I can feel the force of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith starting right now. First the media is going to play it up on all fronts, followed by endless teasers and montage clips on TV and the Internet, then the merchandising and Happy Meal toys, etc. I just watched the trailer on Astro. It doesn’t show much, but most of us already know the main story since 1983 – Anakin seduced by the Emperor to join the Dark Side, Anakin fights it out with Obi-Wan, all the Jedi exterminated by the Sith, leaving only Yoda and Obi-wan, Amidala dies and twins separated, clone army become the Stormtroopers.…

IMHO, anyway. It’s the Sg. Pandan waterfall near Sg. Lembing, was there yesterday. It’s much higher, couldn’t get it all in one shot… Thanks, Mike for taking the shot and sending to me…

I just came back from a holiday trip to Cherating, and will explain to my readers why my blog was not updated for a few days. It was a fun trip; 10 of us living it up in the sun, sea, sand, turtles, seafood, sandflies, waterfalls, etc. There will be probably be 2 weeks’ worth of blog entries from that trip, but I’ll start with this one. Over the years while participating in dozens of motorized treasure hunts, I’ve seen my fair share of villages and small rural towns: Ayer Tawar, Kemaman, Damar Laut, Parit Jawa, etc. Don’t get me wrong; I love the rustic peace and slow-paced life there,…

Seven movies that truly defined the 80’s for me: E.T. (1982)– It’s was more than a year after it was released in the US that I finally got to watch Spielberg’s superb film about a docile finger-pointing alien in our local wooden cinema. This was back then, when films where good family fun, without any swearing, mindless violence and gratuitous sex. Sure, Predator and the Borg could kick E.T.’s ass, but the final bicycle chase scene sure stuck in our minds… And Drew Barrymore was such a cute kid back then. Top Gun (1986) – Ah, yes. Tom Cruise in the ultimate cool movie of the decade. Propelled by one…

(This is a continuation of the blog love story… newcomers please read parts one and two here…)Johari – Eh, Raymond, come lah we go to mamak Mydin… I’m hungry. Raymond – Dowan lah. You go ahead, lah. Johari – I say man, Raymond. Dun be like dat lah. Everyday got no mood wan, lemah semangat only I see you. Its been 2 weeks already lah. Raymond – Don’t worry about me, man… you go enjoy lah… Johari – What OK. Its been 2 weeks since you broke up with that Vijaya Kumari anak perempuan Samuel Govindaraj… Ask you go watch movie, you dowan, ask you go clubbing, you say no…

Two words that have a naughty connotation in Malaysia but not anywhere else: Spender Steam One word that has naughty connotation everywhere else but not in Malaysia: Rubber Two letters that does not exist in the Malay language: V, X (it only appears in words borrowed from English) Some Malay words you probably don’t use in everyday conversation: Senak, mahligai, keterampilan, arakian. If you can speak English:…you’ll probably understand a lot of words in Bahasa Malaysia.Two English TV shows that had to be renamed in Malaysia due to negative connotations in their titles: Xena the Warrior Princess Mighty Morphin and the Power Rangers Some English movies that had to be…

During my research for my two blogs regarding alien abduction (read it here and here), i found this site selling a new ‘Alien Abduction Prevention Device’. Strangely no details were given. Eh? Is it like a Kryptonite Pepper Spray? Or a device that continuously play annoying Backstreet Boys’ ringtones? For USD$5.25 only, I’m tempted to try it out…

Streaker at the Royal Wedding Yeah, I know it was passé, but I watched a bit of it. Nothing like Diana’s wedding 24 years ago, and ol’ Charlie must have been pretty annoyed the Pope and prince Rainier ruined his week. But the best bit must have been the streaker being taken down by the bobbies. The mounted cops did their best to hide him from the camera. And get this, the cops had time to stand and pose for a group photo with the half-naked guy, as if they were on a sight-seeing tour… Why don’t we see any female streakers? Second best bit – when Charles and Camilla…

In one of my previous jobs, I was working in a construction site in the Klang Valley where some of the foreign workers stayed in an on-site kongsi (labour camp). Our drainage sub-contractor had a Bangladeshi man working for them, his wife and little son stayed with him. The wife was quite heavily built, the son was no more than 4 years old. Their kongsi was half of an old rusting steel cabin. With no running water and no electricity. Everyday, they stayed in that burning hot steel oven baked by the unforgiven sun, with no fan, no lights, no mosquito coils. Every morning and evening, the wife carries her…

I’ve just found out that Secretaries’ Week is on 24-30th April. Secretaries’ ‘Week’?! Why do secretaries get one WEEK when Fathers and Mothers only get a DAY? We have Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Teacher’s Day, Same-Sex Partner Day but secretaries get seven times more celebration than the rest of us. Never mind that they work 40-60 hours a week only and get paid for it. Parents looking after children work 24 x 7 = 168 hours a week and get zilch. Only heartaches and high blood pressure. Furthermore if secretaries dislike their jobs or bosses, they can resign and find another one. For parents, children are mostly non-refundable…