The Story of Stuff

Something which all of us should be concerned about. Do take about 20 mins to watch this clip.

The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Completely pointless blog post

I'm finally home! YES! The flight was 7+ hours long and I was slightly airsick for most of the journey...it was like a mild case of nausea which became a little worse toward the end of the flight but I weathered it.

Watched 3 movies in-flight. The 1st was HAIRSPRAY! Yes, I know I'm seriously outdated with movies but hey, I was in Australia for the last 11 months so it's totally excusable. HAIRPSPRAY was completely enjoyable, as everyone who had watched it said. I was pretty much dancing in my seat while watching it.
Then I chose to watch The Simpson's Movie (due to lack of a better choice...Silver Surfer wasn't available) and had a good laugh. I think I might have attracted some attention as I tend to laugh quite loudly but who's keeping track huh?
The last movie I watched was....get ready...High School Musical 2. Seeing as how (most of the Adelaide people) know I pretty much memorized High School Musical they were pretty sure I'd get my hands on HSM2 asap. Well I didn't. And fortunately so, cuz though I was only able to watch half of it...it was quite crap and the songs weren't catchy at all. Period.

As the plane began its descent, I was smiling all the way. When the co-pilot said to the passengers "to all visitors, selamat datang ke Malaysia and to all Malaysians, selamat pulang" I was ecstatic. For some unknown reason, the national song went through my head. Then I wondered why in the world would they greet tourists in BM? It's not like they are likely to understand it right?

Hypothesis: When I return to Malaysia from Adelaide, I will melt from the heat and humidity.

Fact 1: Adelaide is currently hotter than Malaysia, with max temperatures reaching 40 degrees. Even I was quite surprised when I learnt of the temperature over there.
Fact 2: I did 'melt' from the sheer humidity over here. It's so different from Adelaide where one hardly sweats.

Fact which is totally unrelaated to the hypothesis:
The sudden change in environment, plus walking into a house with 3 dogs triggered a massive histamine release which caused me to itch unrelentlessly which caused me to scratch those damn intolerable itches which has given me excoriations on quite a number of places which has caused me a considerable amount of agony which I haven't experienced since...a long long time ago, which fortunately only lasted a few hours on the night I touched down.

Now if I can just complete the arbitrary list of foods to eat that's floating around in my head...

Friday, November 09, 2007

Achmed the Dead Terrorist

Got this from Amanda and it's really good. Applause to Jeff Dunham and Achmed for this :)