Friday, September 29, 2006

Project Petaling Street

Today I decided to sign up for Project Petaling Street. Been reading Kenny Sia's archives a lot lately & he said that he got his big break there, so I thought that I could give it a try. In the sign-up process I found 2 spelling mistakes...


"Sign up" was spelled as "Singup", and for a while there I thought I just entered a singing competition.

"Received was spelled as "recieved"... Has anyone ever informed the moderators about this?

**Had a dream last night about checking my mailbox to find 170 emails from Cely. Could it be a prophecy? Don't know if I should rejoice or mourn...

Monday, September 25, 2006

Sad sad situation.

Read my post at The Star Citizen's Blog and read the 2nd comment. It's just sad.

 

Friday, September 22, 2006

Give them a chance.

Don't make Mat Rempits state enemy number 1, alright? Too much has been said about them. Why should we cast our hatred towards these people? All of us have bad habits that we need help with. Yes, perhaps their Rempit-ing is a more annoying & obvious habit when compared to our foul-mouth, back-stabbing, gossiping, littering, cursing, judging, prideful ways.... but how can we treat them as lower class citizens?

I'm not saying that The Mat Rempits situation isn't serious or doesn't need attention. But to say that they are hopeless, stupid, uselss to society - that's equivalent to putting down an entire generation, damning them to failure & insignificance. And to be saying all these while standing on the sidelines & condemn efforts to help this situation is inappropriate indeed.

We don't have all the answers yet. But at least we make the first step towards change. Give grace.

God bless Malaysia.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Featured at last!!

Recently I decided to join The Star's Citizen Blog.
I wasn't too keen when it was first started. I checked out the website & found that it wasn't as user-friendly as Blogger. The screens weren't appealing enough, & I didn't like the idea of sharing a page with other bloggers. Besides, I already had 2 blogs. There was no motivation, until I saw this...
Wow!! They're giving away RM50 for the best blog of the day. That's enough motivation for me. Immediately I signed up & that was 2 months ago. Today I enter the website to check out if there's any sensible posts & I found this...
It's my blog!! Yes!! It's finally featured!! I know I could have done better by posting the picture correctly. Nonetheless, I'm still featured!! I hope they'll publish it on the newspaper tomorrow... RM50, here I come!!
Update: My post has been taken down. Haiz... didn't even last for a day...

Monday, September 18, 2006

Scensorship

If we should cut out suicide scenes from movies to prevent people from getting crazy ideas, then how about the scene from Memoirs of a Geisha where the dude took off Zhang Zi Yi's clothes? Shouldn't it be removed as well?

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The movie started off with the line "A story like mine should never be told", and at the end of the movie, I couldn't agree more.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Proton Advertisement

I was really mad when I saw this Proton Advertisement on the Star newspaper yesterday.



Isn't Proton a government company? And isn't the government also responsible for the public transportation infrastructure of our country? So now because they do a lousy job with the public transport system we have to get a car from them?? And mind you, it's NOT going to be RM288 per month. Remember that you're also paying the government money for petrol & road tax.

So now we are encouraged to buy car, resulting in more cars on the road. Then you'll have traffic jam, then you'll have to make the road bigger, wider. Then have to build more roads. Building roads need money, so have to put tolls and sell more cars. And the circle goes on.

Listen to me. Sell Proton. LISTEN!! Take all the resources from there & make them taskforce to improve the public transport system. Reduces pollution, reduces road accidents (death toll). We also won't have to worry about competing with import cars (besides, those cars are much better anyway. More safety features, more environment-friendly). Then we can export more petroleum to generate more money. Without traffic jams & travelling heartaches, Malaysians will be under less stress. Workers will be more energized & motivated upon arriving the office. Bloggers won't use office hours to complain about how the bus came late. Greater effectiveness, more creativity, increased productivity.

"but our workers only know how to build proton cars...."

"then make the trains like LOOOOOOOONG proton cars loh... Use your brain, use your brain."

Let me breathe

Why do people get pissed off by the fact that I was mad at them? Can someone just let me be angry?

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Money Politics

Here our PM ordered an investigation into allegations made by Dr.M about the money politics that led to his defeat, and then  here our Deputy PM said that they won't investigate without a formal complaint. So how wo?

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Safe Neighbourhoods

Page 6 of the New Strait Times has an article entitled Neighbourhoods under siege, telling how the residents of USJ17 combatting crime by fencing up their area, closed up all access roads except one and hired guards. I salute their efforts, and the fact that they are willing to actually spend RM10,000 is prove that they are doing all they can do fight crime.
 
I thought that that article would actually inspire other neighbourhoods to do likewise, but Page 7 has an article entitled Paying the price for condo living. This article tells us how residents of a particular condominium pay RM3,000 yearly for maintenance fees, which is to include security, and still end up being robbed.
 
So there you go. People doing everything they can, and still suffer from social ills. Can somebody who can & is suppose to do something please do something?

Safe Universities Please?

I am gutted as I read and hear of crimes happening in universities. In a place where we expect doctors, engineers, scientists and what-nots to emerge, we hear of peeping-toms, rape, sodomy, sexual harassments, gang fights, bully, thefts... Then there are neighbouring universaties whose students intentionally hurt one another in the name of justice & idealogy.

My friend returned to KL for a one week holiday. It was only 6 weeks since she left for university and already she has told of several crimes happening in her university & hostel. She said that her friends had their clothes stolen. She also witnessed a snatch-theft at the main bus stop.

All she can do is take preventive measures & live her life cautiously. All I can do is pray & write. Can someone who can & is suppose to do something do something to make universities safe again?

Monday, September 04, 2006

What if, Kenny?

I was just reading Kenny Sia's post on the Merdeka Celebration in Kuching. Upon visiting his website you can tell how much it meant to him that the Merdeka Celebration were held in his hometown.




Anyway, something he said really got me thinking....
























What if they do really name a road after him? Hmm. What are the possible consequences of such a move? Here are a few:

1. If a tourist calls his/her friend and is asking for directions and somehow ended up on this road, he/she won't be able to tell where he/she is.

2. If a crime happens on that street, no one would bother calling in to report the crime as pronouncing & waiting for the police officer to grasp what you're saying would be an impossible task.

3. Perhaps sending an sms would be easier, but by that time the criminal would have escaped and the victim, bled to death.

4. If your office is there, you won't be able to order pizza or any fast food.

5. School teachers would have to attend a week of special training to learn how to teach students to pronounce & memorize that name.

6. A very busy road or highway would be named with it & toll booths would be in place. Those who can pronounce the name would receive a discount.

Just a thought....

Steve Irwin dies.

2 years back a friend said that Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter, died while trying to stick his head in a crocodile's mouth. He was laughing about it, but not for long. We went all-guns-blazing when we saw the show that every same year to find that Steve was still alive & kicking. But now this is real... Read this.

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Don't believe this - Free Sony Erricsson k400i WAP H/ Phone

Dear all,
 
I can say with confidence that the email you received with the subject title "Free Sony Erricsson k400i WAP H/ Phone" is fake. Probably it's a scheme to get email addresses for SPAMMING purposes. Read the original email carefully.
 
Dear All,
 
Please pass on to all your friends and relatives the following mail from Sony Erricsson.
Sony Erricsson is giving away phones for free. Sony Erricsson is trying word-of-mouth advertising to introduce its product and the reward you receive for advertising for them is a free phone free of cost. To receive your free phone all you have to do is to send this email out to 8 people (for a free Sony Erricsson j200i) or 20 people (for a free Sony Erricsson k400i WAP).
Within 2 weeks you will receive a free phone. (They will contact you through your e-mail address).
 
Please mark a copy to:- anna.swelam@sonyerricsson.com   
 
Can you see? They ask you to mark a copy to that particular email address - why? They want you to believe that the email address is genuine (with the @sonyerricsson.com) & that the email is REAL. But it's not. How do I know?
 
Because the correct spelling is Sony Ericsson - with only 1 'r'.

Friday, September 01, 2006

Once In A While

Everyone deserves to be in a bad mood once in a while...