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    Michael Jackson Has Passed Away

    Holy shit, Michael Jackson had a heart attack and passed away today, he was only 50 years of age!
    For all his weirdo shit, I did genuinely like the guy because he gave us such marvelous music and boy, could he dance!
    Good night, Michael. I know you’ll always be there.
    update:
    Farah Fawcett has also passed away. She [...]


    Cowboy Caleb Is Not Using Twitter Anymore

    Hello – so it appears that today, the Great Firewall of China has decided to block twitter.
    Other sites now blocked include Flickr, Hotmail, Bing and Youtube.
    Basically, the intarwebs holds no joy for me now.


    Cowboy Caleb In The New Paper On Blog Copycatting

    Cowboy Caleb In The New Paper On Blog Copycatting – I’m very pleased because they printed exactly what I said, word for word and also refered to me as “well known local blogger”. LOLZ.


    Cowboy Caleb Supports The New AWARE!!!

    Much has been written about how the old exco of AWARE was thrown down from their high pedestal. Practically everybody has been enraged, particularly lesbians and lesbian sympathizers.
    I for one, welcome our new homophobic AWARE exco overlords.
    You should too.
    The old AWARE seemed to be leaning towards pro-homosexual policies. The new AWARE has a plan to [...]


    Furong Jiejie now looking for hunky laowai boyfriend!

    Furong Jiejie now looking for hunky laowai boyfriend!


    Raffles Medical #$^@%!

    Upon returning from my brief weekend in Malaysia, I found that I had come down with a case of food poisoning.
    Despite the stomache cramps and fever, I somehow found it within my eternal wellsprings of fortitude to drive over to a Raffles Medical clinic.
    As fate found have had it, their computer system was down. [...]


    Goodnight Joe

    In late September, I blogged about how my elderly uncle Joe had been abandoned at the side of the road, caused a disturbance in a hotel, got arrested and was hospitalized.
    3 weeks after being admitted to hospital, the doctors discovered that Joe was infected with tuberculosis. He was then transfered to an isolated ward [...]


    This Cannot Be Explained (4)

    originals can be found here


    The Status Of The Book Publishing Industry

    Today, I spent 4 hours in a hospital. Some of the time was spent taking care of Uncle Joe who is so weak now, I’ve requested for him to be put on an IV drip. The rest of the time was spent waiting to his Uncle Joe’s psychiatrist. During this time, I continued to work [...]


    He Ain’t Heavy, He’s Just My Frigging *%$#@ Brother

    My wife’s late father, had a brother (whom we shall call Joe) who never married or had any kids. Recently, Joe had been showing signs of mild senile dementia – after all, he is 76 years of age. And then out of the blue, he went to live with his sister in Malacca.
    Today, his [...]


    Racist Spanish Olympic Team Advertisement

    Spain’s Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures. The advert for a courier company, which is an official sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation, occupied a full page in the sports daily Marca, the country’s best-selling newspaper.
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    A Street To Call My Own

    Some gay blogger goes off whoring and discovers that there are entire streets dedicated to Cowboy Caleb.
    Dude, is this Pattaya or Bangkok? There are Soi Cowboy’s in most nearly every other large Thai sex ghetto.


    Tourists Shocked At Animal Abuse On Msian Resort

    Scenes of starvation and death greeted tourists who signed up for horse riding on the beach while enjoying their holiday in Sabah, Malaysia.
    The tourists had visited the Melinsung ranch located 20 mins South of Kota Kinabalu to sign up for the activity. What they found left them sickened. Starving and weak horses, some unable [...]


    My Lord, You’re Crazy

    Today a colleague told me that she doesn’t like going into Indian restaurants, because of the Hindu Idols that are sometimes in there.
    Perplexed, I asked why that was so.
    “Because they look so scary to Christians”
    You know what’s scary? The person who made the remark above has 2 master degrees, pulls in at least 200k per [...]


    Earthquake Weather

    I didn’t feel the tremors, but plenty of you did – prompting a slew of sms’s and emails.
    Is it just me, or does it feel like the end of the world, liao?


    Painkillers, I Lack Severely

    I am not well but am in China anyway and running out of painkillers.
    So what does the world look like when you’re running out of painkillers in a foreign country? Pretty f87ked up, I can tell you that.


    Chinese Driver From Hell

    I usually engage a private driver to ferry me about town when I am in China. He’s at my beck and call day and night, which suits my purposes. This is a common practice in China, where foreigners usually hire the services of a private driver instead of a taxi because they have clean comfortable [...]


    No Wonder I’m Old & Stupid

    And there is a whole array of diseases that are now being tied to damage to this DNA – Parkinson’s and quite a lot of neuro-degenerative diseases, but above all the whole process of ageing.”
    I was watching the 10pm news when it was suddenly announced that fizzy drinks make you dumb, slow and age faster. [...]


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    15 May 2007 @ 4pm

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    Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

    Here is a summary of sexist remarks made in the Malaysian Parliament. That’s right. Here are the leaders of the nation, role-models for the young and all-round good old dinosaurs.
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    8 May 2007 @ 2pm

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    I’m Glad I’m Not An Aspiring Lawyer In Malaysia

    So Maybank Malaysia says that if you run a law firm and want to do any business with them then there must be a minimum of three partners, of which one must be Bumiputra with a minimum 50% stake in the firm.
    Aren’t lawyers supposed to be judged on merit, and not race?
    Maybank is the largest [...]


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    8 May 2007 @ 9am

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    Stupidity Rules The Day In Malaysia

    KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 (Bernama) — Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin said today Malaysia has to classify web bloggers as professionals and non-professionals as a mechanism to prevent misuse of blog sites.
    I am speechless. An Ingformayshun minister – nothing less than a minister comes up with an ludicrous idea like this. You gotta wonder [...]


    Bad Day

    I’m having like a really f87ked up day in China, and suddenly the missus calls up to say while she was stuck in a jam, a motorbike hit the left side mirror, bent it 30 degrees out and ran away.
    ^&$#^%$*%$(!!)(#(*$&#&^$ F87k him and may his offspring have no anus!


    Choking Down Disappointment

    This just came in the mail. The babe above is Angelica Panganiban who owes her incredible looks to overzealous photoshopping. Think I’m bs’ing you?
    Check this out.


    Defend Jesus From Fat Ugly People With Opinions Y’All

    Agagooga gets a brain transplant
    Do any of you gentlefolk out there know Agagooga?
    He is large, sports long hair and runs a wildly entertaining blog. In his sparetime, Agagooga raises the general intelligence of the singapore public by serving on a meta-blog called Tomorow.sg as an editor.
    Yeah… so anyway, one of his pet peeves is getting [...]


    I am Jack’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s’s Punctuation

    Woke up today at 8am. My transport to work was scheduled for 8am – shitf87kdamn. The sudden false winter that has hit Southern China made sleep really enjoyable last night. Because I had a conference call at 8.30am, I dressed in a hurry and had to skip breakfast.
    That hot wild smell of his anus
    Can’t think [...]


    Whinings Of A Loser

    Today, I woke up at 5am and made my way to the airport. There, I proceeded to purchase a copy of Esquire magazine and had breakfast at Burger King (Subway was closed). At 8am, I boarded the plane to Guangzhou. On the plane, I dozed off because I didnt get enough sleep the night before [...]


    My Blog, It Sucks

    I have no idea what happened to my blog. I think I used to be interesting and capable of writing shite like this.
    These days, I’m just plain boring.


    Broken

    It’s starting again after the longest time. I am no longer able to look myself in the mirror in the morning. A wave of revulsion from fear & self-loathing washes over my clammy skin. I havent been sleeping or eating well.
    I hate being an adult.


    No More Wind Beneath My Feet

    Have I only been awake 3 hours and 30 minutes? It seems like a lifetime. Time moves so slowly for me these days. A month feels like a year. A day feels like an eternity. The passage of grains of sand that fall for me seem to float and linger in the air before reaching [...]


    Dear Jesus, I Need Some Lerigion

    Dear Jesus,
    The Catholic faith is not my faith, but rather the faith of my grandmother (who has returned to thee). Legend says (actually my grandaunt) that my grandmother was playing one day as a child in the garden and saw an angel calling her. Since that day, everybody in my (father’s side of the) family [...]


    On Being Mean To Kids In Public

    This Sunday saw me babysitting my niece (aged 6) and nephew (aged 7) at Marina Square while the wife, sister-in-law and cousin went shopping. Luckily there was this event called “National Science Campaign 2006 – X!periment” going on with lots of fun exhibits for the kids to play with.
    They had a stage upfront and this [...]


    Happy Merdeka Whatever Day

    In case you didn’t know, today is Malaysia’s Independence Day. In 1957, the warlords overthrew their colonial overlords and in 2006, Malaysia is still a third-world nation. Yes, I am being sarcastic.
    So what does the cry Merdeka(!), which will be chanted by many a foolish, intellectually-challenged simpleton all over Malaysia today, mean?
    Merdeka means freedom in [...]


    So Like I Now Appreciate Travel Agents A Great Deal

    photo via
    Since I was going to be away all of next week at various locations on business, my wife noted that my last stop was rather attractive and decided she was going to fly over to join me so we could have a mini holiday.
    So I visited a varity of online travel websites to purchase [...]


    Damn This Gay Shite

    Set in New York City in the mid-1980s, Act One of Millennium Approaches introduces us to the central characters. Louis Ironson is a neurotic, homosexual Jew who lives with his lover, Prior Walter. Until, that is, Prior develops AIDS—still a poorly understood disease— Louis, unable to cope with the stress, moves out. Meanwhile, closeted Mormon [...]


    Such Is The Polluted Stream That Is Man

    Such it was when I recently discovered vore – short for vorarephilia, a sexual fetish involving creatures eating and digesting other creatures. This can be animals eating other animals as they would in the wild, or, more hilariously, people getting eaten by giant animals, or people eating other people.
    Strange fetishes, all bound to sicken and [...]


    And I Still Have No Wireless Broadband You Bastards!!

    In search of the ever elusive wireless broadband so I can finally download pron check my mail at home in Malaysia, I stumbled across this on the website of one of those companies who profess to offer wireless broadband to consumers.

    Hi, my name is LOO HUI. I am 21 years old. My hobby is swimming [...]


    Let The Floodgates of Woe, Open – KNNBCCB!!!

    In case you didn’t know, the 30 cent price hike for petrol has triggered riots in Malaysia. Jeff Ooi has the complete story.
    I have one thing to say about this.
    PM Abdullah Badawi is a handsome wise gandalf-like figure that has proved to be ultimately utterly useless in serving the people. Under him, life has gotten [...]


    Problems In My Life At The Moment

    I have no more life since I work 14 hours a day and travel every other day.

    I joined a Lemony Project (read: one big mess)
    My boss resigned

    I am unable to recruit more people to join my team because resourcing simply can’t find any.
    My vendor is going bonkers and their lead project manager told me [...]


    Dear Mr Emil Chau

    Dear Mr Emil Chau,
    After all your years of travelling to Singapore to perform and plead for the public to donate money for kidney patients, it turns out that only 10 cents from every dollar went to the kidneyically challenged amongst other wrongdoings.
    If anybody has a right to be pissed, it’s you and I’m sure that [...]


    It’s So Sad

    I found out from my sobbing mom that my uncle has died interstate intestate (no will) . To make matters worse, my aunt does not know anything about the family finances because he used to take care of everything. She doesnt know what insurance policies he bought, what the PIN to his ATM cards are, [...]


    Another Tragedy

    My wife and I just got home from a party. We were having a lovely time. In fact, we wanted to stay all the way and get roaring drunk after the security guards broke up the party at 10.30pm on the grounds that we were some sort of public nuisance.
    The problem is this.
    My uncle just [...]


    The Walls Came Crumbling Down

    First i thought to myself.. damn those contractors.. they dint secure the Tv tightly on the feature wall… blardy hell. When i got there… the gates to the compound were wide open… “that’s new .. ” i thought to myself. Then i noticed an ambulance parked next to the pool… as we walked towards the [...]


    Servants No More

    The flat used to be a whorehouse.
    The maid was a prostitute. And Madam The Min Yek was her pimp.
    It is with great disgust that I read such articles like this where people simply treat their maids like playthings.
    Perhaps the problems is the language we use. If we didn’t refer to the people who come from [...]


    Miyagi Is Dead

    Mourn with me all ye faithful, the venerable mr miyagi has passed away.
    link


    Hideous Abuse Of Power

    A 20-second MMS has created an unprecedented stir in Parliament among Ministers and MPs. It shows a naked woman in a room or cell, with back to the camera, instructed by a policewoman to do ten “ear squats”. There was one brief showing the naked woman from the front.
    Malaysian opposite leader Lim Kit Siang has [...]


    You Will Deny Me Thrice

    photo by Tread
    I am in fact, a terrible friend.
    Sometimes I think it’s due to the fact that I do not really need people around me. Therefore, I tend to not treasure friendship. Ok, maybe that’s harsh – I tend to take friendship for granted. If a person is not around then it’s like out of [...]


    Cast The First Stone, Go On

    photo by Johnny Malkavian
    When I wrote about what I have happened to noticed, it was inspired by this news article I saw in TNP about the ‘Hottest Blogger’ Dawn Yeo. At the time, I was just saddened that apparently you had to be hot to be a popular blogger.
    The very same day, rumours that she [...]


    Behold The Hellspawn of Apple

    “Podtropolis, as its name suggests, is an iPod-only BitTorrent indexing site. Like most BitTorrent sites, Podtropolis has a variety of genres such as music, movies, music videos and TV programming. Yet the most interesting aspect of Podropolis is the selection of videos for Apple’s fifth generation player. Each and every torrent file available is specifically [...]


    Right Wrong Right Wrong Right Wrong Whatever

    A model parades in front of street children, some of whom are sniffing glue, in the drug-infested ‘Barrio Triste’ (Sad Neighborhood) in downtown Medellin in Colombia November 7, 2005. The event was organised to entertain the children by a member of a local charity that helps children in Barrio Triste by providing food, clothes and [...]


    Tampines: Car Bursts Into Flames!

    10 minutes ago I was travelling on bus 81 along Old Tampines Road when a car in front burst into flames. Managed to take a few pictures and videos. Here are some of them
    Local blogger Roamer was on a bus this afternoon when a car suddenly blew up. Armed with his phone, he took some [...]


    The End Of Your Credit Is Nigh

    Need extra cash quickly? Now you can get a cash advance from your credit card by easily crediting funds from your credit card to your account, to another third party DBS/POSB account, or an inter-bank account – yet another first from DBS.
    In an unprecedented move of sheer genius (which everybody knows is a double-edged blade), [...]


    The Sins Of The Mother

    Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans.
    They may remind you another famous pair of singers, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who built a media empire on their fun-loving, squeaky-clean image, Lamb and [...]


    Almost Daily WTF: Evil Mofo

    Early 1970s | Convicted for possession of a firearm. Jailed 1 year
    1973 | Convicted for peddling LSD. Sentence unknown
    1987 | Pleaded guilty to possessing sexually explicit material involving juveniles. Jailed for six months
    1989 | Left for Indonesia
    1990 | Charged in US with raping 7-year-old son
    1997 | Returned to US to stand trial on rape charges
    1998 [...]


    In Life, The Monsters Win

    For every child that should be playing with other children of their age, but lies bleeding from a rape or being sodomized on a filthy mattress in a dark dank putrid room stinking of urine and filth, the idea of life being ugly and unfair must ring a terrible truth.
    Because in life, the monsters win. [...]


    Man, This Hits The Spot

    Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.
    Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.
    Being poor is knowing your kid goes to friends’ houses but never has friends over to yours.
    Being poor is not talking to that girl because she’ll probably just laugh at your clothes.
    Being poor is hoping you’ll be invited for [...]


    All Tomorrow’s Charities

    Selected charity will get adopted by Tomorrow for 3 months. They will be placed prominently on Tomorrow with a paypal donation button. All money raised via Tomorrow will be given to the adopted charity.
    Tomorrow.sg needs your help to locate a suitable charity to donate moolah to. With so many charities out there, they need suggestions [...]


    We Want To Get More Lost

    My housemate and I are feeling pretty shitty right now. We finished watching the last remaining episodes of Lost (season 1) at 3am last night after a saga of DIY home cinema, peanutbutter & jelly sandwiches and Sri Lankan tea. For the past week, our heroin has been Lost. Our cells crave and ache for [...]


    What Kin Ye Dae?

    Ok folks, stop emailing me about the trials and tribulations of an unwanted pregnancy. Here’s my take: –

    Never take meat injections without protection, EVAR.
    Abortion is wrong.
    Divorce is also wrong
    A loveless marriage is long-term poison
    It’s really none of my business nor yours, so bugger off

    I hear that the local papers have picked up the story. [...]


    Almost Daily WTF Part 4

    We all know that on account of our national superiority, during the thriving and prosperous Tang Dynasty our civilization was at the peak of the world. We were the center of the world civilization, and no other civilization in the world was comparable to ours. Later on, because of our complacency, narrow-mindedness, and the self-enclosure [...]


    Almost Daily WTF Part 3

    “A distressing example of the breakdown of moral and social values . . .” 62 of the 66 accused were convicted and sentenced in France’s largest child sex abuse case to date. From 1999 to 2002, 45 children in Angers, aged 6 months to 12 years, were prostituted by their own families in exchange for [...]


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