Recently, I bought a cupboard from Alamanda Shopping Centre in Putrajaya. As everbody knows, furniture bought from shoping centres usually come with the 3 annoying alphabets:

D.I.Y.

The unassembled package was around 6 feet in length, and weighs more than 20KG. It took up the whole interior length of a Proton Waja to transport it back to my house. We had to put the front passenger seat flat down and lay the huge package diagonally with both its ends resting on the dashboard and the rear window. I could hardly drive with the box partially obscuring the rear window! Phew!

After we’ve reached home, it was almost midnight but we immediately set to work to construct the cupboard because I hoped to have it finished before the next day since I won’t be in Cyberjaya the following day.

We grabbed the screwdriver and started putting on the screws. At a little past 1A.M., we finished the ’screwing’ part and realized that we got a problem:

This cupboard required NAILING. Meaning that we needed a hammer and NONE OF US had a hammer with us!! Since when did these D.I.Y. cupboards needed nails on them?! I thought they were all done with screws…

Since the unfinished cupboard was taking up a lot of space in my room, I was desperate to finish the cupboard without delaying till the next day. However, it was 1 o’clock in the morning and there’s nowhere that we could get a hammer, we resorted to the use of our own creativity.

In the end, we decided to CREATE our own hammer using:

Item 1: A MANKY OLD POT

Plus,

Item 2: An old cloth.

Produces our item of the day! A fully usable hammer!

Actually we could have done without the second item, but it was used in consideration of the other inhabitants of our apartment since it’s not actually early and people might be sleeping. Not bad eh, a sound-proof hammer some more!

Here’s Sebastian at work helping me with the nailing using our new, sturdy, sound-proof hammer! Really kind of him!

So with the help of our new invention, we finished the construction of the cupboard that night!

Nothing is impossible, if you bothered to think about it!

What would you do if you received NEXT WEEK’S NEWSPAPER, today?

I’m sure most of you have heard of the popular TV series Early Edition. If you’re not familiar with the storyline, do have a look here.

Staring kyle Chandler, the series is about a man who receives newspapers a day ahead of time; in simpler words, he receives tomorrow’s newspapers today! With the knowledge of what’s going to happen tomorrow, he then did a lot of extraordinary and heroic stuff like preventing disasters and saving people.

A very interesting TV series, but unfortunately, it is not real.

My experience, however, is REAL.

This morning I bought 3 different issues of the Malay newspaper, Seleksi, because it contained some special information that I needed. I never read Seleksi before because I usually read English newspapers. In case some of you might not have heard of Seleksi before, here’s a photo of the main cover:

Well, nothing much special about the newspaper besides the fact that it reports news that are really out of the ordinary. Things that you can never find in newspapers like The Star or NST.

As I said, I bought 3 different issues of the newspaper, and they are, respectively, issues of the 1st December 2006, 15th December 2006, and 15th January 2007.

Wait a minute, something didn’t sound right, I thought today is only the 8th January 2007… Then I checked the date on my computer, and sure as heck it is! What the hell is next week’s newspaper doing here?!

Here’s a solid proof that I received next week’s Early Edition of Seleksi:

This photo of the said issue was taken beside the webpage of www.timeanddate.com, which displays the current date and time of a particular area, as in my case, Kuala Lumpur. You can check out the webpage Here.

If you can’t see the date clearly, Please Click Here to see the enlarged image. Which will clearly prove that I’ve got a newspaper issue 1 week ahead of time! Yay!

And it’s not merely a front page misprint, ALL the pages inside are labelled 15th January 2007!

Wahahahaha… I am NOT going to prevent the disasters from happening as Kyle Chandler in Early Edition did!

Future news selling at $1000 per news! Any takers? =p Nah, just kidding, there might be lottery results in there, not gonna let you guys get it.

Cats: stay away from them during meals!

All of my close friends know that I simply love cats. Whenever I see a stray cat, (yes, I know it’s kinda unhygienic sometimes…) I could never resist to give it my usual gentle kitty-stoke, and see it responding gently to the comfort. After all, I have been rearing kitties for many years since I got my first pet kitten from the canteen of my primary school.

Cats are just so adorable because they are irresistably CUTE, relatively clean animals, not too big in size, do not create loud noises, do not need to be caged, and, erm, do not die that easily. =) Of course, they are also the ‘touchable’ type of animals, unlike fish or tortoise, which is only good if you want them as decorations and not pets.

Finally and most importantly, they are among those kinds of animals, that have what I call ’senses’. What I mean is they can expressively recognise and interact with humans. For example, they can act reeeaaalllyy cute and pitiful when they are trying to get free food from you when you’re eating at your nearby mamak stall. Awww…

I came across a cat that is so professional in human seduction, that it can perform and maintain a really extraordinary 2-legged STANDING posture when it’s hungry and you most certainly CANNOT help but give up half of your meal to it.

Here’s a step-by-step photo sequence of a kitty seductress in operation:

So if you see it one day, look away from it and concentrate on your food, otherwise you’ll probably lose your meal to it.