Last Minute Win by Arse[nal]

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Rock the Vote! Have you registered to VOTE?
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w00t!
Wahahahaha…!!

Arsenal did it again!

Arsenal vs Man Utd: 2-1

I betcha that the ‘Kidney-pool’ fans out there must be confused now [?!?!].

To hate Arsenal… Or not to hate Arsenal…
????

To hate Arsenal… because they(Arse) taruh us(Kidney-pool) 3-6 two weeks ago,
Not to hate Arsenal… because they taruh Man Utd 2-1 today.

“So how wor?” ask Kidney-pool fans in dilemma.

I’m unable to answer you, because as usual… I’m laughing ’til my sanity returns!

Have YOU? I Have

“Have you registered?”

That’s something I always ask my friends recently. Then, typical of Chinese [Malaysians], they ask me back the same question. Now let me answer your question:

I have. In fact, I just have it done a few hours ago. In the post office.

REGISTER TO VOTE!
NOW!!
Don’t be such a lazy bum! Then give all kinds of sh*t @$$ excuses not to register.

I didn’t create these banners. The Americans created this campaign to make it’s young people register to vote. I thought it was a good idea so I ciplak their idea. Heh heh!
You can check out their website: rockthevote.com.
But first, check out these two pages: niknazmi.com, and tonypua.blogspot.com

Move your lazy @$$es to the Pos Malaysia office and register. It’s so easy. You just need to bring yourself and your IC. It took me all of 10 minutes to get it all done.

Don’t give yourself excuses: All bull sh*t!
no time lah… [it’s only 10 minutes. You pee in the toilet also more then 10 minutes]
don’t know where… [I just told you: go to any post office!]
no money lah… [it’s free, so no more excuse for you!]

Lets ROCK THE VOTE in the coming election!
Remember, we get the gahmen we deserve! So vote to make a difference!

Yours Sincerely,
the VOter.

Malaysian Chinese? Chinese Malaysian?

Are you a Malaysian Chinese?

Or are you a Chinese Malaysian?

You see, many ethnic Chinese in Malaysia are a confused bunch. They don’t know whether to call themselves Chinese or Malaysian. And gwai lohs who visit Malaysia are always confused by them.

This is bad. Very bad. Why? Because this means that no one knows where their loyalty lies. No wonder many Malays hate us and distrust us.

If you ask me, I’d say I’m a Chinese Malaysian. ‘Chinese’ is what describes me. ‘Malaysian’ is who I am. This means that I am a Malaysian, but of Chinese ethinicity. Malaysia is my country, I grew up in Malaysia, and I am emotionally attached to Malaysia. I am concerned about what is happening here in Malaysia, not Taiwan or China (that’s the problem. Apasal asyik cakap pasal Taiwan & China aje?! Balik tiong sua lah lu!). It is my TANAH AIR.

An analogy: red apple. ‘Red’ = adjective; ‘apple’ = noun. ‘Red’ is what describes the noun, ‘apple’ is what that noun is.
Another analogy: Malay Chinese. Malay = adj; Chinese = noun. This would apply to a person whose ethnicity is Malay, but Chinese by heart. This could happen if his ancestors settled in China, adopted China as his country, grew up in China and is emotionally attached to China.

So, if you call yourself a Malaysian Chinese, that means you still have the immigrant mentality. But you keep demanding for all kinds of stuff from the Malaysian gahmen. Dude, you’ve got to realise that unless you start calling yourself a Malaysian, and start behaving like one… Then only would people start to give you what you deserve.

It’s Visit Malaysia Year 2007. If tourists ask, say you are Malaysian… a true-blue Malaysian.

Yours Sincerely,
the CInaMudahLupa (sarcasm alert: satire on ‘Melayu Mudah Lupa’).

Anti Toll Protest

I bet some of you didn’t know about the toll hike protest/demostration held in Sunway. I knew about the protest through Jeff Ooi’s blog — Screenshots and others politically-aware and issue driven blogs (links are on the right, under ‘Blogs That Matter’). It’s good to see Malaysians exercising OUR RIGHTS as citizens, regardless of RACE.

I had wanted to go. Then I totally forgot about it when the new semester in UKM started. I got caught up with all the mumbo-jumbo that comes with a new sem… and got depressed.

You’ve got to check out this photo by Alan Cheah…

The photo was in Screenshots. When I saw it, I couldn’t help but re-post it here. You can look at more photos here in Lensa Malaysia.

Most of my friends and I are in the middle class. Perhaps most of us are in the middle-upper class. What this means is that we hate the toll hike and we feel cheated. However, it is more or less of an inconvenience to us. We can afford the toll, just buy less Nike and Vincci. To the couple and many others, the toll hike is not just an inconvenience, it is a threat to their livelihood… a threat to their survival.

BTW, you didn’t read anything about the street protest in the mainstream newspaper, right? Stupid gahmen owned paper! Biased like sh*t! That why I have to put this up here, so you guys know about these issues that those stupid-dumb-dumb papers don’t report! Go read The Sun. Forget about NST, the Star, Berita Harian, Sin Chew, Nan Yang and worst of all, Metro. The Sun is the only paper that is fair and has the guts to criticise the gahmen.

Time to make a difference… Rock The Vote! Register to VOTE!

Yours Sincerely,
the DRiver.

P.S. If you go look at the photos… The police in red helmets are riot police. This time, I read from other bloggers that they did not whack anyone up. They were very professional. In fact, some reported that they kam-ching with the protesters after the protest. I guess they feel the pinch of toll hike too. Hah hah!

CV/Resume Writing

I wrote this post so that I’ll have links here that I can refer to whenever I need them. So, my blog serves a dual purpose…

One, is to spread the biased opinions of ‘The Great Crapologist’ a.k.a. iamyuanwu (me lah, you stupid-dumb-dumb!);

and two, is to be create a reference of bookmarks and links that I find useful for myself.
I did NOT create these links out of generosity, for the passion of blogging, to report about floods in Johor, to help save the sumatran Rhinos in our forest (Honda sponsored project), to prevent global warming(have you watched the movie ‘An Inconveniet Truth’ by Al Gore, the ex-U.S. vice president?), to lobby for debt reduction of developing countries,especially African nations (as so passionately promoted by Bono, the lead singer of U2), to raise awareness of blood & conflict diamonds, to talk about AIDS, to end the war in Iraq, to tell you about nuclear weapons in North Korea or other obscure/abtract/ambiguous reasons and etc, etc, etc…

They are created just-in-case aku terlupa.

Here goes…
http://www.eastchance.com/howto/cv-index.asp

http://www2.musc.edu/graduate/careers/resume_cv_writing.html

http://www.alec.co.uk/cvtips/

http://www.cs.umu.se/~selander/advice/cv-resume.html

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/resumes/a/resumecenter.htm

http://www.collegejournal.com/jobhunting/resumeadvice/20030204-needleman.html?refresh=on

http://www.askmen.com/money/career_60/73_career.html
Read this with a pinch of salt. Wait… make it two pinches.

Yours Sincerely,
the CInaMudahLupa (sarcasm alert: satire for ‘Melayu Mudah Lupa’, heh heh!).

I Can’t Believe It!

Can you f*cking believe it?!

It’s impossible!!

Liverpool 3 — Arsenal 6

WTF?! I simply cannot believe this. I heard it in the radio while driving to UKM on the North-South Highway yesterday morning. I lost control of myself, and the car swerved left and right. Almost terlanggar pokok! I thought there must be a mistake. 3-6 on the score sheet? Then I read the papers this morning and ‘holy sh*t!’

Bwahahahaha!! Arsenal thrashed their [Kidney-pool’s] buntut lembik (as lembik as Pak Lah’s)!

All the Kidney-pool fans out there can say whatever they want, be it “I don’t care”, “you’ll never walk alone”, and all the sh*t they so often say whenever they lose…
I’ll just point my finger at the score sheet and laugh until my sanity returns! It’s going to take days just to wipe that smirk off my face!

In fact, I think my depression of being stucked in UKM has already lifted a bit, upon reading this news on the paper.

Yours Sincerely,
the ARsenal Fan.

Dilemma in UKM

Since I’ll be stucked in UKM for quite a while… I’m in a dilemma.

Here my dilemma:

There are 2 related course in the food science department in UKM: Masters in Food Science and Masters in Nutrition.

I enrolled in the food science course. However, I’m thinking of switching to Nutrition.
Let me just list the subjects here…
[note: ‘=’ core subjects; ‘-‘ electives; those in bold are subjects offered to both courses]

Food Science:
=Food quality*
=Food & nutritional toxicology*
=Advanced food microbiology
=Advanced food chemistry
=Protein product technology
=Food packaging
–Science of fats & oils*
–Food safety management*
-Food processing operations
-Sugar & chocolate confection technology

Nutrition:
those in bold above are the same subjects offered in nutrition
=Research techniques in nutrition
=Applied nutrition
=Nutrient & drug interactions
=Diet therapy
-Nutrition & aging

My reason to read nutrition is: since I already have a bachelors’ degree in food science, a masters in nutrition would give me more options in the future. However, this would make me Jack of all trades, master of none.

I’ll have to come up with a decision by the end of this week.

I’d appreciate any opinions from your point of view. If this is YOU, which would you choose? Why?

Yours Sincerely,
The POstGrad Student.

Depressed in UKM

Never felt so depressed before.

Never.

Felt.

So.

Depressed.

Before.

It’s only the first day of my masters course and there is this feeling of dread and gloom. UKM is like the ‘Dementors’ of Harry Potter story book, it sucks life out of you… as if you will never feel happy again!

It’s like a gloomy, cloud cast day where it seems like raining but it doesn’t.

It’s like being stucked in a large empty hangar… alone.

It’s like the world is in the colour of grey. Not red, blue or green. Not orange, purple or yellow. Not even black and white. Just grey.

No wonder almost none of my course mates couldn’t wait to leave UKM for the job market. The few of us who came back, we wonder how in the h*ll did we managed to survive 3 years. And how are we going to get through the next nine/ten months.

I feel so lost, so alone, so afraid.

Somebody, please give me a scholarship to study in the UK or US!

Yours Sincerely,
the POstGrad.

P.S. Maybe I just need a girlfriend to bring some balance to my life, heh heh!

Nikon D70s… Mine At Last

W00t! I’ve finally have my hands on a Nikon D70s. It’s an DSLR camera. Never heard of this camera from Nikon? Here’s a picture…

No wonder you have not seen it before, right?

For my n00b friends who don’t know what is an DSLR camera… DSLR means ‘digital single lens reflex’.
Digital means no film, but uses digital sensor.
Single lens means it uses one lens to see and shoot.
Reflex means it has a reflex mirror than reflects light into the viewfinder.

The main advantage of an SLR is there is no parallax error. So it’s WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). Well, almost…

I memang wanted to buy an DSLR a year ago, but I was still a poor student back then. After working for a few months, I deliberated about buying a 2nd hand Canon 350D or Nikon D70s. Decided to get the D70s, after scouring through kenrockwell.com.

The deal breaker was that D70s has a very accurate exposure meter and flash exposure (if you have to ask: it’s better than the most Canon DSLR, Nikon D80 & D40). Of course, it’s a huge camera. It scares the sh*t out of little kids in my mom’s tuition class. Heh heh!

I got it off from Keat camera shop in Jalan Pudu for 1900 Ringgit. Since I’m still a poor chap, I only have a 50mm lens which can’t zoom. Don’t be mistaken, it’s a d*mn sharp lens! I’d get a 2nd hand zoom lens soon. The 50mm is just not wide enough or not long enough, darn!

BTW, I’m still no good in taking pictures. The camera does not maketh a good photographer; just as the computer does not maketh a good writer.

But if you need a photographer and don’t mind my lack of skill, I’d galdly take picture for you. I need the practice after all. Photography is not easy as you think it is. Hopefully, one day I’ll be good enough that people will pay me to take pictures of them. :)

BTW, that was not the D70s, heh heh!

That’s the Rolleiflex 2.8GX made by Rollei. It’s a TLR (twin lens reflex. Notice the double lens? The one above is for you to see, the one below is to take pictures). Don’t mistake it for a classic/obsolete/old/retro/grandfather camera, OK?! A BRAND NEW one sells for 3500 Dollars(US)! And it’s image quality will pwn even my D70s.

Gotcha, didn’t I? Heh heh!
Now this is the D70s…

Yours Sincerely,
the n00b PHotographer.