Yes, it’s here, it’s finally here! Aiz promised us a PPS surprise for our National Day and its all there to see! Sneaky guy, timing it to take effect at the stroke of midnight! And the secret project that he has been working all along (although he showed it to some of us earlier) is actually the PPS Directory… It looks fabulous, Aiz. And nice colour 😉 And now in BM: Sula mali lor! PPS punye muka angkat (face lift)! Sempena dengan hali kebangsaan, dan siap untuk dilihat! Manyak pandai ini Aiz punye olang, ngam ngam duabelas malam dia timing… Lagi itu projek rahsia nampaknya adalah senarai belog… Betol-betol chun,…

(This post is part of the ‘thing’ that Malaysian bloggers are all blogging in our Bahasa Malaysia for the National Day celebrations. So to all readers, that do not understand, my apologies, normal service will resume tomorrow) Ya, nampaknya Simon dari ‘simon bercakap’ (simon talks) juga terikut-ikut dan melompat atas kenderaan punggahan barangan (jumping on the bandwagon) dengan membelog dalam BM. Lintasan fikiran pertama simon ialah bahawa penguasaan bahasa kebangsaan simon telah pergi ke anjing-anjing (gone to the dogs). Tidak kasih, kata simon (in the trend of referring to yourself in third person), kita mesti berikhtiar untuk menghabiskan belog ini, walaupun Perkataan LembutKecil (Microsoft Word) kepunyaan simon suda merah dengan…

OMG. I just saw a red clownfish walking dugong mermaid merman. With a yellow breathalyzer. A androgynous one at it. Gotta see it to ‘appreciate’ it. You can tell it’s a slow day before the holiday. P/S: On a side note, I see 5xmom’s sons have perfected that “stand-there-and-pretend-I’m-taking-you-photo-while-take-a-photo-of-that-gila-person” routine…

We’re a day away from our 48th National Day. Or you could summarize it as follows (number in brackets show years of independence. Gee, I hope you figured that much yourselves…): Malaysia – August 31, 1957 (48 years) simon talks: “Damn proud to be a Malaysian.” What about other Asian countries? Here’s what I gathered: India – August 15, 1947 (58 years) simon talks: “I remember Ben Kingsley as Gandhi…” Singapore – August 9, 1965 (40 years) simon talks: “Don’t go to JB or use the Causeway that weekend…” Sri Lanka – Feb. 4, 1948 (57 years) simon talks: “When will they just stop fighting?” Bangladesh – March 26, 1971…

Top Ten Signs Your Political Career is Over After Losing The Party Presidential Electionsby Simon, who contested and lost the Pemudi MCA VP post some years ago… Twenty years later, you’re still deputy party president. You keep hearing your supporters and voters say they ‘bet on the wrong horse’. You’re not invited to a single birthday / anniversary / fundraiser dinner at the Chinese restaurant this weekend. Membership form for the “Retired Deputy President Club – Malaysian Chapter” arrives in the mail. The party spokesperson keeps using the phrase ‘time to blood younger leaders’ and ‘the delegates have spoken’. Your right hand man and supporters openly announce that they are…

We’re a few days before our Hari Kemerdekaan (48th National Day). It falls on Wednesday this week, a lot of people are taking Monday and Tuesday off to continue their holiday from school holidays. When we were young, we would never fail to watch the national day parade on telly, usually starting early in the morning. This was years ago, when we only had two TV channels to watch (and one of which was totally un-watchable). No Astro, no private TV channels, no DVDs. Those days every year they had it in that court house road in KL, I can’t remember the name. The cabinet ministers with our PM would…

Top Ten Things To Do When Your Internet Connection is Down Read your snail mail piling up on your desk. Remove all the junk pinned to you cubicle partition wall over the years – 1997 office memos, Dilbert comic strips (photocopied from In.Tech), takeaway menu from Domino’s/Ah Heng packed lunch, list national public holidays, advertisement for gym club membership, etc. Separate your trash into the three main categories for recycling – junk food plastic wrappers, finger nail clippings and bio-degradable left-over food. Do some REAL work for a change? See who among your colleagues can flick a paperclip the furthest. Launch 200 paper airplanes from the window of the 25th…

So footie fever is on us again. So I’m doing a kind of an EPL award thing. We all know Chelsea’s the richest team, and Wigan has the shortest history, and all that, right? Well, here are more predictions you may or may not have heard about. Team which will feature in the least number of live telecasts this season: Sunderland. Second is Fulham, followed by West Brom. Manager most likely to get into a verbal fight with another manager Arsene Wenger. Second place is Sir Alex Ferguson. Third will be Mourinho, against every other manager in the league. Team which most likely have players moaning about squad rotation Tottenham.…

It’s been a slow week. Plus today’s Wednesday, so it’s that time of the week again. For those who missed it, check out my earlier postings about this show here and here. Can’t wait for the weekend. Top Ten MORE Things I Learnt While Watching Desperate Housewives Women outnumber men 4 to 1 in America. Flashing your cleavage on prime time TV soap is a surefire way of getting on Oprah. Everyone can come up with meaningful one-liners and exit lines at the right time. Divorced ex-spouses (not featured in the show) are usually jerks / tramps / bad parents / going through mid-life crisis. People leave guns and stacks…

I got an interesting piece of news in the morning, PPS has launch a prelim version of its feeds aggregator. Click here to check it out. It has a few cool features that a lot of bloggers and readers have been asking for – categorization, filters, opml feeds, etc. Don’t want to miss a single post by simontalks your fav blogger? Tired of pings by bloggers you dislike? Use PPS RSS! Its still in beta, so some problems may crop up. Go there now, and check it out.