't include...
- Solange- Sol-Angel and The Hadley St. Dreams
- Jazmine Sullivan- Fearless
- Bunkface- Lesson of the Season
- Everybody Loves Irene- On Second Thoughts, I Might Wanna Change Something
- Jenny Lewis- Acid Tongue
Released in 2008, but I haven't heard it properly yet (shame on me)
- Free Love- Feed us with your love
- Laila's Lounge- Laila's Lounge
- Efek Rumah Kaca- Kamar Gelap
- Guns N' Roses- Chinese Democracy
- Couple- Teenage Disc Fantastic
- Q-tip- The Renaissance
- Joe Flizzow- The President
Major Gigs/Concerts/Festival Attended (Top 9 is in order, the rest is not)
- Sunburst Music Festival- Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club(Nevermind Incubus, say hello to George Clinton and The Roots)
- Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival- Singapore (Awesome two day gathering of kick ass DJs)
- Explosions in the Sky- Ruums (my heart exploded and I don't think I fully recovered)
- Oasis- Echo Arena, Liverpool (kick ass seats, free of charge and full two hours something of Gallagher brothers)
- Indie Day Out- MCPA Hall KL (crazy attendance, with people fainting and breaking noses etc)
- Travis- Carling Liverpool (on the eve of Aidilfitri, no less)
- The Last Shadow Puppets- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (pasty yet good looking British boys making beautiful music in a beautiful hall)
- Jakarta Rock Parade- Senayan, Jakarta (Badly organized lead to poor attendance, but had stellar line-up)
- Mono- Zouk KL (don't mess with Japanese post-rock musicians)
- Vox- Esplanade Singapore (Surabaya heart-warming harmonies.. ah bless)
- Mocca- Zouk KL
- Goodnight Electric- Ipoh
- The Bays- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
- Ida Maria & The Courteeners- LGOS, Liverpool
- Goldfrapp- LGOS, Liverpool
- Pendulum- LGOS, Liverpool
- Noah & The Whale- Bumper, Liverpool
- The Roots- Manchester
- MTV Asia Awards- Genting Highland
- Family Affair II- Singapore
- Pesta Malam Indonesia 2- Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club
- KRU's Anniversary Bash- Ruums, KL
- Rockestra- MCPA Hall, KL
- KLUE's Urbanscape- KLPAC
What's good 2009?
- Rogue Squadron's 'I can has mixtapz' mixtape
- Jin Hackman's 'Jinius at Work'
- Rogue Squadron's monthly night 'The Bomb Shelter' at Cloth and Clef, KL
- The Rebel Scum's 'Time has Scum'
- Clue to Kalo's 'Lily Perdida'
- Flica's new album
- Yeah Yeah Yeah's new album
- Zeke and the Popo's new album
- Convocation XD
- Blur's reunion
- More concerts (Franz Ferdinand and Oasis and more hopefully)
- Better camera kit
- More travelling!
Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf, Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas, James Stewart in It's A Wonderful Life... There are so many great Christmas movie characters. Show us your favorite.
JACK SKELLINGTON! no contest!!! <3
If you have something to say, do it now. I don't want to have you
sobbing on my grave because that's the time when it hit you that I am
a) meaningful to you,
b) I owe you something,
c) I have answers to the world's toughest questions,
d) the person you've been waiting all your life.
From Wordsmanifest of The Rebel Scum:
We just got back from soundcheck at Cap Square, and shit looks really good. The stage reminds me of the mobile stage Musiccanteen used to roll out for their shows, only bigger and generally doper.The sound's going to be clear as fizzuck. Zee Avi (Kokokaina), Stylustiks, Joe Flizzow, Yuna, Goldfish and Arabyrd will be up on stage all damn day from 2pm onwards, and there's a ton of shit for you to do and buy too. Oh yeah TRS will get on at 9pm, and we'll have Figure of Speech from The Works and SSK with us.
Did I tell you shit is free? Tak. Payah. Bayar.
Be there or die.
related links:
http://www.uox.com.my/
http://www.capsquare.com.my/
http://www.therebelscum.com.my
http://www.theresistanceforum.com.my
http://www.myspace.com/roguesquad
http://www.klue.com.my/events/1280-UOX-Play-Block-Party
