One problem with our country is that somehow, and I cannot even think how this can be, but somehow we Malaysian vote in such incorrigible characters the likes of the MP of Jasin into such an august body as our Malaysian parliament.

Who is he some might say at this point? Well as they say, long story short, the MP of Jasin is of the “Close One Eye” fame that just stupefied the nation a couple of months ago. Having brushed the Customs Department the wrong way one would think that any savvy politician would have kept his smarts and kept his head down.

But low and behold, here he is all over again causing a new controversy. The MP of Jasin has this time, with no qualms at all, made what is without a doubt a sexist remarks when brusquely retorting to the female MP of Batu Gajah – the intended target of his pun (imho: very much intended).

Yes he trod over the line of statesmanship when he liken the issue debated, i.e. burst piping in the parliament, to that of the menstrual cycle of women via the exact word – “… tiap-tiap bulan pun bocor…” (every month also leak) when addressing the female MP of Batu Gajah. And this time there will be no covering up as he was featured live on the parliament recording. See it for yourself below:

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All in all, I can only wonder how such a sexist could have been voted in the first place.

I was out at dinner today with a couple of friends and what started innocently as simple discussion of searching for Linux how-to’s ended up being a full blown spate between myself and one of my other friend.

The issue took a turn when I stated out that I myself have reduced dramatically look up such sites as TechRepublic anymore for such information whereas I nowadays have a perchance for looking up blogs for the corresponding information. Now at this point, as it later turns out, that my point was misunderstood (misinterpreted) by my counterpart.

So what happened for the duration of the dinner was one misunderstanding after another. Somehow I gave off an impression to my proponents that all persons must blog! (Think along the lines of The Borg from Star Trek fame – Resistance is futile!) How did this come about I have not idea.

My issue on how blogs are credible sources for information was attacked with statements that blogging is just a ‘hobby‘ – which of course implies to me that they are not credible resources. I of course did not sit well with this statement, thereby I pointed out that there are full time or pro-blogger out there that would definitely take an umbrage with that statement. At this point being wiser for having gone through this argument, I’ll go on record and say that it is true that blogging is a hobby – more so for most people. However blogging is also has a serious aspect to others i.e. some people make their livelihood of blogging. Therefore to dismiss blog as credible in my humble opinion is wrong.

What followed were statements like “Why don’t you quit your work and then you can become a blog evangalist“. Of course, again, this did not sit well with me and I objected to how I wouldn’t consider doing that. My reasoning at this point was along the lines of even though I’m a firm believer in blogging, I’m also well aware that most people in my part of the world either see blogs as a means for rants and raving or just as a platform for expressing their thought, feeling and such. It is this community mentality that makes it clear as common sense to me that trying to be a blogging evangelist (via quiting my job) would definitely not be a feasible vocation for myself. However I was then hit back by my proponent that my reluctance proved his point that blogging is – here I shall surmise in short note as the words said were to numerous to note down – not credible.

A long the entire time a whole lot of other statements that were mention by my proponent are: -

1. Not everyone blogs – True in one sense, in another it discards the significants of blog as being limited in stature.
2. The older generation is wiser and they don’t blog – Also true, but dare I say that though not all of the older generation are incline to pick up blogging for various reasons, that I wont get into at this point, but there are still bloggers who are well past their prime who contribute interesting and often times great postings.

In the end, I find myself being unsure as to what purpose exactly did this arguments serve. My proponent most certainly, again it’s my opinion at this point,  did not go away with a revised outlook on blogging.  And as for myself,  I am quite perplexed that there are people out there – be they older, younger, tech-savvy or not – that have such a lowly opinion on blogging in general.

And what say you my readers. Please do comment on this issue.

I’m Shocked! Let me rephrase that – I unsurprisingly Shocked!!

I knew thing weren’t at a decent level but to see the statistics I’m totally blown away. Malaysia’s press freedom (read: in name only, not in practice) ranking as ranked in the Global Survey of Media Independence 2006 is at best atrocious. Malaysia’s ranking of 141 (out of 191 countries) is abysmal. Hell we are so far behind the likes of our fellow South East Asians i.e. Thailand, Indonesia and even Cambodia. Yes we who pride ourself as a developed country, are far far lacking as compared to the likes of regime ruled Cambodia.

That’s right my fellow citizens. The press is stifled, we are fed with ‘fixed‘ stories, the ‘spin‘ is on full time and the worst part of it all – the majority of our Malaysian are in the dark and/or couldn’t be bothered about it. Someday we might just get up and realize democracy has left our fair shores and in it’s place something else has taken root. V for Vendetta anybody?

Refer to the The Star article on this topic. Alternately, Jeff Ooi’s posting has a better coverage on this topic.

Watching movies on Saturday night is a big major thing here in KL. Every weekend, comes Saturday night, you’ll see droves of people making their way to their local cinemas or cineplexe’s in order to catch the latest movie. Therefore unsurprisingly we always end up queuing in long lines just to get tickets. Then we queue all over again at the concession stand to get our popcorn and beverages. So after all the hard work, you finally get to sit down, lean back and enjoy the show.

Now I hate having to g through the hassle every single week. So I, being the sly me that I am, always always take the time to book movie tickets via online for Saturday night shows. SO hassle reduces in as much as my just having to collect my reservation 45 minutes before showtime. Now I been doing this for years, and have thus very happily avoided all the trouble. However just yesterday my friends decided they wanted to ‘try our luck‘ and see if we can get tickets for the opening weekend show of Spiderman 3. Due to unforeseen circumstances I had not gotten tickets bookings for the show and somehow I figured me and my friends would jut postpone catching the movie to the following weekend.

What I had not counted on was the tenacity of my friends wanting to see the show on that very day if at all possible. So off we went, got to the cinema  and then we lined up . Now at this juncture you should probably be aware that  Spiderman being a huge huge hit meant that tickets were already sold out. Our only hope was for the release tickets i.e. uncollected booking tickets. Therefore our strategy was to line up in 4 separate groups and hope that someone got to the front at exactly the moment the tickets were released. Somehow by god’s good grace our second line of attack (Sin & Jasmin) we’re in perfect timing as they got to the counter at the moment that the tickets were released. Hence we thus ended up with 7 tickets to Spiderman 3.

As for the movie, well suffice it to say it had it’s good moments, a fair amount of weird moments (whats with Peter Parker grooving all over the place), and a few lousy scenes to boot. All in all I can say that I did enjoy the movie – and after going through all the trouble with getting the tickets at least the movie wasn’t a disappointment.

Check out my post on my tech blog on how to utilize free web services to ‘bling’ your blog or social network pages. Head on over to TerraWeb for the posting.Well what are you waiting for then!

If you have noticed, the bottom-most of my sidebar has a new inclusion. Yes I am talking about the Godfather image exactly like the one below.

Taking a cue from my friend Cindy, I too have decided to put up a representation of my personality, courtesy of SimilarMinds , who provide some amusing test – among them their personality test. At this juncture I would just like to state that this all was done in the spirit of pure fun.

Unlike Cindy, I instead choose to have the Classic Movie representation of the personality test. Therefore after answering a few questions, lo and behold I was presented with the results. According to the test, the classic movie that approximately enshrines my personality type is none other than that classic ‘The Godfather‘. Now it does seem to be a fair match to my personality if I dare say so myself (whew)!

My affection for the movies aside, another reason for choosing the movie version of the test can be attributed to another reason. Truthfully I originally took the Famous Leaders version of the personality test. However was my unfortunate ‘luck’ of being matched to the prominent leader personality to that of Hitler. Seriously … according to the results it seems that that I’m near to or identical enough to Hitler of all people. Common I figured I’m more closer to Churchill than Hitler… or at least I hope hoped so.

Anyways, as far as one liners go “You are paranoid but killing all you enemies does help to relieve anxiety” sure does take the cake.

It’s been a tough week where I constantly find myself being ‘interrupted’ by other activities which then blows holes in my plan to blog. I know excuses, excuses! Sigh!

Proof to point. I’ll stealing a few moments away from Skype-ing with my sister – for whom, by the way, I’m providing ‘free’ tech support. The many wonders of technology today allow your far flung family members to pester you for assistance 24/7. Ah the curse for being the Tech guy of the family!

Back to the issue at hand i.e. my lack of blogging. In my defense, my time this past week has been spent catering to a hundred and one requirements for the PC Fair weekend. Between catering to my clients (those who pay) needs and also covering my friends (those who don’t pay) request I’m basically a busy, busy bee. All in all it has been supremely hectic.

So here’s the good news… I’ll do a quick write up on the PC Fair and how it was in my humble opinion, as soon as possible.

PS: My dear dear friends reading this post… ignore the jibe about not paying. You know I love you guys =D

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