1) Wear Mickey Mouse t-shirt.

2) Constantly yawn and rub eyes.

3) Blow bubbles at passing cars (gift from Jerome Kugan, solutions bottle is a plastic orange grenade)

4) Big white helium balloon tied to your bag with long, white ribbon.

5) Holding book Adri recommended as "Harry Potter, but for adults" (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)

I was stunned when I realised the combination. Then I blew more bubbles.

When Chitoo and I get together, it's extended wankery conversations. We now have two projects, one of which is a short film starring Jerome Kugan (because he happened to walk by just as Chitoo was done imitating a merlion spouting water for about a minute, and we saw him).

Anyhow, I updated Tilted World with one post recently:

The Edge @ KLPac

The skateboard dude came pre-doodled. I just added the cape, skateboard dots and giant mutant chicken. FUN!

This resulted in Adri supplying many suggestive lesbian ideas on what I should draw. Since I learned that night that she's a cheap drunk, I don't know if she remembers she now owes me a stickwoman comic script where "at the end, a carpet is always munched, literally or figuratively" (declaration followed by a big, proud smile).

Laine: I don't know if it's a bad thing that your drunk lesbian ideas sound so appealing, but I'll draw it!

(put 2 lesbians together with a headline like "The People Muncher", and you have a doodled stickwoman about to munch a rug, naturally - tiny doodle right above the tagline)

Adri: Is that the carpet?

Lainie: Yeah. Either that, or a square amoeba.

Love your graphic designer friend today, get her this notebook too.

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I started receiving messages asking me to get my ass to Palate Palette, just next door. I'd forgotten it's Lapsap's first anniversary. Where the people are wild, the clothes are trashy, the hairstyles crazy and the music fun.

I was tired, but not only did I survive the night, I had heaps of fun (and woke up the next day thinking "Shit, I'm gonna get tagged in some awful photos on Facebook soon").

Jemufo: How was last night?
Lainie: Awesome! But I lost count of how many times I was violated.

From below my neck to slightly above my knees, multiple times, and that was just within the minute of walking in. You Lapsap people have no idea how to keep your hands to yourself, but every so often I'm skanky enough to like how you bring out my inner trashbag :D. 

It's all good when beautiful, skanky girl friends are doing it. I like that I feel safe there, even when privacy and comfort zones are beyond my imagination on the sauna-like dancefloor. And the music, ahhhh. Always a fun mix.

[ Because I've since learned some declarations are necessary: If you're some random stranger reading my blog, please don't try the same the next time you see me in public, you'll probably a) freak me out, and b) set aforementioned friend gropers into vicious protective mode. Unless you're a pretty girl, in which case, you've declared yourself fair game. ]

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I also bought a much needed external hard disk (500G) and cheap, foldable keyboard - anyone subscribed to my Twitter account will think I spell like a squirrel randomly jumping across the keys sometimes, but it's just my wonky laptop, where some of the buttons don't work (and some I have...literally...ripped off....). I left them with Jemufo when I realised I'd be heading to No Black Tie.

When I was at No Black Tie, I gave Kat my other bag with camera and stuff for safekeeping because I'd be headed to Lapsap. At about 4am, I was sheepishly calling Spes from the front door of my home because I'd forgotten to take my keys, though I did make numerous mental notes to myself that it was exceedingly important that I remember it, including just before handing the bag over to Kat.

By the way, a few days ago, when I picked up a notebook I'd been using as a coffee mug coaster (wouldn't want to scald my study table, would I?), to jot some meeting details on it with a big red marker, I realised that the "notebook" is actually my passport. :(

I didn't scrawl stuff like "MEETING FRASER BEFORE 6PM IN KL" on my passport, but I hope I haven't fucked with the chip inside with the numerous mugs of coffee I've put on top of it. I forgot I took it out to get my passport number for my visa application.....

No, I don't feel too smart about it either.

*dancing in room to Pulp's Common People video on repeat*

Sometimes I wish I could grab Kakiseni and shape it to be friendlier to the masses - but I can't ignore that we are missing a lot of academic discourse in the local arts scene, which Kakiseni did provide, amidst some pieces that used the vocabulary but perhaps lacked the content.

Kathy recently announced Kakiseni articles will be taking a break, till the cash machine is up and running again. Rach and I are both bummed out. I don't really want to think about what it'll be like without Kakiseni for a while, so I'll leave it for now - expect random one off bitchings.

Since you won't be seeing my contributions there till further notice, here are some updates to other online exploits I've been up to:

KLUE

Well, you guys know KLUE magazine. I've started contributing to the arts review section, and you can read Stirring Odissi@KLPac here. Sarchan is my editor, I think? Or at least, my coordinator. Actually, I don't know what she is, except she's my KLUE-liase. I figure I can say this and not get caught for a while because she's in Hong Kong now :).

I have another KLUE review coming up soon, once I get to writing it :P. Sarchan on holiday! Slack! Procrastinate! Wheeeee! Drinks whis-kays and wines everyday! (Sarah if you're reading this I'm kidding).

Tilted World

I've been involved in starting up a new Malaysian blog for queer voices (with a bunch of people I've never met!). Sometimes I get lazy and post other people's writings (but only because it was pwnage), sometimes I write about really cool stuff on the internet, like Sandy Stone's videos.

Please, if you have a blog (and no, I don't care if "nobody reads my blog", I'd really like for you to pimp it), or a Twitter, or a website, or a status on some social network site that needs to be updated, feel free to plug http://www.tiltedworld.org.

Tilted World also welcomes contributions, feedback and discourse, so as you will :). It's still a baby website, but we hope it'll grow to something nice.

There are also other stuff out there, but I'll pimp them next time la - this is just to let you know I am now on KLUE, and Tilted World needs whoredom.

If I have already pimped TW on my site and merely cannot recall, you should donate some money my way so I an afford to check for brain damage.

Keep a watch out for:

Website: The Nut Graph!

and

Music: Yuna (performing this Wednesday at No Black Tie).

The Nut Graph's name pretty much gives off the vibe of what to expect, and I see some names of contributors I'd love to start reading again soon. Political and cultural commentary, mashed up and presented neatly, I'm guessing.

And as for Yuna..Making waves since 2007, selling out her demo, and that very popular performance at KL Sing Song yesterday. If you haven't heard her, I insist you log on to her website and see what it is about her, that book of handwritten lyrics (I presume that's what I saw), and voice that's making people react to her so well.

She's much better live, by the way. It's such a cliched thing to say, but true. And, much respect to what our other starlet Malaysian-Youtuber has achieved, but Yuna makes me go Koko-who? I much prefer Yuna's lyrics and singing.

I bought an IDD call card - a first in a loooong, looooooooong time. Whatever happened to free conversations online, looking like a telemarketer with my headphones?

Oh, and a BBC journo contacted me for an interview, but our schedules have been really problematic, so we'll see.

And, I was helping out Panda Head Curry yesterday, handing out....Anti Sodomy Pants. Apparently, people were wondering who the demure / coy PHC girl was. ME! Muah, hahaha. Demurity, my middle name!

You. Have. No. Fricking. Idea. How. Much. Forms. Stress. Me. Out.

I subconsciously arranged the many posters in such a way that my roommate Risha took a step back and declared I had stuck a collage of a giant sperm (complete with wavy tail) next to my bed. The one thing most people didn't realise was that these were all pictures of Heath Ledger, he looked so diferent in every photo.

Perhaps this was my first indicator that he could convincingly play many different roles, though I did not see it then.

This was when his reputation still largely stemmed from 10 Things I Hate About You, where as an angry and lean boy, he threw his reputation to the wind, strode across the the field, and serenaded Julia Stiles - simultaneously making young girls slide off their seats in cinemas everywhere.

But now, he's going to be known as the one who passed away too soon, the man who took the character of Joker, and gave it life. If he affected girls in their seats, it was to make them extremely uncomfortable and tense. I swear, I couldn't detect Heath in his portrayal of Joker - devious, murderous psychopath was all I got.

And I nearly orgasmed at the sight of the Batmobile, and laughed at some inside jokes, but I digress.

Watch The Dark Knight in the cinema, it's worth it - at the very least, to see the final performance by Heath Ledger. I think he has every reason to be proud of this one, wherever he is.

I believe the movie's coming out on Thursday. Go. Book your tickets.

[ I went for the premiere of The Dark Knight thanks to Nokia (M), in the Gold Class cinemas with Suanie, so it totally felt like I was on a date with her :P ]

A few days back I headed to Replacement, to get my hair cut by Ricco. I frequently bump into Ricco at TAG on Friday nights, and this haircut is long overdue. I pretty much sat in the chair and let him decide what to do.

I do like the new haircut - Ricco asked me what I wanted and since I let him decide, I don't really know what Ricco did (though he did say long hair suits me). I have bat equivalent vision without my spectacles and couldn't watch the process, but less than an hour later, I had a shorter fringe, neater, lighter looking hair.

I look happy here huh? This was moments before the cat tipped a glass of water over in my room and I realised I had work to get back to. Then she sat on my laptop and opened up applications I never knew existed.

That be my bedroom in the background, and a mish mash of postcards, posters designs, and sculptures stuck on the wall - some are my designs. Most are stuff I attended / liked.

Last night was Ben's (of Ben's Bitches') birthday do, and it coincides with someone telling me she downloaded the Sexercise song Nessa, Josie and I er...participated in...many years back.

As or tonight...I'm off for a drink with Jemufo and Jen soon, to see their new tattoos, followed by SHITDISCO and Lapsap. Meanwhile, because I'm waiting for the girls, here are 2 random photos taken from my collection the past 2 weeks (random because I can't preview right now):

Protest at MPPJ Stadium in Kelana Jaya, towards the night, when I'd gotten bored of listening from the field and was walking around the crowd at the stadium.

Masjid Jamek early evening, just exploring around KL after lunch with Chitoo, and wandering around Old Pudu area, wondering if I should stop for some of those famous Tong Kee eggtarts or Teochew porridge.

Okay heck, one more.

Ah, this pic. Lessee. Elaine and Kim, at the Glenmorangie Whiskey Appreciation dinner at Westin Hotel, three nights ago. They both have names like mine (my chinese name's Kim) :P. Kim Ong's my junior in school, so it was always weird for me when people looked for Kim, because it just sounds like they're looking for me.

About 8 of us Malaysians got to meet and learn from Glenmorangie's whisky creator and sensory expert, Annabel Meikle, and drink a variety of Glenmorangie single malt whiskey, which was good. She's a bit of a foodie, so I owe her an email on stuff to look up for if she does come to KL again :).

I had a lovely time, I'll blog more about this evening soon, I want to.

Do I have more stories to tell? Yeshhhh, I do. And I expect to have a rocking good time tonight. w00t w00t!

Hello, Lainie is back. Kinda!

I is yawnz, in Ur face!

There have been scare tactics employed to discourage this, and the army's involved now. I was going before news of that came through, and I'm still going now. Something in me deeply resists the idea of backing down to bullies, not when I have a reason to step forward.

I don't think I have an invisible shield of invulnerability. I'm not scoffing at the idea of men with guns.What I do have faith in, is that some things need to, and should, be done. I'll be damned if I let threats keep me from my faith.

I'm in. So are many friends, and those dear to me. Let's hope nothing untoward happens to anyone there.

See ya at the protest, if I do :)

Love, yo.

[ The Army is on our streets - What will you do in Malaysia’s hour of need? ]