The Art of Durian Eating...

It's been quite some times since I ate durian and over this CNY my parents brought me a souvenir in the shape of a durian from Sarikei. That's my hometown. Anyway i decided to take photographs to document the art of opening and eating a durian. So this is basically an illustrated story of sorts... Firstly a closer look of the fruit.




There it is, in its full glory. Mwahahahahahaha... Ok enough of the psycho durian man. On to the next step. Since I've only got a small little knife to help me in my task, I'm forced to make multiple cuts into the fruit to form one long incision. The picture below shows the incision I've made with the knife.




Finally after much slashing and jabbing, I manage to make an incision deep enough for me to pry open the fruit. Voila!!!




In the picture above you can see the knife used to cut open the durian. This warrants a closer look at the durian for any pests that might attempt to deprive you of this gastronomic delight.




Looks safe to me. Well on to the good part. Yummm... As you can see I only manage to devour 6 'seedlings' as I was rather full from dinner.




However you can always keep durians in the fridge to be eaten at a later date. And so I 'harvested' all the durians from its shell and all that remains is its shell.




Here's a sinful temptation for all you durian lovers out there. Doesn't it just look so goooooooood??? To tell you honestly, it taste and smells even better...




Ahhhhhh... Finally coming to an end to my durian journey. Unfortunately only your sense of sight was fulfilled in this journey. Bear in mind that the pictures above does not do justice to the taste and smell of the fruit itself. Even after washing my hands, the wonderful aroma of the durian can still be smelt on my fingers. *Sigh*...

Stuck in Miri: Part 2

Fuck!!! I hate this shit!!! It's fucking bullocks. The guy told me yesterday that me that he would arrange a early morning trip down to Brunei, around 8-9am. Called him this morning at 8am and he said he would only be able to go at 11am. Fuck!!! And I asked him if he could make it earlier and he said he'll try his best. Fuck shit yeah _|_ In the end he still called me back to say that it will be at 11am and that it will be one of his employees driving me back, and that was about 10am. So I waited till 11am and then his employee called me at 11am and said that there was traffic jam in town and that he will be late, 1 hour late. He said he'll make it at 12noon. THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT!!! Shit, fuck, bugger, wanker, dickheard, fuckwit... No words can describe the anger and piss-ness I feel. I really don't feel like going back after all this but it's my last chance to see my friends and my brother before they leave Brunei for their studies. *sigh* Life's testing my patience. It deprives me of all luxuries and fucks me upside down inside out. If i had a car, I would be reaching Brunei just after 5pm, washed up and be ready for dinner by 6 but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO fuck this had to happen. Aiks shit.

Anybody watched 'Desperate Housewives'? It's first episode was recently shown in Oz. It's some US show and it's up to its 16th episode there. I just downloaded the first episode out of curiosity and it's pretty engaging talking about the typical troubles within the four walls of houses in this seemingly perfect American suburb. No doubt I cannot be empathetic towards their problems, I can at least identify with some of them and somehow relate them to my own. I guess this is what most 'good' drama series is about. It protrays problems about real-life problems so that people watching them can somehow find comfort in the fact that their problems don't seem as bad or that at least there's someone out there who identifies with their problems. So go watch it. It might be a bit deep and dark for some people but I'm sure you'll like it. Since it's already in its 16th episode in the US, you can download the first 10 episodes from Bittorent. Here's the link for the Bittorent:

Desperate Housewives Ep1-10

It's a 3.4GB in size cos it contains Ep 1 -10 but you can choose to just download the first episode to preview it first. Use a program called BitComet.

Stuck in Miri for 1 more night

Fuck!!! The last day of summer school ends today. I was suppose to go back in the evening after my class but no the fucked up taxi driver forgot about me after I called him twice, once yesterday and once today. He was suppose to come at about 4pm and when I finally called him after waiting for half an hour or more, he said he was at the fucking immigration already. Like fuck man. So he said he'll arrange for a special trip back to Brunei tomorrow morning but that's like 1 night wasted. It's already a short enough period that I'm spending in Brunei and now 1 more night. Well there's nothing much I can do now except for wait.

Part of my anger also stem from the fact that if I did have a/my/the car here in Miri, I would even be home by 5pm but NOOOOOO. I can't be trusted with a car anymore because of my past sins. "Paying for my past sins by giving the ultimate sacrifice." That would be fun. Fuck. It's like everytime I try to make my life work here(in Miri), my past always come back to haunt me. Life's a test, a test of patience, tolerance, integrity, honesty and a whole load of other bull crap. And if you don't do well in those tests, it fucks you up and spits you out, leaving you more fucked up than you can ever be. Imagine now I've only been through such a short period of my life and already you're serving so much shit for your sins so imagine when you die, the HELL you will have to pay for the sins of your whole life. That would be even more fucked up I reckon. Shit!!!

Another issue that's always been on my mind ever since I was young was the afterlife. This stems from the fact that I've always been scared of death and would always have images of some character coming to bring me to the afterlife. From this obsession with death also comes the issue of religion because religion is the only thing that tries to define the afterlife. With Christianity it's trust in Jesus and you'll be on your express train journey to heaven. With Islam, it's blow yourself to pieces and you'll go to heaven with 21 virigins waiting for you. With Buddhism, it's do good deeds and maintain a good karma and you'll be reincarnated into something better or something liddat. Not so sure about the other minor religions but I guess they follow more or less the same line of thought. So it boils down to the question, Which religion do you believe in? I've been brought up as a Buddhist with both my parents being Buddhist but being around the world and sorta exposed to everything, I've just been really open minded and also exposed extensively to Christianity. That does not mean that I believe in Christianity though because I'm the sort of person who does not accept something easily and tend to question something based on my prior knowledge of things in general and also through my own doubt and reasoning. So in the meantime I consider myself a free thinker whilst waiting for the supposedly outer-world experience to hit me and shove me to take an alliance of some sort. I've even considered being a Muslim but I really love pork and I believe that if you're gonna believe in any religion, you need to be fully compliant of its rules. This also can be debatable with many olden issues of religion being debated in this secular modern world which we live in. One of the issues recently brought up by priests in Australia is that they wish to include married men in the clergy. This is due to the declining number of ordained priests due to older priests retiring and also of younger priests unwilling to take up service due to the issue of celibacy. So maybe in the future there is a chance of me becoming a pork eating Muslim???