We get too many e-mails and newsletters about the disadvantaged and unfortunate, about children needing donations for surgery, among other things. Most of the time we don’t even read them, probably a testament as to how many of them we receive a week, not to mention wariness of con jobs and scammers. My long time blog pal Inevitable and his colleagues decided to make a difference. Read about it here. It has seriously reminded me to act on some of the voluntary stuff I have been putting of for too long a time. Read Inevitable‘s post and see the pics, even if one other reader acts to make a difference,…

Here’s a good joke i came up with some years back. Question: What blue, black and really hard? Answer: The SPM. SPM is still on isn’t it? That accounts for the shopping malls not being as crowded as it should be during school holidays. In a month or so McDonalds and Starbucks will be getting load of applicants for temp jobs. That is, after the students go ballistic after exams for about a week and then they realize they need more pocket money. For the uninitiated, SPM is the local equivalent of the ‘O’ levels. I remember my SPM. I was sitting next to the prettiest girl in my class.…

I don’t know if its licenced or not, but there’s this Korean BBQ restaurant called ‘Tai Cheong Kam’ (‘Jewel in the Palace’) or Tae Jang Gum somewhere in Bandar Puteri Puchong. We were trawling the area last night looking for a place to eat, it came down to this Korean BBQ or a Japanese BBQ joint. I supposed the huge pic of ‘Jewel in the Palace’ actress Lee Young Ae at the front of shop probably swayed a lot of the fans of the show (my wife included). The food was OK, but the price was astronomical. 4 adults and one kid came up to almost RM180. Good lord, for…

I don’t listen to pop music a lot these days, but does anyone else thinks that Nelly Furtado’s new single sounds a whole lot like the Pussycat Dolls? Nelly Furtado used to a normal singer with a good voice, then one day she (or her manager) woke and said, “Say, if she whored it up like Christina Aguilera, I might sell a whole lot more records! Whoa! I’m a genius! Wait, while I’m at it, why don’t I get songs loaded with innuendo of sex, T&A, sex and more sex? Who cares about subtlety anymore? Okay, I’ll put in one or more nice songs, because I don’t want to, like,…

I was watching the news the other day while on vacation, and they showed this report about the midnight launch of the PS3 in the US. These guys even camped overnight in the rain and cold just to be the first few ones to own the spanking new game console. Talk about hardcore fans, man. It looks like it’ll only be released here in Malaysia some time next year. While the water cooler debate of PS3 vs. Nintendo Wii vs. X-box 360 rages on, here’s some stuff about the new PS3 especially for Malaysians. Some Things You Probably Don’t Know (or Don’t Need to Know) about the New PS3 When…

My good friends, a couple are expecting their first baby, a girl soon. I’m not sure if they’ve settled on a name yet. See, choosing a Chinese name is very tricky. Why? Let’s break it down. The average Malaysian Chinese name has 4 words or names – 3 Chinese words and 1 English. Like Lilian Tan Ah Lian (if you haven’t figured it out yet, ‘Lilian’ here is, surprisingly the English name). You can give your kid 6 English names and one Chinese, e.g. Charlie Peter Alfonso Albuquerque Giuseppe McDonald Chua, but the poor sod will probably get beaten up a lot in the school playground. Anyway, back to the…

Hmm. Another Bond movie, new actor, reinvention through Fleming’s first 007 novel. Although I grew up watching the franchise, I was never really a big fan, was more into Star Wars and Indiana Jones. I haven’t watched this new movie, but… Top Ten Things You Will NOT See in the New 007 James Bond Movie Explanation why James Bond is only becoming the secret agent 007 NOW in 2006 when he’s been one since the Sixties. Getting a speeding ticket for doing 160mph right in downtown London while chasing baddies. James Bond practicing abstinence. Any logical explanation why James Bond hasn’t aged a bit since 1962 and looks surprisingly like…

Some time ago when I was on school holiday, I came up to KL by express bus to visit my sister for a few days. She was living in SS2 at that time, and the one thing I remembered was she brought me to Swensen’s near Wisma Atria in Damansara Jaya. That was the very first time I came to Wisma Atria. Yes, long before The Curve or 1 Utama or Mid Valley, PJ had Wisma Atria, the modest shopping mall surrounded by shop offices servicing the middle class residents of Damansara Jaya, SS2 and Damansara Utama. It was never as happening as those huge malls in KL at that…

Another year end. Time to start doing all the work you were supposed to have done in the past 10 months, review coming up… Another year of hoping for a non-existent bonus, another year of promises by the management. Where’s that floppy with your resume, then? Top Ten Signs You Should Start Updating Your Resume (…and Consider Quitting Your Job) Every morning, in order to get into your office, you have to dodge the chettiars and money collector thugs banging down the front door looking for your boss. Company has reported a RM4million pre-tax loss for the 3rd consecutive, while all your boss has just upgraded his brand new Lexus…

‘K-Fed‘? Is that something like a nasal spray drug? Like Actifed?! Or is like the K9 units of the FBI? I know stars, like Paris Hilton like to carry around cute little dogs, but… And so that make Roger Federer “R-Fed“?! Anyways, Britney, I’m here for you… (Image from www.britney.com, official website at Jive Records) [tags]Actifed, K-Fed, Britney, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Roger Federer, Kevin Federline[/tags]