xniquet’s drinking playlist : ending the night with style

Yesterday was a great night to have a drink out in the garden. The moon was shining brightly and it rained the whole afternoon and that made it cooling. I am not a great drinker but just don’t let me hold the bottle and I’ll be okay. When the group gets together, they really mean business. I remember college days when all we could afford is cheap booze like “Thunderbird” or “Night Train” but as you grow up your taste change. Our taste buds required something more exquisite, something more bubble-ly, something that cost us almost RM200 a bottle – 1999 vintage champagne. But it was money well spent, I think…

But being an occasional drinker, some of us didn’t really bother about the quality, but it was more of a quantity issue, just making up for time loss I guess. 5 persons 5 bottles, we were experts in Math, just bring out the rest of the bottles and drink like there’s no tomorrow. Actually there was a tomorrow, and my head was left feeling like Jack and Shit and Jack just left town.

All American Rejects/It Ends Tonight
Eve6/Here’s to the Night
Semisonic/Closing Time
Collective Souls/Needs
The Verve Pipe/Colorful

songs available for downloading:
xniquet’s drinking playlist

These are great songs to listen to when the night comes to an end. It great to listen to when you are back lying on your bed and looking out the window and recalling what the heck you have just drank…

I was so stone, I forgot to close the windows when I turned on the air conditioning, no wonder it felt so warm.

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xniquet’s drinking playlist : ending the night with style

Yesterday was a great night to have a drink out in the garden. The moon was shining brightly and it rained the whole afternoon and that made it cooling. I am not a great drinker but just don’t let me hold the bottle and I’ll be okay. When the group gets together, they really mean business. I remember college days when all we could afford is cheap booze like “Thunderbird” or “Night Train” but as you grow up your taste change. Our taste buds required something more exquisite, something more bubble-ly, something that cost us almost RM200 a bottle – 1999 vintage champagne. But it was money well spent, I think…

But being an occasional drinker, some of us didn’t really bother about the quality, but it was more of a quantity issue, just making up for time loss I guess. 5 persons 5 bottles, we were experts in Math, just bring out the rest of the bottles and drink like there’s no tomorrow. Actually there was a tomorrow, and my head was left feeling like Jack and Shit and Jack just left town.

All American Rejects/It Ends Tonight
Eve6/Here’s to the Night
Semisonic/Closing Time
Collective Souls/Needs
The Verve Pipe/Colorful

songs available for downloading:
xniquet’s drinking playlist

These are great songs to listen to when the night comes to an end. It great to listen to when you are back lying on your bed and looking out the window and recalling what the heck you have just drank…

I was so stone, I forgot to close the windows when I turned on the air conditioning, no wonder it felt so warm.

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An iPhone post…

So I’m waiting for the iPhone to “activate”, by which I mean get a signal from at&t that will tell the phone to start its web-browser and wifi interfaces. That doesn’t appear to be happening any time soon, but I feel I have to blog something related to the iPhone.

This article from Slate.com has an interesting comment about the social norms of waiting in line. The article points out that while it’s rude to jump ahead of people to buy the first iPhone, it’s not illegal.

This is a good starting point to ask what sorts of social norms should be regulated by the government. Stephen Landsburg points out that our social norm may be the best way, and using economic theory, it might be better to always put the latest arrivals at the head of the line. Computer scientists who study queuing theory have their own ideas of a “fair” way to stand in line. Other cultures have different social norms. For example, the Chinese government is now worried that Western norms will clash with Chinese norms (they take cuts) during the Olympic games in a couple years. Governments attempting to regulate social norms are in danger of forcing us to follow what may turn out to be bad norms.

Despite this, a lot of people want social norms regulated. The British government is heading that direction. Lawrence Lessig, board member of the EFF, argues that the government should regulate social norms on the Internet.

In many ways, the government is already regulating the social norms of the Internet without people quite realizing it. Electronics Arts (EA) have published their Terms of Service that you must agree to in order to play their games. Among those terms are: You will not exploit any bug in the Service or in any EA product to gain unfair advantage in the game and you will not communicate the existence of any such bug (either directly or through the public posting) to any other user of the Service. This a good social norm on one hand (we don’t like cheaters) and a bad one on the other (we don’t like restriction in our freedom to speak). Unfortunately, the courts have ruled in the Bnetd case that such restrictions might be enforceable. Before you argue that the government should regulate social norms, you might ask yourself if you are willing to have the government side with the wrong norm (pro-speech or anti-cheating).

As we ask the government more and more to regulate and police the Internet, how much longer are we going to get away with not paying for those services? What I mean here is that the more the government gets involved in governing the Internet, the more they are going to want to tax it. If companies like EA want the government to regulate virtual money in their games, the government is going to want to tax that virtual money.

What we have here is both the right (businesses like EA) and the left (groups like the EFF) campaigning for the government to regulate and police social norms on the Internet. I predict the situation will get worse. I’m suggesting that we should resist all such attempts by the government, even if we agree with the norm they want to regulate (such talk won’t make you NetNeutrality guys happy).

Grr. I’ve written this long diatribe and my iPhone STILL hasn’t activated. Maybe I should fuzz something else this weekend. I wonder if anybody has tested Opera recnetly…

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xniquet’s boredom playlist: rainy days

Marilyn Manson /Putting Holes in Happiness
Fast becoming my favorite track on his new CD, un-Gothlike song, but with traces of U2 and Metallica inside.
30 Seconds to Mars/The Kill
Currently, my favorite EMO song, he is damn right when he sings: “Bury me! Bury me!”
30 Seconds to Mars/From Yesterday
Another song which caught my attention, taken from the CD “A Beautiful Lie”, it is fast becoming one of my most played tracks.
Avril Lavinge/ When You’re Gone
Reminds me of “I’m with You”, nice tune but the lyrics are a little bit too corny for my taste.
Breaking Benjamin/Rain
Nice acoustic that will make you hate rainy days….
Staind/Epiphany
Another EMO acoustic song which will definitely make you feel like committing suicide

It’s been raining shit and brick last few days and rainy days to me are somewhat a trigger to make me feel emo, I don’t have any bad memories on rainy days but it brings my mood down, hence an Emo playlist is created. Maybe, the thought that I can’t go cycling vigorously or hang out at the beach just saddens me… okie la, play more Sims 2…

Do you like rainy days? Some people thinks’ it’s a gift from god that wash away the bloody heat wave and hopefully it will waste away their sins too. To some, raining at the right time is a gift but raining on the wrong time is a curse. My worst nightmare was stuck in a traffic jam for hours. I consider myself lucky to never have been going through hell. Some lived to tell the tale; they left the airport one rainy night around 10is and reached their destination around 4is. Some of you would know which bloody traffic jam I am referring to. Smile and be glad that you were part of history. But in a hick ass town like Kuantan, how much damage can a heavy rain do? Let me see, you would probably have to wash your clothes again because you were too lazy and left it outside when it was raining or you would probably miss your favorite Fried Kuey Tiao stall at the pasar malam because they don’t open when it rains, even if it drizzle, Yeah you got it right, people ion Kuantan are so lazy. Look at me …:P. What’ else? Can’t go sun tan or swimming after work or any sports that you’re into after work. Ah yes, there is life after work here, you still get to see the sun after work here.

Lastly, I know someone will be devastated when it rains here. Rain means wet, means fur will get dirty because they don’t make dog boots, and means no going out for walk. What to do? Showing the pity face doesn’t change the fact that it rained …

Things that you can’t do in Kuantan when it rains…..


1. Cycling

2.Hang out at the beach

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