Have you ever been in a situation where you get choked on your Diet Coke that you are sipping as you walk past an English signage in an Asian country? Common eye opener signage such as "Do not Spitting","Happy Crap Restaurant" or classic "
Found yourself thrilled to see the 97% FAT FREE Ice Cream label. It is a ticket for low fat diet and you are on your way to skimpy waist line, 6 packs and crease-less pants? Soon your shopping cart is filled with Low Fat food and checking out more food that your gut can chew.
It is so easy to dislike someone instantaneously. It is human nature at its very best. I am one of many people who easily choose to hate Gordon Ramsay.
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Yes. Life is good in Sunshine Coast. The common cliche of a place is not busy or crowded suddenly does not sound tiresome.
Not long ago my good friend's MSN sent across some unusual messages. It looked normal, particularly from a friend - only to untrained eyes. MSN (and others like Yahoo) is a common favourite tool for worms (something like virus but not the same - for computer dummies benefit) as a launching pad to infect another host (YOU!).
I nearly crashed my car when I saw this rare beauty at the small airport of Maroochydore.
I was out of tech-touch for a bit and was up for a real surprise. A friend of mine was asking for help, and I promised him to shop for a replacement for his old DVD player. He is an avid movie collector. I was looking for HD DVD and Blu Ray. The sales dude informed that not long ago that Toshiba threw in the towel and pull out from HD DVD development & manucfacturing.
On 4 December 2007, I lost one of my dearest person. Maurice, was a close friend & mentor. I will tell you how he lived.
What will happen to Hiro as he charges with Kensei sword towards electric-bold-ready Peter? Arrgghh. Why is Maya is such a dumb bitch, inevitably allowing Slyar to return with his murderous best? Who is gonna be killed? Let's hope its the Niki's circle.
On a mild wet & sunny day, Australian politic unfold a new chapter. After knocking out 3 attempts from two challengers, John Howard-led Liberal Party government reign was toppled yesterday.
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A spoiler to you all. What happened to Hiro after learning that his Dad was assassinated. Is the lame Mohinder turn to into a lame bad ass? Turn around if you do not want to know (i know. if you do you are not a Hero)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SCzB9M43qA
I was cranky, sticky and desperate for an air condition room.
I was spending the day working at the Bowling Green...
The clash of the titans. Or is it? The two nation's biggest telco go head to head harder than ever before.
Continue reading "The Joke of Advertising : Telstra Vs Optus" »
As soon as I signed my credit card transaction to purchase my flight ticket to the US, I realised how much an idiot I was. I have a very complicated flights arrangment to various cities in the US and Canada.
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Sorry lah. It has been a while since I wrote my last article. My folks were here to spot check on me for 2 weeks. The past few articles, I have been writing about some serious issues, and a few readers could appreciate it. While others demand porn, slapstick humours and controversies. Since Burek for Breakfast, here is another controversy - a laugh at chinese darkest best kept secret - until today.
Those are the wise words by Oscar Wilde.
For my haircut, without fail, I will stroll to Joe's in Ashfield.
On August 8 2007, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)
announced an increase of 0.25% on interest rate to 6.5%. It was unwelcoming
news to everybody who has debt in hand, particularly those with standard
variable rate arrangement.
Washing up pots & pans is a task that I truly dislike most. It's hard to disagree that the worst part of cooking is cleaning up, especially those stubborn cooking stains.
One of the toughest choice, if you can only afford one, to single out
the winning candidate that would sit proudly on your TV table for the
next 10 years.
To accentuate my previous article about the maddening weather, and to those who cannot comprehend or visualise how dry big part of Australia is or scores of farmers who lost almost everything or simply how bad the condition really is...
After a mild autumn, winter announced its arrival in Eastern Australia with a mighty bang. Many had questioned if we were ever going to bring out the good ol' radiator this winter. Then it came, with devastation. Winter arrived with great frenzy, just like the appearance of Paris Hilton caused major havoc.
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There was nothing wrong with me. There wasn't any work pressure. Mates weren't asking money that I owe them. I had my dinner. Just nice, too much. No booze! Yet when I walked out from the theater. I had a massive headache! Whhhyy? Here's why.
WOW. CRIKEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
I have been tempted to write something about Firefox web browser for a long time.
For those of you who do not know much about web browser - in order to surf the net (view the internet) like reading your news, checking your webmail ie hotmail or enjoying the porn privately, you need a web browser. There are a few browsers in the market and the leading players are Microsoft Internet Explorer IE, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and the latest one Apple Safari 3.
Continue reading "Battle of the Browser: Firefox vs Safari 3 vs IE7" »
Someone did a search query "How is it to live in Sydney". My website came in 4th in Google organic search. I am not sure if my website is sufficiently informative to be able to help. I almost tried to write an article that evolves around it until I had the opportunity to spend some time in Melbourne for a few days.
Yesterday I signed up with 3 Network for mobile internet connection. I have 2 choices, to either go wifi or hsdpa. Wifi are being serve by several companies reselling technologies from iBurst, ie spins, chilli & greetreefrogs. Spin and green tree frog have the best deal.
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How many of you know what is Phishing? Honestly how many of you care enough to know what is phishing, and raise your hand? Just what I thought. Guess what - me too. Until today.
The words "Tax Cut" ring like a Pizza delivery guy arriving at the doorstep for the common Aussies and Tax Payers who live in Australia. So why Tax Cut sounds like winning a lottery? Because it is such a big deal in Australia. Unfortunately a big majority of people do not fully understand how it works except the accountants. This year, The Treasurer, Peter Costello, announced a generous tax cut for 07-08.
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There are good chances to come across some try-hard-wannabes. To lots of Malaysians, and for you Aussies, we loathe - and I stress WE LOATHE - those Asians who (Indian, Chinese Malay, whoever) try to put up UK's, OZ's & worst of all Yank's accent. No. They don't normally crossed the line sounded like Tony Blair or Guliani or Alan Jones. Instead they sounded phoney with laughable attitude. That phoney accent which usually & magically came together with their foreign University degree - yes! a former foreign student back to the homesoil. For us, it turns out like a f****g sour awful beancurd.
This article is the hardest to write todate. How do you explain to the Australian or anyone who has not been to or hasn't discover Malaysia enough, what is roti canai? Who is mamak? or WTF is Mamak is the first place. Here in Australia, I do need to be politically correct. So I need to be cirscumpect. No, Australians do not have ISA with Bukit Aman militants who will jump on me and then dragged me to jail... only to be mistaken with someone else. But I can potentially be termed racist! A reputation even KKK cannot afford.
Funny. We've all seen some of the funniest mispellings or miswordings or just a sheer coincidental, particularly amongst the asian restaurants, which made them look rather quirky if not stupid. Well here is something for a change, where all Malaysian should be gobsmacked that it is actually a 'delicacy' from the far east.
Sydney. Sydney. Sydney.
There are a few places in Sydney where you will find something out of ordinary. Like today, Karen (me former Universtity mate) & I decided to catch up. We planned to meet up in Newtown, a suburb closeby to Sydney CBD. Newtown is different. Now think of potato chips, substitute that with organically grown pumpkin chips. That's Newtown. It is where gay & lesbian, painters, activists and even punks that we all thought to be dead lives happily together. And together they make this town unique, fun and quirky.
As most of you know that I've been to Korea, I was absolutely blown out of the water by their internet speed. I was at the rural area of Gangneung, and the speed they are 'complaining' for being slow was around appx 24Mbps. I heard it is common in Soeul that internet speed whizzing at 100Mbps.
In a clear summer sky, on a bus service to work, something tells me to look up. There it was Queen Mary 2 is being craved by a plane. It dawned to me that the Big Queen has arrived.
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Depending on your carrier and the type of plan you're hooked, shooting a sms to your friend could cost a hefty 25c. Now imagine you are in a sms-tennis, if you are not Federer and didn't go for that down-the-line with your forehand, you ended up doing a 5 setter. And thats not ideal, isn't it?.
Last September, I had a conversation with one of the Google staff in Sydney when she mentioned Pandora. It is a web based juke box that belts out almost any genre, song title and artist that you would like to listen. You do need to register, and experience one of the coolest thing that ever happened in the Internet beside Spam Emails. (Note: To all Hongkie fans, No Jackie Cheung, Alan Tam and to all Malay song fans : No Siti ... and certainly No P. Ramlee and no classical/opera genre yet)
Until I get the link correctly display at the sidebar, you guys are able to see my Korea trip pics here
Right! After countless fruitless attempts, trying to learn the markup language PHP and dbase program Mysql, i reluctantly conceded defeat and dug deep into my pocket to subscribe to inbuilt professional blog software - Typepad. I will, however, continue to plow the field of markup language and try to be good at in a matter of weeks when others spent the whole life trying to master it.
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