Another Year Older

Posted on September 20, 2013 by jipp

So, today is my birthday anniversary. Don’t ask how old I am now. It doesn’t really matter. In a conservative environment, people would raise their eyebrows when they know that I am still not married at this age. It’s not really so much of an issue back in Sabah or at least in the town that I came from where the trend of late-marriages is quite normal.

birthday cake

I’ve got many friends, cousins and relatives who are still not married at about the same age as mine. Some got married because they got somebody pregnant. Some got married because – well – living in a small town or a village with nothing much to do, what else can they do right? Starting a family to complete the circle of life as they call it. Continue reading →

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Why the War in Syria is Suddenly a Matter of Personal Concern to Me

Posted on September 2, 2013 by jipp

I’ve been following the development of the internal war in Syria ever since it erupted three years ago. Not that I really care because as far as I’m concerned, Middle East has been in wars for as long as I can remember. There’ve been too many wars in that part of the world that whatever is happening there doesn’t surprise me anymore.

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I do feel sorry for the people though although many of the problems come from the people themselves. Call it a revolt, or a revolution, or whatever but in the end there seem to be more bad than good that come out of it at least in the years that followed. The prices paid by the people for striving for changes are very high – even at the cost of their own lives. Continue reading →

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Linkin Park & Metallica Back-to-back !

Posted on August 23, 2013 by jipp

I remember how I fished some 120 bucks out of my hard-earned money as a student working as a part-time waiter at a coffee house in PJ to buy a ticket to their concert. It was my very first time coming to a concert of an international band. I watched intently and in disbelief as they sang at the top of their lungs and jumped as high as the giant speakers on the stage – almost non-stop. I wondered where they got their energy from.

It was when I saw the difference between local and international music bands.

The images of their lively and energetic performances kept flashing in my mind. I hoped so much that they’d come back to Malaysia again.

Many years passed by and still there was no sign of their return. I was losing hope.

But suddenly the news of their coming to Malaysia broke and spread like wildfire. I was ecstatic. I was going nuts. 10 years!

Linkin Park Poster

I wanted to revive the moments that I was in 10 years ago. As a working adult with a little bit of income now, I wanted to watch them as closely as possible this time so I bought a ticket at the pit. I wanted to buy one at the VIP corner – but from my experiences at concerts in the past, I saw how the front rows were always overcrowded. I knew the concert was going to involve a lot of jumping so I didn’t want to jump with so limited space around me. Ahaks! Continue reading →

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