Karma?

Karma. You believe in it? No? Well ... in a way I do. That has stopped me from dissing people or making fun of people. Or ... at least I try to stop making fun of people. Simple reason ... for fear that it will come back to me.

For example ... I have this disdain or cynical outlook on Ah Bengs. And yes.. in some of my blogs, I have made fun of them and also, in some of my blogs, these Ah Bengs have actually come to my rescue. It has been fun but Karma really knows how to strike you when you least know it ...

The day after blogging on Ah Beng's email, my boss came into my room. "Ey Lembu, the firm has a treat for all the execs" he says.

I was excited ... ooooooh... and I thought to myself, a company trip to Europe??? I looked up coolly and pretending to be nonchalant I said, "oh, that's great. so where are we going"

"We bought you guys tickets to go watch Ah Beng" He smiled such a proud smile.

Me. I was .... .... .... .... speechless? Horrified? Shocked? Scared shitless? I mean, What da fark??!!! You have to buy tickets to watch Ah Beng??? Great! You mean they are now in some kinda cage or are they behind some kinda glass enclosure. Haha. That would be cool. But still, to pay to watch them? I mean, come on!!! Go Sungai Wang! You'd be farking surrounded by them. Ah Bengs and Ah Lians. But why da fark I wanna go watch Ah Beng? But if you tell me to go watch Ah Lian ... maybe I can still reconsider.

My boss looked at me. "Why? You don't like?"

"Well, to be honest ... what da hell are we doing looking at Ah Bengs? I mean its fun to make fun of them ..."

Before I could finish ... my boss, "OI LEMBU!!! Ah Beng as in the Broadway Musical Ah Beng lah!!! Suppose to be a damn good musical comedy!!!"

"WAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT?????!!!!!!"

"you don't like musicals? Come on, you'll be cultured"

Groannnnnnnnn.... This must be karma. I don't know which is worse. Looking at Ah Bengs or watching a Ah Beng Broadway Musical... I must repent. I must repent. I must repent ...

The Zidane Theory

World Cup is long over. Much as I want to contribute to all the theories surrounding Zidane's day of infamy and his infamous head butt, I was too busy at work. But all those theories.. about insults and pinching of nipples reminded me of a buddy of mine.

We used to call him communist for a very simple reason... that farker memang look like communist. And he was quite a terror on the basketball too. I dare not say that he is very short but for someone at his height, he can really jump. Not only that, that tibai farker loves to jump and can still clap his feet together in mid air. But still, his height was a big disadvantage when you play against 6 feet tall centers. But our dear friend has found ingenious ways to beat the taller players to the ball.

One day during a friendly match , we were on the offensive and our communist was right smack in the middle of the zone. Communist scored and next thing we hear was the opposing team's center shouting that someone pinched him and was calling a foul and none of us knew what was happening. There were 4 of us on the opposing team's side of the court and communist was already standing at our own half of the court. We shrugged and walked back. That's when communist told us, that tibai fark too tall and he couldn't beat him to the ball so he pinched his balls and somehow, by pinching that tall tibai fark's balls, communist got to the ball first and scored. Haha

We gave him the nickname balls pincher. Also we named him "No shadow hand" after Wong Fei Hung's famous "no shadow kick" because he can pinch you so fast, you never see his hand near you.

That tibai fark was a fast runner as well. Another incident, tibai communist pinched the center's balls and even before the center yell foul, our communist friend was already back on his half of the court. Tibai center was yelling foul and someone pinched him. This time... we all know it was our communist. Hahahaha

True?

I don't know if some of you has received through emails or read some blogs who commented on some of the movie sub-titles. I remember one where Star Wars was shown in China and the English sub-titles were all wrong and it was really funny reading it.

I must admit that some of our Malaysian sub-titles can be funny as well. But ... it's really embarassing too. For instance, go and check it out and see if its true. Whether its really Made In Malaysia. Forgive me but I assume that it was made in Malaysia.

From a pirated copy of the movie Pirates of the Carribean 2, I noticed that it was "recorded" inside a cinema. Presumably recorded last Saturday. Ok ... that is "very normal".

But the sub-titles ... sighs. You want to know how bad it is? Captain Jack Sparrow in bahasa is known as Kapten Jack Pipit. Go check it out. Again, before all of you kill me ... I am only assuming that it was "Made in Malaysia". Comments anyone??? Those who watched it last saturday ... true? Really called Kapten Jack Pipit???