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Steve Jobs, Apple Co-Founder Passed Away

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:41:41 +0800

Steve Jobs, the long-time CEO and co-founder of Apple, passed away today (5/10/2011) after a long...

Migrating to Australia Joke

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:05:40 +0800

A Chinaman decides to retire and move to Australia after 50 years of living in Shanghai.He bought a...

What do you call a Frenchman wearing sandals?

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:27:46 +0800

suzannexie: Philippe Philoppe. Haha!

OMG! Only happens in Malaysia! How can the Kancil car end up...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:24:33 +0800

OMG! Only happens in Malaysia!

How can the Kancil car end up like this in a puddle of water? This is what happens when heavy rain washes out the soil, and any unsuspecting driver just roll over eroded part would cause the cave in and of course the car would be submerge!

Woe to the car driver having to endure this mishap…

Optical illusion

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:45:06 +0800

Would you believe that? This optical illusion have my eyes befuddled. The blue stripe and the green...

dear-photograph: Dear Photograph,I was astounded, but I hadn’t...

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:53:41 +0800

dear-photograph:

Dear Photograph,
I was astounded, but I hadn’t had time to consider what I was seeing.
Mark Yokoyama

Facial Contact (by ©jurjenharmsma.)

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:29:07 +0800

Facial Contact (by ©jurjenharmsma.)

IE users have lower IQ!

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:11:00 +0800

Would you believe that? IE users have lower IQ! The survey was done by AptiQuant, a psychometric...

Complete vs Finished - Funny English Lesson for the Day

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:55:00 +0800

Got this in my inbox, and I thought hey when a job is done, either word “complete” or...

Lomo Wallpaper Nice wallpaper. Using Lomo for the pics, eh?...

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:43:54 +0800

Lomo Wallpaper

Nice wallpaper. Using Lomo for the pics, eh? Maybe I should create a mobile pix wallpaper, after all my mobile phone with a build in camera is always with me. Only problem is the lack of enhance vivid colours. Then again it has always been “it is not the camera, but the person behind the camera” that a photo is well taken! Yeah!

blinkanditsover:

The Lomo wall is complete! (by Will Cheyney)

Not feeling so good

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:14:04 +0800

Looks like the running up and down plus the hot weather in Malaysia is taking the toll on me. I...

usagov: This image of space shuttle Atlantis was taken shortly...

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:24:00 +0800

usagov:

This image of space shuttle Atlantis was taken shortly after the rotating service structure was rolled back at Launch Pad 39A, Thursday, July 7, 2011. Atlantis is set to liftoff today, Friday, July 8, at 11:26 a.m. EDT on the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program.

Watch the launch as it happens on NASA.gov.

Today is yellow shirt day. I wonder what will happen. Will the...

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:26:00 +0800

Today is yellow shirt day. I wonder what will happen. Will the police stop me? Mine do not have the #Bersih (Clean) words / logo in support of clean and fair election. Big hohaa by the powers-to-be but nevertheless a very important day. Not attending the rally but will walk around in yellow in distant support.

Wow! Following twitter updates on the #bersih rally. Big turnout! Estimate probably 50k. Could be 100k strong! PDRM and FRU trying to scatter the assembly. Also noted police brutality, firing of tear gas, water canon, trying to disperse crowd from marching to Stadium Negara.

The purpose of the #bersih 2.0 rally is to support for clean and fair election. It is not a political movement. And yet the Government saw it fit to make excuses to not allow for the simple rally and give poor reasons against it despite the Agung (King) saying it is ok to have rally in Stadium Negara. Then behind the lines on a conspiracy theory, the government must have advise the Stadium Management not to allow the gathering plus the Police not to approve the gathering permit. It shows the govt don’t want fair election so that they can hang on to power.

Sigh! As they said, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

#bersih timeline report http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/169399 all the best stay safe

Bersih Rally @ Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur - photo courtesy of The Star Newspaper

It was also a test of law. Police said 5,000 to 6,000 turn out because they were successful to prevent people entering the city. But one look at the photo you know it was 10 times more! Easily 50,000 supporters came! Police even challenged that no manhandling of demonstrators and if there were any to make police report so they will investigate when clearly there were many injured from police brutality based on the many eyewitness account, but none will dare to make the report because they in turn will be charged for attending the rally for illegal assembly.

The reporting by Star newspaper is rather lopsided and didn’t provide much detail of the happening as this paper is controlled by the current ruling coalition. Reading the alternate news media, Malaysiakini news version yielded much more details. The rally was peaceful but it was the authorities that caused the chaos. In fact the Bersih people and the opposing Umno Youth Patriot people organized themselves not to clash and cause trouble.

Anyway, it is done. The news has spread, but unfortunately it will not be reported properly by the local papers. Since not every Malaysian has access to internet or or those who do will know where to find the URL to read online the alternate media, and have information to make an informed decision. I know of some people who just read the printed government control newspaper only so their viewpoint would be rather skewed.

Hopefully this rally would spread the awareness of apparent lack of cooperation from the government saying one thing but doing another which on the grass root level many people know and felt it but has not voiced out until now.

Malaysiakini photo gallery

Bill Gates Gets It Right - actually it was Charles J. Sykes

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:06:00 +0800

Did Bill Gates gets it right? Nope the attribution is wrong. Sometimes a message gets circulate and...

The Amazing Salt and Its Magical Uses!

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:45:00 +0800

Salt is certainly useful. Amazing salt and its magical uses article which pop into my inbox provide...

Prohibited Plasticizers in Food

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:18:00 +0800

The recent unethical used of Plasticizers in food such as DOP by the Taiwanese Food manufacturer has...

Baby knocked out from shopping!

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:00:02 +0800

It’s baby day out again! Today after church, we decided to head down to Aeon Jusco in Bukit...

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions;..."

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:12:43 +0800

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your...

Portrait of a girl. Nice shot! I like this from the several...

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:25:24 +0800

Portrait of a girl.

Nice shot! I like this from the several series posted by Ruben Jacob. Oh, you can always be on Flickr anytime! It is when you want to be on the Runway, now that one takes work!

Cheers!

rubenjacobfees:

I WANNA GO on Flickr.

Origin of Happy Father's Day

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:22:00 +0800

Received this pamphlet as I arrived the Church and published there was the origin of Happy...