shuffling on by…

This is an old Shuffling On By Ver. 1.0 post.

wtf…

adam is 7 yrs old, rides his bicycle like an unc desmo wannabe and listens to linkin park. yes, linkin park. and who goes out to buy the cd’s at his behest? dear old dad, of course. hey, at least i’m glad he does not ask me to buy the likes of kenny g, dave koz, etc. linkin park i can live with, dave koz will make me vomit blood.

so 1 fine sunday morning, while having a nice family breakfirst of nasi lemak, adam paused from scooping up his nasi lemak and asked mommy;

“mom, what is ‘fuck’?”

you could almost hear the bubbles of my teh tarik popping in the absolute silence that followed.

mommy looked at me, and somehow the task has been transfered to daddy dearest. before committing myself, i just had to make sure we heard him right.

“what did you say, adam?”

“‘fuck’, what is ‘fuck’?”

yeah, i heard him right the first time round, but maybe it’s one of those english words that sounds the same, but not.

“how do you spell it?”

“f.u.c.k.”

“and where did you hear that word?”

“it’s in the lyrics of the linkin park and jayzee cd you bought me last week. what does it mean?”

“errr… it’s a bad word and just like the middle finger sign you saw in the 2 fast & 2 furious movie that i told you not to do, this word also you cannot repeat. understand?”

“ok.”

“and give me the linkin park & jayzee cd. maybe it’s time i introduce you to the joys of dire straits, gary moore, stone roses, queen, john mellencamp….”

First posted by rkaru on January 26, 2005 10:39 AM

This is an old Shuffling On By Ver. 1.0 post.

i rode in an ambulance last night. no, i was not ill. i was accompanying someone who was. it was a sobering experience. she, lying there looking so frail and emancipated. so much in pain. yet not uttering a word of complaint.. and here i was, complaining about a mere scratch.

the ambulance, lights flashing but siren silent, weaved in and out of traffic. it was late sunday night, almost midnight. traffic should have been light but this sunday being the last day of the long weekend commencing with chinese new year 5 days ago, there was heavier than usual traffic on the road. people on their way back to their homes, to their koi fish left 6 days without food. back to their petunias, bougainvilleas, philodendrons and what nots left unwatered for 6 days. back to their tuminah, ruspawati, or puspa, left 6 days unsupervised. let’s hope they had not taken advantage of the amnesty and left impromptu. or worse, that they had not taken more advantage and left with half the content of the unsupervised home.

but some of these people rushing home to their kois, their bourgainvillas and tuminahs can be so thick-headed, self-absorbed kiasus, not giving way to an ambulance with flashing lights, though silent siren. some even overtook the ambulance on the highway.

listen, you dumbfarks! an ambulance with flashing lights means it’s ferrying critical medical cases to the hospital for medical attention as immediate as it is possible. just because the driver was being considerate to the residential neighbourhood we were passing through by not switching on the siren, don’t think you can get in its way.

GET OUT OF THE FARKING WAY!

to kak n, our prayers are with you. get well.

First posted by rkaru at February 14, 2005 04:57 PM

i was supposed to link my old posts from my movable type days, but i just don’t have a clue how (plus, i’m too lazy), so in lieu of new postings, i’ll be posting some of my more significant old postings from time to time.

first post on shuffling on by.

shuffling on by…

… I think that’ll be an appropriate name for my blog. A year has passed since I toyed with the idea of getting my own blog. Booked the rkaru.com domain via PaulTan (it was mine previously but I had let it lapse and some squatter moved in. Maybe the a**hole thought he/she can make money out of it. Bwahahahahaha!) and left it at that for a whole year. Got a few ribbings from DocLiew on the status of my blog. Gave him excuses. A year came and went. Time to renew domain reg. That was more than a month ago. Rkaru.com still in cold storage. Then Doc gave me a hefty butt kick to get moving.

So here I am, a whole week has passed since PaulTan activated my hosting, and I have yet to post my first blog. Sigh… if procrastination is a profitable hobby, I’ll be rich.

My excuses for this late ‘first entry’? Getting the hang of Movable Type, fiddling with the setup, fiddling with CSS (help me!!!), cracking my brain for a ‘kewl’ blog name…

Years ago I used to have a personal website (also on www.rkaru.com) which I named after my old house number and street; ‘6 Pantun Satu’, so I thought of naming this blog in the same fashion, but somehow ‘34 Rimba Riang’ doesn’t sound cool. Then the side of my brain that likes to think it’s creative (yea, right!) opened the floodgate and a plethora of possible names came out, all useless. I even thought of using ‘Flying Spatula’ but I believe that’s already claimed.

Then, that hefty butt kick from Doc came, and I told myself, quit shuffling and get on with…. and ’shuffling on by….’ stuck.