I'm pissed! Of late, all the nice pretty signboards put up by the local council are defaced by stickers offering money lending services by Ah Longs who operate around KL. With the Government fast terminating the mobile phone numbers found on the stickers that deface and litter public as well as public property, it's amazing why these people keep coming back for more.
It's either they are trying to tire down the government or they are really hard up for business. Nevertheless, I don't think it's right for them to do such things! I'm really pissed when I can't read the roadsigns especially at night. If I can't read it, it means the people who come and visit me cant as well. So what gives?
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Boxing day! Happy Belated Xmas to all!!!!!
Xmas came and went in a blink of an eye but not without the fanfare and celebration. This year I noticed alot of different things unique to the coming of a new decade. The first thing was, a radio station, which happens to be the one I listen to the most, took the initiative to put up a xmas tree. It wasn't any simple xmas tree, but one where listeners could donate toys and other essential items to put up on the tree to be donated to a children's home somewhere in KL.
I didn't really follow up on the development of the tree but the last I read the deejays' blogs, they mentioned that there already were stuffed toys, food items and even 2 television sets and dvd players. Now what amazes me was that, the first toy was donated by a malay guy and so was a few other items that went up on that tree. The point I am trying to stress is that, coming of age, xmas is not only celebrated by christians alone but of all races and religions.
As a non-christian, I have came to accept xmas as being not only a symbol of religious significance (in this case a milestone in the history of Christianity) but as a symbol of unity amongst all races and religious believes, I dare say this in the context of being a Malaysian and my ideas may not be correctly intepreted outside my own country.
The weekends leading to xmas day had seen mainly shopping malls decking out their centre spaces with ornate and unique xmas decorations and setups. Everyone was seen trying to capture perfect shots of the xmas decorations with or without themselves in them, busy buying gifts of chocolates and whatever nots for their loved ones and friends and going about their so called xmas shopping. At the Pavilion mall in KL, half of these people were from the Middle East, and the rest of them consists of the 3 major races in Malaysia as well as other Malaysians.
Which brings me back to my point, xmas today, as compared to many years ago has become a Malaysian thing, not merely a christian thing cos everyone gaily celebrates this holiday and find ways to make it a special part of their lives.
As for me, we had a cozy little barbecue at my girlfriend's place on xmas night and I really had a good time and non of us are even christians.
In the spirit of 1Malaysia, I'm happy at how this holiday went by leaving everybody happier and closer to each other and the level of acceptance (not merely tolerance, as previously used in the media to describe a peaceful inter-racial society) that we have came to have of each other. I am so proud to be Malaysian!
I didn't really follow up on the development of the tree but the last I read the deejays' blogs, they mentioned that there already were stuffed toys, food items and even 2 television sets and dvd players. Now what amazes me was that, the first toy was donated by a malay guy and so was a few other items that went up on that tree. The point I am trying to stress is that, coming of age, xmas is not only celebrated by christians alone but of all races and religions.
As a non-christian, I have came to accept xmas as being not only a symbol of religious significance (in this case a milestone in the history of Christianity) but as a symbol of unity amongst all races and religious believes, I dare say this in the context of being a Malaysian and my ideas may not be correctly intepreted outside my own country.
The weekends leading to xmas day had seen mainly shopping malls decking out their centre spaces with ornate and unique xmas decorations and setups. Everyone was seen trying to capture perfect shots of the xmas decorations with or without themselves in them, busy buying gifts of chocolates and whatever nots for their loved ones and friends and going about their so called xmas shopping. At the Pavilion mall in KL, half of these people were from the Middle East, and the rest of them consists of the 3 major races in Malaysia as well as other Malaysians.
Which brings me back to my point, xmas today, as compared to many years ago has become a Malaysian thing, not merely a christian thing cos everyone gaily celebrates this holiday and find ways to make it a special part of their lives.
As for me, we had a cozy little barbecue at my girlfriend's place on xmas night and I really had a good time and non of us are even christians.
In the spirit of 1Malaysia, I'm happy at how this holiday went by leaving everybody happier and closer to each other and the level of acceptance (not merely tolerance, as previously used in the media to describe a peaceful inter-racial society) that we have came to have of each other. I am so proud to be Malaysian!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
The most disgusting thing ever!
I really dunno whether I should write this here or not. It's disgusting! I thought of writing it in Experience Project so that nobody will know it's me! hahahaha... anyway this is the story:
Yesterday I decided to ride my motorbike to work to avoid the crazy jam. At 5:30pm it started to rain heavily so I hung around the office a while and decided to brave the rain and ride back after wearing my raincoat and jacket. Halfway home I smelt Satay Kajang, something I haven't had for a long long time already. This satay stall in the highway rest area is the famous 1 in kajang, Haji Samuri Sate Kajang and it happens to be my favorite! So I ordered 10 sticks and just when I was about to sit down and eat 1 stick, Kev called and asked me to go to Cheras for dinner with them. So I decided to eat only 5 sticks and tapao the rest home.
A little about satay kajang is that, many people have been talking about them adding women's sanitary pads (which is some sort of black magic used by bomohs in Malaysia to make people get addicted to stuff - so I was told lah) into the kuah (curry) of the satay so that people will get hooked to it and keep coming back. Because I love satay kajang, I think what people say is all total bollocks, besides, why would they do such a thing and tarnish their own image? They are a franchise now.
So that aside, I went to have dinner with Kev, his wife Eve and his housemate Ah Soon who couldn't walk for the past 2 months after a motorcycle accident left his leg broken and he had to use crutches. After the dinner I took my satay home (in a white plastic bag)and left it on the kitchen counter and went to sleep, cos too tired and all drenched by rain on the way back from work earlier.
The next morning I woke up and decided to finish up the 5 sticks of satay cos the kuah couldn't be kept long and will become stale. I opened up the plastic bag and u know what the hell I found? A used condom with spunk inside! What on earth?! Then all the stories about bomohs and black magic quickly flashed in my mind, u know lah if you are forced to wake up for work at 6am and u see something like this, u will be pissed too. I didn't think much about it and took it and flushed it into the toilet bowl and I finished up my food. Actually the condom didn't touch my food lah cos my food was in separate plastic bags, the white bag was only to carry all the separate food plastic bags.
The whole journey to work I was disturbed by what had happened earlier, I totally had no idea what happened. Then I remembered the night before the guy renting the room from me had a female guest overnight at his place. So I smsed him asking him if he had mistook my plastic bag of food for a garbage bag, which is common cos we all mostly use white plastic bags for our garbage around here.
He said oops, he was having drinks last night and could have threw his used "...." inside my packet of food! And I was like... WTF!!!!! of all the possible people this kind of things could happen to and it had to happen to me! Luckily my day at work was pleasant if not I'd be kicking some ass already. Anyways my friend said he owe me a nice meal. Now ain't that disgusting!
Yesterday I decided to ride my motorbike to work to avoid the crazy jam. At 5:30pm it started to rain heavily so I hung around the office a while and decided to brave the rain and ride back after wearing my raincoat and jacket. Halfway home I smelt Satay Kajang, something I haven't had for a long long time already. This satay stall in the highway rest area is the famous 1 in kajang, Haji Samuri Sate Kajang and it happens to be my favorite! So I ordered 10 sticks and just when I was about to sit down and eat 1 stick, Kev called and asked me to go to Cheras for dinner with them. So I decided to eat only 5 sticks and tapao the rest home.
A little about satay kajang is that, many people have been talking about them adding women's sanitary pads (which is some sort of black magic used by bomohs in Malaysia to make people get addicted to stuff - so I was told lah) into the kuah (curry) of the satay so that people will get hooked to it and keep coming back. Because I love satay kajang, I think what people say is all total bollocks, besides, why would they do such a thing and tarnish their own image? They are a franchise now.
So that aside, I went to have dinner with Kev, his wife Eve and his housemate Ah Soon who couldn't walk for the past 2 months after a motorcycle accident left his leg broken and he had to use crutches. After the dinner I took my satay home (in a white plastic bag)and left it on the kitchen counter and went to sleep, cos too tired and all drenched by rain on the way back from work earlier.
The next morning I woke up and decided to finish up the 5 sticks of satay cos the kuah couldn't be kept long and will become stale. I opened up the plastic bag and u know what the hell I found? A used condom with spunk inside! What on earth?! Then all the stories about bomohs and black magic quickly flashed in my mind, u know lah if you are forced to wake up for work at 6am and u see something like this, u will be pissed too. I didn't think much about it and took it and flushed it into the toilet bowl and I finished up my food. Actually the condom didn't touch my food lah cos my food was in separate plastic bags, the white bag was only to carry all the separate food plastic bags.
The whole journey to work I was disturbed by what had happened earlier, I totally had no idea what happened. Then I remembered the night before the guy renting the room from me had a female guest overnight at his place. So I smsed him asking him if he had mistook my plastic bag of food for a garbage bag, which is common cos we all mostly use white plastic bags for our garbage around here.
He said oops, he was having drinks last night and could have threw his used "...." inside my packet of food! And I was like... WTF!!!!! of all the possible people this kind of things could happen to and it had to happen to me! Luckily my day at work was pleasant if not I'd be kicking some ass already. Anyways my friend said he owe me a nice meal. Now ain't that disgusting!
Sunday, December 06, 2009
On second thoughts...
On second thoughts, I think I will continue to update here as well as in wordpress cos the wordpress blog buttons and dashboard is too difficult to understand, it will take me some time to do so.
Anyway, here's a video from my last visit with Lions Clubs International to Ti-Ratana Children's Home in KL. Its very cute! Enjoy!
Anyway, here's a video from my last visit with Lions Clubs International to Ti-Ratana Children's Home in KL. Its very cute! Enjoy!
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