Month: May 2006

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Ngao jai

Sukhumvit traffic

Yup…Sukhumvit. One of the places in Thailand that I miss so much. In fact, I miss Thailand..period. My first brush with Thailand was back in 1989, on job trip…but to the southeastern province of Narathiwat. So I never learnt how to speak the lingo as I am conversant in the Kelantanese/Pattani dialect.

My second brush was my longest, from 1993-1995. That was when I had the opprtunity to learn the lingo and customs, and fell in love with its culture and music. After that it was off and on, until 2002 when I had the third brush right through 2005.

So what do I miss about Sukhumvit? Yeah, the traffic sucks for sure. But I enjoyed going to Benjasiri (Queen’s) Park, watch schoolchildren performing traditional music; the standing at attention when they play the National Anthem at 6pm Thai time; the King’s Anthem at night. I miss the sanuk way of life. Everything was just sanuk for everyone, myself included.

Sukhumvit’s where I got my friend, Muaazam, to fall in love with Thai music too. He’s been taking his girlfriend to various parts of Thailand since then.

I need to go back there.

I just miss it.

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Rolling…Rolling…Rolling…

Moving stuff out from one place and putting them into another

Rollin, rollin, rollin. Keep movin, movin, movin,
Though they’re disapprovin, keep them doggies movin Rawhide!

Frankie Laine sang that song for the TV series Rawhide. The series ran in the US from 1959-1966. As a kid I used to watch it, like I watched other series like The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. This post has nothing to do with what I want to write except for the lyrics of the theme song. It reminds me of a bunch of idiotic imbeciles (redundant necessities) who rented an office for RM26,000.00 a month just to store junk nobody wants. Now, unable to pay the rental dues, they’re shifting these junks to another location, in the vicinity of, what would remind you of, the Buddhist statues of Bamiyan.

Maybe I should watch re-runs of The Three Stooges. At least they’re not as stupid as the ones renting that RM26k-a-month office.

Haha!

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Diving in KL – Part Deux

Aaaahh…actually feeling sleepy after the dive but decided to drop a note. It was a good 55-minute dive withthe Sand Tigers…very inquisitive lot. I’ll be posting pics in the gallery soon.

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Diving in KL

KLCC's Aquaria - Photo from Cuti-Cuti Malaysia

In less than 20 hours time from this posting, I shall be diving the cold waters of KLCC’s Aquaria.

I shall be posting pics, a report and video as well, as soon as I’ve finished diving there.

Woohoo!

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Monkey See, Monkey Do – Part Trois

Lying bastards!

I have no money – but I can fly around
I have no money – but I can employ people
I have no money – but I can pay for my house installments
I have no assets – but you can sell your stinking ass

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Secret Mission

Candid shot of me (right) and the PM's Political Secretary, Dato' Othman Desa

This is a candid shot of me (on the right) having a private discussion with the Prime Minister’s Political Secretary, Dato’ Othman Desa.

It was a private discussion..

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Family Values

A mentally-retarded amputee abandoned by his family at his late father's house in Kuang, Selangor

I found this man who happens to be mentally-retarded, suffering from bad case of diabetes, had his left leg amputated below the knee, abandoned by his family at their former family house.

You can find him at Kampung Gombak Batu 19, Kuang, Selangor.

One f*cked up family.

THIS BE THE VERSE – PHILIP LARKIN

They f*ck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were f*cked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

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Electricity Tariff To Go Up

Time to fire up the torch

Tenaga Nasional Berhad has just announced that electricity tariff will go up by an average of 12% come June 1st.

Hmm..that’s gonna take up a chunk of my expenditure, which is already limited. But I wonder what the quad-national company will do? Signboard’s down, no EPF, SOCSO, Income Tax, office rent, building rent etc etc.

Run, fools! Run!

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Monkey See, Monkey Do – Part Deux

Kimi and I en route to a Redang dive site - May 2005

It seems that my friend Kimi has the same problems. It seems that there are lots of monkeys around in this world ready to claim the Earth and turn it into the Planet of the Apes.

This is what he wrote on his blog (link as above):

May 24, 2006 on 1:56 am | In Daily Distortion | No Comments
why people like to blame others except themself?

why people concerned too much about things that they have less or no control about ?

why people hardly learnt from their past mistakes?

why an ego-centric-marsupial-who-think-his-IQ-is-over-170 sternly defending his thought, eventhough in a living daylight he know for fact that his idea is just an utterly rubbish?

and…

why do you think i’m writing this in the first place?

Hint: Stephen Covey. Have no idea who he is? Now, get a gun & shoot yourself on the temple. Hah!

Now, which of the monkeys does this one fit?

General Urko

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More Suckers!

Sucker!

It seems that the most favourite multinational company (which is slowly becoming a quad-national company) has roped in another sucker to be conned. Well, come to think of it, there’s been more than 8,000 suckers that has been conned that if you put this company next to an octopus, the octopus would probably die of shame.

So many suckers..and add another one to it.

Now, where’s that signboard??