The Hulking Hulk

Did you know that there is a Brazilian striker called Hulk who plays for FC Porto?
And they played in Green last night!!!

Do you wear glasses when you sleep?

I was watching Woody Allen's "Sleeper" when it got to the scene where they resuscitate him from his cryogenic slumber of 200 years. They peel off the foil that covers his face to reveal that he had been sleeping for 200 years with his trademark thick-framed glasses on.


It reminds me of the Malaysia MP whose newsworthy pictures show her sleeping with her thick-framed glasses on.

Yes... I've seen the photos.

No... I'm not posting them here.

Police Reports

These days, it seems that the panacea to all Malaysian political problems is to lodge a police report.

Got a bullet through the post? Lodge a police report!
Been kicked out of office? Lodge a police report!
Had rude photographs taken? Lodge a police report!
Been reported to the police? Lodge a police report!!!
Let the cat out of the bag??? Will be reported to the police!

Dispencing Penicillin

God!!! I feel old...

This weekend, I was speaking to a young lad who having just got back from his studies in the States, was having a whinge about the red tape in Malaysia.

Although I had very similar feelings when I first got back from England, my advise to him was to ignore the small imperfect things in life and address the things in life he really cares about. For in this world, there is not enough time to address all the ills of life. I used the analogy of Alexander Fleming's discovery of Penicillin; for if Fleming had to address all the issues with equipment (e.g. inventing test -tubes, microscopes etc) before he began to do proper research, he would never have made such a discovery.

Looks to me that I tend to use analogies as a teaching tool. One may even say that they are parables. Would they then be Parabolic Analogies??? ;-) Or am I going around in circles again?

Xpress Fustration

I bought a Nokia 8500 Xpress Music last week amid much hype from Nokia. It promised to be as good as an iPhone and it's available here!!!

Today, to my relief, the merchant I bought it from, has agreed to swap it for a 16G iPod Touch, which is RM200 cheaper.

Am I unhappy with the machine? Oh yes!!! Although I was expecting to have a period of adjustment; as I'm moving from a Palm Treo PDA to a Nokia phone; however, I did not expect the phone not to be able to play video files larger then 100M!!! ( This despite coming with a VGA cable to connect to your TV in the starter pack) Most mp4 movie files are approx 600M in size.

On top of the fact that the OS is as cumbersome as a PC really had me fuming.

Trust me, if you are an Mac user, leave everything apart from Palm and iPhones behind.

Having said all that, the Nokia is actually a very good "Ghetto Blaster" and Xpresses itself extremely well as a music player.

Fore!!!

The following photo was taken on the 21st of January in Ponderosa Golf & Country Club, Taman Molek, Johore Bahru during a round with Kingsley who lives a stone's throw away from the course.

Little wonder my game was a little off whack; if you look closely, my club's bent!!!

Briefly...

Here's one from Jasper Carrot.

"If you unscrewed your belly-button... would your bottom half fall off?"