Archive for September, 2007

24
Sep

Mr. Cinema

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: Entertainment and movie

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Recently I just bought some pDVD from the trusted shops and one of the pDVDs were Mr. Cinema, played by Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Teresa Mo Sun-Kwan, Ronald Cheng Chung-Kei, and Karen Mok Man-Wai. Well, both Anthony Wong and Teresa Mo are the best actor/actress in their generation, so there is no doubt to question their acting. Karen Mok is good, but Ronald Cheng… Well, I have watched a few of his movies and to be honest, I hated them. That’s why I have doubts when I made the purchase, but Anthony Wong and Teresa Mo clearly outweight the doubts, and I am glad I didn’t put the pDVD back to its rack.

I won’t write about the story here. Instead, you can go here to know the story.

One thing for sure, Anthony Wong, Teresa Mo and Karen Mok delivered stellar performance in the movie. But the biggest surprise is Ronald Cheng. Overall, this movie is spelling “awards” all over so go ahead and buy it and I hope you will like it as much as I do (it is a Cantonese movie though, so if you don’t understand Cantonese, try to find those with English subtitles).

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Also, I am not a big fan of Ronald Cheng’s songs. But after listening to the song at the closing, I felt in love with it and after much digging, I found the song name and I entrusted Baidu to search for the MP3. Unfortunately, all they have was the Mandarin version. I want the Cantonese version :(
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19
Sep

Malaysian Businessman Tried to Smuggle Heroin Using Laptops

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: General, common sense and people

A leisurely dressed Malaysian “businessman” traveled from Singapore Changi Airport, flight to Guangzhou, China. When he was trying to clear the custom checks, the custom officers noticed that the “businessman” has a very suspicious look, hence the custom officers opened his luggage to check.

There were two very old and big laptops in the luggage. The custom officers felt that the laptops were unusually heavy, so the custom officers put those laptops under X-ray. It was found that the interior of the laptops appeared hallow, so they proceeded with opening the casings of the laptops.

What the custom officers found were 2120 grams (2.12kg) of heroin packed inside the laptops.

Obviously this businessman has never heard of Alienware laptops which weights a hefty 4kg. Or better yet, he should pack a desktop and that will be less conspicuous I guess. (But I wonder how he passed through the Singapore custom. Singapore custom is one of the strictest in the world)

Source: Zjol [Mandarin version only].

18
Sep

Hardtalk / Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar on Malaysia

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: rants and raves

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Yeah, I know I am very late in posting this, but I figure late is better than none.

On September 13th, 2007, BBC Hardtalk programme host Sarah Montague talked to Malaysian Foreign Minister Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar about Malaysia, and the topics involved racial, economy disparity, education system, religion and etc. [Click here]

In my opinion, our foreign minister Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar was talking about a bunch of bullcrap in this interview. I mean, is he real? Did he really think that the statistic that he gave during the interview cannot be obtained easily for outsiders? He kept being in denial about some of the hard facts that the host Sarah Montague threw at him, and I am very sure BBC, being one of the most respectable and most watched news station in the world, have done an extensive research and homework before throwing these tough questions at our foreign minister.

Anyway, it is really fun to see Sarah Montague grilled and drilled Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar so extensively. I mean, if you got 30 minutes to spare, please watch the interview. I know I enjoyed watching this interview not because it shows how an ass is making an ass of himself, but what the government is telling the world (meaning the people outside of Malaysia).. Yeah, we are peaceful country, our people are living happily together, there is no racial disparity in us, and the non-malays are enjoying bigger piece of economy pie than the malays.

I mean, besides being in constant denial, Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar kept avoiding the questions directly, and he kept blabbing about something unrelated (no wonder Sarah Montague appeared so damn frustrated. I could imagine her punching our foreign minister on the face).

Congratulate, Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar, great job!

Watch the Interview here

Wahlau’s Online Hut has the partial transcript here.

Anyway, here are some of the most memorable quotes from our Foreign Minster Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar from the Hardtalk intervew…

Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar on Economy Disparity between Malays, Chinese and Indians,

I think, when you are looking at it from a detached point of view, you may be seeing it that way but if you look in reality, what is happening is, the economic growth of the non-Malays is faster after the New Economic Policy than before it. The share of the economic cake is bigger, deeper, and wider than before so it’s not as if you’re looking at a theoretical, conceptual thing - you’re looking at the realities on the ground. The reality on the ground - look at the household income within Malays, Chinese and Indians. Even the Indians have got better household income than the malays.

Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar on Education System,

If you look in term of total number of students, of all the universities in Malaysia, there are still more non-Malays than the malays. and this should not be an issue that divides us. i think ultimately we have done, we have tackled all issue step by step. And it is working, I think ifor Malaysia it is working, whenever we see there is disparity.

Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar on Government Contracts,

For your information, the contracts that are enjoyed by the chinese, in absolute terms - the non-Malays - is bigger than even the Malays.

Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar on Lina Joy,

No no, I think you have made the whole thing turn into something that is negative. Lina Joy wanted to change her name. She was never not allowed to convert to Christianity or whatever religion that she has chosen. But a person is born with an identity card. That is the system we have in Malaysia, the ID.And that ID you want to change, that creates problem. It’s nothing to do with the fact that nobody has arrested her and force her to become a Muslim. But the court decided on the basis that you cannot change your name on the ID.

[Note: I am very confused. Then how those Datuk or Dr (PhD) change their name to include those titles if it is so damn fucking difficult?]

Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar on lack of Non-Malay Top Cabinet Members since 1973,

I don’t think so, this is a democratic system. Each one of them have agreed in a coalition to work together.

13
Sep

New iPod

By Adrian 2 Comments
Categories: Entertainment

The new Apple iPod Nano has arrived last Saturday (August 8th, 2007). It comes in few flavors colors, namely green, silver (white), black, red and blue, and sporting a 6.5mm profile. Unfortunately, Malaysia only has 3 colors (silver, green and blue). Price for the 8GB is only RM849 (the previous generation iPod Nano is selling for RM849 for the 4GB version).

It sports a 320 x 240 pixel screen, 24 hours music play, 5 hours video play, and this little sucker can play M4V video (MP4).

Yummy!

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New menu system. Instead of covering the whole screen area, the new menu design will slide down from the top.

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Here are the specifications of the new iPod Nano.

Now, don’t you feel like you must get one now? I need to find a bucket to contain my drool.

Also new is Apple iPod, now renamed to iPod Classic. It has a new 160GB HDD.

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And most interestingly, Apple also launched the new iPod Touch. It is an iPhone without the phone function. But it has Wi-Fi, web-browser, 3.5 inch screen, and it is screaming “I rulez, you suckerz!”

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10
Sep

Please Help Us To Stop This Cruelty

By Adrian 3 Comments
Categories: Complaints and rants and raves

Please sign the petition here. Please broadcast this message/blog/website to everyone you know so we all can participate and stop this cruelty. Thank you!

Please Help! Please Help Us to Stop the Cruelty!

Majlis Perbandaran Selayang has announced a Dog Hunt Contest, and first prize offering RM15,000, second prize RM13,000 and the third prize is RM11,000.

Below is the screenshot from the MPS website:

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I can’t say I am good at the translation, but it is roughly this:

The Residence Dog Catching Competition

  1. This competition is open to all the residence residing under Majlis Perbandaran Selayang.
  2. The capture can be done by the residence themselves or with the help of approved organizations. The Majlis Perbandaran Selayang will not be hold responsible for hiring hunters.
  3. The dogs must be those that do not comply with Small law(?) code 10(2)(A) of Dog Law
  4. The dogs must be captured and submitted alive to the competition department for calculation/audit. Pictures of the captured dogs must be published as well.
  5. This competition will go on indefinitely.
  6. The winning prize is:
    1st Place: RM15,000
    2nd Place: RM13,000
    3rd Place: RM11,000

First, let’s ignore the fact that this kind of competition is plainly inhumane and cruel. I mean, what the fuck are these salary-paid-by-taxpayers fuckers thinking anyway? Or are they too fucking dumb to think? Stray dogs or not, animals have their rights and feelings as well. They are not some dead objects or whatsoever. They do have a life and this kind of Dog Hunting Contest MUST be banned and whoever that came up with this idea of Dog Hunting Contest must be shot to death.

There will be some fuckers who want some pocket money, and they need more dogs to feed to the Majlis Perbandaran Selayang. But there are not so many dogs out there, so what do they do? They will start stealing the dogs from neighbors, other residential areas, and etc (pets, in other words). If any one of these fuckers dare to touch my dog, I sure as hell gonna blast them deep into the hell and mince them into billion pieces. Those mother fuckers.

So what’s next? Cat Hunting Competition? Yeah, there are a lot of horny pussies around my area and when will these municipal people start hunting these cats down? After that, are they coming to a round of “Homeless People Hunting” as well? There are some homeless people around too, so should they encourage us to start hunting them down as well? So what the fuck are these fuckers thinking? Maybe they should be organizing a Mat Rempit Hunting as well. Yeah, jail those fuckers who blocked the whole highway to perform their stupid stunt [more info on Mat Rempit can be found here].

[PS: A friend has just informed me that these fuckers have a brain size of a peanut so they are a bunch of idiots. I think that's rather true.]

Anyway, there is a more constructive way to stop it (than my cursing and swearing. But damn it, I feel good after blasting them with words), and that’s by signing the petition. Please go to this website:

http://www.petitiononline.com/doghunt1/petition.html

I have signed it, so what are you waiting for? Please sign the petition. That is something that will take just a few minutes of your time but it will make a big difference in this world. Thank you.

Related Links:
The Star - Animals Have Rights Too
The Malay Mail - Inappropriate to hold dog hunt
SPCA Selangor - Press Release [PDF Version Only]

07
Sep

Road Surface Marking

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: rants and raves and traffic

Do you know what the fuck is Road Surface Marking? It’s the marking on the surface on the road. Easy to understand? Now, the road surface marking I am talking about now are those horizontal yellow strips of paint on the road. Normally they are used to inform the road users that there are “Stop” sign ahead, or “Speed Bump” ahead.

Everyday I will take the fastest and less traffic route to my office. Using this road, I am required to travel through a housing estate and there’s no speed bump or stop sign along that short stretch of road. Yet our local officials are smart enough to paint the road with those Yellow Fucking Strips.

The intention is good, I assume, to let the road users know that they should slow down, especially it is a housing estate and there might be a lot of kids or traffic coming in and out. Unfortunately, our fucking local officials painted a big ass Yellow Fucking Strips. Yes, whenever I go through the series of these yellow strips, I can feel that my car was falling apart because those were some serious yellow fucking strips! (Those strips were around 5mm raised above the road surface)

Now, common sense is that heavier car with longer wheel base will feel more comfortable going through these road surface marking. Unfortunately, the other day when I was in a Pajero and a BMW 525i, I could feel the suspension was working hard to keep up to those violent jolt and I could hear a loud thump coming out from everywhere. Mind you, my friends were driving at around 50km/hr (the posted speed limit).

Now can you imagine how it would feel like to drive through this stretch of road with all those Protons and Perodua? They are the national carmakers but I call them tin-can makers. Yes, their quality is really bad, except maybe Perodua. They have improved a lot after venturing with Daihatsu [info here].

I didn’t quite get the purpose of those road surface marking until today…

This, my friend, is actually a master plan from our government. You see, Proton is dying (in a sense, it is going to bankrupt soon if they can’t get a partner. But that’s another story for another day) so the government must do a lot of things to revive Proton, the brainchild and our “National Pride”. So they paint those road surface markings everywhere (If you want a more prominent Yellow Fucking Strips, go to the front of Sunway Pyramid Mall) and hopefully it will shatter and destroy our cars. So with million of cars being destroyed by those markings, what should we do? Go buy another car. But our salaries are so low, we can’t afford continental cars, so what should we do?

Proton. That’s the answer.

Now you can stop calling me genius already.

[Information on Road Surface Markings can be found on Wiki here]

04
Sep

Deal or No Deal

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: Entertainment

Last night when I was watching Deal or No Deal (Chinese version) on NTV7 (more info here), I remember that I came across an email whereby a friend of mine email me a link.

I came into office this morning and started digging out the emails. I found it and it was a Flash-based Deal or No Deal game. Of course, you can’t win any real money with it (dammit!).

http://www.nbc.com/Deal_or_No_Deal/game/dond.swf

Below are my screenshots….

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Now, with 75,000 and 1,000,000, will you deal? Of course not! So “No Deal” for me.

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Fuck! My case only contains 75,000! Mahai!

 

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