A Shark’s Plea (Revisited)

I’m now doing a research for more materials on sharks conservation for this article I plan for the local dailies, well, at least a daily. Then I remembered something I posted back in December 2005. May I just post it again here?

Do I always ask for your permission? Never! It’s my blog.

A SHARK’S PLEA

From the subclass called Elasmobranchii
Evolved my predecessors, my family and I
In terms of number of years 409 million
I have been here since the Upper Devonian

I have strong teeth, they make big gash
But I have no desire for human flesh
But humans make me into a cause
Thank you to the paranoia caused by ‘Jaws’

They hunt, and fin us, they did not even frown
Then they toss us back to sea alive to drown
To earn millions for them is something of a coup
While it was only our fins that end up in some soup

All their butchering earned them some praise
While we never did anything to the human race
15 human deaths a year is attributed to the snake
0.4 human deaths a year is all we could rake

So please, I beg you, make your kind realise
The decimation of a kind goes not without a price
We both live in the same world, so please make them see
So your children and mine can learn to co-exist and enjoy the sea

Abdul Rahmat Omar a.k.a SeaDemon
8th December 2005

Look, Ma! No fins!

Axel Elie – Part Deux

Hmm…as of August 15th last year, his 19-year old (20 this year) Malaysian wife was looking for a job. She auditioned for the NESCAFÉ® KICK-STARTâ„¢ show and was shortlisted.

She was auditioned at the Istana Hotel in Kuala Lumpur.

You can check her name out by CLICKING HERE and scroll down the list to ‘F’.

Look for Farinnie Bt. Mohd Farid, 860503-56-5020.

I admire wives like this. Even though your husband is a filthy rich billionaire, you still look for a job. The modern independent woman. I’m sure Crazy Elie would agree to use this reason if people were to ask him.

Axel Elie

What, in recent times, was as irritating, or more irritating than the Crazy Frog?

No?

You’ve forgotten?

It was Elie Youssef Najem!

Crazy Elie

Yes, five months have passed since his pledge to give RM1 billion to the National Cancer Society (MAKNA). It was in February that he made that pledge.

But hey, do you know that Crazy Elie has been given a Lordship?

Yes, he even now has his own website called Lord Elie Youssef Najem.

In this website, he has announced that he is building a hospital in Kuala Lumpur called Farinnie, Elie and MAKNA Children Cancer Hospital and Treatment Research Centre. Well, he’s a billionaire, of course he can do that. But he would also like local participations. Let me quote from his Charity Page:

DEAR PEOPLE

We need your support to make this dream come true and to make all of the people who are against the Dr. and his young wife realize that there is no stop and the dream will come true and they will fight all of the doubtful people and they will make the dream come true.

People of the world, the Dr. has created a program for his young wife to complete and has called it Farinnie’s Kids Last Wish Before Going To Heaven. This program gives the chance to one child once a month to get whatever his wish is before he is going to die.

And that can only be completed with the help of the good people that has a good and generous heart and we ask of you to help and support even if it was only one dollar.

By way of sending your funds to the listed bank account or to the following address:
Bangsar Puteri Condominium
8th Floor Unit 3
41 Jalan Medang Serai
Bukit Bandaraya
59100 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

For the help of the Last Wish:

B.C.B. Account Number
– 1244-0069809-52-3

Swift Code
– BCBMMYKL

Address of Bank
– No.22 Jalan PJS 11/28 A
46150 Bandar Sunway
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia

Name of FFC
– Dr. Elie Youssef Najem
– Farinnie Binti Mohd Farid

Now, I wonder how much did he actually pay for that title and to which person with some palace connection? Oh, come to think of it, I should go through each and every single spam e-mail I get in case there is a plea by some Lebanese lord about wanting some USD500,000 so he can bring back his RM1 billion and give me a 20% commission plus the USD500,000.

I know it’s there somewhere in the Junk Folder….

Close One Eye Lah!

Stupid wanker!

The guy above is the Member of Parliament for Jasin who first made headlines when asking Customs officers to “close one eye” when shipments handled by his freight company got seized. He is currently being investigated by the Anti-Corruption Agency. So since he is being investigated, the Parliamentary Privileges Committee has decided not to investigate him until the process by the former is done.

However, this idiot cannot keep his mouth shut. He has since been on the warpath against the Royal Customs Department, using his immunity as a Member of Parliament, to lash out against the department during parliamentary sessions. And he is doing it everyday.

This is so typical of the worse-side mentality of the malays of when the ship sinks, pull everyone down to the bottom with you. One good example of this attitude is when a person gets a parking ticket and raises his voice at the enforcement officer asking why is he being singled-out when hundreds of others are doing it.

For the sake of the rakyat, when it comes to the next general elections, I hope both the Barisan Nasional leadership and the rakyat disregard this idiot.

What I am saying is, “Close both eyes lah!”

Boring – Part Trois

I envy the guy

I wish I can be like Doraemon (ドラえもん) . Escape from reality, or pull out a dive site from my magic pocket and go diving whenever I want.

I’m here in front of this PC with my little one, Nisaa, singing the theme song from “Doraemon” (anything to amuse the little girl).

You wanna sing it too? CLICK HERE FOR THE MIDI VERSION AND TAKE IT AWAY, SAM!

Lyrics

konna koto ii na
dekitara ii na
anna yume konna yume ippai aru kedo
this sort of thing is good
I wish I could do it
that sort of dream, this sort of dream, I have many of them but

minna minna minna
kanaete kureru
fushigina POKKE de kanaete kureru
sora wo jiyuu ni tobitai na
all of them, all of them, all of them
he grants my dreams
he grants my dreams with a mysterious pocket
I want to fly freely in the sky

(hai! takekoputaa!) (Here! Bamboo-copter!)

AN AN AN
tottemo daisuki
DORAEMON
ah ah ah
I love you very much,
Doraemon

shukudai touban shiken ni otsukai
anna koto konna koto taihen dakedo

homework, school duties, exams and errands
because that sort of thing and this sort of thing are awful

minna minna minna
tasukete kureru
benrina dougu de tasukete kureru
omocha no heitai da
all of them, all of them, all of them
he helps me
he helps me with a convenient tool
look! a toy soldier

(sore! tototsugeki!) (Here! Attack!)

AN AN AN
tottemo daisuki
DORAEMON
ah ah ah
I love you very much,
Doraemon

anna toko ii na
iketara ii na
kono kuni ano shima takusan aru kedo
that place is nice
I wish I could go
this country, that island, there is many of them, but

minna minna minna
ikasete kureru
mirai no kikai de kanaete kureru
sekai ryokou ni ikitai na
all of them, all of them, all of them
he makes me able to go to them
he uses a gadget of the future to grant my wish
I want to go on a world trip

(ufufufu… doko demo DOA!)
(ehehehe… Anywhere Door!)

AN AN AN
tottemo daisuki
DORAEMON
ah ah ah
I love you very much,
Doraemon

AN AN AN
tottemo daisuki
DORAEMON
ah ah ah
I love you very much,
Doraemon

Thanks to kaijyuu_m for helping with the translation.
http://www.geocities.com/kaijyuu_m/

Contributed by Philip Mak
http://www.shoujoai.com/

Boring – Part Deux

Left high and dry

Dang…this weekend it would be 4 weeks without diving. The longest stretch without diving this year.

I feel so inactive, under-utilised, dry….like a menopaused nun.

I really really need to be back underwater again. 😦