The Enigm@ Chronicles

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.

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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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