Archive for December, 2005
Testing Drugs on Indias Poor – Is it Ethical?
Now this is an interesting moral issue indeed, having previously discussed morality briefly, with the issue of Universal Morality (does it exist?)[/url] lets have a look at this. Wired[/url] is reporting that a lot of medical research firms are using India’s poor as a hot test bed. From the article: So is this legal, or [...]
6 commentsNew 18 Seat Honda MPV Released Today
No I’m not stealing Pauls job. Here’s the new Honda MPV, I think it looks pretty comfortable with good aircon, but perhaps a little underpowered. I don’t think acceleration would be great. Cool eh?
16 commentsCultural Differences Explained
This is for all you Asians who say we all look the same Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad. Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans when abroad. Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad. Can’t possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad. Believe you should look out for your mates. [...]
30 commentsPenang Asam Laksa and Satay Cina (Pork)
There is another massive foodcourt on the way out of town towards Batu Feringgi where a lot of locals go, on a busy evening it’s *very* hard to find parking. It’s just a whole bunch of stalls with seating provided by the stalls selling drinks, there are multiple stalls selling Laksa, Rojak and all the [...]
11 commentsFamous Char Kway Teow, Ais Kacang and Popiah
So mostly I went to Penang to eat all the wicked stuff there, as you’ve probably noticed and I drove there this time so I was free to roam around, I chose not to get a local to show me around as I know quite a few places myself and I have more fun using [...]
18 commentsInfamous blogger Wendy Cheng could be turn-off of the year?
According to the , the very paper she so proudly boasted about being a columnist for, see where her ego gets her now? What cracked me up was this part.. For those that don’t know Steven Lim, he’s hilarious, he’s quite a good looking guy, but he’s made a joke of himself, check out his [...]
21 commentsMan Show Boy, Voltron Dancing and Chicks Fighting
On a lighter note, if you are bored check out the Man Show Boy at youtube, awesome funny stuff. Also you can check out these old dudes fighting, they’d kick your ass! And these 2 girls fighting. The one in white clearly whoops some bad ass, but the one in black executed a near perfect [...]
5 commentsYahoo! follows in Google’s footsteps?
Seems like Yahoo! is trying to take over the world just like Google is (Gmail, Google Maps, Froogle, Google Base, Google Images, Google Groups, Google Video etc..) Then Google bought blogger and got into the blogging scene. Now Yahoo! is trying to catch up, first they bought flickr, now it’s just been disclosed they have [...]
3 commentsRoti Babi – Politcally Incorrect?
I thought it was pretty funny anyway almost like an oxymoron, but well that’s me and my rudimentary understanding of Malay. It intruiged me though, so I had to try some, even though I was pretty full (after my second plate of Char Kway Teow).. I had some chicken wings to go with it, which [...]
18 commentsMy Trip to Penang – Char Kway Teow & Hokkien Mee
So a while before I came to Brunei, I took a small trip to Penang, to get out of the city, away from the traffic and see a bit of nice scenery (and eat loads of nice food of course). So I drove down, the traffic wasn’t too bad, and arrived during fairly nice weather. [...]
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