Vote For Change

Today is the last day to make a difference.

Head over to http://www.askcleo.com.my/campaigns/eb09/vote.html to cast your vote. There is no limit to how much you can vote, so there is no limit to how much you can make a difference.

:)

This has been such a hilarious and wonderful experience. Thank you CLEO! You ladies have been brilliant :)

VOTE #45!

Kubhaer, CLEO Bachelor #45 on the Fairly Current Show

Kubhaer, CLEO Bachelor #45 on the Fairly Current Show

It's crunchtime people. It's time to take voting to the next level.

Vote Koobz. Vote #45. Vote for Change.

Yummy

Yummy, originally uploaded by koobz.

You know whats HILARIOUS? I'm one of CLEO Malaysia's 50 Eligible Bachelors 2009!

The Mexican lovechild of Bob Hoskins and Danny DeVito...

More here. Look for #45:

www.askcleo.com.my/campaigns/eb09/index.html

You can vote me in for subsidiary titles. I want to win "Tastiest Looking Bachelor".

Vote Koobz. Vote #45. Vote for Change.

This Poster was Designed by Nisha K.

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Ben: we should have drugged him and peed on him in the ocean

Koobz: i fucking hate that guy

Ben: I like intensity.

Koobz: so do you think i'm going to find the chinese girl of my dreams now that i'm a cleo bachelor?

Ben: yeah totally

Ben: no

Ben: i know a guy who was one of people magazines most eligible bachelors like 5 years ago

Koobz: did he marry rich?

Ben: no

Ben: he would tell people 'did you know i was one of people magazines most eligible bachelors and they would respond with hahahaha bullshit

Ben: he is also kind of a fat guy w/ a blog

Koobz: i'm a fat guy with a blog

Ben: yep, so don't get your hopes up haha

Koobz: hahahahahahaha

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Done

It's done.

I just served my letter of resignation and my last day of work will be the 28th of February... then I will be an entrepreneur and freelance director/ AD/ Whatever you want me to be.

Right now, I'm free :)

The Wrath

The Wrath, originally uploaded by [n].

So the deluge of public holidays has finally ended and Malaysians can now return to complete work weeks and the knowledge that all the shops are back open and that the guy from accounting who has to approve the final payments is back from his 2 week leave.

How did it go?

Christmas - New Years - Chinese New Year - FT Day - Thaipusam

I'm not complaining. After 4 years of working every public holiday that came my way, including every one in 2008, it was nice to dodge some bullets and have some time off.

Now its down to serious business and I've gone ahead and done something that I've been meaning to do for two years... no better time to do it than in the midst of the gravest economic conditions the world has faced in a looooong long time... I've quit my job.

So far I've verbally gone through the motions. Tomorrow I put it in writing and then work out the terms of the notice and all the outstanding stuff.

What will I do instead? I've got a plan, but it is too sensitive and too tedious to explain on a blog, for the time being. Not to be too cliffhangery, I will say that my brother and I are starting a business together and the freedom from having to work a 9-Whatever-Time-You-Finish is that I get to set how I spend my day, and what I'm devoting my schedule to... means I get to give this new business the due attention which it definitely NEEDS and DESERVES (otherwise why bother trying to start something anyway).

So good luck to me. Good luck to you.

P.s' I'm so tired of the cliche Thaipusam pictures. I love the shot attached to this post by [n]. I keep hearing big booming kettle drums and ominous sounding horns whenever I look at it. DUH DUH DUH DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Fatty Fatty Bom Bom

The fatty bom bommery that overcame my life in December has YET to come to an end.

Today I ate TWO prosperity burgers... thank god I opted for no curly fries on both accounts and at least I'm exercising again.

That being said, I've put on 7 kilos since Dec 1st. DAMN KOOBZ!

ok ok ok

tomorrow I get back on the quinoa. Enough of this gluttony

Now for a poker update of the game in Klang...

EVERYONE from the office cobra-ed. Congratulations guys! You lived up to your lofty expectations.

Anyway, I went (pork and poker, remember?) and had some awesome pork and then had an awesome game and won RM200. I was the big winner for the night and very happy about how it all went. It was nice to go to Dare's house and take all his money from him... coz last week Dare played poker for the first time and took RM450 for us, but he cleaned us out... he took the WHOLE pot. No one could cash out. They didn't make it to the door. Dare killed it.

I did feel bad about taking Chonson's money though. She's such a sweetie patootie.

Gong Xi Fa Cai (gimme all yer money)

My littlest brother is obsessed with his iPod touch. He's also obsessed with his Nintendo Wii, the best of YouTube, photo tagging on Facebook, and Texas Hold 'Em Poker.

How the hell did Texas Hold'Em become so gawdamn popular? It's been taking over KL for at least a solid year now, and its really picking up steam this Chinese New Year.

I had resisted for a long time, just like I try to resist so many things that have a strong popular groundswell to them. I guess sometimes I like to think that I'm cooler than everyone else; so if 10 people are taking part in something, then they must be the masses and and stupid, and because I don't partake in the masses, then I am cool and special and unique.

WRONG

Hold' Em is frikkin awesome. In fact, I'm only writing this blog between hands on a 90 player Sit n' Go tournament on Full Tilt poker (download the app from http://www.fulltilt.com)

*********15 minutes later***********

OK, I lost.

FUCK.

Now I'm pissed off because I'm trying to teach myself patient poker playing, to stop giving in to the tantazlingly big pots that may come up. Then I didn't want to blog because I'm all pissed off, but then I remembered that I'm blogging as a writing exercise, so that I can get use to WRITING again... rather than the normal sell-cigarettes-to-your-children work that I do. SO I'm going to continue blogging for tonight. Where was I? Oh yeah. So now I'm addicted to poker, which is brilliant, considering I'm quitting smoking, cutting down on drinking and womanizing... nothing like a little gambling to fill up all my free time.

I picked up the gambling bug sometime in 2008 when my Roti Canai Crazy Cousins from New York came to visit and on a whim we decided to show them Genting. Hercules and myself had never been to the casino before and figured that this would be a great time to ch-ch-ch-check it out... so upward ho to Ringding (which is what Roti Canai Crazy Cousin #2 kept calling it because he's soooooo American).

I was my normal frugal self and decided to only play RM100, and picked roulette because hey, how hard could it be to pick RED or BLACK? We kept going like this on the RM5 bet tables until I was down to my last chip and said ohhhwadahell, i'll just pick a number and lets see what 'eppens.

1 Red, straight up.

I hit, and the payout was 35:1. for a RM5 bet, i made RM175.

SO MANY CHIPS!

WAHHHHHHH! I knew something was wrong, instantly. Something had clicked inside my head. An employee of my Brain had just checked the box next to "GAMBLING" on the clipboard of my life. I was hooked.

I gave Hercules some chips and then ka-ching, HE hit. It was ON like the Kong of Donkeys. My RCCCousins were done playing and were getting bored, but my bro and I sat there like proper losers and kept going and going and going. I ended up winning around RM1000 off of my initial RM100 investment, and Hercules did even better. Beginner's luck is a bitch though, because not more than TWO WEEKS LATER, we were feeling rich and itchy again so we took a late night trip up to the Highlands at 11pm with a car full of dudes and found ourselves at the casino. That was a pretty bad night. My first RM100 was gone in less than 10 minutes. Not long after, I was down RM200... and then RM500.

WHY DO THEY HAVE ATMS IN CASINOS!!!!????

Which was a really bad idea, because it was a tight month in the first place. I was interested in winning a free car payment for the month since i didn't really have money for much else, and there I was RM500 in the hole. No free car payment, but further compounded by No utilities, No cable bill, and No phone bill for the month.

Hercules was freaking out. The carload of friends were being irritating and saying we should head back. It was about 3am. It felt disgusting. It felt really irresponsible, slightly illegal, and I felt like my parents would ground me. The only solution was to win it back with the last RM20 I had in my fanny pack.

Maybe it was the fanny pack? Maybe the Gods of Gambling and the Ghouls of Genting were getting back at me for being so arrogant as to bring a fanny pack to the casino, in hopes of putting all my winnings in there, like some kind of old Taiwanese woman.

As an aside, did you know that Genting has a reputation for being one of the most haunted places in the country? Apparently from the slew of troubled souls who have hurled themselves off the side of the mountain from crippling gambling debts. The casino is said to be FULL of ghosts, heck the whole damn resort is said to be haunted beyond belief. They say that the regular gamblers always carry sweets in their pockets for the ghouls hiding under the tables. Keeps them from munching on your chips.

ANYWAY, I ditched my brother and the friends, turned off my phone, and found a table in the corner of the room and sat down and bet VERY carefully, and slowly but slowly but never surely but definitely slowly won my money back, and finally left Genting at 5am with my winnings for the evening...

RM30.

Which was less than what it cost me to drive up there in the first bloody place, but at least I was 30 up and not 500 down... and I had my dignity. Which is a lie. Coz I lost my dignity too.

We haven't been back since, but that initial joy of winning lots of money was what turned me on to even being receptive to listening to my 12 year old brother explaining to me how Hold 'em Poker works. A few weeks later we hosted a poker night for the cousins, a small RM25 buy in at 50sen a chip. I think I lost RM75, but I was definitely hooked. A few months later, I've now played poker for 4 nights in a row, thanks to this glorious holiday called Chinese New Year.

God Bless the Chinese for their love of pork, their beautiful women, and their unabashed worship of prosperity and money. Chinese people LOVE their gambling, so there has been a lot of poker invitations floating around recently. I'm proud to say that I'm up so far. Not much, I've won about RM200 in the last coupla days, but it's still better than being in the red. Today alone I played two different sessions with two different groups of people.

Tomorrow will be a big night. Heading down to Klang, the Den of Lions, for a kick-ass game with one of the producers from work at his family's open house. That will be some proper Chinese New Year kungfu shit going down. His family, who are from Klang, are making some homemade bak kut teh, followed by some gambling.

Yes.
Yes.
YES.

pork and poker.

like whisky and ice.

yummy.

I don't like the structure of this post. I feel like I'm rambling... but at least I blogged, and my fingers got a work out.

Happy Chinese New Year of the Ox. Let's hope everything works out this year. Obama's in power, the world is on tenterhooks, and the summer of my discontent is proving to be most humid and sweaty.

peace

Skinnamarinky Dinky Dink

Mira, the gorgeous photographer/socialite/fashionista tagged me in a very interesting note about herself today where she revealed her love for Sharon, Lois, and Bram's Elephant show and it instantly hurtled me back in time to my days of sitting in front of the tv (which NEVER had clear reception... not for my first 15 years of my life did I have clear television) and singing along to SKINNAMARINKY DINKY DINKKKKKKK SKINNAMARINKY DOOOO



What an awesome show it was. It made me remember all kinds of other brilliant shows I used to watch as a kid.

Oh oh.

WATCH OUT!

HERE COMES THE 80'S RETRO TV SHOW INTRO/OUTRO VIDEOS c/o YOUTUBE!

First comes Fraggle Rock, which has such a... hmmm, lack of a better word... ROCKING theme song.



Next up, Gummi Bears! I used to have a crush on the blonde one. I guess my thing for short haired girls started young, eh? eh?



What about Duck Tales? D-D-D-Danger lurks behind you! There's a stranger out to find you! Actually ah, ACTUALLY AH... why are these theme songs so damn good? Just listen to the quality of the vocals, the instrumentation, everything. These were really good songs. What the hell has happened to the quality TV show theme song? Gone going gone everything gone giveadamn.



StarCom was underrated but overawesome. The big "technological breakthrough" of this sci-fi series used to be... MAGNETS! The toys were so FUCKING COOL.



I will play a linking game with the next three shows. First we'll start with BraveStarr, where both the heroes were in fact minorities. Marshall BraveStarr was Native American and his horse, if i remember correctly, was supposed to be a black guy. Kinda like a Samuel L. Jackson, but equine. So anyway, cowboy/space age, but still very rooted in the spaghetti western kinda feel. The bad guys in this show were really scary.



Followed by SABRE RIDER AND THE STAR SHERIFFS! Another brilliant show. Less free range, more space age, but still very cowboy nonetheless. Here you start to see the unicolor uniform theme starting to show up.



Followed by the ultimate in the unicolor uniform theme, and now not western at all, but totally wild and animalistic and and and... I'LL FORM THE HEAD!



and and and whattabout VEHICLE VOLTRON? Who did you like better, butter? Actually I liked the lions. They were bad-ass... but Vehicle Voltron was a close second.



The ultimate vehicle show though, had to be MASK. This is another great song.



The Visionaries were shortlived, but it was a bloody good cartoon and the intro is really rocking. I remember two of the chants...

"Mist filled pits, dark, dank, unclear. Fill all before me with frost-bitten FEAR!"

"Three suns aligned, pour forth thier light. Fill this archers bow with MIGHT!"



and last, but not least, because Obama is being inaugurated right now... i wanted to remind all of you to, POWER EXTREME.



I'm sure you've got millions more. care to remind me?

K