I must at once note that this post might offend some of you vegetarians out there. If you are indeed offended, yea so?

I just came across peegaw’s post, where she, as always, have managed to create another mouth-watering cuisine in her blog. You might wanna check out her food blog here - it’s simply the best. And today, it was Vegan Fried Tomato Sandwich.

What bugs me about her post is not her cooking, because they’re simply wonderful. But it’s the fact that vegans (people whom, presumably, only which that grows from the ground - basically no meat), seem to be a growing trend in the modern world.

I think that vegetarianism is arrogance. No. I belive it is.

God has blessed us, to those who can afford them, with an abundance of food sources from veggies, fruits and yes, MEATS. It’s very rude of you to pompously pick only veggies as your diet while there are millions of people in the world starving and would give anything for a loaf of bread to eat. And what’s this “there different levels of being a vegan” bullshit. Some only eat veggies, bless them. Others would have FISH or CHICKEN, because they’re not considered as meat (what???). And there are those who would eat “vegan meat”. Have you ever had beef sausages or chicken nuggets made out of veggies. They taste horrible. Those things are as fake as an air hostess’ smile.

Unless you can’t actually eat meat for some medical reason, then please, enough with this nonsense. If you wanted to have meat, eat meat. Don’t be stupid.

It seems that the honeymoon period between my Playbook and I have come to an abrupt end sooner than I would’ve liked. The touchscreen is acting up quite badly. I don’t know if it’s just the way I’m typing on the tablet (maybe there’s a “correct” way to do it) or the thing just turns into a pile of boxy excrement after a couple of weeks of use… Sigh.

Since I’m in my hometown, I made a brief trip to my old elementary school, which is just a 5-minutes walk from my house, where I spent some 3-months of 4th grade experience. It looked pretty beaten up from ground up due to a lack of funding, and probably not much fuck given to taking care of the place, I suppose. Brought back memories nevertheless.

The thing is, I haven’t had much, or any, pleasure of being back in Palembang, aside from seeing my parents since I got here.

Everyone seems to take their time here. And I’m not talking about the good kind of slow-but-still-working-like-robots kind of thing. Generally, people just seems to be lazy.

Work is treated with a “that’ll do” attitude.

Ask someone to mend something, work will get done. Quality? “It’s good enough”.

It just pisses me off.

…..

Okay fuck this. The touchscreen on my tablet is acting up again. Writing this post on it has become unbearable.

Ciao.

*** update:

The touchscreen is fixed! All it needed was for me to restart the damn tablet and everything is working perfectly again. Thank God.

I’ve just noticed that I’ve actually misplaced the police report for my lost passport. How am I going to leave the country without it? What in the world is going on? Why do things keep disappearing from me?

Anyways,

On a brighter note: started my MBA course today. It’s quite interesting. Very different from the degree level, obviously. Looking forward to the days to come. Eager to learn a lot. And hopefully not lose anymore of my possessions (fingers crossed).

Popped in to Fajri’s house last night to watch the always important match between Milan and Inter. As usual, I wore my centenario black and blue Inter jersey for the match - sprayed a little bit of Eau de Toilette here and there for good luck - and Forza Inter!

In the usual Inter fashion against bitter enemies, we obtained a hard-fought 1-0 victory against our cousin from the other side of city. Another thrilling match won with our expert counter-attacking tactics and solid finishing from non other than Diego Milito himself (and also thanks a massive cock up by our resident Interista, Abate, of course).

So. Today is a good day. No. Today was SUPPOSED to be a good day.

I lost my passport. Again. FUCK!

I lost my passport on the day where my visiting visa expired and was just about to renew it. Double FUCK!

Okay…

This is the third time in less than 5 years that I’ve had to renew my passport - not because it had expired - no… I just keep losing the damn thing! Why do they have to make those things so small anyway?

And it’s not at all funny because this means that I am now stuck in this country as an illegal immigrant. And it also means that I’d have to pay a hefty fine due to my overstay in this country. Yay…

In order for me to meet the deadline of submitting a visa renewal by the end of today, I had to make haste for myself to get everything sorted. So, I went down to the International Police Department of Malaysia and got myself a report saying that I’ve lost my passport so please allow me to make a new one bla bla bla. Then I had to get myself to the Indonesian Embassy in KL to make a new passport before the end of the working hours at 4PM.

So I got there at 1:30PM. And you know what. They told me they were out of application forms for a passport renewal so I had to comeback the next day to get it done. What the fuck! I was 2 hours, and 30 minutes before time, and their bloody excuse was that they’re out of application forms! How pathetic of an excuse is that?!?! The last time I checked, this is the year 2012. We’ve invented the printer 10 years ago, so go use the fucking thing! Heck, the photocopier machine existed before then, why not just use that? Smart…

Honestly, this is beyond ridiculous. I mean, every Indonesian knows that our country is being run by complete morons. But, this is just too much.

So anyways, I’ll have to go back to the Embassy tomorrow to get my passport done. In the meantime… Muhammad Muhyiddin… just another illegal immigrant from Indonesia living the life in Malaysia.