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Twenties : My Last Day

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

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Its my last day in my twenties! Tomorrow there will be a new number that i would have to get my self familar too. Scary? Naa…im not bothered but its strage how time flew. It has been a really eventful 10 years! Many things have happened, new passions have been discovered, new people and lots of lessons!!

Time has thought me much and I’m not one that ponders on the past, they don’t call it the past for nothing isn’t it :) I’m glad i had the good people, the trash, the mistakes and yea..I’m glad!

It has been interesting 10 years and  i thank time for the lessons learnt! Its going to be a very very interesting next 10 years. New phase, new lessons and a whole new challenge!

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Brand Loyalty – Does It Exist?

Monday, December 15th, 2008

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Do you have the slightly older folks in your office telling to go and Xerox a letter for them? Or have you had your parents ask you to run to the grocer to go get some colgate? Brand loyalty was such a huge part of life at one point. It was so prevalent that we used to address certain products by a particular brand.

As a kid growing up, i always wanted a pair of Levi jeans. Or a Nokia mobile phone or my father who only read The Star and nothing else. The older folks had brand loyalty!! It was not even a situation where a certain product was a monopoly. If someone said that he/she is a ASTRO fan, dude…do we have a choice?

There are no right answers if someone asked if being loyal to a brand was good or bad in my view. (more…)

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Open Letter : Discrimination In Malaysia?

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Got this letter via email. Apparently written by a Malaysian who went abroad to seek opportnity for education despite have near perfect results in the school system. In a nation that has just voted their first African American President, is there discrimination.. Yes of course there is but as bad as here? Maybe not!

Have a read of the below article, i think it sums it up.

A Malaysian diaspora speaks up (more…)

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Deepavali 2008

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

For many years i celebrated Deepavali at KL. This year the drill was slightly different when i went to my better half’s hometown at Raub,Pahang. I was there for only a night but it would be nice to experience the festival with a twist of a “kampung feel” to it.

Im not going to go into details of my experience because I’m sure if your from Malaysia, you would know exactly what celebrating a festival in your hometowns like but I’m going to share some of the pictures that i toke while roaming around the nice piece of land right behind of the family home.

All images were taken with my Canon 1000d DSLR (EF 18-55mm kit lenses)and since I’m a rookie at photography with a DSLR, it was a very interesting experience as i tried some of the info i picked up from various websites. Let me know what you think and if you have comments, please do let me know!

I’ve put up about 5 other images below (more…)

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The Last Of The La Salle Brothers

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

I was a La Sallian from Standard 1 till i finished school in form 5, that was 11 years of being a La Sallian! I take a lot of pride in being a part of this institution which is regarded as one of the best around the world. I remember while i was back in school at La Salle in PJ it was almost the end of the La Salle brotherhood before the local’s toke over the reigns in leading the school.

While the brother’s were in charge, the school was known for its high discipline and no nonsense approach which changed dramatically as every brother that lead the school came from one mind set and after them, it was constant struggle to keep up to the high standards the brothers set in.

Naturally when you don’t come from a single system, a change of leadership would result in a change of style and hence in my view the quality dropped to a certain extend.

The La Salle brothers not only had schools that went by the name of La Salle which i was from but also many others like St Johns & St Xavier’s who just had the last brother who was in the reign retiring. Its definitely going to be different now and its going to be truly missed.

Brother Paul Ho’s retirement will be a double milestone as he represents the last Brother principal in Malaysia.

Congratulations to the La Salle brothers for the superb job they have been doing all these years and there are many community leaders and prolific figures that this very system has churned out. I’m surely blessed and happy that i was part of this very system.

Read Brother Peter Ho’s parting words via the Star’s report (more…)

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Pasar Road

Monday, August 18th, 2008

If you are from KL, Pasar road has got the reputation of being a electronic heaven for the not so rich! Its a street filled with shops selling all sorts of electronic items at cheap cheap prices. Danny and I decided to go to pasar road because i was looking for a small knife and a torch for my upcoming trip to the forest.

When we got there as usual the whole area was packed with stalls everywhere. This area is infamous for its walkway stalls who sell from batteries to mobile phone accessories to binoculars to Viagra to ecstasy to even dildos! (more…)

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Orangutan Prostitute

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Yes! Its been happening, some sick bastards have been using Orangutan’s as prostitute’s! How? Apparently even dressing the animal up like a female and the customers come to get some. This is so sick, i can imagine how sad these people are! They the customers know its a orang utan and they are there for just that!

The report :

Meet Pony. She is an orangutan from a small village in Borneo, where they cut down the rain forest to render the palm oil that gets sold abroad and made into lip salve, ice cream, chocolates, and cheese crackers.

ice: So tell us about Pony.

Michelle Desilets [Director of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation]: Pony is an orangutan from a prostitute village in Borneo. We found her chained to a wall, lying on a mattress. She had been shaved all over her body.

I want to cry.

If a man walked near her, she would turn herself around, present herself, and start gyrating and going through the motions. She was being used as a sex slave. She was probably about six or seven years old when we rescued her, but she had been held captive by a madam for a long time. The madam refused to give up the animal because everyone loved Pony and she was a big part of their income. They also thought Pony was lucky, as she would pick winning lottery numbers.

Did the clients realize that they were in fact getting an orangutan?

Oh yeah, they would come in especially for it. You could choose a human if you preferred, but it was a novelty for many of the men to have sex with an orangutan. They shaved her every other day, which meant that her skin had all these pimples and was very irritated. The mosquitoes would get to her very badly and the bites would become septic and be very infected, as she would scratch them constantly. They would put rings and necklaces on her. She was absolutely hideous to look at.

How did you get her away from there?

It took us over a year to rescue her, because every time we went in with forest police and local officers we would be overpowered by the villagers, who simply would not give her up. They would threaten us with guns and knives with poison on them. In the end it took 35 policemen armed with AK-47s and other weaponry going in there and demanding that they hand over Pony. It was filmed by a local television crew and in the background of the film when we are unchaining Pony you can hear the madam crying hysterically, screaming, “They are taking my baby, you can’t do this!” There is no law enforcement in Indonesia so these people didn’t face any sentence or anything for what they had done.

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D’Image Optical

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

How many times have you been into a shop to buy something and had lousy service that pisses you off soo much you just cant let them get away with it?? This is my episode of that very experience.

My better half needed to get her a pair of glasses because its been 3 years since she checked her eye’s and replaced her “out of fashion” spectacles.We went to many different shops but she didn’t find anything that she liked. Then in our hunt we ended up at Pj state and saw D’image optical shop.This shop belongs to Poh King Jewellers who bought over a different optical shop,re-branded it and are operating under the D’Image brand.

Want the real juice? (more…)

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Bill Gates Leaves Microsoft

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

It had to happpen and it did, today is Bill Gates last day as a full time employee at Microsoft. He will now be focusing on his Gates foundation while watching the folks from the open source companies eat into the microsoft market share.

Some stuff i found to show how happy some people are :)

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Singapore

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

If you are a frequent at Delirium, you would have noticed that the site has been quiet for about a week.I was away at Singapore for a workshop and hardly had time to blog or even go online proper. Anyway..Im not a fan of the country simply because of the lifestyle and the food is poor as compared to home but hey..a Singaporean would say the same about that(nothing tops home) .

While i was there the one thing i enjoy about the country is how organized and well planned everything is.The list goes on and on and on but im going to choose the transportation system because i had to use the public transport to shuttle myself around. I toke a lot of cabs to move around and i must say its awesome. Stop a cab and get in, tell the dude where your heading and he takes you there with a meter to give you cost.The cabs are clean and some cabbies are not the friendliest but at least they keep their mouths shut and take you where you need to go as fast as they can.

Why are they so dicipled? Have a look at the signages all over the country above.

Fear Factor always works.If something is hard to fix, enforce it hard and eventually everyone will abide.Especially if its something fundamental..ie transportation system.

This is a small part of it. The trains,busses and cabs actually compliment each other very well. They are all connected and that is simply a sign that its a well planned .Awesome work!
Excuses like they are a small country and all are not good enough anymore, are smaller states as good as that small country?

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