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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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

‘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)
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