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The Passing of a Friend – Andrew Cheng Jing Liang

It’s a sad occasion when a friend passes away. Cheng was a good guy, a diving buddy of mine and a fellow fan of the Satria GTi, a members of the Malaysian Satria GTi club. He was a passionate diver and a passionate driver, he was well liked by all and never had a bad […]

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Red Book – The Police and Your Basic Rights in Malaysia

More than 60 lawyers and representatives from NGOs, the US Embassy and the press gathered at the Bar Council Auditorium this morning, all for a very noble cause, to witness the birth of a Red Book or Buku Merah known as “Polis Dan Hak-Hak Asas Anda”. The malaysian bar council recently launched a publication titled […]

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The State of Traditional Media and Newspapers in Malaysia

Smart people don’t seem to read the local newspapers, nor any businessmen worth their salt (The Edge anyone?). As they are all pretty much biased, washed out tabloid trash. Smart people read news online (BBC, CNN, Malaysiakini, Jeff Ooi) or read foreign papers, even those papers such as The Times of India are much better. […]

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Why spend 9 years paying RM100,000 interest..

..to be another corporate drone driving a boring 3 Series BMW? Even worse, why take a 9 year loan and buy a Kelisa? With the interest you can pretty much buy another car. Yah I know cars are a necessity here, not a luxury, I know that, the public transport is so abysmal here I […]

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What Would You Do?

If you went to the parking machine with your ticket to pay the parking fee (Which happens to be a fairly hefty RM12) and you find a ticket in the machine already paid. Morality.. Do you? a) Look around, take the paid ticket, ditch your unpaid ticket and exit the carpark? b) Hang around for […]

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I don’t get why we pay for Tolls?

Most the tolls still around have already paid for the roads they are on, like LDP toll was supposed to be decomissioned 2 years ago. And why do we pay road tax, and THEN TOLLS? For shitty roads with holes in and bridges that fall down. Surely with the 4.4billion they are saving from reducing […]

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March is the Month of GOODNESS, Detox, Gym and Diet

So…. Since I quit smoking (btw check this quit smoking site out), was in Brunei for 5 weeks paying fat tax, then my mom was here and it was Chinese new year…too many people have been saying I’ve put on weight. Cambodia was good excercise and got me back in shape…round is a shape right?! […]

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Cambodia Day 4 – An Afternoon at the Cambodian Land Mine Museum

It was something I wanted to do, to see a little of the real Cambodia, to feel a bit of the history surrounding the beautiful temples and the war that ravaged the country within my lifetime. The Khmer Rouge, under the despotic rule of Pol Pot, was a communist organization which ruled Cambodia from 1975 […]

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12DP (12 Daily Pro) Finally Revealed as a Ponzi SCAM

HAHAHHAHA SUCKERS U.S. regulators last week charged the owner of 12dailypro.com and her two companies with fraud for running a $50 million Ponzi scheme, according to a statement released on Monday. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Charis Johnson, 33, raised more than $50 million from more than 300,000 investors by convincing visitors […]

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The RAGE

Sometimes I feel the rage. Today I felt the rage. Someone cut me up on the LDP, so I tailed him all the way home, my rage was approximately 1500000%. Yesterday I felt sever rage as my ping fluctuated between, bad (800ms) and fucking aweful (1400ms). I felt severe rage as the Streamyx Dumbnician (I […]

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