Silent guitar

I was surfing for some stuff the other day and came across this really cool guitar. It's called a silent guitar and it looked really weird to me at first but after staring at it for about 12 minutes and 48 seconds....i thought it was really cool. * Actually it was more like 12 minutes and 47 and a half seconds but I wasn't really counting. =p *

Silent guitar

At first I thought that someone drew an outline around the picture but later on, I found out that the outline is actually part of the guitar.

Slightly turned

The reason why it's called a silent guitar is the fact that it doesn't make any audible sound when you play with it. Of course, headphones come in very handy here. That, and an amplifier, is the only way to hear what you're playing. Unless you just happen to have super-hearing; Which, if you really did, would be totally wasted on listening to yourself playing a silent guitar.

Anyways, I don't need another guitar nor do I need a silent guitar but it'd still be cool to have one. After all, Christmas is just around the corner...... *cough* *cough*

~Slick~

Some things going thru' my mind right now

1) The world is round. If it was flat, there would be people constantly falling off the edge of the earth and space would be full of lifeless bodies.

2) When people say they are fine, they're not really.

3) Cookies should be called bakies since they are baked and not cooked at all.

4) Life is a disease. Every day you've lived is another day you've died.

5) A chinese man with only one chopstick will go hungry.

6) A chinese man who runs after his car rolling down a hill will lose alot of weight. A chinese man who runs after his car up a hill is committing suicide.

7) Spit in the wind and it'll hit you back in the face.

8) The teletubbies are just plain wrong.

9) The lines on a road are as straight as the road it's painted on.

10) The sky is a reflection of the sea on dust particles in the air.

11) A bird can fly but a fly cant bird.

12) Our imagination is exactly that, just an imagination.

13) Nice guys don't finish last, they don't finish at all.

14) Eat to live to eat or live to eat to live?

15) My head still hurts cos one of Tim's flags totally bonked me there. I wonder if I have ESP...

16) No use crying over spilt milk, best thing to do is get a towel to dry it up.

17) The more advanced the technology, the lazier we get

18) No pain, no gain.

19) Have car, will travel.

20) I'm tired...sleepy time!

~Slick~

Mole 'b' gone

If you've known me for a very long time, you would know that I have a pretty big mole underneath my chin. Ta-dah!


Everyone has them whether big or small, easily seen or not so easily seen. Hehe... I've had mine since birth but you wouldn't be able to see it when we're talking face to face unless I tilted my head up slightly. I know that my picture makes it look like a huge zit but that's because I'm finally getting it removed.

Anyways, I've never really liked my mole, which is why I've always thought about getting rid of it. I've just always been to lazy to do anything about it until now. In my lifetime they've been many 'chinese-ey' people who have told me that my mole is a very good one and that I should leave it as it is but I think it's all hogwash.

You see, many people believe that a mole in particular spots on the body bring about certain things in one's life. Mine is supposed to bring about wealth. What's more is that they believe that if hair grows out of the mole, it amplifies the mole's "power" and that this power grows with the length and amount of hair coming out of your mole.

HahAhAHAhAhAahahAHAhahAhAAhHAAhAHahAhAHaHahAHAhAHAH.............

Oh well, I guess I'll take my chance anyway and get it removed.

~Slick~

ps: I just realised that I have a pretty elongated neck...

Detox diet

So, I started my detox diet today and let me tell you this, IT'S SO FRIGGIN' HARD !!!!! Anyone who tells you otherwise needs some sense knocked back into them. No matter how many times you've done it or if you're a "pro" at it, denying food will ALWAYS be tough.

No sugar, no salt, no meat, no preservatives, no artificial stuff, blah blah blah...... I should just give up eating altogether. That would be a whole lot easier for me. Unfortunately for me, it's too late to back out now since I already bought 5 bags of apples, celery and cucumbers...... Abit much, you think? Well, I relish the idea of having more than enough. That, plus I'm crazy. Hehe...

I've always loved apples as a kid so I hope that at the end of my detox diet, I wouldn't have learned to hate them...

~Slick~

Guitars go 'jeng 'jeng 'jeng

There are some guys who should just be shot if they have any pink on them. But then, there are other guys who can pull it off. Ahem! Like me...................and Mark Hoppus from Blink 182. Check it out, his microphone stand is pink too...

I wish I had a pink bass....but it's just so hard to find nice pink basses around these parts. I mean, this one is just plain ugly.


What's even harder is finding a pink bass that is made by a professional guitar making company and not some dodgy one. And trust me, there are plenty of dodgy ones out there. Like this one for example.


Yes, that DOES say what you think it says...

~Slick~

Prayer

Lord, You know my heart. You know my wishes and desires. Lord, I submit them to You. Please help me to achieve them with the integrity of a Christian, the strength of a true believer, the faith of a righteous man, the grace and mercy of a blessed man and, most of all, the heart of a servant. Amen!

~Slick~

Korean food

A couple of days ago I joined a couple of my colleagues for lunch and they decided that we should go for Korean food. Don't ask me which one i went to, cos there's only one in Brunei and it's in Kiulap. Though it was my first time trying Korean food, I was game because I like to test the limits of my stomach sometimes and I must say that it was........................unusual to say the least.

For one thing, we had to sit on the floor since the tables were only about 2 feet off the ground. That being said, you can see why it was so uncomfortable for me what with my long legs and all. Bleh! I can't remember all the names of the food but I did take a few pictures. Take a gander below...



One thing that I noticed is that they always seem to give you more than what you ordered. The pictures above were just what we ordered for everyone to share. Meals always come with appetizers and complementary refills (up to a certain extent) All that topped off with our a la carte orders makes for a VERY hearty meal. And being the only guy there, I was given the priviledge(???) of finishing everything. Burrrrp! Not to mention all the "auntie" talk I was forced to listen to. *I swear, if one more person says that I'm too skinny and needs to eat more otherwise no girl would want me as a bf, I'm not gonna be responsible for my resulting actions*

A word of advise here, If you don't like spice or sour stuff then I suggest that you don't ever try Korean food because it's all basically spicy AND sour. Kim-chee, Yum! However, if you choose to ignore my first warning and go there anyway, please take heed to my next warning... You paying attention?

DON'T ORDER WHAT I ORDERED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you're thinking that you're in for a real treat if you order their Korean noodles or more commonly known as "Kor-yun" then you're mistaken. TERRIBLY MISTAKEN!

What you will get is a packet of Maggie Mee Kari with spring onions and an egg beaten into the soup. There's nothing Korean about it at all. It probably wasn't even cooked by the Korean chef. My colleagues were debating that it wasn't really Maggie but I am a veteran Maggie mee eater. Maggie with soup, kolo-maggie, fried maggie, maggie keropok; I've tried it all so I know maggie when I see it. Who are they trying to kid?

The worst part was having to pay $3.50 for it. Being the logistics person for youth camps, I know my prices. So, let's do the math. One bundle of spring onions = $1. Averaging about 10 sticks per bundle that = 10 cents for one spring onion. One egg carton costs about $4.80 and contains 30 eggs. That = 16 cents per egg. Maggie mee always comes in packs of 5 and costs $1.50. That = 30 cents per packet. Tap water = free. Put it all together and it comes to 56 cents for the whole dish. I paid $3.50 for it. *Bloody ripoff*

At least one thing I liked out of the whole time I was there were the metal chopsticks. For some reason I just couldn't stop playing with them. It isn't everyday that you can play with flat, metal chopsticks. Haha...

My rating for Korean food in Brunei - 2 out of 10

~Slick~

Patience is a virtue, tolerance is a caliber

I have absolutely no patience at all, just lots of tolerance...

~Slick~

Superficiality

Lately, it seems that the level of superficiality in friendships have increased. Well, for me anyways. As always, I speak from my own point of view and doesn't necessarily have to be the same for whoever is reading this blog.

Back to the subject at hand. Superficiality will be the downfall of many a friendship or relationship in everyone's lives. There's no escaping it. No matter what you claim, there will always be a level of superficiality in every friendship or relationship that you build. And why wouldn't there be? I mean, who wants to know every single detail of someone else's life or wants every single detail of their life to be known? It's unrealistic.

There are two sides to every coin. There are people who complain that they feel that they don't know you enough yet reveal nothing practical about themselves to you; Then there are people who keep everything to themselves but wished that they could have someway or someone to spill everything to. So, as I said before, unrealistic!

What constitutes as superficiality anyways? If I told you something that is true for me but sounds like utter bull crap to you, then is it superficial? Was I being lame again? Was it superficial just because what I said is not the kind of thing you expected to hear?

Most people have their minds made up about me!

Many people have mentioned that I am a very superficial person, or that I'm really hard to predict/read, or that I'm too mysterious, or that I don't open up enough, or that I'm afraid of people finding out the real me. Well, maybe everyone should consider the fact that it's not that I have lots of things to hide but rather, I have nothing to show. All I ask, is for a little consideration that maybe I'm not as closed as everyone makes me out to be.

~Slick~