Evidently, I have been nominated for the Neophyte of the Year Award in the PPS 2nd Anniversary celebrations. I am very surprised how this happened, seeing that my blog usually has only two readers. If you like this blog and wish to vote for it (and have not voted for the other two great blogs) you can do so here. If you missed that, here it is again. I just hope I can get more than two votes, I up against some really popular blogs. Hopefully, Aizuddin and the good people at PPS will not publish the results of the voting, it would be really embarrassing for everyone to see…

I was at a great seminar for a couple of days, very inspiring and informative. But in between to good parts, there were some slow moments. Some of my colleagues scuplted beautiful things with the Play-Doh (provided by the organizers). I did that but didn’t like the oily residue on my hands, so I started doing something I haven’t been doing for years – pencil sketching. Amid my colleague’s comments of “Gee, you’re one disturbed dude” and “What on EARTH is that?”, here are some of my favourites (Let me just say I’m NOT very good at this drawing stuff): We’ll start with the typical “Imposing Dark Mountain in Moonlight”…

Anyways before I go off, here’s something to cheer up all of you stuck in the office/home for the next few days, suffering middle-of-the-year crisis/depression… Top Ten Things to Look Forward to This June (Since its June 1st) Only six months to the next bonus! At least 2 weeks of (relatively) good traffic due to the school holidays (I’m the KING OF THE ROAD!!!!) More interesting mails on ‘cheap drugs’ and ‘online degrees’ spamming your mailbox. With football season over, so much golf to watch on TV! (BOO-OORING…) Malaysian Idol!!! AND Akademi Fantasia!!! Woo-hoo!! (yes, I AM joking.) The ultimate joys of seeing your just-washed-and-waxed car get re-washed in the…

This will be a short blog before I take a little break for a few days. This week marks 16 years since the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. Yes, my friends, it was a massacre. The story a nutshell, was a culmination of decades and decades of oppressive communism. On April 15, 1989, disgraced Communist Party chairman Hu Yao-bang passed on. He was a liberal reformer ousted in 1987 for not halting student demonstrations for democracy and human rights. His death triggered peaceful marches and protests from Beijing university students, who had largely viewed him as silent revolutionary in the Red party regime. They danced and debated politics in Tiananmen Square,…

I read with interest Silencers’ funny entry about playing our national anthem in cinemas, which was followed by 5xmom’s take on the subject. It seems to me the people in charge are not really tackling the root of the problem, which is the declining respect for the ‘Negaraku’ among the younger generation. When I was in school, I had to sing 3 songs at assembly every week: ‘Negaraku’, our school song and ‘Setia’ (OK, don’t ask me about that last one). All my friends from different schools had the same opinion – “The song is BO-ORRING!!” So the big boys in charge introduce a marching beat version. Slight improvement, but…