Posts Tagged ‘Pop culture’

Remember the caterpillar in Alice in wonderland? Well, when ever I see a caterpillar it will remind me of that hookah smoking caterpillar. As a child, watching the caterpillar in the story puffing away with his hookah, I used to wonder how it was like to smoke one of those. It looked so exotic and it didn’t look like any of the cigarettes that my father smoked, I thought.

In my early 20′s, with some friends, I tried to smoke a hookah for the first time. I tried it with some friends to a restaurant where you can pay to try. One hookah base with 3 hookah pipes that we smoke together the 5 of us. Unlike cigarettes, hookah tobacco also comes with flavours. There were a selection and one of us, who were more experienced than others, chose for us. I don’t really remember what it was, but it was an exciting experience. Although smoking hookah is a popular past-time in the middle east but it is now it is gaining popularity world wide now that it has become cheaper and easier to obtain. For me, it was fun hanging out with friends, chit chatting and relaxing while smoking the hookah. Further more, unlike cigarette smoking, you don’t have to be afraid that you will get addicted to hookah. It is not addictive.

Once we are settled down somewhere, with our own place, I think I might want to buy hookah set for the house. Believe me, even if one does not smoke, a khalil mamoon (a famous hookah manufacturer brand) hookah set looks exotic enough even to be put in a room as a decoration. But of course, when you have the set at home it would be such a waste not to use it once in a while. Especially when entertaining close friends at home.

One particular interest that both my husband and I share  is watching football. Though he plays football too, I only watch the game. So we are looking forward to the 2010 World Cup this June. There aren’t any favourite teams, we just love to watch the big players of the football world play. There can be lots and lots of drama on the football field.

In preparation for the World cup, we intend to get one of those cool hard drive recorder or digital recorder to replace our obsolete VCR. Got the idea when I came upon harddriverecorder.org.uk. I think it would be brilliant. We won’t have to miss any of the big matches if there are 2 important matches to see or when we can’t be at home to watch.

I, just like many thousands or perhaps millions of people in the world are just the watchers of sports. Mainly football. Some people I know never even played the game in their lives, yet love the game fanatically. Well, not so strange is it? As we all love a good movie sometimes despite never being actors or actresses ourselves.

It has been some time since I last saw any active conversation on dneero.com. It is just simple survey that you fill up, ask 1 question relating to the survey that other participants can answer then paste the conversation on your website so that others may see and perhaps even join too. I sure am glad to see a couple of new active conversations there today.  ^_^

I love gadgets. Well, most people I know likes gadgets. Some cool, cute, interesting and even wacky. Just like these usb speaker that looks like your American Standard toilets.

Interesting… very interesting…. that someone would want speakers that look like toilets.

But then I suppose, novelty items are kind of an in thing these days.

A diamond studded mercedes. This is Saudi Prince Waleed Bin Talal’s 38th car, a diamond studded SL600 Mercedes and is worth $4.8 million.When you earn billions, less extravagant auto accessories would be insufficient huh??
When I checked the hungerreport.org website, it is said about 115 million people in the world are hungry. And there are some people who drive more than one car and afford to encrust their luxury cars with diamonds.

Sad eh?

You Are 60% Addicted to the Internet

You’re somewhat addicted to the internet – but who isn’t?You can keep it under check, and you’re by no means a hermit.

There are about 1,596,270,108 internet users throughout the world. The users growth from year 2000 – 2008 is 342.2 %.   [Information source via internetworldstats.com]

I have been actively using the internet since mid 1997. It was the first time ever I used the computer too. I was hooked ever since. I find the internet to be a treasure trove of information that are easily obtained just at a few clicks of the computer mouse. From information about the historical events that occured on the day I was born to information about the best weight loss pill on the market. So much so that even if I plan to buy something that cost more than $20 I’d go and read reviews about it. :p Now with all the social networking sites like friendster and facebook, multiplayer role playing online games and more, the internet has become a lot more interesting compared to when I first experienced being online.

With all the things you can do on the internet nowdays, hard to blame anyone who are addicted to the internet isn’t it?

Music for the entire family seems to me is the thing of the past. I cannot even watch MTV music videos when my little 3 year old is around. There are simply too much ‘sex’ in music these days.

20-30 years ago, I believe the entire family could sit in front of the tv, young and old, and enjoy good clean music.

An old malay saying goes like this, “When a tiger dies, it will leave its stripes. When a man dies, he will leave his name”.  A wonderful person will always be remembered even long after he is no more.

I finished watching ‘Gone with the Wind’ for the umpteenth time. It is indeed a legendary movie that those who have seen it would usually remember it for as long as they live.

Ever since I watched the movie, I simply fell in love with Clark Gable’s acting and style. Amazing isn’t it? A man who has been long gone for nearly half a century can still make a deep impression in the hearts’ of those who watched his movies. It is no surprise why he got the title King of Hollywood as Elvis was the King of Rock n’ Roll.

Really is a sad thing that he died too soon. 59 is still considered too young to die. Well, as they say, life and death is out of our control, but at least he had left a legacy for all of us to remember him by.

30 over years after his death, James Marshall Hendrix, or famously known as Jimi Hendrix is still considered the number one guitarist. People still listened to his albums and some fans still mourn for his death.

Picture by Reuters.

It was only last evening when we were watching a documentary about the death of Hendrix on the Viasat History Channel. All these years, the fans had been made to believe that Hendrix died of drug overdose (Heroine most probably), drowned in his own vomit. It was indeed a shock to know that these are not true. Jimi Hendrix was in fact murdered, and the one who played a role in his death was none other than his own manager, Michael Jeffery.

It is said that, Hendrix could not have got a D.O of Heroine since he never took them. Further instead of vomit, his lungs were found to be full of red wine. He was drowned with wine not vomit.

The reason why Jeffery wanted Hendrix dead, was for one Hendrix found out that Jeffery had been stealing money from him, secondly because Jeffery had a life insurance policy on Hendrix worth  £1.2million with Jeffery as the beneficiary.

It seems that Jeffery made a solemn confession about how he was responsible for Hendrix’s death to one former band player for Hendrix, James Wright. Whether it is true that Jeffery killed Hendrix or not, maybe. But why did he confessed to James Wright? If only we can find out  from the man himself, but he took his secret to the grave when he himself died in plane crash in 1973.

Nevertheless to know how Jimi Hendrix really died, it is so, so sad. It is indeed  a terrible ending for an amazing guitar legend like Jimi Hendrix.

R.I.P Jimi…