Penang Is Quiet

Penang is relatively quiet this time of the year. If you're keen on some rest and relaxation, come on up to Penang.

 

How Safe is the Honda Accord 2008

5 stars

The 2008 Honda Accord came out with flying colors in EnCAP's new car assessment programme.

Front impact

The passenger compartment remained stable during the impact. Dummy readings indicated that the knees and femurs of the driver and passenger were well protected. Honda showed that occupants of different sizes and those sitting in different positions would be similarly well protected. The passenger's chest was compressed more than the driver's and this value was used for the calculation of the rating.

Child-protection

Maximum points were scored for protection of the 3 year infant based on the dummy result from the impact tests. The passenger airbag can be disabled to allow a rearward-facing child restraint to be used in that position. However, information presented to the driver regarding the status of the airbag is not sufficiently clear. A warning label clearly warns of the danger of using a rearward facing child seat in the passenger seat without first disabling the airbag, but the information is not available in all European languages. The presence of ISOFIX anchorages in the rear outboard seats is not clearly marked.

Pedestrian protection

The bumper scored maximum points for the protection offered to pedestrians' legs in the area rated by Euro NCAP. However, additional tests showed that some areas beyond the central zone provided poor protection. Most of the zones tested in the area of the bonnet where a child's head might strike also scored maximum points. However, the front edge of the bonnet was rated as poor.

Women & 3 Wishes...

 Brilliant Joke, for men , Women : just read the first half !

A Woman was out golfing one day when she hit the ball into the woods. She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap. The frog said to her, "If you release me from this trap, I will grant you three wishes." The woman freed the frog, and the frog said, "Thank you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your wishes. Whatever you wish for, your husband will get times ten!" 

The woman said, "That's okay." 

For her first wish, she wanted to be the most beautiful woman in the world. The frog warned her, "You do realize that this wish will also make your husband the most handsome man in the world, an Adonis whom women will flock to". The woman replied,"That's okay, because I will be the most beautiful Woman and he will have eyes only for me." So, KAZAM-she's the most beautiful Woman in the world! 

For her second wish, she wanted to be the richest woman in the world. The frog said, "That will make your husband the richest man in the world. And he will be ten times richer than you. " The woman said, "That's okay, because what's mine is his and what's his is mine.." So, KAZAM-she's the richest woman in the world! 

The frog then inquired about her third wish, and she answered, "I'd like a mild heart attack."

Moral of the story: Women are clever. Don't mess with them.

Attention female readers: This is the end of the joke for you. Stop here and continue feeling good.

Male readers: Please scroll down.

 The man had a heart attack ten times milder than his wife!!!

 Moral of the story: Women are really dumb but think they're really smart.

 Let them continue to think that way and just enjoy the show

 PS: If you are a woman and are still reading this; it only goes to show that women never listen!!!

Be Careful Of This Car Accident Scam/Ploy

This happened to my own Dept Manager, she wants this circulated to warn everyone to be careful when on the road, whether dealing with the police or otherwise.

Take care

 

Marlene

 

 

From: Mavis Khoo Gaik Kim on 18/12/2008 10:43 AM

cc:

Subject: Crooks and crooked cops

 

Dear Friends,

 

I've finally got this down in writing.....

 

Be paranoid if you must be but don't trust even the Police . These are desperate times. I have a story which you should send to all your friends to warn them.

 

I was in a car accident on 15/11/2008 along the flyover coming up from the Federal Highway into Jalan Maarof, Bangsar . My car skidded and went over a road divider. When I came to a stop a few minutes later 2 Malay guys - one driving a blue Satria and the other on a bike passed my car and stopped. They looked very decent - clean cut, well dressed like they worked in an office. Both approached me and asked in perfect English whether I was ok and whether I needed help.

 

I declined of course as I had already called for help. They hovered for a while and then went off. I decided then to get out of my car to check the damage and when I got out, the 2 guys reversed and came back . At first I thought they were nice guys and just wanted to be sure I was ok. Nevertheless, I ignored them and kept a distance.

 

Then the drama unfolded. The guy driving the Satria opened his car booth and took our a pair of black pants which he then threw on the road behind my car. The motorcyclist then sat down on the divider and began to roll up his pants and took off his shoes and socks ! I saw that he had a scrapped knee which was rather red.

 

Realising then that something was very wrong, I asked the two guys while still maintaining my distance from them what they were doing . The motorcyclist then turned to me and said " You langgar saya tak payah bayar?" I was shocked and told them no such thing happened and why they were doing this. The guy then said " Awak jangan biadap, sudah langgar saya nak marah saya !!"

 

I quickly went back into my car and called the police. Call this Bukit Aman No. (03-22626555) - the response is fast. While waiting for help to arrive I kept praying for protection. The Police came within 5 minutes.

 

BUT, you know, the police whom I thought were my heros also turned out to be crooks.

 

The 2 officers approached me and asked me what happened. while I related to them what happened one of them went to speak to the 2 guys who were still hovering around at the back of my car. 

The remaining cop asked me "Sekarang macam mana?"

I said there was no way I could have knocked them as there was no evidence of damage to their vehicles or injury on them. The cop then asked me "Kerja di mana?"

I told them I worked in a Bank and he said " Wah jadi you banyak wang!!!"

Although on hindsight now it was a strange thing to say (at that pt they were still my heroes) to which I responded that I am only a worker , I don't own the Bank so I don't have money ! He then walked to his partner and came back a few moments later and said to me " The guy claims I broke the side mirror of his car" He asked again "sekarang nak buat apa ?"

 

At this pt I was furious and told him that we should all go to the Balai  to make our repsective reports. He kept quiet at my response . I then blurted out some names of ex-Bkt  Aman Inspectors whom I happen to know and then he went to talk again to his partner and the next thing that happened, the 2 guys accusing me left the scene.

 

I was just overcome with relief by then my family had arrived to help. Little did I realise until much later that the 2 corrupt cops were in

cohorts with the 2 malay boys to extort some money from me. They let them go without my consent, did not even record their details or vehicle reg nos. Nothing !!!

 

Imagine the cops who are supposed to protect you are as dirty and corrupted as the crooks roaming our town !!!!

Abdullah Badawi whose mission before he leaves his position says he wants to curb crime in the country and eradicate corruption should go dig out the shit in his garden first.

 

What an experience but God is good.

Watch Malaysia's Stupidest Drivers

Watch Malaysia's stupidest drivers on the road this festive season. You'll instantly recognize them on the road. 

Their the ones on the highway with their headlights on high beam all the way. These are the weak and sissy drivers who are ultimately very shallow and selfish people. Their only concerned about their own ride. And most of the time, these drivers are middle aged (over 35), fat males. These males have basically no other way to display their manhood, so this is the only way for them to show off to the females that they have balls. One of these cars, one of the many, but I could only remember this number, BAU 8. This was one of the stupid drivers that I saw along the North-South highway, on my way to Penang.

Then, there's also the old clown who's the first to switch on his hazard lights whenever water falls from the sky. The funny thing is that these silly drivers insist on driving on the fast lane, at a slow speed, and yet switch their hazard lights. I mean, how stupid can all these male be. Do all males become this dumb when they turn 35?

Although I do have to admit that Malaysian drivers are more courteous these days but there's still some old, lame male drivers who strive to get all the attention on the road. Let this blog posting remind people that they can and should highlight bad behaviour in public.

To a better drive along the highway...

Maxis 3G is so Farking Expensive!

Talk about 3G! I just got my new 3G phone for about a month now and the bill reads a whopping RM110 for 10MB worth of downloaded data. Are you kidding me? RM10 per 1MB.

Is Maxis the only one charging such exorbitant wireless rates or are these the rates we're supposed to pay? Or is it the common syndrome of some third party getting rich at our expense (you'll never know. after all, this is Malaysia where corruption is the lubricant of the economy).

US Should Allow GM & Chrysler To Fall...

A very good point for allowing General Motors and Chrysler to fall is given in this Time Online article.

Learn to Write for the Web

Writing online, like in a bog or website, is different from writing in a book.

When you write in a book, every knows that you have the start from page 1 and move on. But on the world wide web, people come into your website or blog from different points - they dont always come in through the front door. Some come in directly to the page from a search engine results, some come in from a previously bookmarked page while others can come in directly into the middle of a page.

Sun Microsystem, believe it or not, actually came up with a guideline on how to write better for the web. Their document, titled Writing for the Web can be found here http://www.sun.com/980713/webwriting/

Hope you'll digest this fine article and practise the lost art of writing.

Slow Internet Access in Malaysia

Malaysians will continue to experience very slow internet access to sites on the Europe and US as TMNet reports a fault in the main fiber optic line to the Europe.

Approximate date to restore Malaysia's internet connection to full capacity is no earlier than December 28th, 2008.

World Vision Malaysia Needs You

With the dawn of the New Year, World Vision is working to find sponsors for 3,000 children in 3 months. We thank the many sponsors who have helped us spread the word about child sponsorship, but, there is still much to be done.

If you have a friend who would like to know more about child sponsorship, we invite you to bring him/her to our 3,000 Campaign Launch:

Date   :  2 January 2009 (Friday)

Time   : 10.30am – 12.30pm

Venue :  The Millennium Ballroom, Grand Millennium Kuala Lumpur,
             160, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur


Celebrities Lee Sinje, Francissca Peter, Danell Lee, Royce Tan, Roshan and Siow Hui Mei will be sharing about their experience and commitment as Child Sponsors.

Places are limited and are on a first-come-first served basis. Please call 03-78806414 for Silvia to confirm seats for yourself and your friend by 26 December 2008.

Hope to see you there!

Warm Regards,
World Vision Malaysia

What Do You Listen To When You Drive?

We all listen to the radio when we drive, dont we? But to what statio are you tuned into?

Please do take the poll on the right hand side of your screen. The poll closes in 6 months time and I hope by then, I wont be the only vote on that poll.

Thank you for your time.

Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1

Liverpool just tied the game with a beautiful Robbie Keane strike to tie the game after Van Persie gave Arsenal the lead with an exquisite goal.

Liverpool have to win this game if they wish to remain at the top of the table. So far, Liverpool remain at the top of the league by sheer luck.

Top 10 Open Source Stories Of 2008

By Serdar Yegulalp
InformationWeek
December 20, 2008 07:00 AM

The advent of Linux-powered netbooks, the launch of Google's Android and Chrome, and Nokia's move to snap up Symbian pushed open source further into the mainstream, despite ongoing legal wrangling.

The year 2008 showed open source -- both in the form of Linux specifically and as a software development model generally -- coming into the mainstream like never before. When it wasn't powering new hardware niches like the netbook, it was forming the core ofGoogle (NSDQ: GOOG)'s new Android mobile operating system or its Chrome browser, and sitting at the center of legal wrangling with wide-ranging repercussions.

Here are the top highlights of the past year in the open source arena.

1. The Rise (And Falling Price) Of The Netbook

Linux-powered and budget-priced, the ASUS Eee PC and its successors proved that you didn't need a full-blown notebook computer to get work done. A netbook gets you Internet connectivity, word processing, and a slew of other common tasks -- all in a machine that cost around $350 or so. Even if later models of the Eee and other netbooks came with Windows XP as an option, that wasn't enough to kill the buzz for inexpensive Linux-powered devices. Netbooks also proved to be a better bet than Linux-powered desktop PCs at the same price point: why pay the same for a machine that doesn't even come with a display?

The race to the bottom with netbook prices hasn't stopped yet -- in fact, it's barely gotten started. As of this writing, consumer-electronics maker Coby is planning a $99 netbook. That's about a low a price floor as you can go to without subsidizing the sales in some fashion (e.g., a wireless data plan, as per cell phones).

2. Sun's Slow Spiraling Towards Nova

No, Sun hasn't gone nova quite yet, but it's getting mighty hot. Despite slumping sales, heavy layoffs, a tanking stock price, and customers hoofing it to other pastures (mainly Linux), Sun has beat relentlessly on its commitment to open solutions as a possible way out for both them and their stockholders.

One can't say they haven't tried. OpenOffice, under their sponsorship, released the long-awaited, if only incrementally revised, version 3. Solaris itself was open-sourced and, this year, released in a desktop-friendly implementation. And -- most significantly -- Sun bought MySQL AB, a move which ignited as much contention as it did enthusiasm among fans of both companies. Does this mean MySQL would go down with the ship if Sun implodes, or signal a change in direction for both companies?

3. The Release Of Ubuntu 8.10 And Fedora 10

Flagship distributions of Linux don't get any more prominent than Ubuntu and Fedora, and this year both of them hit major milestones. Ubuntu 8.10 brought the distribution -- one which for many people is Linux -- to a new level of usability and reliability, and added goodies like better mobile networking and the ability to build a mobile USB edition from an install CD.

Fedora, Red Hat (NYSE: RHT)'s non-commercial distribution, also got a new revision and now sports: a new startup system; better remote-provisioning features; wireless connection sharing; and Firstaidkit, a rescue utility designed to preserve as much user data as possible in the event of a system-gobbling disaster. If 2008 hasn't been the long-vaunted "year of the Linux desktop," it ought to be.

4. The Release Of Google Chrome

"What, another Web browser?" Those were my own words, unedited, when Google (NSDQ: GOOG) released the first edition of its Chrome browser. I was, and still am, deeply skeptical about the idea of using Chrome -- or any Web browser, really -- as a cross-platform portal to replace the applications we use on our desktops with 'Net-powered equivalents.

But never mind all that. Chrome's aptly named: it shines. It's fast, cleanly designed, and even in its 0.3 / 0.4 revisions shows remarkable engineering savvy: no more problems in one window or tab locking up the whole browser. One major flaw, aside from its relative lack of development, is that currently it's for Windows only.

Even if it doesn't turn into the portal for Google's vision of Web-meets-the-desktop, it may well be as much a challenge to Firefox as Firefox was to IE (and the older Netscape) -- competition for the competition.

5. The Release Of Google Android

Plain and simple: mobile Linux came of age in 2008 with the introduction of Google's long-heralded Android OS. Even if Android was still a tad raw, and even if Android-powered phones like the HTC G1 are still overshadowed by the iPhone, Android gave people a glimpse of what an open handset system could really provide. It's a first step, and like most first steps it's tentative and tottering.

And since the tools are in everyone's hands now, not just Google's, that step's a much bigger one than it might seem. It might prove to be salvation for the likes of Motorola, now looking to ditch their homegrown (and notoriously lackluster) phone operating system in favor of something that might better complement their hardware designs -- although Motorola may just elect to go with...

6. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Picks Up Symbian

... Symbian. Which, in one of the more surprising open source developments of the past year -- and a complement to Google's own mobile open source play -- Nokia snapped up Symbian and pledged to make it available for free under the terms of the Eclipse Public License.

This year's developments have been all preliminary for Nokia and Symbian; actual handsets aren't expected until 2009 or so. (By contrast, the first Android phone is out right now.)

Aside from Motorola (NYSE: MOT), other big-name phone folks like Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson, AT&T (NYSE: T), DoCoMo, and Samsung are hopping on board. From the look of it, Android may be the more programmer- and hacker-friendly environment, while Symbian is the more carrier- and handset-maker-friendly. Either way, it's become that much harder for phone makers and carriers to stick with closed architectures.

7. Courts Rule That Copyrights On Open Source Software Are Enforceable

Those worried that open source licensing conventions might not stick in a court of law breathed a little easier when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down a ruling earlier this year. The decision for Jacobsen vs. Katzer made it clear that not upholding the provisions of an open source license is an infringement of the original code creator's copyrights. Open source advocates, including Creative Commons license creator Lawrence Lessig (whose work was cited by the circuit court's decision), were thrilled.

The financial stakes in this particular case weren't momentous -- they involved model railroad software for hobbyists, not exactly a big-ticket software market -- but the implications were wide-ranging. Since most previous legal tangles over open source have ended short of actually going to court, this much of a precedent is a huge boon.

8. Linux Developer Hans Reiser Convicted Of First-Degree Murder

It sounded too bizarre and lurid to be true, but horribly enough, it was. Hans Reiser, the creator of the Linux filesystem ReiserFS, was convicted of murdering his estranged wife and hiding her body. His defense attempted to explain away the preponderance of evidence against him as the quirky behavior of an eccentric if gifted man. It didn't work, and not long after that Reiser led police to where he'd buried the body in the hopes of obtaining a reduced sentence.

What's striking about the case is the fate of ReiserFS itself. Thanks to the project being open source, it'll continue. Even if future editions of ReiserFS lose out to competing filesystems like ext4 and the upcoming btrfs, it'll be due to technical merit and not the stigma from Reiser's murder conviction. Such is the way open source grants a new lease on life to its projects.

9. Debian's OpenSSL Blunder

The maintainers of the Debian distribution of Linux got an unpleasant surprise when they found that their implementation of the openssl encryption package, used to protect data transmitted to and from secured web sites, had a major bug. Bad enough that not only were existing encryption keys at risk of being compromised, but that keys generated by Debian's openssl since 2006 were equally weak.

The problem was quickly fixed, along with instructions for how to generate new encryption keys to replace the weakened ones, but the whole incident served as a strong cautionary reminder. One of open source's biggest pluses is transparency: anyone can look through the code and spot a problem ... but only if they're competent to do so, and if they know what they're hunting for. Many eyes may make bugs shallow, but they also need to be open and looking in the right direction first.

10. SCO Loses To Novell (NSDQ: NOVL)

Put a subtitle on this one: "And this time, we mean it." After an endless stream of back-and-forth in the courts that would've tested the patience of the Dalai Lama, SCO's scrap with Novell over the rights to UNIX has taken what seems to be its last punch to the chin.

Not only does SCO owe Novell a ton of money, but three of SCO's most important claims were dismissed with prejudice, never to be seen again. An appeal is said to be in the works, but given that IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) still have pending litigation (and IBM will most likely devour the husk that's left over from this one), SCO would be hard-pressed to find anyone who recognizes their initials to give them any kind of a new lease on life.

Lovemaking Tip Of The Day

Here's a tip to get your partner in the mood.

Serve your partner breakfast in bed. Try the following:

(1) A poached egg in the shape of a heart - you can pick up a heart shaped
poacher at most shops that sell kitchen wares.

(2) French toast with cinnamon and maple syrup.

(3) Cereal.

(4) Fruit juice.

(5) A fresh flower.

You'll find these and more tips to spice up your sex life at http://www.lovemaking-secrets.com/lovemaking-secrets.php

Western Digital To Close Its Malaysian Operations

Western Digital to cut about 2,500 jobs or 5% of staff

By Michael Kitchen

Last update: 7:51 a.m. EST Dec. 17, 2008

NEW YORK (MarketWatch)

WDC said Wednesday it is laying off about 2,500 workers and is cutting its outlook for the fiscal second quarter. The tech storage company said it will reduce its worldwide headcount by approximately 5% of its total workforce. It also now expects revenue for the December quarter to be in the range of $1.7 billion to $1.8 billion, "with a consequent reduction in operating results." In late October, the company tipped revenue between $2.025 billion and $2.150 billion. It annouced other moves to save money, including a reduction in capital spending for the fiscal year 2009 to approximately $500 million from $750 million, and the closure of a facility in Thailand and another in Malaysia. "In the current macro economic climate, we expect demand weakness to last well into the middle of the 2009 calendar year," said President and Chief Executive Officer John Coyne. 

Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Western-Digital-cut-about-2500/story.aspx?guid={A1CCEF95-54C0-426A-8678-5AFE9CCD0711}

This Is How The Poor Become Even Poorer in Malaysia

News report states that Sime Darby, a huge Malaysian company, is interested in taking over Malaysia's number 1 heart hospital, the National Heart Institute, which is currently owned by the Ministry of Finance.

Once this happens, the National Heart Institute will then be the privileged only the rich can afford, just like Sime Darby's other medical center, the Subang Medical Center where the clientele is only the rich.

Reports say that the proposal was objected by officials from the Ministry of Health who know that once this happens, the poor and underprivileged will be neglected. This has happened many times before and this deal is no exception. Malaysian corporations, especially those helmed by "fat" politicians, are notoriously known for being selfish

"They do not agree to this sale unless there is a safety net for the poor and the underprivileged," the newspaper quoted a source as saying.

The Finance Ministry is happy to offload the hospital as its main consideration is revenue, not the well being of the Malaysian citizens.

How To Get Rich in Malaysia Very Fast.

If you have ever wondered how to get rich in Malaysia – fabulously rich and very quickly at that – here's a model that you might want to look at very closely. Not easy to do but if you do have a couple of projects in the bag, it will set you up for several lifetimes.

First you need connections – strong ones, the higher the better and if it goes right up to the top all the better. You need this because you need to convince the powers that be that your projects are good.

But you might ask if your projects are so good, why do you need connections? Why don't you just go out and execute? Good questions, those. Here's the answer - you need the state to give you something to do the deal that will help the nation.

Still can't figure it out? See, it's like this. You want to help the country, right? The country needs say a port. But you can't build a port just like that. You need land to build a port. You tell the state or federal government you need land – cheap land, preferably free to build the port.

Or to take another example, you want to help the country by building a power plant. But look, you need land too and not only that you need the power to be sold. So you want an agreement – an iron-clad one to sell the power to Tenaga Nasional and to pass through all costs.

You see, that's your reward as an entrepreneur – you get someone else to build the power plant, they guarantee the performance of the plant and someone else guarantees to buy your power and pay for all your costs. Nice deal? You bet. Billionaires have been made that way.

Or you may want to start an air hub. If you are persuasive enough, you can even convince the government to compulsorily acquire the land and sell it to you cheap. Once you have cheap land, lucrative contracts and concession agreements, the sky's the limit.

Let's take it a step further. If you want to realise the value of all of these things that you have and still keep control of them, it's nice to have a listed company into which you can inject them. Inject one asset for shares and you gain control of the company.

And then inject others over the years for cash, taking the money out of the company. Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too?

Do it right and get a flow of assets to inject in (you can do anything with discounted cash flow valuations – just change the discount rate, and presto, the value changes!), and you get a tidy flow of profits and cash into your personal accounts over the years. I mean a really tidy flow.

Just how much can you make this way, you ask? Why don't you take a guess first? Did you say RM500mil? Guess again. RM1bil? How about five times that and you may be getting into the right order of magnitude.

One Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Albukhary actually made some RM4.5bil that way - actually more because he still controls the listed company. (For story see page SBW17) We are not saying he is the only one, which makes your chances of joining the ranks better – if you are connected to high places that is.

But then again, if things change – and that's still a big 'if' – you might not find it so easy anymore.

P. Gunasegaram is managing editor of The Star.

Shakey Pizza Wins...

The results are out. Shakey's pizza is still the best pizza in Malaysia when compared between Shakeys, Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza. In second place was Domino's Pizza while Pizza Hut comes last, deservedly.

If you've been to Pizza Hut lately, you'll notice the considerable depreciation of the taste and substance of its pizza. Shakey's pizza has a lot more substance, taste and variety in each slice. Domino's pizza is also delicious but Pizza Hut is bland. They don't have much variety and they just taste very bland.

I think one of Pizza Hut's damaging mistake was to remove the chili flakes from their restaurants. Both Domino's and Shakeys offer chili flakes with their pizzas and this adds some delightful spice and bite to each pizza. Pizza Hut only offers plain chili and tomato sauce in their restaurants. I guess this must have been a business decision to abandon the much in demand flakes for the low demand chili sauce. Someone must have gotten rich by the deal but Pizza Hut was definitely the loser as customers like myself immediately opted for Domino's and Shakeys for our pizzas.

That's the lunch time report from KLCC where the weather in KL is gloomy. Rain is expected to fall in evening, yet again and clog up the streets.

The Good & The Bad

First the bad.

Probably the worst KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) drive through outlet has to be the one at Metro Prima, Kepong. Try getting your food during dinner time and the queues can take as long as 40 minutes!! What's this for service?? When everyone else is improving their service, its pretty obvious that KFC or this particular outlet isnt keen on doing so. 

The same can be said for the McDonalds in Taman Melati, at the Petronas gas station and the one at Ampang Park. Expect inefficient service at both restaurents during peak hours.

Now the good.

Have you tried the sandwich meal at Dunkin Donuts? No, they dont serve you different types of donuts but they actually have a meal set consisting of a drink (coffee or a cold drink), a donut and a big sandwich (wholemeal or white bread). Isnt that cool or what? It'll cost you around RM11.80 after taxes and guess what, it will not make you sleepy after lunch!

Now, the very best.

The very best would definitely have to be banana leave lunch at any authentic Indian store. And that excludes all the fancy places that all these white people go to like Bombay Palace, Passage Through India and all those. Wherever you see a a white person enjoying Indian food, stay away from that place. Go to an Indian store where you see Malaysians. you'll enjoy better tasting food at a much lower price. Those high class restaurents serve tasteless food to ignorant foreigners who still manage a big, hearty smile after dinner thinking that they had authentic Indian food. Such ignorance.

Why This Blog?

Why this blog? It occurred to me last night when I was driving back from Alor Setar, from a friend's wedding, back to KL. If a foreigner were to come to KL, all he had to do was to ride with me back home last night and he can see the many faces of the Malaysian drivers. Why do I always pick on drivers? Because its the most obvious outward expression of the backward state of Malaysian minds.

Highways have 3 lanes, the outer most one for the slow drivers, the middle one for the faster drivers and the inner most lane for the speed demons. Driving at 60 km/h is not considered a speed demon, although your car vibrates excessively!! Driving at 110km/h, although its the national speed limit, doesn't make you a speed demon. Driving at 140km/h and above does qualify you for the speed demon title.

Then why, oh why, do the small and slow drivers love to hog the fast lane and drive at their super-fast speed of 90 km/h!! Don't these people have some brains in them at all? If this is so, then the Malaysian education system has failed very badly when it produces human beings that cannot differentiate the difference between driving fast on a fast lane and driving slow on a fast lane.

Malaysians are a funny bunch. Funny because I don't have a nice word to describe all the fucked-up things they do in their daily lives.

They throw garbage out of their car and then reprimand someone else for doing so. They cant see the log in their eyes but can quickly and arrogantly see the tiniest speck in someone else's eye.

We have people who think their mightier than the rest. These people strut around behind their wealth and think this allows them to do whatsoever it pleases them. I pray these people will rot in hell and may their children bear all their sins while their still alive (no point in their children bearing the brunt of their parents sins when the parents are dead, isn't it? the parents must be able to see the consequences of their actions).

Malaysian politics is another venue where you can see greed at its best. The once mighty Barisan Nasional fell heavily and just managed to hold onto power by a small majority. And now their making life difficult for the people in Opposition held states in order to win back those states in the next election. And people being people, will surely opt for Barisan Nasional again as they think that the Pakatan led states have not provided them with a better alternative. So, unless the Pakatan led states can make people aware of this, there's no point in them making grand promises to over throw the government as this will not happen unless the people are happy with you. Don't count the chicks until the eggs are hatched. So Mr. Anwar Ibrahim, stop making false promises. Action speaks louder than words. Do it, like the Nike logo. Just do it Anwar, enough of cakap-cakap kosong.

So, now you know why this blog was started. It's for me to vent my frustration on the state of this country, world and universe.

You're most welcomed to let me know your grievance. Just drop me a mail and we'll take about it here.

Why Do The Slow Hog The Fast Lane?

Why do you always find a slow driver, in a little car, hogging the fast lane at 60km/h? Today's honor goes to the lady driver (or man who drives like a wimp) of the silver Kelisa with the number plate WKG 1804. This "little, slow driver" was hogging the fast lane of Jalan Kuching from Kepong to Cheras, oblivious to the long queue behind him and the vast empty space in front of him.

Why do people in little cars have such large ego's that they think its their right to hold back everyone since their small in everything? Didn't their parents, loved ones or teachers ever teach them to use their head (instead of their dicks) to think and be considerate to other, fast moving vehicles.

It's slow cars like this that causes accidents when they impede the fast moving cars from moving along.

Small cars and slow drivers and people who drive slow should be confined to the slow lane. That is where they belong until they learn to think and know how to behave on the road!