I’ve mentioned my neighbours before, and after a quite few months, they’ve acted up again. As I’m typing now, one of the couples staying there are having a massive shouting matches (I’ve no idea what’s it about, I can’t make out the screaming words at the top of their voices). It’s a bit like those Hong Kong serials really, except they not as good-looking or have designer apartments, and also here they use a lot more vulgarities than on TV. A LOT more. These shouting matches tend to follow a certain pattern, but I notice it not because I’m so the very paat, but with these thin walls of my…

Saw this at the carpark. Picture of the Day. No idea what it says, though… :pbpbpbpb In a totally unrelated matter, i’ve got to mention this – Silencers is absolutely spot on – Go and watch Black Lagoon. It’s brilliant. ****** (pic from wikipedia. Is there any other good English fansites?!) [tags]anime, black lagoon[/tags]

A few days ago, Suki was just crowned the first ever “One in A Million” champion. I hardly watched the show, the timing didn’t agree with me, but by and large I follow most of the local (and foreign) reality TV singing contests. But first, some definitions – these shows are really just singing contests, not much different from your school year-end “talentime” contest. But the difference in these so-called “reality shows” is that instead of the just judges scoring the singing, the scoring is entirely (or partly) decided by the viewers – either via call-in votes, the ever popular SMS votes (text messaging) and even online voting. Further to…

Marketing property is pretty much the same as marketing anything else in Malaysia – lightbulbs, credit cards, second hand cars. The all hype up their products, focus on one or two of their ‘best’ qualities, seldom show the research or calculations to back their product, and more importantly, overuse cliched marketing buzzwords and catchphrases that everyone else is also using. Property is really hot in Malaysia these days. Everywhere in the Klang Valley you see condos sprouting up like toadstools after a monsoon rain. And together with it, the beautiful computer-generated graphics of the building, with the lush greenery in the background (whereas in reality its filled with other people’s…

Life has its little pleasures, celebrated a simple birthday dinner with some homecooked lasagna, cheese sausages and fresh vegetables with family. Below:my portion… Below:Kid no.1’s portion. Below:and one for other the kid… Below:There was also a brownie-chocolate-ice cream cake to top it all off. Below: Said cake, after 10 minutes. Another 364 days of being a slave to the grind. Life on the skids can get you down, but moments like these make it all worthwhile. [tags]birthday, cake, chocolate, brownie[/tags]

Reporter – Thank you, Studio 1, we are now live in Jalan P. Kandiasamy right here in the city. Together with me here, is a very special guest, Lee Tuck Keong, who, although many of you may not know who is it, but he is truly one of the great, exemplary Malaysian. Ah Keong – … (mouth open, staring silently at the reporter’s mike) Reporter – Now, we have heard of many feats of wonder by our fellow countrymen, like Azhar Yusoff, that two guys who climbed Everest, umm… sorry their names escape me at the moment, and Datuk Michelle Yeoh, but Ah Keong here also has a great achievement,…

There’s this ad on TV (and by TV, I mean satellite TV, I have no idea what they’re showing on local), I think it’s by a local [tag]telco[/tag], where they show the evolution of [tag]handphones[/tag] (or as the Americans call it, [tag]cellphones[/tag]). First there was the huge brick-like ones (can anyone remember the Nokia Mobira and Primero Basix?), then the mass-market basic [tag]Ericsson[/tag] and [tag]Nokia[/tag] garden patch variety (everyone had one, only with different coloured casings and [tag]ringtones[/tag]), and one to the present day [tag]MMS[/tag]-[tag]Java[/tag]-[tag]3G[/tag]-whatchamacallits. I think the whole premise of the ad was how the cellular lifestyle has influenced and been a part of our lives, and not so…

I haven’t had this much fun writing a post for such a long time. Dedicated to all my friends, both real and online. “I’m only going to check my e-mail.” “Hot girls are waiting to talk to you now.” “No, I never googled any of my friends.” “Click here to unsubscribe.” “Fastest growing petrol stocks.” “Click the monkey and win a prize!” “I never surf the internet during office hours.” “Credit card for authentication only.” “My name is Mahmooud Ghafoor and I’m the former Minister of Finance of Nigeria.” “I was just surfing, I didn’t even know how I got this website.” “No, I don’t know any porn sites.” “Your…

Top Ten Signs That the Mooncake Festival Is Getting Far Too Commercialized. You want to buy lotus paste single yolk but the the neighbourhood shop only sells ‘new‘ flavours like snow skin vanilla with Ipoh white coffee and tiramisu. And low sugar white lotus and cheese. Mooncakes shaped like Garfield are SO last season. This year’s new trend – shaped like Chairman Mao and the Firefox logo. Instead of metal or wooden boxes, this year, if you buy 4 [tag]mooncakes[/tag], they give you a Targus leather bag. (Suitable to be reused for carrying notebook or projector). The cheapest variation of mooncake on sale costs a “very cheap” price of RM9.75…

Speaking of women’s tennis, the US Open final is on this weekend. I’d like to say that the US Open is probably the most exciting of the 4 slams, Wimbledon is full of tradition but tennis on grass don’t look so great if you’re not serve and volleying. And what’s with the white-gear-only ruling? Anyway, as my dad says, when it comes to finals, the grass is mostly dead and gone, it’s pretty much like playing in clay. [tag]Roland Garros[/tag], well, it’s OK, except that kind of clay reminds me of construction site backfilling works. And Aussie Open comes on too early in the season for me to get into…