We just came back from a 3-day holiday from that esotoric historical city to the south – Melaka. Yeah i know everybody has been to Melaka a gazillion times, eaten everything that worth eating and seen everything worth snapping your brand new Sony Cybershot at… i get it. But we needed a holiday, and Melaka seemed a good place enough. For those who do not know – Melaka is the hometown of my forefathers. My father was born there, went to school there. I didn’t grow up there, but spent almost all my childhood holidays there. So there, now you know. Melaka has really grown up that much over the…

Got this from mott… How naughty was i in secondary school? Not very, but very a goody-goody kid either. I came from a racially mixed government school – with boys and girls. So i suppose it was kind of boring most of the time and a little fun at times. Let me see what naughty stuff did me and my friends do? You know those string of firecrackers that popped loudly when you pulled them with both hands? We tied them to the girls’ bicycles – one end to the spoke of the wheels, one end to the body of the bike. Some bikes we tied a FEW together. Too…

We bought an air cooler the other for my daughter’s room. What’s an air cooler? This is an air cooler. Wah, pretty buttons! Comes with remote control some more! As you can see, it is manufactured by Malaysia’s 36th largest electronics exporting company, Yamada. Read carefully, it’s Yamada, not Yamaha. Some more got filter, just like your air-conditioning. The model we got came with two icepacks that makes the air to be slightly cooler, although not as cool as an air-conditioner. The icepacks are the same as the ones for coolers used for camping. This is where you put the frozen icepacks. Lasts for a few hours. So now you…

Mott tagged me on this… If you are puzzled, let me explain all the confusing technical terms the parent-bloggers like to use. SAHM – Stay At Home Mom. As in, “Aiyah Ah Sahm ah, you want to buy vegetable or not?” FTWM – Full Time Working Mom. The opposite of those silai‘s playing mahjong all day and going for manicure. PTWM – Part Time Working Mom. A combination of the above two. So similarly, you can deduce that the male or father version of the above is SAHD (as in ‘very SAD‘), FTWD and PTWD… got it? So the question is, would i prefer to be a SAHD or FTWD?…

Was at a long, draggy meeting the other, came out with this. Talk about doing something productive with your time… I watch lots and lots of movies. Maybe not so much nowadays, what with the rising ticket prices and demanding job, but i always love a good movie that’ll make me laugh. Here’s 21 18 movies, all comedies, all quite recent. A few are older than 5 years, but most of them are within recent memory. I’ve given only the plot, guess the movie title. Tell me your score in the comments, and check your ratings! But don’t post the answers there for the benefit of the other readers, okaa-aaay…?…

Forest Fires Have Begun, Brace Yourself For the Haze, Meteorological Dept Says “What red lights, En. Polis? Ini macam haze mana i boleh tau sana ada traffic lights? Kereta lembu pun tak nampak…!” Haze Spotted In Penang Already, Char Koay Teow Hawkers Partly to be Blamed It’s Not Our Fault Says Indons, M’sian Logging Companies Are Doing It “I can’t even see the Twin Towers anymore! So bad already!” Johor Schools Told To Cancel All Outdoor Activities, PE in Classrooms Suggested “Boss, today i MC, boss. Doctor say the Haze is causing my cough / cold / sore throat / conjunctivitis / period pain / leg pain…” We’re Doing All…

(warning: semi-disturbing post ahead) You know it’s time to buy a new pair of shoes when… This is my faithful pair of Crocodile shoes, lasted me close to 6 years or so. I think i bought it somewhere in Sg. Wang Plaza. Beautiful, aren’t they? 🙂 Okay, okay, i don’t wear it all the time to work. I wear it to drive, walk to the office in the dusty construction site, change to my boots. I clean it all the time (no, I do!) but after one day, it becomes like this. See, at least the croc logo is still there. Covered in dust all the time, but still there.…

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,…