I know exactly how you feel. I need to dive…badly!
Dulu, Kini dan Selamanya…
I just want to see how different I look through the years…so here we go:
This is me at 16, then 26, then 40 years old.
And look at this guy below…David Arumugam of Alleycats. He is what I call “Dulu, Kini dan Selamanya” (Then, Now and Forever).
Early Start
Do you know that there are millions of sperm cells in one drop of semen? Do you also know that sperm cells can survive in a woman’s cervical mucus for 168 hours? Sperm also does not survive in water as water is hypotonic and would cause sperm cells to swell and disintegrate? Do you know that it is possible for each male to ejaculate at least 9 times in 24 hours?
Look at the boy above again. With that early start, we’re lucky bedsheets, toilet bowls and tissue papers cannot conceive…otherwise we’d all be starving due to over-population now.
Somebody had better send me back to the sea to dive. I’m starting to write non-sensical stuff here.
Cigarette Party – L’acte final
From the losers of the FIFA World Cup 2006 bet, to the winner…or can we call him “The Master-better“?
The Story of My Friend
My good friend, Faizal Sanusi, has recently been discharged from hospital due to hypertension. It was his second hospitalisation in two months, the first being minor stroke. He’s only 38 this year.
Many would attribute his health deterioration to the uncertainties at his current workplace, having to pay for his previous medical bills, when the expatriates at his workplace got better treatement (hey, his Managing Director went to the hospital to foot the bill for this expatriate’s child’s treatment). And Faizal, who has been with that company even before it had its own computers, is now being treated like dirt.
If you ask me, knowing Faizal, he probably had hypertension due to the employer’s ability to actually pay him his salary. That must have really shocked him!
Faizal is a very fit person. Muscular…his shoulders are as stiff as an ox’s. He claims they are stiff because of work-related stress, I beg to differ. He has a peculiar way of keeping fit. As the national Deputy Head of the Youth Wing of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat, he often gets into scuffles with the Royal Malaysian Police’s Federal Reserve Unit (FRU). Everytime he is given a permit to demonstrate by the relevant OCPDs, he’d decline them because he loves it when the FRU personnel charge him and his political colleagues. That is the only way he actually gets to sprint, do middle-distance running, seasons his body to the batons, his eyes to the smoke gas etc. Now you know why he is tough. All that adrenaline rush helps him shed off his bad cholesterol and so on.
So, the only thing that could have brought him down was the shock of actually receiving money from his employers. Being an activist and a politician, he is used to working for free.
Anyway, the above are part of the jokes that our mutual friends like Azlan Chao, Besut Stud, the former SAPURA-soon-to-be-SAPURA again guy, Lifetime PAS Member, the Shaklee Robot, and I, have been making about this friend of ours.
Politics aside, Faizal is a good friend to have and you know that he would go out of his way to help his friends, me included. Faizal is an all-weather friend. And I hope his employers remember the years this good friend of mine has put in, the sacrifices that he and his family made for the company, and foot his medical bills. Try behave like human beings for once.
Get well soon, bro. I cannot lose a good friend like you. So try your best to outlive me.
Dr M, Pak Lah & Captain Rahmat – Part Deux
Refer to Dr M, Pak Lah & Captain Rahmat – 7th July 2006
Well, well, well. Someone definitely does not want me to speak. Either he’s afraid of losing his post, or does not want to know certain things, or does not want others to know certain things, or is afraid of knowing certain things. I received this text message from the Division’s Secretary at 00:27:24 8th July 2006. It said:
Makluman, peresmi persidangan Cwn. Kelana Jaya Baru (Sdr. Jantan) pada 15/7/06 ditukar kpd. Tuan Hj. Malik harap maaf. Tk muda
That’s okay. I am not a YES-MAN, never have been, never will be. I have my own set of backbone, and a pair of balls. I also have a gift that most politicians do not have: A brain that you can actually use. I don’t give a sh*t for those whom have no balls and join the party just to become rich.
I remember a quote by President Harry S Truman: “You can’t get rich in politics unless you’re a crook.â€
I’m not rich. I can’t say the same for some others. In politics, I’ve always held to something Janis Joplin once said, “Don’t compromise yourself. It’s all you’ve got.”
As long as certain quarters in the party regard the party as their personal belonging, I shall just sit and watch the party rot.
I’m better off diving.
Hey! Fishermen Are Net Savvy Too! – Part Deux
I wrote an E-mail to the Editor, The Star newspaper on the matter.
Educate The Fishermen
Dear Editor,
While I applaud the positive step taken by the Tanjung Dawai Fishermen Association to use Information Technology to auction off their catch (‘Fish Now Sold via the Net’ – The Star, Friday, July 7 2006), I am horrified by the picture of the dead juvenile Hammerhead Sharks. It seems that while the fishermen are into Information Technology, they know very little about sharks conservation.
As a scuba diver, I spend hundreds of Ringgits just to be able to see at least one of these magnificent creatures. It breaks my heart to see almost a dozen of them in the clutches of the fish supplier, knowing that hundreds more are caught daily in our waters. This species is considered to be “Near Threatened” by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), a global union of states, governmental agencies, and non-governmental organizations in a partnership that assesses the conservation status of species. As a matter of fact, just over a week ago at the Pasir Penambang market in Kuala Selangor, I saw several juvenile Black-tip Reef Sharks being sold for RM10 per kg, and a Zebra Shark for RM14 per kg. Save for the dive I did in the salt water tank of the Aquaria KLCC, I have never seen a live Zebra Shark swimming before. Most sharks are viviparous and have long gestation period, making their cycle of reproduction slow, and mostly give birth to small litters. Simple mental arithmetic will tell you how soon will the numbers reach negative value.
Sharks are normally taken by longlines, gillnets and as bycatch in driftnet fisheries. The Fisheries Department should educate the fishing community to release the ones landed that are still alive. The relevant authorities and non-governmental organisations, too, should educate the general public on the importance of sharks. Sharks fins are tasteless and is akin to eating one’s fingernails boiled in broth.
I cannot stress more how sharks play a very important role in our marine eco-system; preying on injured and sick animals in order to ensure the fitter ones survive. When fish survive in abundance, we human beings have more to eat.
Hey, Fishermen Are Net Savvy Too!
In trying to show how Net savvy fishermen are, today’s The Star ran a story on how fishermen in Kuala Kedah now buy fish over the Net.
How high-tech…but still low on awareness mentality.
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
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.
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