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Archive for May, 2005

Former PM and Drinking Too Much Cola

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Two news articles in the Star caught my attention today:

Five-day week plus Cola for civil servants
Quality time: The Government has agreed in principle to a five-day week and a Cost of Living Allowance (Cola) for the country’s one million civil servants. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said a five-day week would […]

What to do When You’ve Watched Star Wars Sixteen Times Already…

Monday, May 30th, 2005

What to do When You’ve Watched Star Wars Sixteen Times Already… by Simon

Collect the complete set of Happy Meal toys and re-enact the movie in your own room.

Collect the following items: Short aluminium pipe, duct tape, coloured plastic and a fluorescent light tube – and you can make your own lightsaber!

Program your Nokia handphone’s polyphonic […]

Should Liverpool Defend The European Cup?

Monday, May 30th, 2005

Pros and Cons for Liverpool to play in the Champions League next season… by Simon
Points SUPPORTING Liverpool to play in the Champions League Next Season:

Champions should be allowed to defend their cup. (Strongest point they have, this one)

European big teams support their bid (it would be less embarrassing for them to lose to Liverpool next […]

MCA Party Elections: Political-Speak

Sunday, May 29th, 2005

The MCA internal elections are back again. Quite a few high profile faces are facing challenges, although this time around things are not as spicy as the last elections involving the ‘MCA & MCB’ factions.
Support for MCA, just like politics in Malaysia, has seen waning support from the urban English speaking Chinese. Not because MCA […]

Top Twelve Things Batman Finds Annoying

Friday, May 27th, 2005

Man, this has been a tiring week at work. And for the next two weeks while everybody else is going on family vacations in conjunction with the school semester break, I’ll be stuck in endless meetings at the office.
The other day I was bottled up in a 15-minute discussion that dragged on for 1 and […]

EPL: Team by Team Tagline Review

Friday, May 27th, 2005

I thought of doing a team by team review of this season’s English Premier League, but I guess there isn’t much to say that hasn’t been done so. So I thought, screw it. Let’s just give a snappy tagline to describe their entire season. Listed here, 20 teams, according to their finishing position in the […]

Best Advice My Teachers Ever Gave Me

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Some time ago was Teacher’s Day. I think. Never thought about it for the last umpteen years since leaving school. My mom (who wasn’t a teacher) said this lot had the best jobs in Malaysia – half day work, 2 day weekends, 10 weeks of school holidays every year, etc. This was many years ago […]

Here’s a Good Way to Get Mentioned in the Newspapers

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Dress up as Darth Vader and flash yourself (yes, as in expose yourself naked) at a group of ladies waiting at the bus-stop. Better yet, flash yourself at a newspaper reporter and photographer.
Here’s another tip. Choose a slow news day. You don’t want to go to all that trouble to dress up and risk being […]

Doctor, Doctor

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

My blog hasn’t been updated as often as I’d like this week, I’ve been feeling very sick these few days. In addition to that, I’ve been quite busy, no time to go to see my unsympathetic doctor. I’ve only been to the doctor twice in the past 12 months. Once for suspected dengue, once for […]

You Know Malaysians Are Too Crazy Over Star Wars When…

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

You Know Malaysians Are Too Crazy Over Star Wars When… by Simon (who last night taught Darth Vader how to operate his VCR)
…when they start using C8