Top Ten Things Simon Does NOT Miss From The 80’s (But he remembers a lot of other good things…): Secondary school. Koir RTM singing something about good behaviour everyday before the 8pm news. Shoulder pads. Cumi dan Ciki. Death-defying minibuses ruling the roads in KL. Janet Ambrose. Crappy local TV stations. Margaret Thatcher. 6 hour journey from JB to KL on the trunk road. Radio Pendidikan. Back to main page.

It’s going to be a long & busy day, so a short post. It’s been 6 months now since the government implemented the chip credit card ruling. But until today, this huge, foreign petrol company has yet to install chip card readers at the pumps. Maybe they have, but all the stations across KlangValley that I have come across do not have them. So I have to line up behind the mat rempits (death bikers) who take 2 minutes deciding on which fag to buy. They have this guy in a mobile card reading machine going from pump to pump, but everytime I’m there, he’s either: Not there. Busy with…

The news these days are talking about the ‘Sky Kingdom’ group in Terengganu. It seems ever so often another one springs up from nowhere.All these talk of cults and deviant teachings in the papers only serve to remind me of this old song by Manowar (who themselves were quite terpesong!)…I suppose it’s a sign of the times…Guyana (The Cult of the Damned)Thank you for the kool-aid reverend JimWe’re glad to leave behind their world of sinOur lifeless bodies fall on holy groundRotting flesh a sacrificial moundWere you our God or a man in a play who took our applause and forced us to stayNow all together we lived as we…

I love my car. It’s an 8-year old beat-up road warrior that has seen better days, and my friends who are familiar with it (and have the ignominy of riding in it) can attest to the fact. But I love it. It has served me extremely well, through the good times and especially the bad. Through the years I kept it running well, even with my limited knowledge of engine mechanism and tight, tight budget. It suffered a few minor accidents here and there, including one where I had to have an entire door knocked back into shape. But yet the old warhorse faithfully sputtered to life every morning to…

Online auction site aren’t very big in Malaysia. As far as I know, other than lelong.com.my and eBay Malaysia, the others have died a slow death. But I suppose there aren’t many interesting stuff to be found on sale there, other than the usual second hand electronic items. But, hey, here are some items I’d LOVE to see put up on sale online here in Malaysia! A piece of roti canai miraculously bearing the image of Ayah Pin (Sky Kingdom) or Ustaz Ashaari Muhammad (of Al-Arqam fame). (Starting bid – RM 4.99)Complete collection of vintage multi-coloured Toong Foong bus tickets from 1985-1988 era (from 40sen to RM1.20) in pristine condition,…

A few months ago I went to the circus which was in town. This was supposed to be a Royal ‘Mat Salleh’ circus (but apparently owned by some Malaysian guy) and had an international cast of performers, from Iberian trapeze artists, Indian mahouts, Chinese acrobats, Eastern European cabaret girls etc. And the many animals on show. The one I watched they didn’t bring out the lions and tigers (we saw the big cats snoring in their cages outside the big top). But other that that they still had a large menagerie of performing animals on show, monkeys, ponies, one very small elephant, poodles and a bored looking house-cat. In fact,…

I was only away for two days and so many things have happened… contest for MCA top post, Tengku Mahaleel, Live 8 concert, WMDs shockingly still not found yet…I just heard about a rumour circulating on Thursday, June 30th about a purported petrol price increase. It turned out to be a false alarm, but according to my friend that didn’t stop hundreds of nutjob motorists from lining up to pump petrol at night, jamming up major roads and highways.Here’s what my take on the whole petrol increase incident:The telcos and petrol companies benefit the most – Guess how many SMS and phone calls were made on that day itself? “Pump…