You know it’s a slow news day here for Malaysian papers when [tag]Paris Hilton[/tag] makes the front page of our national paper for being released from jail. Well, actually the unsinkable Ms. Hilton had to share the front page limelight with the equally unsinkable Tan Sri Eric Chia. One is convicted for violating DUI probation in a land half way across the globe while the other was acquitted for embezzling something like RM73million. That’s a lot of roti canais. So when the Old Spice Spice Girls released their comeback album, are they going to make the front page too, showing off their liposuctioned bodies? Maybe on an unfortunate day they…

Chris Benoit, the Canadian Crippler, the Rabid Wolverine, is dead. Reports are circulating about the possibility of him killing his wife and son, then committing suicide, like this article. I like Benoit. I don’t watch wrestling anymore, stopped watching it for many years, since they dropped the kayfabe thing and started coming out in the open… never mind. But i like Benoit. He’s old-school, as the younger people would call him a ‘technical’ wrestler. Just like i am a fan of Steve Borden aka Sting, Bret ‘the Hitman’ Hart, i like Benoit because he was a wrestler first and foremost. I loved him in WCW, but he later joined WWF…

The other day, i read in the papers that AFI just released their new ‘Top 100 Movies of All Time’ series updated for 2007. They only named the top 10 in the article, you need to be a member to login to their website to see to full list. But judging from the list, NINE out of the TEN movies were released before i was born. The other was released when i was still in school. So what’s the point of releasing this top 100 thing every year? Okay well, maybe one or two recent films get to break into no.87 and no.99 (i’m speculating here), but by and large,…

Yep, folks, we’re at the last instalment of the series in the travelogue. Next time i should use one of those picture viewers with the caption below so that it’s easier to post lots of pics… Anyway here are the earlier posts in the series: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3: Ocean Park and Victoria Peak Day Four was the highlight of our 5 day trip. We packed up everything in the hotel we’d been staying in for the past 3 nights – BP International in Kowloon, cause we were spending the day and one night in Hong Kong Disneyland…! Or as the locals called it “Tik see nei”. Yeah…

Taking another break before the last in the series of the HK travelogue. If some you may have noticed, it’s 2007 already. In fact, we’re almost half way through the year. That means that it’s been ten years since Princess Diana died in that much publicized car crash. She passed on on 31 August 1997, our 40th national day. Not hard to remember. The thing about dying young is that people will always remember you as a young person, not the old, frail version if you are advanced in age. For Diana, whom at that time was the most photographed person in the world, i think the world couldn’t get…

This is the second last in the series of post on my recent trip to [tag]Hong Kong[/tag], you can check out the first and second parts here: Hong Kong Memories… Day 1 Hong Kong Memories… Day 2 Okay, okay i know, too many travelogues are a little tiresome, so one more post and i’m done, okay? So on the third day, it was a free and easy touring day for us. We didn’t have to wake up too early like in the earlier days, but not too late, since we had lots to do and see. This is the view from our hotel room in the morning. All concrete buildings,…

Taking a break from my Hong Kong travelogues. Talk about COOL CAR REGISTRATION PLATE NUMBER! To the owner of this car, my apologies, but you have one kick-ass ride, and not to mention an even more bad-ass car plate number? Did you also own that old night-club in town sometime back?

(This is a continuation of the previous Part One) So the second day of our stay in Hong Kong, we got up really early to follow this half day city tour organized by our tour agent. I’m used to waking up early, but not while on holiday… besides we had to wake up early to eat breakfast, which was cup noodles and 3-in-1 coffee in typical Malaysian fashion. They came round punctually at about 7.30am, by then the city was already buzzing with people and traffic. This is our tour leader Ah Fai, a really nice and funny guy. He tells lots of humourous stories about life in Hong Kong…

Yep, i was in Hong Kong with my family last week, it was a beautiful place. It was very hot, though, as hot as Malaysia, plus it’s dry and not much wind despite being an island. We went to a whole lot of places – Disneyland (stayed a night there), Ocean Park, the night markets, Repulse Bay, the Peak, etc and took a whole lot of photos, but i won’t kill your modem with all the photos here, but i’ll show a few choice photos from each day i was there. So here we go… On day 1, the first impression after touching down was the new Chek Lap Kok…

Last Monday morning, exactly seven days ago, my brother went home to be with the Lord at about seven in the morning. He would have been forty this September. He fought a short uphill battle against leukemia and chemotherapy, but lost the struggle in less than two short weeks. It was only last year that he endured the indignity of radiotherapy for cancer. I know, life sucks. When i received the call, I was waiting on the waterfront of a foreign shore. I waited awhile to tell my wife, as she was laughing with my two children almost a stone’s throw away. When she walked to me, I started with,…