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Posts Tagged ‘Malaysia’

Why I Deserve to Meet Wayne Rooney in Person

The answer is simple, I've been a huge fan of the club he plays for for the longest of time, when some friends switch clubs cause the club they were supporting wasn't winning anything to some friends totally don't want to support any clubs at all, I stood strong in my believe in Manchester United. When I first hear of →


Sri Kamala Vilas Restaurant @ Little India, Singapore

While I was in Singapore, I met up with Nicolepoopoo and she wanted to try indian food for dinner. As I wasn't familiar with Little India area, we decide to do a search on the computer for a restaurant to go to. The restaurant of choice? Sri Kamala Vilas Restaurant, which is practically everywhere we go. There's a total of 2 →


Maafkan Kami

A Classic by P. Ramlee, been humming this tune for the whole morning. Lyrics: Maafkan kami Maafkan kami 2x Maafkan kami Wahai cik adik jangan merajuk Maafkan kami si Bujang Lapuk Jikalau salah tolonglah tunjuk Kamilah rela hai kena ketuk Nandung-nandung dayang senandung Wahai saudari maafkan kami Korus: Maafkan kami Maafkan kami 2x Maafkan kami Kalau Cik Adik tak mahu maafkan Kami nak tinggal Tanjung Rambutan Wahai Cik Adik tidakkah kasihan Kami nak mati →


Where To Cross The Border?

If You Cross The North Korean Border Illegally You get 12 years Hard Labour. If You Cross The Iranian Border Illegally You Are Detained Indefinitely. If You Cross The Afghan Border Illegally, You Get Shot. If You Cross The Saudi Arabian Border Illegally You Will Be Jailed. If You Cross The Chinese Border Illegally You May Never Be Heard Again. If You Cross The Venezuelan Border Illegally You Will Be Branded →


A guide for expatriate drivers in Malaysia

Here's some tips for foreigners wanting to drive in Malaysia, here are some rules. Written by David Astley who believed he at last worked out the rules of the road in Malaysia . For the benefit of expatriates living in Malaysia , and the 50% of local drivers who acquired their driving licences without taking a driving test, here's what →


Standard Chartered’s Little Champions

It's a Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for children in Asia to be escorts to world-class soccer players at the 2009/2010 UEFA Champions League matches which are watched by hundreds and thousands of people worldwide. This is historic as it's the first time children from Asia and Middle East have the opportunity to be player escorts at the UEFA Champions League matches How to →


Onward to Vientiane!

The Opening ceremony's about 24 hours away. If you're seeing this page, that can only mean one thing. I've gone to Laos and for the next 2 weeks. I'm going to be there cheering the Malaysian team on, irregardless of how many medals they are bringing back. An estimate of 300 to 400-member Malaysian contingent is already there getting themselves used →


Official Photos from The Nuffnang Bloggers’ tour of Singapore

Following suit from the Nuffnang Awards, the Bloggers from outside of Singapore was given a tour of the island city to the various parts to soak in the cultural and technological extravaganza. Following are photos from the tour. Sorry if your photos are not in here as I could only go into the tour with 2 groups and could not join →


Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards Official Photos

The weekend was abuzz with activities as bloggers from Malaysia, Australia and the Philippines gathered in Singapore with the Singaporean bloggers for the biggest blog award ceremony the Asia Pacific region has ever witnessed. Here's the first set of some of my fav. moments from the Blog Awards not necessarily from the award itself but also the camwhoring moments. The official photos →


Malaysian Bloggers Jumping into the sunset

What do you get when you have a nice sunset in the background and a bunch of bloggers with some time to waste? Blogger's Jump Photos of course! These was shot a day after the Nuffnang Awards and it was towards the end of the tour when we decide to take a break and shoot some landscape. The opportunity was there →


Slovak Sling: Politics at it’s finest.

A comedic re-enactment of how one politician tries to entice another to switch party allegiance as DVD pirates look on. Good laugh. Art imitating life. LOL And here's one more... before you go eat wind and wash eyes. Have a nice day ahead everyone.


My View on Internet Filtration by M’sia’s Government

I must say that the recent bashing our dear YB Rais Yatim is getting from the Internet community is surely giving his old body a few bruises here and there. If you've no idea what I'm talking about, I'm talking about the Internet filtration that the Government is mulling over. Yes, it's similar to China's abandoned "Green Dam" project, but →


Lawyer Joke

It's the weekend, it's all fun and games and to most of you, time to party!, here's some jokes to share with those of you who's just waking up, getting ready for Hennessy Artistry or whichever party you're going to. Abdul grew up in Kota Baru, a town located on the East Coast of Malaysia, and then moved away to Kuala →


Manchester United vs Malaysia – Photos from Field Level

The stadium wasn’t as packed as the Saturday game, must say that the Malaysian team wasn’t playing as well as the first game either. Here are some of my thoughts along with loads of photos. The Starting 11 The defensive players held on tight to their positioning and did well even though 2 goals were scored against them. Can’t really compare much →


10 husband but still virgin

It's Sunday, heard a very good news of Man Utd sticking around in Malaysia for a tad longer due to the Jakarta Bombing. I'm not saying the bombing is good but it did helped in getting Man Utd to stick around Malaysia a tad longer and allowing me the chance to go watch them. Anyway, since it's a great Sunday, →


Much Talked About… Streamyx and the Malaysian English Education

If you don't like to read about people's rant, this is where you can take the step of hitting the back button on your browser or type a new URL on the address bar or click the X at the top right corner of the browser. You have been warned. Now, to kick off this rant, the first thing I want →


New Malaysian PM names New Cabinet Members

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Malaysia's new Prime Minister announced his new 28-member Cabinet with 25 ministries that saw eight ministers dropped and seven new faces appointed at 3pm today. Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who won the Umno deputy presidency in last month’s party elections, was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister. Najib, who took his oath of office as →


Malaysian GP Qualifying Result

With a later start compared to previous years, the rain didn't show itself as the Qualifying session kicked off. A Qualifying full of drama as Button takes Pole again after Melbourne. Joining him on the front row is Toyota's Jarno Trulli. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel and Brawn GP's Rubens Barrichello were third and fourth, but grid penalties for both mean →


Installing iPhone Apps

I'm posting this cause I was asked by not one, not two but quite a number of new iPhone users about how to install stuff into their iPhone. And so, the not so Tech Savvy person occasionally asked, how the heck do we install apps and games into the iPhone? Need to pay ah? Which Website to go? Well, hopefully →


iPhone 3G coming to Malaysia!

Almost 1 year after Singapore brought in the iPhone 3G to their citizens, Maxis finally announce that they'll be bringing in the iPhone 3G 8GB for free on its iValue 4 plan from March 20. Maxis chief executive officer Sandip Das said in a statement: “We are very pleased to launch iPhone 3G in Malaysia as many of our mobile users →


The Stupidity of Malaysian Muslim

I read this posting by Raja Petra at about how some Malaysia muslim are just plain darf. It really makes me wonder since when our Malay Muslim had become the expert when it comes to the language of the Quran and dictate to others what can and cannot be done or said. Have a look at the posting here by RPK. Some →


HKFDC New Action Initiative

The Kong Kong Film Development Council launched the Hong Kong Film NEW ACTION in December 3rd, 2008. HKFDC then followed it up with a large scale promotion plan to develop the Hong Kong film market in mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore and lastly in Malaysia. I am glad that I got the chance to be part of this initiative when HKFDC came →


Teachers going Mad with English?

I read with intrigue about teachers in Malaysia going mad teaching subjects in English. If you've been following this 'drama', you'd know that our teachers have been complaining about how hard it is to teach both Mathematics and Science in english. If you've no idea what I talked about, here's some of the news links. The latest on in The →


Chap Goh Meh

It's the last day of Chinese New Year, the 15th day of the Lunar New Year. One of the major celebration held this day is known as the Chap Goh Meh (十五暝). The term is from the Hokkien dialect and refers to the fifteenth day of the first month, which is the occasion of the first full moon of the →