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I’m pretty sure that most of you have watched this movie, Die Hard 4.0 (also known as Live Free Or Die Hard). If you haven’t, then you should buy a DVD and watch it with your family or friends.

As expected, the movie is loaded with jaw-dropping stunts, and when it begins, it feels like there’s no time to breathe! It’s action all the way, baby! Though Bruce Willis is 52 (and bald), he is still fit to throw some punches and kick a few bad @$$es! You go Bruce!

The story centers on a tough detective, John McClane, who is assigned to pick up a hacker named Matt Farrell (Justin Long) from his apartment after the US government’s networks and computers suffers from serious virus attacks – only to be greeted by scores of bullets from several assassins who are on a stakeout to kill Farrell, the last hacker on a dead list.

Farrell doesn’t know that the virus he created has indirectly helped the terrorists to launch a massive computer attack on the US government, and he is wanted by both parties – the good and the bad. Well of course he’s on the good side, and he is scared $h1+less when he has to dodge bullets, involve in a car chase, and running away from the baddies.

Ah, like every other Hollywood movie, there must be at least a hottie in the show. I’m talking about the gorgeous Maggie Q, who plays the bad chick Mai Linh, an assistant and lover to the evil mastermind, Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant). You should really check out her moves as she kicks McClane’s @$$ and even…butt-headed him! Wow!

There are so many of my favorite scenes in the movie, particularly the one where the car crashes and flipped 360 degrees towards McClane and Farrell. There is also this shooting from the helicopter, car (or is it a 4WD?) dangling from the lift’s cables, and a high speed car chase (or shall I say, truck chase?) at the highway where McClane does his best to stay clear from a military jet!

Please, please, I beg you, watch it! Highly recommended for all you action fans out there!

When I took my boy out for the usual morning walk, guess what we stumbled on? What we found was super duber horrifying! Not exactly a dead human body (I would have keeled over and possibly died of shock) but it was a corpse all right! Dog corpse!

<* Perrinator gasps in utter shock and disgust at the flashing images of the body *>

He was very persistent at one point and kept pulling me towards the huge drain. Gosh. It was awful. I didn’t dare look further coz’ I’m afraid I might not be able to stand the gruesome sight and have another puke fest. The upper half of the body was covered with what looked like a million flies!

When I came home, I told my mother what happened and we decided to call the DBKL to report about the incident. What bloody senseless people would do that? Even if the dog was a stray dog, his body should be properly disposed of. I guess the words ‘common sense’ doesn’t exist in the dictionary of whoever had done this horrendous act.

I never have a steamboat gathering in my house before, until recently…uhm…okay, so that was like two or three months ago. Not exactly recent. I gotta admit that I didn’t really plan well. My invitation list either kept growing or shrinking, because some of them couldn’t make it and some of them can only confirm their attendance at the very last minute.

I bought a lot of ingredients from Jusco, Tesco and Giant hypermarkets. Since that was my first time shopping for steamboat ingredients, I was totally clueless as to how to estimate the amount of food I should buy. Is it too little? Is it too much? Is it fresh enough? Is it tasty? Sigh! I was really pressured that time! In the end, the amount of food bought was enough for more than 30 heads!

My aunt is a good great cook. She helped me with preparing the food and boiling the soup, which was super tasty according to all of my guests. There were a total of…hmm…let’s see…only five of my closest friends managed to make it, plus my aunt and her daughter, my family, ah, myself…and the grand total of headcounts was…13!

To minimize the amount of food wasted, my family and I devoured the leftovers for one blardee week until we almost puke at the thought of steamboat! Just imagine having steamboat for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the entire week! My tummy had ballooned so much that I thought I was three months pregnant! Seriously!

There were desserts too. But it was only served during the horror movie was being played in the dark. I am not a fan of horror movies (never will be!) but…this horror flick called “Dead Silent” was indeed the ideal scare-you-till-you-burn-your-steamboat-calories thing. My brother was the one who bought and recommended this show.

Since I wasn’t exactly watching the show, I went in and out of the kitchen, preparing the desserts and cleaning the dishes in between, and occasionally crept behind one of them and scared them $h1+less when the movie took an exciting and chilling turn. Muahahahahahahaha!

Sigh…I am supposed to attend the girls’ event thing today but…I still don’t feel very well. Kinda woozy. I had another episode of diarrhea again last night. Damn it! Guess I’ll bore you guys with some real facts for now.

When you mention the word ‘chocolate’, images of the sinfully delicious chocolate bars (or ice-creams) flooded into our minds in lightning speed, and we know that chocolate originates from cacao tree.

Mention the word ‘strawberry’, immediately the small, red heart-shaped fruit comes into the picture. Now, get this folks…mention the word ‘vanilla’…what is the first thing (or image) that comes into your mind? Honestly?

Okay, maybe you get it right the first time. I’m the one that’s stupid. But, I simply couldn’t think of where vanilla actually comes from when my colleague asked me this question. So, I did a little digging on the Internet (where else!) and…hmm…interesting… vanilla comes from the orchid plant! Geez, didn’t know that orchid is edible!

Also, do you know that vanilla is billed as the world’s most labor-intensive agricultural corp? All because it takes several years for the first flowers to appear after the vines are planted! (sounds like how investments in unit trust funds work! Darn!) Now you know why it’s blardee costly – whether you use it for cooking or baking!

What do you get when you combine a 3-in-1 hazelnut-flavored coffee with a dried chicken meat (that has been residing in the refrigerator for more than a month?) for breakfast?

Well, a diarrhea plus puke fest, of course!

I could hardly remember when was the last time I had a terrible diarrhea and vomiting, and this unfortunate affair happened two midnights ago. Yes, imagine going to the johns countless times and purge and puke ‘til kingdom comes! Sigh…it was so blardee horrible!

I swallowed some Chinese pills and drank lots of water, but these efforts were completely futile as I keep going to the toilet! When I puked, I really had to see for myself whether any of my vital organs came out too!

<* Perrinator shudders at the thought of her organs coming out of her body *>

After more than two hours trying to fight the awful nauseous feeling and hoping the diarrhea will stop, I totally gave up and asked my mother to send me to the nearest hospital to be treated as an outpatient. I had absolute no intention of spending the night at the hospital! God knows who will be your ‘neighbors’!

I had to wait for like 40 minutes before it was my turn to consult the doctor! 40 blardee minutes in a freaking private hospital?!!! Ah, I see the God musta been busy trying to test my strength. So, the doctor asked whether I wanted to get an injection to immediately stop the diarrhea and vomiting, and I said no!

I’ve always hated needles poking through my skin and flesh, even for a sec! I’d rather take the pills first and fight the side effects later on (I think there wasn’t any energy left in my body to fight back then!). I only stopped puking and purging yesterday morning! Phew!

Still, I am not feeling so good right now, but I hope I’ll be able to make it for this Saturday’s girl shopping thing at KL Convention Centre! Wait for me, Alvey!!!