So fifty years, eh? Yes, I am damn proud to be Malaysian. I don’t have a little flag stuck to my car, but I am still damn proud. Besides, those little plastic sticks are really dangerous when it comes flying off on the highway. There’s a flood of lists out there about Malaysia, let me make my own. There won’t be 50 in the lists, or you’ll stop reading after the second one. So I’ll stop at ten. After that, you can add your own. Top Ten Reasons Why I Love Malaysia. I can stop and park my car at the side of the road, and buy great tasting goreng…

Ever since i left the days of metal and hard rock behind in college, i’ve not really gone into the modern day bands much these days. I do like some of the emo bands, but it’s never the same as the fist in the air sounds of Iron Maiden or Megadeth. But when i first heard this song recently, i absolutely fell in love with it. Story of a boy struggling to make it, keeping a long distance love with the girl he loves. Hey there Delilah I know times are getting hard But just believe me girl Someday I’ll pay the bills with this guitar We’ll have it good…

I’ve a little dilemma maybe some the auto guys may be able to help. The other day i was shopping around for tyre prices when a shocking truth hit me. Tyres prices are damn expensive these days, man. It’s been less than 3 years since i last change car tyres (that was for my old Iswara which i have sold) and prices have gone up. I find it pretty ironic that Malaysia is one of the biggest rubber exporters in the world…! Haha. Anyway, i need to change the tyres on my current car. Stock tyre is Goodyear NCT 5 185/55/R15. Ha, now you can probably guess what car i…

I heard that J.K.Rowling is planning another book. No really, she is. I bet it’s probably going to make the New York Times No.1 bestseller spot based on pre-order alone, let’s not even speak of the first day sale. Even it’s about the mating habits of tree frogs. Some other books J.K.Rowling can write now that HP is Finished Harry Potter Book 8: Look I Need More Money So I Lied About Stopping At 7 The New Adventures of Mary Lotter the Little Girl Witch (Book 1 of 14) The Secret Diaries of Harry Potter Aged 3 to 10: The Official Prequel Series (Also 7 books planned) Dummies Guide to…

Yesterday i was at IKEA/Ikano, doing some window shopping. i was at the first floor and saw that there some music exhibition at the ground floor concourse area, so i went down. Actually my kid was attracted to the huge promo poster for High School Musical 2, damn that thing is going to be so blardy popular in a few weeks’ time… Anyway i was pleasantly surprised to find some cool DVDs and music CDs for sale. This is what i bought. Woo-hoo! [tag]Studio Ghibli[/tag]! [tag]Hayao Miyazaki[/tag]! 14 movies on 5 DVDs for RM35.90. I know i can get it free, but this comes with full features like multiple languages…

My PC is out of order, for the third time this month, so i am without internet. Again. I am currently at a cybercafe, surrounded by schoolkids and college students. You KNOW you are out of place in a cybercafe when everyone in there is playing some MMORPG and you’re the only one checking your mail and updating your blog. I don’t even know what game they are playing, all i know is that it isn’t WoW and it has big sword and scantily-clad warrior women (don’t they all?) And the game somehow involves the players to swear out loud periodically, and in different languages and dialects. Oh, wait there’s…

It’s been an eventful two and a half months in my life, even if it hasn’t really shown in this blog, it really has been. For one, i have just changed jobs, after 3 long years in my previous job. I know three years isn’t a long time for a lot of people, but it sure felt like a long, long time for me. From the day i joined, it was pretty much a temporary job, since i was desperate to get away from my previous employer. Lo and behold, before i knew it, almost 3 years had pass… actually, to be frank, after a few months on the job,…

The other i was watching the 90’s spoof comedy ‘[tag]Not Another Teen Movie[/tag]’, i couldn’t help noticing the numerous [tag]John Hughes[/tag] references, not least of all with [tag]Molly Ringwald[/tag] appearing in one of the scenes. In my book, John Hughes is the king of [tag]80’s[/tag] [tag]teen movies[/tag], primarily working a select few young stars he loves to use, like Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, [tag]Emilio Estevez[/tag] and Judd Nelson. Hughes has also written and directed lots of other movies from different genres right up to the present, but he is almost always remembered for the trio of movies that inspired a whole generation of teenagers (and not to mention modern day…

Got this from God’s Little Angel… Actually, me and my pal Ray used to discussed this at length when we were back in college. Those were the days that we were young and bright-eyed, eager to stamp our mark in the world and make our first million before we reached forty… before the reality of hard work hit our faces on the first of work. Among other things. But then again. Fantasies aside, what would we do if we had a million ringgit (granted a million ringgit was worth more in those days, but what the heck…)? Of course, ten percent goes to tithes, goes without saying. After that, it’ll…

No spoilers. And so i have finished the book. I’m writing this review immediately, to record my immediate impression of it while it is still fresh in my memory, before i even read any other reviews on the ‘Net. It was quite good. For an end to the most hyped book in the history of publishing, I’d say it was quite good. Not great, I think that it’s well established that Rowling is no more a great writer than any of the hundreds of published ones out there, and the series itself is guilty of being crushed by it own weight of hype and expectation on many occasions in the…