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Took advantage of AirAsia’s RM9.99/way flight and got my ass to Bangkok. It was an 825am flight and so it was an 430am awakening.

Thailand has an 1 hour lag in timing and we took a 400 BHT taxi to our hotel to check in. The driver was lost, well this usually happens to booking for budget hotels. He got so lost tat he slapped the map of the hotel tat we printed, straight on his dashboard.

And this is when we started to get restless in the Bangkok jam, believe me, if u think KL is terrible, Bangkok is somehow similar, just tat their jam/rush hour is almost ALL the hours. And when the driver made a call to the Hotel and got the direction all right, he keep repeating happily:

Saya Anaconda~! Saya Anaconda, yea yea!

We were seriously blur but allowed him to go on saying it, any idea wat he meant?! I’ve got a list of Thai word tat we’ve encountered, and the situation we were in. We were lost in translation.

A 1.5 hour journey and we reached Diamond City Hotel. Got this booked via www.rates2go.com, after doing much survey they were offering the lowest price for this hotel, USD68 + 22 (extra bed) for 2 nights, 3 person. Pls be aware if u were to book the triple room, it’s meant for 2! WTF ei?!

The hotel was a 3 star, and it was okay for the price we paid. It has some pretty nice deco and serves the purpose – to slut bathe & to sleep.

Location wise, Diamond City Hotel is around 10 minutes walk from the nearest BTS station and around 30 minutes walk from MBK Shopping Complex, our Sg. Wang alike & Siam Paragon, our Suria KLCC alike.

Though walking is strongly discouraged as it could be quite a distance. U are hearing from some1 tat walked this distance and regretted. There are some food stalls around the hotel and 7-eleven is just a few steps from the lobby. No prostitute/lady boy were seen around this hotel – which was boring good, really.

Traveling by taxi in Bangkok is the easiest way, we haven’t been waiting for more than 10 seconds for a taxi to be waved down – there are ample of taxis around. From yellow to pinky, they kinda dominate the amount on the road, and they drive F1 tat squeezes around. Just tat, u’ve gotta bear with they name:

Thanks Mr. Kiti for driving us, ur driving style shud give u a more reflective name of ur skills, probably Mr. Bulldoggy or Mr. Buffaloyze.

Many say tat u haven’t been to Bangkok if u haven’t visit their temple/Palace – which made it our 1st destination for the trip.

The Grand Palace was ok grand, would be great if we have known more bout the history – we would appreciate it better. So in the meantime, we just stick with cam whoring.

The weather was burning and we were melting. This seems real gold, as they are not melting. Would still prefer Charlie’s Chocolate Factory though.

Even it’s in the temple and things should be holy and decent, can’t help but notice the scratches at the “tip of the twin mountain“. Get your hands of the statue!

And then i saw a couple who looks quite Malaysian, posing for quite an amount of time at this same spot. Guess they were lost in movement yet stubborn to ask for direction.

Angkor Wat in Bangkok?!

Nah, just a miniature model – trust me, go get urself a Visa and go to Siam Riep for the real thing.

That’s about for the Grand Temple. Looking at the map, we were spoilt for choices on the next destination. A very warm security approached us with English, which is very pleasing to hear something familiar from the locals.

He was really helpful and can’t stop talking bout where we shall go next, planning out our next itenary. His english was ok, and we could understand it – just tat, we’ve heard bout wat locals with English giving direction, they tend to physcho & brainwash u to a place and u end up paying more than planned, or being dragged to places to chop ur head, pocket tat is.

Nevertheless, we followed his words and he even got us a Tut Tut with 80 BHT to 4 destinations, sounds like a good bargain to us.. well, sort of.

And so we went on the Tut Tut, and damnit they really speed with power and breeze through and squeeze in between like well, speed + powerful + in between = fast pleasure?! But really, they were fast, and made us full of dust.

Our 1st view, a pig statue. Din really know wat it’s all about but if ppl make a statue of something, it must mean something, even though it’s a pig – and so we shud be courteous of it.

We we brought to the Lucky Temple – not sure of the name, and it’s not in google as this temple is not commercialized, this was wat we were told and we believe it as were we the only outsiders in there.

We came across a well-spoken English Thai, introduced to be some1 very close to the King, working for the King and speaks great thing and very passionate of his King and his country. He shared with us the background of this temple, and saying it’s the 3rd temple in Bangkok (now there are 200+ temples), and this lucky temple ain’t open to tour agencies, it’s open to public today as the King will be visiting this temple the next day, and they were doing some preparations.

This is where King Rama IV‘s ashes are, just under the statue. The guy was telling so many great things, and i shall now watch “The King and I” & “Anna & the King” (banned in Thailand for too much misrepresentation of the fact), either 1 of it has a scene of this temple in the movie.

This is the statue with the exact proportion of King Rama IV, with all his greatness and majesty, he is a small size guy, it would be around the height of my nipples – which again proves sizes really doesn’t matter.

Another round of briefing on where we shall get diamond etc.. He said tat Poh Kong (yes he said this name) gets their stock from this place – Pan’ Siam House of Factory. He suggested tat we could purchase some and take in back here and sell to Poh Kong, and get a handsome profit from it – something like an investment. Well, we were not allowed to think of tat, by our own financial means.

The rest of day was ruined by huge downpours. And Tut Tut is useless in this condition.

Just 1 thing b4 moving on to the next Bangkok post, dogs here are different. They don’t really seem interested in biting u, more interested in the food u are eating.. and they are not shy to express themselves tat they want wat’s in ur hand..

When u receive a package, it does triggers some suspicions, unless it’s been planned and u’ve been anticipating it. In high school, we’ve been taught how to do the black box experiment – Shaking, jerking, whanking, listening, smelling, wat’s inside the mysterious box.

So it’s time u take a wild guess on this before scrolling down further, try.. it’s good practice.

I knew u didn’t even tried guessing. Well hell ya~ this is down my lane as the 1st gift i’ve actually won from anything.

In real fact, i didn’t knew there was this competition. Well not 1 tat i was aware of, till 1 morning i walk in the office and YowChuan yelled at me saying:

“shuffle, shuffle, Jian u won a shuffle!”

WTF, i kinda ignore him and tot he was talking cock but now i feel so guilty for doing tat. U won’t mind la ya bro~

And there’s a blue round sticker on the casing of Shuffly spoiling the whole look & feel of it. A good courtesy from Exabytes it is, the web hosting company tat i’ve signed up to run this blog. They are having this monthly winner thing for lucky subscribers, and i really did get lucky. Pls bear with me, it’s my 1st time winning something.

Lisa, the assistance customer service manager was great at responding to my anxious receiving of this. She patiently bear with me and got it sent to me even b4 i anticipated it – this is surprisingly good customer support!

Hosting wise, there’s no much problem til date, only 1 hiccup, when my house’s streamyx dynamic IP got a banned IP and can’t access – a quick call to customer service identified this and solve it with a restart of modem.

Speaking of this, I suddenly recall tat all this happen could be due to the reason of my domain name registration those days. Some one from Exabytes contacted me to have my credit card and IC faxed to them for verification purpose, reason? Cuz they suspect KuKuJian as a spam and porno domain name – use to do those porn site on penis or etc like those.

It did cause some delay but eventually it got sorted out and registered. They must have felt guilty for this and gave this gift as a token of apology appreciation.

And it’s orange – sweet~! It’s like they know me, they understand me.. Shuffle being an iPod, there are many reviews out there mentioning on the drop of sound quality in the 2G shuffle, they are the pros and give good reviews so i’m not gonna bitch about it. No where near being an audiophile, as long as it’s decent it will turn me on.

I got myself stucked being a loser in listening to it – the normal drag drop to the player didn’t work and soon found out iTunes is required to get Shuffly playing. A 30MB++ download got me really knocked out waiting in the wee hours – yet, i so wanted to listen it out just b4 i hit the bed.

Finally i did, with Bon Jovi’s Make A Memory taking away Shuffly’s virginity.

And so there’s a lil’ orangey shuffly in my pocket now, who wants to dig in and feel wat’s in my pocket? U might find more than a shuffle though..

Taking a day off work to attend a sexy conference seems like a decent thing to do. Unless when the air conditioning in the auditorium gets too cold and ur balls bang against each other in the love of shivering.

SLiM 2007 represents Sustainable Living in Malaysia. It’s a 2-days conference held in University Malaya. Been hearing lotsa issues relating to the word “sustainable”, but yet not really knowing wat the heck is it, and tot this would be a great opportunity to get to know her better.

Wat more when there are 2 celebrity emcee hosting the conference. Yes, i’ve lost my virginity in being in the same hall with a local celebrity, actually 3 of them if u don’t mind the gender.

Pls don’t mind the quality and clarity of the picture, i was nervous and very anxious to take their pic without setting the camera to proper settings, and naturally there is a paparazzi feel while doing this so this is my only shot.

There stands in front of all of us was Lina Teoh, our former Miss World Second Runner-up.

Those were the hot days, and in SLiM she’s all dressed smart & formal, very very presentable even though there are some small lil’ tiny miney signs of age catching up, she really has her charm and carries herself so well.

I 1st saw her while walking to the washroom while she was walking out of it, at a distance u see a formal gal walking with grace, and closer only i did realize it’s her. Walking pass her, u feel the “wind”. And it’s with this celebrity status that being an Ambassador for some nature society more meaningful, well and she did made things livelier in the conference.

Familiar? Well he’s our Kopitiam man, well tat’s wat we know. But i’ve gotta know tat Mr Manogaran Maniam (we know him for Mano) is actually the President for EPSM (Environmental Protection Society Malaysia). And he’s so different from wat we see of him on TV. He speaks with great solid tone, with much authority, and very clear, a lil’ too slow & draggy though. He did the welcoming remarks and thus kick started SLiM 2007.

It was then followed by a performance by the children of Taska Fairfields, presenting the song
“We Got the Whole World in Our Hands”.

They were so adorable & very slumber – in a cool and innocent way, 1 kid did a YOL (Yawn Out Loud) a couple of times, every1 heard it and every1 smiled over it – well the kids are just being honest.

And the conference officially started with talks and presentations, along with some forum. Much of these are pretty foreign to me, and it’s good to know and understand the ugly fact as well as wat’s going on about mother earth. Lunch was served vegetarian, raw, simple and healthy – makes me feel angelic & innocent after eating it.

It’s the 1st time i’m hearing the term “ecological footprint” – Does sound like Big Foot in our Johor deep jungle but nope, this is not so mysterious. Don’t ask me wat it is, i’m still trying to digest it, go wiki it and hear from the experts.

It came to me quite sometime ago, an offer tat i didn’t expect, and didn’t give much hope, certainly didn’t anticipate tat it will make me feel, well a lil’ uncertain.

It made me think a lot, mostly when i’m alone, on every element tat could be involved, the consequences and effects, can’t help but think of others. Erm, a lil’ bullshitting and exaggeration here i must admit. But again, somehow it almost shred some tears.. just nope, it didn’t happen (yet).

It’s not an easy decision, but it is a decision tat is ought to be made, and i’ve made it. This might be a twist in my story for the coming couple of years, and maybe even further more. But i do feel it would be nice to hit the books again, in a foreign land, where things could be cold and lonely, and time could be slow yet fuzzy..

Bros, i can’t keep this away from u all, and u all have all the rights in the world to know this decision tat i’ve just made. Once a team, forever a team – distance will never break it apart, and this is not even a signal of giving up.

Astro recently updated their networks with few more good channel, E! was great and rightfully so, they hiked up their monthly subscription fees- no problem, just tat the reception ever since was fucked up.

Every night when it hits 9pm, the irritating blue bar will display “Service currently unavailable”. It consistently behaved so on a daily basis for a couple of weeks- at 1st we tot it was the rainy period but eventually realized on dry days it’s so as well.

Since the only thing i watch on Astro is any Spurs football matches, and it’s close season now i didn’t watch TV – at all. This can’t be said to Pa and YZ though. Must be frustrating to see tat blue bar appearing when Jessica Alba is doing the Into The Blue Pa’s favourite breast enlargement plastic surgery documentary is on.

BTW, it’s a great source on breast enlargement. Go ahead and click, it’s only computer generated boobs, not a porn link, and is for pure education. Suddenly makes me wanna continue my pursue on Nip Tuck.

And so Ma called in an Astro made an 9am appointment on a Saturday morning. A chinese guy appeared by 8.45am (Wow! Malaysian timing reversed for once?!). Instantly realized the problem – faulty main board. Our Astro decoder is an old 2nd generation and he said every decoder model has their own unique symptom when it’s going down. Some showing pixelization, some refuse to turn on occasionally, and ours is the blue bar. A quick swap with his decoder and it shows! And so the problem was identified – faulty main board.

Astro outsource this servicing to sub-contractors, they inform their main contractors on the timing and location of the appointment and these contractors then sms to these sub-contractors. Simple and direct, and all parties have their cut in it.

Wilson also said there’s no free servicing on this kinda things nowadays, and picked on some ppl who tot it’s under warranty after 6-7 years (come on!). Sometimes they are required to climb up to the dish and rectify problem – while saying this, he looks down and said:

“We put our life for doing this”

Wow, it really felt like a strong statement to share with me, i didn’t make him say so, he just said – and i felt for them. And i paid the bill without a single sense of hesitation or questioning.

ps: Much KuKuJian blogging time has been substituted with “research” and analyzing for the hunt of a laptop. It’s good and settled now, phew..

What would u think if u see 50 ppl walking around 1 Utama, together gather, wearing the same shirt? Same colour, same design, just different cuttings in terms of guys and baby tee. I would look and them and wat the?! Attention seeking bastards! Nah pls don’t be so bad, so mean, it’s good to be kind if u come across any of those.. cuz i’m in it.

This is in conjunction with Kumomo walk, a walk tat will be held twice. 1st walk to create awareness and attention for potential advertises to book the space on our body t-shirt, with anything they want – almost for some, anything for me.. was wondering how cool it would be to have a bra design with 3D effect across my chest, moreover, 50 of us! Ok, stop it..

Together with many Life College students, who were head spearing this 1st of it’s kinda event to raise funds for their student newsletter publication. In the meantime, some of the proceedings will be fed towards Building of Cambodian Rural Schools, under the Kumomo Tree Project.

By 12, the shirts came to the gather point and were distributed.

When it comes to cheap budget t-shirts, especially white colour ones, there ought to be some concern.

Gals might go:

Die dy die dy, can see through one ar?! but but today i wear yellow colour oh how, why u din tell me earlier?!

Guys on the other hand:

Hey come on at least u have yellow colour to protect & cover, mine straight see the nipple u know?!

And so, the pictures of the walkers were restricted to snapping it from behind.

Ok i made tat up, but good thing this wasn’t a concern, not tat i know off though. This was our intention though.

And after flooding the washroom at the MPH corner for 15 mins – changing to Kumomo walk kit, we got into our groups and started walking. 4 groups with 12/13 walkers led by 4 very very cool leader – Sara (A), Adriel (B), Sarah (C), Chevonne (D). I was with Yong & KK with another 11 in group A.

Prior to tat, we were discussing on the arrangement of groupings and accused tat Ric & Nic did some under-the-table payment to get to the group with most chicks! – turned out to be rightbe the judge urself :)

A brief briefing, and Darren was pissed when told tat he is not permitted to hold his gf’s hands while doing the walk, to treat this official and with professionalism.

And so the walk officially starts. We were split to 4, even though it would have been much greater to stick together in a group of 50 bunch, well but tat would get pretty out of control for sure. This was how it looks like from in front (remember, we were not allowed to snap the front view, too closed up)

And so camera persons were kicked to walk at the end of the group.

While walking, there’s not much of feeling like a fool, more like observing and taking note of how ppl around look at us. It’s funny how some ppl point, and then talk to their frens and then they all point together. There was even a guy saying to his fren tat we overheard:

Eh, a lot of buggers la..

Hmm, wondered wat the buggers meant here.

Lunch time was at Burger King’s, sad tat there weren’t much seats available to be seated together, as it would be a great chance to get to know to rest of the groups.

A bunch of very energetic and camera slutty ppl – wopps for the language but really dunno wat other way to describe, but will get to tat later, it’s good though, really.

Recharged and energized, the walk continues..

In a combined and much bigger group.

Next destination: GSC for the movie session, which is also the officially session of cam whoring.

1st, Captain Jack Sparrow got touched on his nipples/breast chest.

Then the AmBank model got stared from under below.

A decent group picture? Look closely at the guy in front on the right.

“I Taiko here~!!”

And finally here’s a really decent one, unless u spot some kinky things around.

Click here for larger Kumomo Walker Group Photo

And it’s Shrek 3 time!

When u have 51 movie tickets together, u treat it like a model.

And try to make it a movie star.

Shrek 3 was kinda disappointing though, but when the bar was set so high on the 1st and 2nd release, it’s fine for some silly laughs, especially when the king frog was dying (yea i know it’s mean to laugh at a death but the way it happened was oh so dramatic), and also when Snow White burnt her bra off?! Tat’s when i really had my LOL, sorry KK and Elizabeth if I laughed a lil’ too much.

Oh and i heard someone on my left, tat laughed really a lot when Snow White was singing for the bee, birds, owls, bambi, tortoise etc etc.. i do believe she’s 1 of those tat enjoys singing like this while showering..

After tat, some free time around, and some silly poses.

By 6, we called it a day, thanks to all, we made our day count. We got some attention, an Indian couple came up to me and asked bout it and said it was an interesting idea, while i met some old frens who noticed us from far due to the sillyness similar quantity togetherness.

Despite the attention, we could work on having a bigger and more prominent text, as there could be many ppl who are curious, yet imagining them popping in front of ur chest to read the slightly small text to only getting to know wat’s all this about.

I’ve gotta know some nice ppl, though it would be great to know all the walkers but we will have our chance. Thanks for walking together gather and making it a special day. We shall walk again when we get our advertiser.