I'm still on my quest to get laid. Perhaps I could finally get some at Bandar Baru Sentul. Supposedly halal too.

Picture by Khairul Azwan Sa'adon via Amir Muhammad.

I'm going to let the music speak for itself. Congratulations Malaysia!

Go download the music and video and spread the love around.

It's the Marry Month Of May once again and I'm being bombarded by the neverending barrage of the age old question at various weddings that I attend these days. I feel like breaking out into this parody of Duffy's Mercy called Marry by the hitz.FM Morning Crew the next time anybody asks (since those snarky comebacks don't quite work anymore).

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You can tell from the title of this mashup that this is one of those self serving efforts. And I'm putting four artistes and their songs to the cause namely Che'nelle (with I Fell In Love With The DJ), Dato' Siti Nurhaliza (with Ku Mahu), Dina (with Malu Tapi Mahu) and Pitbull (with his rap from Lumidee's Crazy). Once again, I have to thank Audi Mok a.k.a. Batdude for letting me mash his songs again after Hilang. I should start repaying him by contributing to his germfest gum pile.

I have been busy and I have been busy. And inevitably, I fell sick and it made me feel very unsexy all over. I need to remind myself more to pull back once in a while. I guess everybody can get carried away when they're in "the zone". I am, however, reminded of that story of that Singaporean woman who died of overwork around this time last year. She actually even wrote an entry about her overwork on her weblog a few days before she died.

Something for all you fellow workaholics (and perhaps slavedrivers) out there to ponder over during Labor Day.

I actually did these remixes back in late 2005 before Sumo-lah went into production. It was my first time asking any established musician whether it was okay for me to mess around with their song. To my surprise, both Afdlin and Pacai were extremely sporting about the whole thing. The Look East Mix was keeping more to the Japanese theme of Sumo-lah while the Through The Ages Mix was something I went nuts over trying to be experimental with the song's soundscape.

I still love Pacai's version though, with that ripping guitar solo and strings towards the end of the track.

My thanks to the both of them for letting me do this!

I got myself a Wii the other day. Let the innuendos begin!

I've never owned a game console before. But the simplicity of the Wii as a whole did it for me. Not to mention how it's gonna make everybody look ridiculous when playing it. Plus, the name alone is a hoot. You can just about insert it into any sentence and it becomes hysterical. "Wii will rock you" or "Wii rise to the occasion" or as their ad goes, "Wii would like to play". I've been told that lines like "Do you want to see my Wii" or "Would you like to play with my Wii" can help me get laid though it's more likely that I'll end up getting pepper sprayed, tazered, kicked in the nuts or issued with more restraining orders (or all of the above) instead by women all over.

I only have the bundled Wii Sports right now and I'm hooked on the Tennis and Bowling games. I made the mistake of playing them too long in a stretch and ended up with a sore arm. I'm such a wiimp. I really need to get out more often. At least it'll increase my chances of finding a wiife.

Okay, I wiill stop now.

Every once in a while, I get a wild hair up my butt and buy a book judged solely on its cover like this one. According to the description, this book is supposed to "guide you through all the essential stages of life, one year at a time from 0 to 100, from your birth to your midlife crisis, from losing your virginity to planning your cryogenic freezing."

Available at a bookstore near you. There's also a copy on my coffeetable for anyone to read when they pop by. Call first. I may be doing some real life catching up.

A few days into with the MacBook Pro. I think I've gotten over the initial euphoria and ready to get it worked on over the festive holidays. First order of the day, I cranked up its memory to 3GB. Two words with five syllables: VMWare Fusion. This little baby lets me run Windows (or any other x86 or x64 based operating system for that matter) within Mac OS X as a virtual machine. Admittedly, there are still a couple of things I need that only exist in Windows and not available on Mac OS X. So having the ability to drop into Windows quickly to do whatever that's needed instead of booting up the nearest PC is a real time saver (more so when you're on the go). As far as I can tell, Windows is actually running FASTER in VM than on my 2 year old PC! Coolest feature? Unity mode! It's like having Mac OS X and Windows applications together on the SAME SCREEN (can someone say identity crisis?). Check out the screenshot below:

And when I'm all done using Windows, I can just discard whatever state it's in and have it reset to its last clean state, which is great in case I muck up Windows with viruses/spyware or any misconfiguration whatnots, all without having to re-install Windows.

I love the irony of the whole thing though: That it takes Mac OS X (with a little help from VMWare) to make Windows usable and stable for my own use once again.