Head of the so called "Four Heavenly Kings"

The haze is back to haunt us!

Was having a meeting at the open space of McDonald's because we felt like having some smokes over a large cup of ice cold coke.

2 hours down the meeting, i started to feel sticky and sick of the smoky air .. it smelt like burnt shit. Half my nostrills were blocked with debris.

Man, what are the fuckin authorities doin bout this? God bless us





On the way to the office this morning, on a red light near my office - i saw this loan shark advertisement. Going green has become such a trend even the ah long's gone green... wtf



Talking bout ah long's, it reminds me of the head of the so called "Four Heavenly Kings" ... 'Shi Da Tien Wang'... or however you spell it in Chinese... who controls all the loan sharking business in the country.

So for those of you who are hopeful that there will be a solution to the loan shark problem, pls fuckin forget about it.

With his influence & relationship with the elite circle in Malaysian politics, the police has got no authority to detain him, let alone the guts to even think about it. He has infiltrated the executives & the judiciary - 2 very key pillars of governance.

Hence today, the solution drawn out by the government to curb loan sharking is to legalize the loan sharks so they are called legal money lenders instead of loan sharks. So the more they convert, the more they get rid of the 'loan shark' problem... isn't this such a common problem in Malaysia?

Here's a quick biography of the Boss of Bosses. Source: http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/17980/84/

Koo Tee Yam, age 45, is believed to control most of the underworld activities in Kuala Lumpur namely loan sharking, pirated discs and goods, prostitution, drugs, illegal gambling and murder. He has also diversified into many legitimate businesses such as discos, clubs, security companies, restaurants, construction and many more. Controlling assets worth more than RM1 billion, he is the head of the so called "Four Heavenly Kings" that controls a large criminal empire in West Malaysia.

Active in politics, it is believed that Koo Tee Yam has sent many triad members to infiltrate MCA, particularly the Bukit Bintang MCA division where he operates vice dens. He was so powerful that then MCA President Ling Liong Sik sent Federal Territory MCA Chief and Deputy Minister for Energy, Telecommunications and Multimedia Tan Chai Ho to enlist him in aid of MCA. However, Koo Tee Yam disliked Ling Liong Sik....

.... During the 2004 General Election, Koo Tee Yam allegedly handed over RM20 million in donations to the Prime Minister personally. The meeting was supposedly arranged by former MCA Youth leader Dato' Seri Kee Yong Wee @ Kee Ah Mat. Since then, he has boasted that the police couldn't touch him. When the previous IGP came to power, incensed with what he heard, arrested Koo Tee Yam under the ISA. The newspapers had a field day on this story. A court found him innocent and ordered him released. The police however swooped in again to arrest him.

Three days later, the Federal Court (Justice Datuk Pajan Singh Gill, Justice Datuk Richard Malanjum and Justice Datuk Augustine Paul) ordered his unconditional released citing that the detainees rights had been circumvented by the police, which is the same argument given by hundreds of ISA detainess to the Federal Court - all shot down and many spent years if not decades under detention. Was corruption involved?

Why English should not be taught in Bahasa Malaysia

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With all the debate, government divide, public rage & premier vs predecessor battle over the language to teach Science and Maths in Malaysia, this is a real cracker from RPK

RP Raja Petra Kamarudin

There is currently a brouhaha going on about the proposed teaching of Science and Maths in English. Some would like these two subjects to be taught in Bahasa Malaysia. I am not too concerned about Science and Maths. I am more worried about English. I feel English should no longer be taught in Bahasa Malaysia.

NO HOLDS BARRED

And why do I think that English should not be taught in Bahasa Malaysia? Well, maybe this circular from one of Malaysia’s leading universities would explain everything.
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4th UiTM INTERNATIONAL SPORTS FIESTA19 – 23 November 2009 FUTSAL-RUGBY 7- TENPIN BOWLING-BADMINTON

Dear Sport Friends,

Regarding about the global issue H1N1 happens around the world, sadly to be informing that our UiTM International Sports Fiesta will be postponing to 19-23 November 2009.

For all teams which have been confirm to participate in our events, we have to say sorry for this announcements and our Ministry of Higher Education and Ministry of Health also advise to us to change the date for this current situation.

By the date have been confirm incoming this November hopefully your teams still can participate in our event and don’t hesitate to contact us for further information.

And again, we would like to say sorry about the date change for the sake of our health among us.

See you in this November at UiTM Malaysia!!
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Regards,

Mr. Mustaza Ahmad
Director
Sports Centre
Universiti Teknologi MARA
Malaysia

"Yes I do"

I recently attended a Google conference in a Jazz Bar in KL. Some of the top tech guys flew in from Mountain View to demonstrate opportunities with the Google Maps API (at the same time lure developers to give Google more content)

It started of with typical speeches from the people who were involved in this and it adjourned to a demo session, which was projected on the big screen. The demo required an internet line, which was suddenly made unavailable when the demonstrater was about to start.

Embarrassed but quick to react, the Google guy said - "How about we pull out our mobile phones and we'll do a demo on your own screens". And so did everyone, except me because i was the only one without a smart phone, I shared my mates screen.

With building peer pressure & realizing the potential of a smart phone, which will make the internet & emails accessible 24/7, the need arrised with little doubt. Considering the market, there were only 2 models to consider from:

1. The touch-screen, sleek-looking, application-driven and slutty iPhone

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2. The 3.5G, push-mail, bold looking and muscular Blackberry Bold 9000

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That kinda allowed me to already draw a line between the 2 phones... but for further convincing, i wanted some AV reviews of the 2 phones so i did some research on You Tube.



And the Apple's just far too soft for the Blackberry Bold.

Without questions, I got the BB Bold, which ive not regretted. Was just testing out less than a quarter of its functionalities and im already too impressed.

If you're a Twitterer, you'll love Twitterberry. After taking a picture with your blackberry, you can simply right click and select the option of posting the picture on Twitpic - its as simple as 2 steps. If you instant message, you can be on your MSN & Yahoo Messenger and the Blackberry Messenger all at the same time. Browing is fast at 3.5G and you can sync the Blackberry to any email account, where emails are pushed to your phone like SMSes. Far superior than any other phone i've seen so far.

My experience with the phone has been superb, but not with Maxis, the service provider. I got my phone on Tuesday nite, all eager and excited to start browing on my mobile phone and test out some of the applications.

Got the phone charges, went for a shower, booted up my laptop in-case it required registration, turned-on the phone and i was unable to connect to the internet. It required me to contact my service provider, which i did over 8 calls on Wednesday - taking up hours of my work hours which i had to replace through midnight...wtf

After the 8 calls, they had to send me to a Maxis service centre in Taman Tun because they couldnt fix the problem. And so i went to the service centre and consulted a "Mobile Trainer" over at the mobile data booth. As part of the trouble-shooting process, he replaced my SIM card, which on that night went "Unprovisioned". So for the whole of Thursday, i was unable to make/receive calls or SMSes.

Talk about mobile browsing and Blackberry Messenger, i wasnt even able to make a call.

Friday morning when i revisted the Maxis Service Centre in Taman Tun and consulted a different guy, he fixed it in 10 minutes... by then, everything was working. That made me fucking curse the 8 ppl i spoke to on the Maxis hotline 123 and the other person i met at the service centre - you fucking waisted my time!

The operators over at 123 are also trained to be robots. "Hello Mr. Desmond, How are you Mr. Desmond and how can I help you Mr. Desmond" ... that is 10 seconds before i could even say hello. Mr Desmond, Mr Desmond, Mr Desmond and what i hate is after all that, they need to repeat and recap everything all over again with the Mr Desmonds. I was like "Hell, get to the fucking point"

Fortunately, its all good now - im still with the Blackberry Bold and Maxis. I just needed to let it out for a sec.



Redbox Karaoke on Friday Nite

We were downing whiskey last night and the TV box was playing Michael Jackson songs the whole nite. Me mates sang to it too in an usually high pitch.... fucking priceless

What was more priceless was singing Kosh Kosh Hota Hai.... hahahaha plus doin the male & female versions off the song... it was just too fucking hillarious.

And fourfeetnine doing a masculine voice over the mic! HAHa... too cute!

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Guinness 250 Anniversary Media Launch at KLCC Aquaria

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What a remarkable venue to have a media launch. It just stands out from all the typical media launches in nicely decorated pubs.

And this was the official opening! - 2 divers in the aquaria unveiling a banner that announces one of the grand prizes Guinness is giving away in conjunction with the 250 anniversary.

It's drinking Guinness at the bottom of the sea in a submarine pub! And of course, you're going down with the Submarine. Heck of a prize...

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If you're already impressed, one of the other grand prizes in a trip to space!!! You'll be drinking Guinness in space!

And the other grand prize - is a studio performance by Black Eyed Peas to you and your invited friends only!

Fergal Murray also appeared in the media launch. He's the World Guinness master brewer, the only person holding the full recipe to brew Guinness. He's even featured on Wiki

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Before the speech, i had the chance to personally meet Fergal. I shook his hand and decided to be a lil cheeky. Knowing that he's the master brewer, i went "Yo Fergal, i heard you're the man who pours the best Guinness Draught in the world" ..........ouch

Feeling a bit understated, he went ... after a 5 seconds pause... "Yes I do" .. LOL

The media launch also featured alot of Guinness bottles in the Aquaria... very nice!

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We also went on a travellator which brougt us throught the history of Guinness. This particularly caught my attention... no wonder "O Kau" & "Hei Gou"

What i particullarly remembered from this media launch was also the joke my MD told me pertaining the Guinness bottles in the Aquaria.

"Now the fishes must be going pheeeeeeeeeeeeeeewww... Im safe! No one's gonna eat me now"

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Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook!

Fortunately not my parents, YET. In the past months, the fastest growing age segment on Facebook has been >50. WTF? haha so that's pretty alarming.

My dad calls me on VOIP, read blogs, checks stock market & do a whole lot of stuff online. Mum books air tickets & hotels and uses Google maps online. And it'll just be a matter of time before they learn how to use Facebook (they're in their 50's too so the stats are justifying it)

But nevertheless, i got nothin to worry bout as im all grown up, dont fuck around no more, dont do shit but work everyday haha.

But you fuckers who are gonna hit your teens / youth in the next 5 - 10 years, you're in deep shit! haha. Your parents will be watching you on Facebook!

At the rate of how people are opening up their private lifes on Facebook, their parents are gonna find out when they're sleeping over their bf's place and how many different places in a year and how many tuition classes they miss because of that... bla bla bla

AND........ your parents will not only be watching you on Facebook! haha they might even engage your conversations with your friends ... be friends of your friends ... "engage" your friends? LOL... or use a sex / porn related FB application and trigger a news feed to all ur friends! haha

You really dont want your mates to start callin ur MOmma MILP! LOL

From http://myparentsjoinedfacebook.com/

Guinness & Fergal Murray

What's harder than trading Guinness for work? haha

Thanks to ShaolinTiger's Twitter feeds and the pictures he attached on Twitpic, i had a chance to catch a glimpse of what i badly missed - alot of Guinness and world master brewer - Fergal Murray - demonstrating how to pour a perfect pint of Guinness Draught.

Before working in the industry, beer is just beer to me - white or black, tiger or carlsberg. But you'll be amazed to find out that there's just so much behind every beer that you drink, especially a Guinness Draught.

There is so much heritage in the drink, let alone the skills required to pour a perfect pint of Guinness. The level of beer & foam is measured in meticulous precision, glass cleanliness is a factor too and there's a skill of designing a shamrock on your foam with the beer tap.

mmmmmmmmm Guinness, just writing about it makes me feel better of being absent. Here are the pictures i stole from ShaolinTiger.

Event venue - Jarrod & Rawlins Damansara

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That's Fergal

What Crap! - Sunday morning rant

When the world was battling the economical meltdown, Malaysia dwelled on a tree in Ipoh.

Now when the world is combatting the H1N1 or swine flu or whatever fuck you wanna call it epidemic, Malaysia debates on which terms to use in the media. H1NI? Swine flue? Does it make a fucking difference?

“We in the ministry will continue to use the easy-to-understand term. We will use the A(H1N1) terminology but for subsequent mentions, we will proceed with the term ‘swine flu’,” Rais Yatim told reporters after the launching of the “1Malaysia” logo by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak here.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/30720-swine-flu-h1n1-rais-now-says-use-both

And 1 Malaysia is another joke. SIGH. Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s concept of 1 Malaysia, disparaged so relentlessly by the opposition since its introduction, was distilled this morning into a cultural song-and-dance and this song is expected to be played regularly on all government television and radio stations.

Najib's trying to hypnotize us!

But dude, we got Astro & the web now... the new generation of ppl dont give a fuck about free to air TV no more dawg.... You're just waisting our tax money creating those unecessary bullshit to try and brainwash the nation.

Food Review - June Edition - Klang Valley

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Italiannies was first opened in One Utama and as its name suggests, its a restaurant specializing in Italian cuisine. No doubt they've been cashing in over the years and have also reinvested in many new branches at the Curve, Sunway, the Gardens ... etc

I've been to most of their outlets as I too am a big fan of pizza & pasta and they all serve pretty decent food EXCEPT the branch at the Gardens, Mid Valley. If you've never been there, i put 100 bucks on the table that you're gonna regret it, especially if you're having their pasta.

I can understand if they've got an Italian cook assigned to their most premium outlet but raw pasta just dont cut it with malaysians. Raw pasta as in pasta that's not cooked properly, when its hard to chew on the floury core of the noodles.

And worse if its not even an Italian cook - which just means they got inexperienced cooks.

And here's how empty it is on a Saturday evening.
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On a brigther note, PRIME at Le Meridien Hotel, KL Sentral serves the best steak i've ever tasted in town. Nice ambient, good service (although the waitress couldn't get the meaning of 3 quarters done - she only understood medium well), comfy dining chairs, sparkling water, cosy ... just the place you wanna be after an overwhelming week of work.

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This is an 8oz US center cut tenderloin.
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Australian Black Angus tenderloin
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Jo sneaked a picture of me chewing on the medium well baked, 2 inch thick beef.
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Now that we've covered where not to go for lunch (or dinner) and where to go for dinner, im gonna cover some magnificent places to head to for supper. I dont know if its just me but i love my supper and I only get a chance to have it on weekends because on weekdays, every dinner is equivalent to supper.

If there's brunch for breakfast + lunch, what do you call dinner + supper? Dupper? haha.

Anyway, there are not many places in KL that serves noodles which are not soaked in soy sauce. KLan's are just not used to eating noodles when they're not soaking with soy sauce but i prefer it without the soy sauce... like it plain and white.

Like this... it's called the Mee Raja (King's noodles) and you can get it at Murni in SS2. Noodles with shrimp, artificial crab meat, chicken and a mixture of vege. Mouth watering!

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Appreciating the company, I brought Jo to the movies at the Gardens and we watched 17 Again. If you've never been to the Signature at GSC, i put another 100 bucks on the table that when you come here, you'd never return to the cinemas you used to go to.

17 Again was boring.... if you're not headed to the Cinema for Transformers, dont even think about going... there's just nothing to watch.

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Signing off,

Food review, Jun 09