The Great Toy Purging of 2007
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 |Listening to: Percy Faith - “Theme for Young Lovers” - Ocean’s Eleven
Wonder what Azmi was so shocked about?
Archive for the ‘True UsDudes Stories’ Category
UsDudes BBQ July ‘07
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 |Listening to: David Holmes - “Boobytrapping” - Ocean’s Eleven
Part of a belated set of photos spanning the second half of 2007. This is from the UsDudes organised barbecue from July 2007. Probably the best organised of these irregular things to date. I got the drinks I had left over from an old TigaPe event a few months back, and some disposable utensils I’d come across while doing my ICT. We got the food and other supplies from the fine people at BBQ Wholesale, which is halal certified, has almost everything you might need for a barbecue and they deliver as well.
Not as many people turned out as we’d hoped, but keeping things intimate meant it was well, more intimate. We still got visits from overseas Dude Raizan, and rare sightings of old Temasek-era comrades Rahman and Hidayat. Birthday cake for myself courtesy of Winda (thank you very much), and while it wasn’t far removed from a regular Saturday night hangout it was still fun.
Being apparently the only person who still has a portable stereo I was elected to provide the music. Unfortunately 6 C batteries don’t come cheap. Fortunately through an act of complete serendipity Azmi and I found super cheap C batteries. Naturally they didn’t have a lot of juice, but it played the radio for about four hours or so just fine. Trying to play a CD we immediately saw the “low batt” light flashing.
Apologies for the lack of photos. My camera had already died by this point and I had borrowed my dad’s camera which is pretty ancient itself and which I wasn’t terribly comfortable using.
Lots of helicopter flybys throughout the evening due to National Day Parade rehearsals being held at Marina Bay many miles away, but I can always imagine the flags were big banners saying “Happy Birthday Samurai Zack”.
Fore, skins, they’re not just golfing terms.
Monday, January 29th, 2007 |Listening to: “Eulogy” - Tool - Ænima
(in a cab, while fiddling with the little buckle thing that you use to adjust bag straps)
Azmi: So do you prefer when they’re made of plastic or metal?
Zhaki: I don’t know, I don’t really have a preference… Are we really having this conversation?
(watching the trailer for this week’s My Name Is Earl)
Azmi: So Jewish men don’t have foreskins?
Zhaki: No, they’re circumcised as a symbol of their covenant with God (or G-d, if you’re Jewish). Although most American men are circumcised at birth in hospitals. I’ve read certain articles that argued against circumcision…
Azmi: Isn’t it supposed to be like cleaner?
Zhaki: But generally tests have shown that circumcision helps prevent the spread of STDs, since the foreskin is apparently a breeding ground for germs and the like.
Azmi: …Are we really having this conversation?
Running jokes
Saturday, August 5th, 2006 |Listening to: Warren Zevon - ” Keep Me In Your Heart” - The Wind
Note: This headline has nothing to do with Project Loser.
Random conversation somehow descending into nonsense about the Tammy home sex video. Note: I’m piecing together the conversations from memory, bare with me if it’s not strictly accurate.
Zhaki: Maybe it’s Tammy Tay.
Azmi: From Growing Up?
Farhan: The show where ironically nobody grew up.
Zhaki: Tammy Tay was hot man. Especially in the first season.
Azmi: Oh man..
So this is what passes for witty repartee…
Thursday, November 24th, 2005 |We were at Mak’s place the other day when suddenly towards closing time electronic music came over the radio. It was kind of reminiscient of how Daud’s used to have Bollywood music playing on Saturday nights. Occasionally they’d even have dance music or hip-hop playing as well. In any case, it provoked Azmi to ask what genre the music fell into. I replied that that maybe it fell into the house music category, which provoked the reaction from Farhan that somehow people who claimed to like house music were infringing on the trance scene about “how ppl probably don’t know that they’re listening to house when it’s being played in them pubs, discos and them ministry of sounds“, in a tone of voice usually reserved for when “real” punks talk about Simple Plan or Good Charlotte.
These were our responses.
wtf? rotflmao
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 |
I found this while digging through all the files on my PC and thought it might make a nice update. A photo of the extended UsDudes family, taken waaay back when, apparently so far back that we 1) still went Hari Raya visiting, and without baju kurung no less and 2) when we had no idea of how to dress up. Also hopefully proof that Najib and I spent four years in classes together and most of them spent right next to each other, a fact that Najib seems to have forgotten.
Hey, I’m not being spiteful, he really didn’t remember.
Interestingly, I still own the pair of brown Doc Martens that I’m wearing in this photo. Not only have they outlasted every other shoe I owned in the intervening time , they’re at least a size smaller than any other shoe I have currently.
Photo taken outside Fazrin’s old flat.
Where everybody knows Shah’s name.
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 |
In addition to possibly being a serial killer, Shah also finds time on the side to run a convenience store near boat quay. Or maybe it’s his safe house. Or a front for a large hitman syndicate. Hmm…
Warning. Explicit Content.
Thursday, September 15th, 2005 |I was looking through all the pictures in my computer and came across this gem of a picture.
Wooo! PARTAY! Let it be known that this is the price of fame, Najib. When you join the next Singapore Idol and reach the finals, this picture will probably make every local publication in the country with the headline: Najib actually 4 years older than he says he is!
Ah 25th Jan 1994. Good times. Good times. And in case you didn’t get it, the timestamp on the picture is wrong. It was taken more like around end of 1998.
