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For those of you that don't care, just skip this entry

This makes me laugh, seriously.

She's getting dumber and dumber by the day, or more arrogant, not sure which.

I haven't really been following the whole debacle, but the pink poodle and two of her friends (Sandra and Sillycelly) have been having some kind of fight with another fairly prominent Singaporean blogger Blinkymummy.

Something to do with the Maxim photoshoot, yeah the one where XiaXue looks like a bapok, yeah the one she NEVER mentioned on her blog.

I think it all went wrong when Blinkymummy posted a picture of Xiaxue that wasn't photoshopped.

Not really sure anyway.

Then a well a while ago (December 22nd) which was right after Xiaxue cussed Kimberly and I on Kenny's site, a hate site was made, a very vulgar and crude hatesite, which somehow looked like Xiaxue's writing style, with some You and Your purposely changed to u and ur. I'm not going to dignify it by posting a link here, as I know many of you have already seen it and reported it to me (thanks), if you haven't and you really want to, drop me a line via the contact page and I'll give you the URL.

The best part comes when someone that uses the Bloglines service notices that Xiaxue's latest 2 posts were posted under the screen-name Xialanxue, not Xiaxue as normal.

Xialanxue (Refered to as XLX) is a blogger that has made an anti-xiaxue site pretty much and has lots of informative articles relating to the fuck-ups Xiaxue has made.

You can see the bloglines entries for yourself.

Seems like Xiaxue used another display name in blogger to setup the BM hate site, and in the middle of the night, perhaps slightly drunk forgot to switch her display name back to Xiaxue. Bloglines doesn't lie!

I found it terribly ironic aswell, that the post she posted under Xialanxue by mistake, was about how pathetic hate site owners are and how they have nothing to do. That obviously kicked herself in the ass as today on the hate site she posted:

Well hate site this isn't. It is just a simple webpage for personal bitching.

Remember, you guys are the ones who made it a hatesite.

It got onto Tomorrow aswell, (XX Expose) but promptly got removed again..

Thankfully it's made it on again kind of by proxy.

It appears Xiaxue is trying to impersonate XLX to defame Blinkymummy and kill two birds with one stone, cunning plan eh? Apart from her execution failed due to her being a dumbfuck.

Related:

Does Tomorrow have a Tomorrow? - Original Article

Know your bloggers

Tomorrow kena hacked

Why like that?

Blinkymummy has a hate site

Character Assasination

Xiaxue - The Expose

So we finished up with July, let's start off again with August!

August - Archives

August was of course BEST BLOGWAR MONTH EVAR!

It started off very peacefully though with the end of my trip to UK in July and a few more lovely food posts like Toad in the Hole - Sausages and Yorkshire Pudding, Bangers & Mash with Onion Gravy + Homemade Apple Pie!, Pork Chops, Stuffing and Cauliflower Cheese! and Baked Potatoe.

Bootiful!

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Doesn't it make you think of a slightly pudgy 4 foot tall transvestite?

Vomit inducing eh?

Blog Queen is very apt actually, as Queen has a different meaning in UK...(Flambouyant, obvious homosexual or crossdresser)

Yes it's true, even a studio shot, heavy make-up and a good photoshopping can't help SOME PEOPLE.

This is self-proclaimed by the way.

I own the Best Asian blog with 20,000 readers, and haven't you heard?

Famous?! From a blog? I guess she's famous like Steven Lim is famous. People pick on her siblings at school, hurl insults at her in the street, yeah must be great to be famous like that!

When you are famous, money falls out of trees for you.

If money falls out of trees, why is she fantasizing about owning a fridge rather than BUYING it.

Are you a rich guy?

Web traffic means loads, when all your reads are from Singapore. I don't know the exact demographics, but her sitemeter is public, so you too can get a good idea.

This entry may bore some people, but well she's being a cunt on Kenny's blog, so I thought I'd give a little retort.

I could go on and on about all her flaws, but what's the point, she's doing a great job of showing them all off herself.

I'm off to a Winter Solstice dinner now, so have fun and see you round KL

Actually I wanted to post about this topic for quite some time, since I was involved in Project Aware, but I never quite got prompted to do it.

Since all this bullshit about handicapped toilets has come about, I think it's time to address it.

I do wish people would care more, people would stand up for their rights, stand up for what they believe in, look after their planet and have some civic conciousness.

Most people just stumble through life, wasting resources, totally ignorant to the fact they are destroying the planet, and in some cases society too.

One example is littering, during Project Aware we were picking up litter on the beach, why because dumbfuckers threw it there, instead of in the bin. Why oh why? There are bins everywhere, if not carry it till you see one, or put it in your pocket or something, don't throw it on the floor.

I see some people throwing tissues out the car window or onto the floor, and they say..

"Oh but it's bio-degradable"

Yeah no shit, I know that, you know that, but does the 6 year old kid that just saw you drop something on the floor instead of the bin know that?

I don't think so.

Educate by example, lead by example, care about your environment and don't just talk about it, if you see someone litter, say politely...

"Excuse me, but there's a bin just over there"

Honestly some elderly lady said that to me once when I was a youngster in UK dropping litter, and it made a big impact on me, I never did it again.

That's just a small example, other things are using more organic products, using environmentally friendly washing powder, using environmentally friendly fridges, rated for lower power consumption, and lacking of harmful CFC's.

I guess a lot of it comes from my mother, who truly leads by example, she saves all organic waste from our house and makes her own compost to fertilise the garden.

She recycles wherever possible, I'm glad to see in Malaysia more recycling facilities are appearing, the first place I saw segregated bins were in Ikano Power Center, which shows civic conciousness.

In UK now the rubbish collection service provides different coloured bags for plastics, paper and others, to make the sorting easier for them, and to make recycling more possible for everyone.

Another example is caring for society, not just the environment, if the state isn't fixing something write to your MP.

If there is something wrong with the road, write to who is responsible for it.

If you got bad service in a resturant and were mis-treated, write to the management.

People might say we Brits are known for moaning, but I'd say we are standing up for our rights, that's why in UK we get top-notch customer service and product quality, because if we don't we kick up a shitstorm, unlike here, where people are rather lackadaisical and don't really seem to care.

"Whatever la, it's normal here"

Yeah but why should it be normal, can you not fight for better standards?

If something is wrong, I'll write a letter about it, if I get bad service, I'll fill in the comment card. The sad thing in Malaysia is that nothing happens. Like in UK if I'd filled in the terrible comments I did in the comment card in a Sushi place in the curve, I would have gotten a call next day and an invite back to the resturant for a free meal as maybe I just came at a bad time.

Word of mouth is powerful, that's a fact.

If you think something is wrong, fight for change, don't sit and accept it.

An example would be Kimberly, she is a civic minded citizen, I have seen her letters published in The Star regarding various matters from the state of roads in Cheras to the intermittent water supply in the area. She was a responsible citizen before this boycotting campaign and she will be after, I don't believe it's a personal vendetta against XiaXue, to be honest she didn't even mention XX. Those who say so in my mind are rather pathetic.

I personally support her, she is standing up for what she believes is right, more than I can say for most people who just go with the flow and nod their heads, then chastise when the tide changes.

Anyway the point I'm trying to make is people should start caring, they should stop gossiping about small things like XX, and how rude Peter Tan was and look at the bigger picture of WHY these people said what they said, what is WRONG about it, and HOW we can change it.

In all honestly these are small issues, there are many things that need to be corrected and we should focus our energies on those rather than endlessly pointing fingers at each other.

Make a difference, do something for someone ELSE for a change, for your future children, or the future generation.

It is easy to sit with the glow of our monitors lighting up our gleeful faces as we hurl insults across continents over the relatively anonymous medium of the Internet, but there are real people on the other side of the keyboard, I learnt that long ago.

I gave up fighting on the net because I hurt too many people, I just returned to my old form because I felt XX needed a lesson in humility, she has victimised and hurt plenty of others. Maybe I went a little far you may say, but well that’s what I do.

I took down the cumshot picture however and the link to XLX, she is a human after all, and even though she has never apologised for anything or taken down anyones pictures, I will give her some dignity.

In return for this act of kindness, Xia Xue called me an inbred childfucker.

Besides being ridiculously childish, your arguments also lack depth and intellect. Once this issue is over, you will go back to being a mediocre blogger again.

Maybe, just maybe, I will get hacked again, so it will bring some joy to your sick, boring, sadistic life. Alternatively, I think raping children might bring you some pleasure too; you seem like the sort.

I could have been more gracious, polite and magnanimous, but well from previous experience I've found that approach doesn't actually work. People with thick-skulls and over-inflated self worth just ignore it.

Two wrongs don't make a right, and as Kimberly said, and eye for an eye eventually makes everyone blind..

Everyone has to learn to be more tolerant, I mean I have bad experienced, but with bad comes good right? I prefer to highlight the good and positive things in life, perhaps that's why I remain a 'mediocre' blogger. If I always posted how everything sucked, KL sucked, Manila sucked, Singapore sucked, Colombo sucked, Brunei sucked, Jakarta sucked...Then I could be a Z-list blogger too?

I don't mind criticism, everyone needs to learn to improve from criticism, not rebel, I do mind sweeping generalisation and racism though, I mind them a lot.

Having written about Racism in Malaysia before, relations between nations is also important..

Everyone can play the freedom of speech card, "It's my blog I can write what I want", but well sometimes you have to think a little no? For every action is there an equal or opposite reaction, be it positive or negative. You are viewed based on how you portray yourself, that's your choice and your choice alone.

And for those who rejoiced, thinking XX had learnt a lesson, apparently she hasn't.

Oh and btw: I still find I did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG. Many agree too, far more than those who *roll eyes* think I did, but logical people do not fight with the retarded. I don't even have to defend myself, because explaining things to dumb people is like teaching a cat to read a detailed and powerfully drawn map - pointless.

Do not, for a moment think you have taught me a lesson. It is silly to presume so, because you are most certainly not fit to be teaching anyone morals yourself. Nor do I deem you to be wiser, cleverer, nor a better person. If I ever need to "learn" anything, it won't be from you, for I don't think I saw anything in you worthy of my learning.

Everyone who thinks she did wrong is a retard.

Anyway, back to point, let's all learn to be a little more tolerant, let's not insult people's capital cities, countries or ideals, let's criticise fairly, learn from those critics and all work to improve things.

You are not even worthy. A fight of what? My readers against my readers? Those who are on "your side" are there not because they like you, it's because they hate me. Those on mine, are there because they love me.

Don't bring yourself as high as to say we are "fighting". As a blogger or a writer, I have already won, and I am not interested to fight you. You are just one of the many insignificant trying to bring me down everyday, and the only reason why I happened to mention you, is because you were the most ridiculous of all.

Dear, dear Wendy, it's not about ME vs YOU, it's about MALAYSIA vs YOU, it's about Sensible Singaporeans vs YOU, I am merely the medium carrying the message, don't shoot the messenger

Let's all love each other (not literally please) and have a party on the causeway

Peace all, and have a great weekend!

*EDIT* - As a request from Miss Wendy Cheng here are all 4 e-mails in full, as I've clearly quoted her out of context, although I didn't give any context or mention..I let her words speak for herself...

"Xia Xue"-gate Emails

Well I said I'd address the comments, there was an overwhelming repsonse..looks like I've 'won' anyway.

I've taken down her cum shot picture, give her a little dignity, seen as though she mailed me and asked me to. She is a girl after all, even if she is a dumb, stuck-up, pretentious bitch.

From all sides of the story, Singaporeans defending Malaysia, Malaysians defending Singapore, people criticising my post and hating on Xia Xue at the same time, but very few people actually defending what Xia Xue said, maybe she'll get the point now, what she did was wrong.

She is a 'celebrity' blogger, she does have media power, to quote Spiderman...

With great power comes great responsibility

The point is it's not fair to compare Singapore and Malaysia, it's not fair to make sweeping statements and it's not cool or smart to make derogatory racist remarks.

Anyway apparently Miss Wendy Cheng has gone on Hiatus, finally she's been knocked off her high horse and she might realise she should be a little careful what she says. She's even changed the name of her blog

She whinges and protests about her treatment, but why doesn't she do a little self-appraisal, people hate her for a reason, it's not unjustified, they don't dislike her because they feel like it.

It's mirrored in the realm of real celebrities, there are some celebs people love to hate, there are some everyone just adores, it's all about your attitude and how you portray yourself.

IF you want to be outspoken, insulting, mocking and condescending, them be prepared to take the heat. Ok to address the comments and the points made..

OMG ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE ANG MOH YOUR GRAMMAR SUCKS!!~!~!

You have a lot of grammatic errors on your entry. Makes me wonder if you really are from UK.

Come to think of it, you are a foreigner? are you caucasian to begin with? i could suss out quite a few grammar mistakes from it. and its doesn't sound so fluent

I never claimed this was a thesis or some deeply researched painstakingly written piece of classical literature.

IT'S A BLOG YOU MORONS, I JUST TYPE THIS SHIT I DON'T EVEN SPELL CHECK IT.

I've seen some people blog and they pour over each paragraph again and again till it's perfect, I just type the whole lot out in one shot, that's it. I don't think about it, sometimes I forumlate it before hand, but I certainly don't give a shit about the grammar.

If that's the best you can come up with you need to go back to flaming school. It was always said on Usenet, if you had to retort to picking on someones grammar or spelling then you really lacked the wit to counter with something more meaningful.

U malaysian sucks!!!!!!!

This was the quality of the average response from the Singaporean camp.

m'sia just fucking sucks.'nuff said.

Just keep your bloody mouth shut if you really know nut ok!!!!!!?Stupid malaysian!

two words..m'sia sucks...

it IS true that MALAYSIA SUCKS. what xiaxue's opinion is doesnt matter, just that MALAYSIA SUCKS OMG

msia sucks big time. so fuck off

Well that's enough, imagine that sort of thing another 300 times.

For those calling me a dumb Malaysian and whatever, learn to read please, I'm from the UK and I just happen to LIVE in Malaysia.

If you want to insult UK go ahead, there's nothing you can say that would make me think Singapore is superior to UK, so why would I get worked up? Unlike when someone says Malaysia is better than Singapore...obviously a little too close to the truth?

Xia Xue was just expressing her opinion, why be so mean? Etc etc..

Actually come to think of it, its her blog. She can post what she likes, if that how she feels, why are you all getting so heated up? Cant you dislike something?If so, cant she blog about it??? Its her BLOG!!!! HER FREEDOM!

This is exactly the kind of point I was trying to make, change those words a little? This is how I feel, why are you getting so worked up about it? Can't I dislike something or someone? If so can't I blog about it? It's MY blog? It's my freedom.

I'm just expressing my opinion, maybe I'm a little harsher than her, but you don't make points by being a pussy or messing around. Guns and bombs win wars, not diplomacy. Xia Xue should have considered her 'opinion' before she attacked KL.

Plus to quote Xia Xue:

If I look funny to you you can laugh at me too, I don't give a shit.

Everyone was welcome to post/blog/comment/e-mail their opinion on me, I didn't edit anything, censor comments or my post or change anything.

You stupid ang moh, what do you know go home

U fucking ang moh,talking cock with stupid brit accent,can't make a living in uk, so come over to con ppl in malaysia..sucka

Hey people!just fuck care that STUPID ANG MOH!

Yeah what do I know, I've only lived in Malaysia 2 years..I've spent many months in Singapore, I'm a consultant so I travel all around Asia and I've travelled all around Europe. So I'd say, I can make a pretty fair judgement on any country or city from my previous experiences.

You are just riding on XX's fame?

what a rude entry. you obviously have nothing to do but ride on xx's fame.

Firstly, this guy is trying to ride XX's fame.

she has the fame, nt you. how sad. dun get too jealous yupps?

Yeah so maybe I am? Are you jealous I did it before you? Or better than you ever could?

Or maybe I'm not, maybe I'm just expressing my opinion and trying to teach her a lesson she needs desperately to learn.

In Closing

Some people actually seemed to get my post, there was some very good and just commments from both Singaporeans and Malaysians.

For the sake of it I'll apologise for calling you all incestuous, as a lot of you are obviously too dumb to work out why I did it, but there you go.

I don't see the big deal anyway, you must feel it's true.

If you said Brits are incestuous, I'd say so? Even we in UK tease other parts of the country about being sister-fuckers.

In US the rednecks are labelled as incestuous, in the UK in my experience many people from Pakistan married their second cousins due to the caste system, that's incest no?

Really, stop being so anal, it's 2005, being called incestuous is not so bad.

Malaysia is great, Singapore is too apparently, I just don't personally like the place that much.

For all you ass nuggets that want to insult me, bring it on..Is that really the best you can do?

Anyway I pretty much declare Xia Xue and her fanboi's OWNED, I win neh neh.

KL Doesn't Suck - Dumb Tourists Suck - Merdeka!

Xia Xue vs ShaolinTiger - ROUND 2

UPDATE - Please also read :

Xia Xue vs ShaolinTiger Round 3 - In Reply to the Comments

Or is that Malaysia vs Singapore?

Or is that Singapore vs UK?

Well it looks like the show is on, do I get in the Guiness Book of Records for the most (dumb) comments on a single post?

I got Xia Xued

I got Xia Xued...I woke up and saw this:

I was like OMFG what happened, xx must have linked to me..

No shit, she did, mostly Singaporeans too..

Calling for Support?

I thought it was pretty pathetic of her to call for support though, most the comments in her post about KL were against her, doesn't that tell you something, a lot were from your own 'supporters' or blodgers or whatever mediawhore name you have come up with.

I still don't find I wrote anything wrong in my KL post. All I did was to blog out my true experiences in KL. Can't I not like a city without turning the whole city against me?

Justification?

Ok well, back on point, allow me to address some of the things XX said and some of the things said in the comments. As most of the comments are in the same vein, I can answer them en masse, the most efficient method.

First of all, in the original post Xia Xue said (This is a direct quote from her post).

I LAUGH AT ARAB WOMEN. Cannot meh? They do look funny what. If I look funny to you you can laugh at me too, I don't give a shit. And besides, they ain't reading this, so who cares.

I'm poking fun at her, like she pokes fun at others, she stated clearly she didn't care, so what's the big deal?

I photoshopped one of her pictures, nothing special right? She had photoshopped plenty of unsuspecting victims, I'm sure she didn't ask their permission.

It's not like I did something like this:

Pic removed, give the girl some dignity..

Source: Hardwarezone "Eat-Drink-Man-Woman" Forums

The Incest Issue

You must be pretty dumb if you really think what I said was meant to be taken seriously, for one the majority of people in Singapore are of Chinese descent, this means they can't marry someone with the same surname as themselves according to Chinese culture, so incest is ruled out pretty quickly right?

It was an overboard statement meant aimed at HER overboard statements and generalisation (see below), yes I just did it with more style, I am a seasoned troll. If you didn't believe there was some truth in it, you wouldn't be so offended by it. It just shows the mindset and viewpoint of Singaporeans when they reply in the manner they did in my previous post.

What was wrong with what Xia Xue said?

Well obviously a lot of people disagree...I would say the 'wrong' parts were:

It sucked because of the bloody KL-ians are a bunch of rude, uncivilised, ti ko (for men) and worst of all, DISHONEST people

Yeah this is fair and nice, and not a generalisation at all.

After we alighted we still didn't know where the damned street is, so we asked people. This Malay fucker just stared at me (in a rude manner) when I asked him politely!

A little racist no?

Welcome to Petaling Street, where if you ain't cheated, you didn't come here yet.

Sweeping statement, wear a tourist sign on your head, you'll get conned

Well, I wasn't protected by our local police, and I have no idea how full of justice Malaysians are (I suspect not at all).

Go ahead and say it out loud, Malaysians are corrupt and blah blah..

As if the molesters are not enough, the vendors are mostly, like 90%, male. They are either young bengs, or bangalas. I don't know if they are really bangalas but they look like they are.

Calling people Bangalas? (Btw it is Banglas) I may aswell call you a Chink? Racists terms are bad hmmkay.

Notice how we didn't buy any clothes? KL's fashion sucks leh

Another sweeping generalisation, how many places did you go to? Oh yeah just a few, and KL fashion sucks?

In a while we saw our pretty, neat streets, so brightly lit by our clean, working lamps...

Changi airport... So clean, so developed, so thoroughly lovely.

Please more disparaging remarks about how Singapore is superior to Malaysia, let's compare your 30 year old Changi to KLIA please..

But at least I am back home. Home, where the toilets' flushes works, our cabbies are honest, our men are not (so openly) lecherous, our roads are not jammed everyday, our bus and MRT brings us everywhere smoothly, our sale staff are generally polite, our food is clean, there is internet access, no stepping on chewing gum, our water can be drunk from the tap, and our govt, although highly controlling... ARE DOING THEIR JOB instead of getting sodomized.

So saying that the Malaysian government suck because they are busy getting sodomised? That's not offensive no?

Now I'm sorry Xia Xue, but to me you are pretty much a spokesperson for Singapore, yes it's 'just' a blog, but you do have a large readership and International appeal (apparently), so shouldn't you be a little responsible when posting your opinions?

Yes what you posted my have been true for your experience, but you can voice some things with a little tact and diplomacy, you should be intelligent enough to know that there is already tension between the countries, making such disparaging remarks just serves to inflame the situation.

I would say most the people that came here to defend you didn't even read your post properly, nor mine, they are making baseless insults in a true fanboi style.

And BTW XX, fanboi is not a gender dependant term, it means any person or whatever hopelessly devoted to something beyond logical reason.

It's funny aswell the Malaysians that posted on the XX topic about KL posted good advice, and were generally polite, some were insulting, but they were (rightfully) pissed.

The Singaporeans who come here just retort to childish name calling and ignorant statements about Malaysia (most showing pure stupidity, and many showing they haven't even read the 2 posts in question).

I also noted that although I got a huge influx of traffic and comments, many were anti-xia-xue and not pro, not many actually defended her post, they just ranted about the fact I called them incestuous, duh, get a grip yeah, if you have nothing to hide why keep going on about it?

Finally

Argh so many more things I want to say, the net was down all morning and I have to go to some seminar now, and I haven't had lunch yet (poor me).

Many of the follow-up posts I saw on this topic were supporting me and not xia xue, actually all but 1-2 like this one with a photoshop of me (no it doesn't offend me at all)..

Retarded Eurotrash

I find this whole thing laugable to say the least, but I'm enjoying it, haven't had a good dose of napalm in the morning since the days of Usenet.

Singapore had good points and bad points.

Malaysia has good points and bad points.

It's not fair to compare the two, I may aswell compare UK and Singapore.

Anyway this post is already too long, I'll address the comments in my next post.

UPDATE - Please also read :

Xia Xue vs ShaolinTiger Round 3 - In Reply to the Comments

UPDATE - Please also read :

Xia Xue vs ShaolinTiger - Round 2

Xia Xue vs ShaolinTiger Round 3 - In Reply to the Comments

Today children we will be discussing dumb tourists, judgemental idiots, ignorant buffoons and whinging bitches.

Sounds like a whole bucket of fun eh?

Happy 48th Birthday Malaysia, we love you, even if some photoshopped ugly ho's from Singapore don't.

Fact (or Fiction) 1 - Taxi Drivers

Taxi drivers all over the world are dishonest, if they see you are a tourist (pretty obvious in my case), they will try and con you somehow, if it's Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, they will just skip using the meter and charge you a fixed (inflated) price, which if you don't know better, you won't use.

Especially in Malaysia, they'll even do it to locals, the Taxi's are not regulated very well here so you can expect it. Just make sure they use the meter or don't take the cab, that's common sense, or if it's rush hour, you won't get a metered cab so agree on a decent price before getting in the cab.

In UK or Singapore or other countries that are strict on meter use, they will just drive you round in a couple of huge meters, add on some extra magic surcharges to inflate the price.

Fact (or Fiction) Number 2 - Things in KL are not cheap

That's true, if you go to Starhill or KLCC obviously, duh..

And it depends how you define cheap, you have to know what you are looking for and what the price should be. Proper shopping is found in 1 Utama, Ikano, Mid Valley and my Favourite for all things Sungei Wang (and Low Yat of course for I.T stuff and telecomms) definately NOT at KLCC or BerGAYa Times Square. There are bargains to be had for sure and things are pretty cheap here, I find them much cheaper than Singapore for example, of course not as cheap as somewhere like Vietnam or Thailand..

Fact (or Fiction) Number 3 - Petaling Street Sucks

No shit? I know people from Malaysia, who've lived all their lives in KL who have never been to Petaling Street.

It's a huge tourist trap, I do buy some things from there, but you have to be savvy, you have to know exactly what you want, and how much it should be. The quality of the watches is extremely high if you know which stalls to go to and what you are looking for. You have to be a pro in haggling and have a good eye for quality. Sunglasses are good and cheap, just check the lenses have the correct focus point, sometimes they don't and they'll subsequently give you a headache.

Bags/wallets etc are ok there, some are great quality, but most are following fashion, and they are ugly as sin.

You go to Petaling Street for the experience of Petaling Street, and to eat, some great food can be found in that area, it's not particularly cheap, but it's very good. If you shop there, shop with someone who knows the prices and when you have specific things in mind (I go there for my Oakley's before diving season starts, I don't want to pay RM800 for a real pair, then get it crushed by an air tank).

Fact (or Fiction) Number 4 - KL foodcourts are more expensive than Singapore

This is frankly not at all true, if you eat in some low quality shitty foodcourt in the middle of KL, it will be expensive and bad, that's just common sense.

If you go to a decent place like the foodcourt in SS2 you'll get good food at a normal price (cheaper AND better than the foodcourts I've tried in Singapore).

The only food I find good in Singapore is the expensive stuff, like those hotel buffets and the 'good' resturants, there is some good food in Geylang too, but other than that, the quality of day to day normal food is so-so.

Fact (or Fiction) Number 5 - KL sales suck

This is pretty much true, KL has sales every few months, so they aren't massive, prices are just lower generally. Like I can get things cheaper in UK during sales than anywhere in Asia, because the sales are real sales. Singapore Sales are better than Malaysian fake pseudo-sales.

Not everything is 10% though, you often get 40-60% off during sales, but only on selected lines.

Fact (or Fiction) Number 6 KL Fashion Sucks

Yeah this is true, if you go to Times Square or Sungei Wang to buy clothes, duh...Even Sg Wang has some decent shops, you just have to look, Times Square is just a disaster though.

KLCC has all the normal boring stuff, I suggest heading to 1 Utama, The Curve, Ikano or Mid Valley for better buys.

General

In general, I can judge because I not a Malaysian, I don't have a patriotic requirement to defend my country, because my country is UK not Malaysia. So why?

Because I live here, I know what it's like, I've been to all the tourist places and the non-tourist places, I have been a tourist here and now I am no longer a tourist..

For me Malaysia is much better than Singapore, I don't mind visiting Singapore but the people there are weird, I think it's a matter of in breeding, it's such a small country everyone must be related to everyone else in some way or another. The shopping is better there, but it's freaking expensive, may as well go back to UK during sales, get better quality stuff for cheaper.

The food in Singapore in general is boring and of mediocre quality, unless you fork out a fortune to eat in one of the big hotels for ala carte or buffet, those are GREAT!

The public transport in Singapore is excellent, in Malaysia it's virtually non-existent, but it's improving, I don't have a mile long restriction on owning a vehicle. I feel free in Malaysia, in Singapore I feel like all the citizens are dogs on leashes being pushed around into little boxes by the government. I've spent quite a lot of time in Singapore, staying with locals (Actually a Malaysian lady who married a Singaporean guy and moved there).

On another note I hate people that don't stick to their convictions either, if you have a point stick with it, don't pussy out.

This post is dedicated to Xia Xue and her post:

KL pretty much sucked.

Seems to have lost her balls too:

I tried to hold my tongue but I can't

MALAYSIA BOLEH!

UPDATE - Please also read :

Xia Xue vs ShaolinTiger - Round 2

Xia Xue vs ShaolinTiger Round 3 - In Reply to the Comments