Just came back from a long trip somewhere, that would explain the lack of update, probably the longest since I started blogging. Dun worry, guys, I’m back with guns blazing, just need a day or two to recover… aching everywhere… Seems I’ve been bitten by the travel bug. Some photos and stories (along with the usual everyday junk you’d expect) to follow soon. Hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair Well, the night’s busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere We got one last chance to make it real To trade in these wings on…

Somethings up these next few days, so all comments are held under moderation. Thanks for being patient.

Continuing from yesterday, a brief rundown on the characters of the legendary [tag]Street Fighter II[/tag]… These 8 are the original fighters, the first two are holdovers from the original prequel. Of the 8, I would say that I prefer Guile above the rest. But my all time favourite is not here, he’s one of the bosses in Champion Edition… you’ll know who in the next installment… SFII is basically is button pad and joystick game, it was never meant to be played with a direction pad on the consoles. That’s prolly why the arcade version is still the favourite version. (All pics taken from Love To Know Videogames. Fabulous site,…

The other day, out of nowhere, I suddenly remembered about [tag]Street Fighter II[/tag]. Now that’s iconic arcade game. There have been a few landmarks coin-ops that have made an impact in Malaysia, like 1942, Raiden, Hong Kong Mahjong (a perennial favourite this). But one that really took arcades across the nation, is none other than the humble Street Fighter II. (all images taken from the Coin-Op Museum, they have an excellent site there…) Just like Final Fantasy VII for the Playstation One, and Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo 64, SFII was a high water mark for its platform. I remember my friends were really into it, spending hours in…

Continuation of my posts from last week. You might want to check out Parts One and Two first. Lots of pix, not friendly to dial-up and the current Screamyx situation… I wonder when are they going to fix that problem?! Right. Last off, we were leaving Perak and going further North. Ipoh to Penang is only a short 2 hour journey, and the traffic was good in the mid-morning. After lots of open fields and small kampungs, we finally reach the [tag]Penang Bridge[/tag]. I have always thought that the bridge, being a two lane on each side (except the third climbing lane at the ascend) was too narrow to handle…

Okay, I’m taking a break from posting vacation pix to something more pressing… April is known for many things – not least of all is tax time in Malaysia. Yep, it’s that time of the year again when we dig through our drawers for old receipts and lament over the amount of taxes we have to pay. As it is, there are a few things to note. The Income Tax Dept, LHDN, is in their final stages of implementing the self assessment tax system. This does not mean you can decide to pay zero tax ringgit all by yourself, even though a lot of people would love that. Nope, it…

This is the continuation of yesterday’s posting. Warning, though, lots of pics. Not friendly to dial-up connection, yadda yadda yadda… zzz… Anyways, so we spent a night in a hotel in Ipoh. My ex-colleague was telling me that when he stayed in a hotel in the same town some years back, some pimp will come and knock on your door in the middle of the night and ask you lasciviously, “Oi lui mou?” (‘Want a girl?’) If you don’t get it, he’s not offering you orphaned young babies for adoption under some social service scheme. Nope, that definitely didn’t happen to us, although we were most probably stoned asleep after…

So it began like this. Some months ago, a few of us decided to go for a SG holiday as together, as we do annually. Three years ago it was [tag]Melaka[/tag] town. Cue lots of photo snapping at the historical monuments. And lots of durian cendol. Then the year after that it was er… let me see… it was [tag]Fraser’s Hill[/tag]. A little further, but still within driving distance. Can’t remember much about what we did there, lots of card games and Pictionary, i suppose. Yeah, there was this awesome waterfall, too. Then last year, we decided to go a little further than the two hour driving radius. Heck, let’s…

I’ve just come home from a weekend holiday to the North – Ipoh and Penang, to be specific. I’ve got lots of stories to write about and photos to show, but right now I’m too pooped to do much, hopefully it’ll be done in the next few days. I’m got to get the photos uploaded and grab some pix from my friends’ cams, my cam’s battery died on me halfway without a backup… So keep an eye out for the next few postings… meanwhile: Five Things I Like About Penang The food. [tag]Penang Hill[/tag]. The beach. Did I mention the food? The old pre-war buildings. Well, at least the ones…

I know I plugged Jolene’s blog before, but I have to do this one. Best post I’ve read in a long time. (Be patient. It loads s l o w l y…) I’m not a particularly mushy person, but i think it kinda speaks to anyone who has ever been in love. It really reminded me of a post i wrote some time back, Searching for Your Soulmate. Don’t worry, this one loads faster. *** While I’m on the subject of plugging other blogs, you can check out this one, by a polymath from Singapore who’s actually studying in US at the moment. I don’t read as many Singaporean blogs…