Merdeka (Independence Day) is almost here. It's weird but you won't see me waving flags or shouting "Merdeka !" at the top of my lungs. Its not that I am not patriotic nor that I don't give a damn about it .. I am saddened by the state of this country. With every daily newspaper I see the country backsliding slowly into something alien and troubling. I fear that the Malaysia that I know is slowly dissapearing.
Just 5-10 years ago we could see the palpable racial harmony. People smiled to each other and were very understading. Today however , we have Khairy Jamalludin pointing his finger at the Chinese community of Malaysia and making them into the bogeyman. It's probably just a political stunt to draw attention from his ECM-Libra scandal true but the reaction from the people at UMNO is heartbreakingly nonchalant, at the most apathy. Instead of asking him to apologize they actually ask the Chinese community to shut their yap and forget that he said that. Wow , what superb racial harmony. I am sure that if a Chinese politician said the same thing about Malays (about how they are "plotting" behind our back ) the entire Malay community and UMNO will go straight for his/her throat.
I go to my lab to hang out and hear the ladies there constantly making racist remarks like " Chinese don't bathe in the morning" or "They don't wash , only use tissue paper .. euwww" (God knows what they talk about Indians when I am not around). That is the racial harmony that I have to endure every day. I am constantly bombarded with this "It's us or them mentality". When I was studying in UKM , I had lots of Chinese and Malay friends. One of my best friend , the one that I contstanly hang out with is a Chinese. Whenever I met up with my Indian seniors they will advise me on how my Chinese friends will abandon me when I get into trouble and only the Indian community will stick with me and because of that I should keep more to my race. I was actually ostracized by most of the Indian community in UKM because of that. (Of course there were lots of nicer Indian seniours and coursemates who were cool with me so it wasn't that bad .. at least I got to know who my real friends were).
Is it any surprise that I can't bring myself to wave the flag and shout happily and celebrate a free and united Malaysia ?
Here are some blog posts of note that helps paint the depressing picture of our country's "unity" and other stuff :
If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one to hear it. Does it still make a sound ?
It would seem that the simple answer is Yes . The presence of an observer does not in itself change the nature of sound. Unfortunately , to put a bee in your bonnet it can be argued that for something to be called sound it has to be processed by the ears and transformed into the form of impulses and enter the area of the brain that 'imagines' and 'colours' the information which we percieve as sound. Without an observer the fall of a tree will produce vibration and oscillation , but is it really a sound ?
Now for the real question.
If Salty Peanuts III talks crap about DotA but no one pays attentions to him . Did he talk crap ?
Guys rudecrudedude saw this incredibly funny X-Play episode wiith a segment called "RPG Radiculopathy" I managed to find it on Youtube check out this link. Anyone who has ever played an RPG must see this.
All you Splinter Cell players go do a search for "splinter cell co-op theater" in Youtube for so funny X-Play joke stories they made using Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.
It finally official .. we only have 8 major planets in our solar system now ! Nope one of the planets didn't get destroyed by Decepticons ...
Planet Pluto or to be more accurate ex-planet Pluto is now no longer considered a planet , instead it is a "dwarf planet". Ha ha .. poor thing . I always thought of Pluto of the cute planet of the lot due to it's cute size and cool demenour (ha ha i made a funny).
Hmm , looks like we've been getting some publicity for our Merdeka Madness ...
(Click for bigger pictures ok)
Don't forget to bring your admission tickets ok :P
Magnus is right (read comments) , we should make a DotA t-shirt. Then we can all wear it someday and play DotA .. sweet dude. Lets discuss it here. Come up with good ideas ok.
omggg...the connection is so bad today...its driving me nuts.. anyways..i was actually tucked in bed and i suddenly felt like blogging...so here i am :) cant sleep... i think was the cheese cake i ate in my cousins house... hmm....this holidays have been so boring.. planned to go to sunway lagoon with classmates but only 3 could go.. gosh these ppl need to get a life...*growl*! and i hope my chemistry lecturer reads this blog because i want 3 more marks to get an A for my chemistry paper... come on come on... i worked my butt off for this exam and it sucks to be so close to an A and not have it... sheessh... oh yeaa! happy thoughts... let me see... i managed to catch up with my teeny weeny cousins today... i actually behave like a kid when im with them... andddddd.. my poor super bowling skill apparently isnt a skill afterall.. my friend said she went to the same bowling centre in sban and she had the ball jump up too... haha was kinda fun thinking that i had a skill though... so hows preparation for merdeka madness going... somehow im getting excited about your plans eventhough it doesnt involve me..haha!! (Minus the fact that my brother might be stolen for dota once again..) oh yea and i went to Zoo Negara today...with my dad and sis... was pretty exciting really... i thought i was going to have to tag along and pretend like i was enjoying myself but i really really had a good time! i never knew monkeys were such good moms..and i never knew hippopotamus were so big and 'not so pretty' looking... okay guys..seriously this post is full of crap but i just felt like posting about what was running thru my mind... i still wish i possessed the bowling skills though!! okay i'll have to go do some math homework now.. see ya'll around.. peace out
hey guys..i know all of you guys are super excited about your merdeka madness.. but erm... lets talk about bowling for a while... you see.. i realised i have this master skill... of getting the ball excited enough for it to jump back onto the lanes after rolling along the drain for most of its motion. it was so cool okay i couldnt belive it... and my poor cousin sister was having thumb pains and i kept accidentally hitting this trick shot..
so we couldnt really have a serious game-on sorta game.. ive always liked competitive bowling games... sometimes i feel like shalin zulkifli until i let go of the ball and it makes its way to the drain in no time..sigh.. and when i am able to do good strikes , i dont know how i do it. like, i dont plan how to hook the ball ,or how to twist my wrist or anything.. i just plan where to stand... i think its only that particular lane though..cos ive been bowling like this for very long and never had the ball bounce back.. but still.. nothing beats a good competitive game of badminton :P oh yes..after that we went for a game of pool..which was quite a nightmare... i havent played in months and i could barely hit a ball in... poor warlock had to hold the handbags.. HAHA..thanks though..was very sweet of you :P so what kinda games do you guys play... *cough cough*..besides dota *cough cough* wei dont curi my brother for merdeka madness laa... hehe anyways im gonna hit the sack now.. adios
Sorry for the late respond. I didn't come to the blog for a few day. I do have a few phone that can recommend to magnus. But before that seeing some people don't even know what is edge. I might as well explain here.
First of all what we need to see is the mobile network. Most of the handphone now are using 2G network or 2.5G network (command known as GPRS). But because the data transfer rate is between 9.6kbps to 64kbps which is too slow for large amount of data to transport. Mobile network is now moving to Highspeed Mobile Network. So far there are only 2, 2.75G which is known as EDGE (transfer rate is 115kbps) and 3G. 3G transfer rate is different for different technology in used. But normally is 144kbps, 384kbps and 2mbps. But because 3G is still a quite expensive technology. EDGE have become the altenative seeing it is a older technology so it is cheaper.
Celcom, Malaysia launch the 3G plan in 2004 and is the first company in the world to successfully move into 3G age. Before that some Europe company try to implement this technology and the company end up bankrupt and the plan had been delay ever since. Digi, Malaysia is third company in Asia using EDGE technology.
After use the search in nokia.com here is some phone that can use EDGE technology. 1. Nokia 9500 (Link) 2. Nokia 7270 (Link) 3. Nokia 6681 (Link) 4. Nokia 6680 (Link) 5. Nokia N series (Link)
I will recommend Nokia N series because of your need to do video conference and modem dialing. Basicly if the handphone is a 3G support handphone. Then Most likely it will support EDGE seeing it is a older technology. Sorry I just have enough time for Nokia because nokia is the main phone supplier for EDGE in Malaysia. But you can try searching Samsung and Sony Ericson also.
chino said... i hate it when ppl cancel on me. so i try not to do it to others. but i have thought it over and have decided. i shall skip land law class and be back on thursday night! IM IN! (unless rocks fall from the sky)
World events drift and flow unalterably forward. War in the middle east. Religious extremism at home and abroad. The threat of terrorism. The decline of the world economy. The release of Paris Hilton's music album. The surprise hit "Snakes on a Plane". War, Famine, Pestilence, Hollywood being able to churn out crap and make millions despite that, Death.
All leading inevitably towards.....Merdeka Madness 31.08.06!!!! On this day of days politicians will wrap themselves in the flag and publicly pray,and profess their love for the country. People who did not struggle and fight for an independence that was simply handled over to their ancestors will celebrate their "independence", pretending, fooling themselves with the belief that they have done something to earn it.
The papers will be filled with reports of parades, politicians talking smack, more crap about the 'evil zionists' (as if anyone really truly gives a crap, we just want our money and entertainment). What will go unreported and unknown by the masses, it that on this very same day, those of us few, brave souls will fight for our lives, for honour, for freedom, for our Ancients!!
Many of us will be struck down only to rise again, to deal death and mayhem to those that would oppose us. We will fight with tooth, claw, hammer, sword, staff, and mucous. We will endure disparaging remarks from Salty Peanuts III in the event he manages to strike us down. Friends will become foes, our greatest enemies will become our greatest allies.
So it will be. Storm!!! Earth!!! Fire!! Heed my call!! Doom has come to this land!!!
Version 9.99c has been realeased!!!
We will commence in the morning of Merdeka and will sing the National anthem St Paul style (i.e. we will talk to each other instead of singing). We will break for lunch and continue into the evening or night. Details are as follows:
Date: 31.08.06 Time: 9a.m. till the expiration of 10 hours of gaming Lunch: Will be held at Wazer Maju Fee: RM 16 for 10 hours Venue: Warzone Maps: Defense of the Ancients (latest available version) DotA Extreme (latest available version) Judgement Day (latest available version) Judgement Day Extreme (latest available version) X Hero Seige (if we get bored of the other maps)
Attendees are:
Magnus rudecrudedude Warlock Siriuz Sai Salty Peanuts III newbie gopi
We still have 2 slots open. Chino, its about time you stopped dallying around like a pansy and commit to this or decline. The whole maybe thing is getting old. Skip class and come join us, or go for class and let us know so that we can actively search for a replacement. Same goes for Gopi, commit now, don't give us a maybe. I only say this out of love, I'd love to kill you in DotA.
This will be the last Merdeka Madness post so keep checking here for updates. Everyone post your comments and let the flaming begin!!!! (Go crazy Salty Peanuts III) This is a fully authorised trash talking session so make it good!!!
Update!!!! New Version 9.99c + 0.045
chino has been added to the game due to scripting error causing him to skip class if there is a day off before and after the class.
Fixed read error causing Magnus to lose control and beat up players who cancel last minute.
Virus infecting Warlock character file has been removed, character plays as normal.
Kavi's ultimate has been modified to "Carebear Stare!!!" the non-violent solution to battle, fully heals all active characters and creeps and teaches them valuable life lesson about being a goody-two-shoes.
"All your snakes are belong to us!!!" soundbite plays when either side has sellected Slardar, Naga Siren, and Medusa.
Update!!!! New Version 9.99c + 0.045 - 5.23
Chino hero has been deleted from the Sourge Midnight Tavern due to the being sodomised in the ass by Magnus bug that triggers whenever Chino leaves the game.
Gopi has joined the game.
Minor update to Gopi, Gopi cannot leave the game unless all other players exit first.
List of maps added to Merdeka Madness 31.08.06 details.
Warlock's abilities modified. New ability "Holding Girls Handbags" added. Active ability. When triggered Warlock suffers -40% to movespeed but receives 20 bonus armour and 30% additional spell reduction. All hetrosexual heroes gain 35& bonus attack speed against Warlock.
New ability for Magnus. "Ultimate Arousal" 50mp per second, lasts for 60 minutes. Magnus becomes highly aroused and received 100 bonus armour, 100% attack and movespeed, 30% chance to stun for 3 seconds dealing 100 points of bonus damage. Each attack by Magnus once aroused coats the enemy with an unidentifiable substance that silences and reduces movement and attack speed by 40%. "Ultimate Arousal" will not trigger if there are no female charaters within a 1000 AoE of Magnus. Ability will auto-trigger if Chino is present in the game and will last for the duration of the entire game at no mana cost.
New opening paragraph added to the Merdeka Madness 31.08.06 post
Update!!!! New Version 9.99c + 0.045 - 5.23 + (xv)
Open slots removed at the behest of Warlock. Merdeka Madness 31.08.06 is now confined to 8 fortunate madcaps.
Siriuz gains "Battle Raper" ability. Ability triggers randomly with a maximum of once per minute. Siriuz begins fantasising about naked animated japanese girls and becomes immobile, invulnerable and unable to attack for 10 seconds. All units in a 300 AoE become "mysteriously slowed" suffering random reductions in movement and attack speeds.
Salty Peanuts III gains "Abandonment" aura ability with 400 AoE. Whenever an allied hero exits the AoE of this ability its stats are doubled. Ability will not work if Salty Peanuts does not have full life and mana. Salty Peanuts does not receive this stat boost.
Sai gets violently hit by an unspecified member of an opposing team if he ever randoms Leviathan.
Update!!!! New Version 9.99c + 0.045 - 5.23 + (xv) / MSG
For interested parties who are wondering what the hell Defense of the Ancients (DotA) is and what Merdeka Madness 31.08.06 is all about, and for those of you that need to brush up on your skills, go to these links:
The time till Merdeka Madness is dwindling rapidly. Research, learn, improve, so that it will be doubly sweet for me when I kill you. This goes triple for Salty Peanuts III.
Magnus has become Magnus the Impaler, blessed with the power of the Lord of the Sky. All who oppose him must die...
Warlock has become Warlock the Vagina, the precocious gnome.
Doom is coming to Warzone this Thursday!!! Do not eat food with lots of chilli in it!!! Drink lots of coffee. Don't die in front of the computer like those Taiwanese Counterstrike addicts. After this is over.....most of you should try to get girlfriends......because if you've read this far you definately need one....any girl.....maybe even a post-op one if that's the best you can manage....just don't do Salty Peanuts III.....you must have some standards at least.
Watch out for the Magnus and rudecrudedude ultimate grudge match!! Coming to a center lane near you. Separated at birth (well about 20 years after birth) by vast oceans and continents, two mighty DotA Gods, having no idea of their shared lineage (or a lack of regard for it) will meet in brutal unforgivable combat. These rest of you go kill neutral creeps or something..
Update!!!! New Version 9.99c + 0.045 - 5.23 + (xv) / MSG x 23.953
Security status raised to Orange Level (Pineapple Level is the highest.....because I hate pineapple).
Merdeka Madness participants must wear loose underwear to prevent circulation problems in the event the get too turned of from triple killing people.
Players going commando (tha's minus undies for you non-slangers) will gain a 15% movement bonus when running to the toilet.
Magnus the Impaler will be selling vaseline tubes for those players that decide to take the game to the next level (RM5 per helping).
Warlock the Vagina's self confidence is hereby restored. Stuck in the depressive confines of his mind, wallowing in self pity he discovers his G-spot. Warlock now plays at near cybercafe-loafer level.
rudecrudedude has no idea he is going to have the smackdown laid on him by Magnus the Impaler as he unleashes his devastating DotA skills on him.
All players can see Salty Peanuts III wet himself when day turns to night and Magnus has full mana.
One more day stands between us and certain seizures. Make sure paramedics are at hand to provide medical assistance.
I will kill you all!!!!!!! And for those of you that aren't me, remember that its just a game and say that to yourselves every time I kill you.
Salty Peanuts III has completely retired from trash talking after being repeatedly humbled over the past few weekends. He now longs for the good old days when no one took effective steps to counter Clinx.
Siriuz has been exposed to singularity energy waves and is now Omega Siriuz-dono. New abilities include shiny armour........yup....shiny unstainable armour. What stains would he need protection from you ask.....use your imagination.
rudecrudedude is taking the entire day off from whimpering to his girlfriend and will attempt to cloak himself in a thin veil of masculinity.
Gopi is not leaving, but coming and is he does leave any game Magnus will provide free vaseline to all players that want to educate him on the error of his ways.
Demons of Hell and Angels of Heaven, locked in eternal, neverending battle, knowing no peace, but perhaps if you look closely you will find that they enjoy it so.
Magnus the Impaler overflows with hate and malice. The evil race of other races that are not the same race as us (don't you love xenophobic Malaysia, at least for the entertainment value) haev declared "All your LRT are belong to us"
Democracy and freedom are meaningless illusions if the damn public transport system doesn't work!!!
"Snakes on a Plane" opens this Thursday and you know we've gotta go watch it. I'll be down in Seremban on Saturday morning so we can get the tickets for Saturday afternoon or night. I can confirm that my brother and I will attend so I leave it to Warlock to book tickets. Yup still no viable internet connection and TGV site is blocked at work. *sigh* Will my suffering never end.
For those of you that haven't, go check out that video Siriuz posted awhile back, its freaking hilarious, and brings back memories for those of you that played Contra in the 8-bit era.
I've read the reviews so far and both critics and regular folk give this movie a good rating so I know we will enjoy ourselves with this. Think of this as our pre-Merdeka Madness break from DotA.
I'm just so sad that the ultimate Samuel L. line will be censored in the cinema though. Its "I'm sick of these Motherfuckin' snakes on this Motherfuckin' plane!!!" remember that!!
Well it seems that we now have about 13 days till our inaugural Malaysian Merdeka Madness Marathon Mayhem. So to just mentally prepare you for the coming onslaught on that memorable day i have here a few challenging questions about DotA to show wheter you have considerable amount of knowledge concerning DotA. The answers are in the comment box. NO PEEKING!!! Have fun and good luck. Once you are done calculate your scores over 8 and post them on the comments. Each correct answer = 1 point. Be HONEST!! Ok then here goes...
Which of the following grant the most hp? a) An Orge Axe b) 2 Bracers c) Vitality Booster d) Point Booster
Which of the following heroes DOES NOT benefit from the Aghanim Scepter? a) Orge Magi b) Prophet c) Venomancer d) Death Prophet
Which of the following is closest to chance of bashing of 1 attack of a Slardar with 1 Basher and lvl 4 Bash? a) 25% b) 35% c) 36% d) 40%
Roughly speaking, each point of additional armor increases how much effective hp? a) 2% b) 4% c) 6% d) 10%
There is a hero with base movespeed of 300. He buys Boots of Travel(BoT) and S&Y and another Yasha. What is his movespeed after all the purchases? a) 390 b) 405 c) 420 d) 448
A Slardar has a Mask of Madness, Boots, and a Ring of Health. While Sprint is being active, he activates the Mask of Madness. With respect to movement and attack speed, he'll receive the bonus(es) from? a) Sprint b) Mask of Madness c) Both d) Neither
The following statement has 2 blank spaces: Using the Manta Style with ___x____ will result in ____y____: Consider the following 4 options. One of them will make the statement false. Which one? a) x = a Lycanthrope in wolf form; y = 3 Lycanthropes in human form b) x = a Lone Druid in True Form; y = 3 Lone Druids in True Form c) x = a Terrorblade in Metamorphosis form; y = 3 Terrorblades in Metamorphosis form d) x = a Dragon Knight in Elder form; y = 3 Dragon Knight in normal melee form
A Luna has a Satanic, Eye of Skadi(EoS), Burize, Butterfly, Linken's, and BoT and lvl4 Moon Glaive. Which of the following is true? a) Her attack is broken; she cannot attack b) She has an attack but it doesn't bounce. She lifesteals and casts Frost (from EoS) on that one target c) Her attack bounces normally. She lifesteals and casts Frost (from EoS) on the first target only d) Her attack bounces normally. She lifesteals on the first target only. She does not cast Frost (from EoS) on any of the targets including the first one
Yeah you thought this would be an interesting post, instead you have stumbled upon my desperate plea for help.
I recently signed up for the Digi Edge service. Its their high speed internet access program. Signed up for unlimited use etc etc etc.
My problem is this. I need to buy an EDGE compatible phone (preferably with 3G compatibility as well). Strangely enough, the people peddling these phones don't actually know anything about their products. One guy insisted that a phone doesn't support EDGE, some not sure, some try to talk to me in Mandarin, some look at me like I'm trying to solicit gay sex from them...
Basically, the don't know shit. Sadly my godlike wisdom does not extend into the realm of cellphone/pda technology. And so I call upon the Raving Bunch of Lunatics to open the Matrix...I light my darkest hour (after I use my attack and movespeed bonus to kill Salty Peanuts III).
What I'm looking for in a cellphone/PDA are these three things:
1. EDGE & 3G compatible 2. Can be connected to my desktop PC for use as a modem. 3. Can run some type of internet voice chat program (MSN/YAHOO/Skype) so that I can call my finacee on her computer and for her to be able to call me from her computer for free.
I'd really appreciate some advice on this. Sai, I remember that you're the resident cellphone expert. My budget is 1500 MAX, I will consider going over only if there's some other wicked features that makes it worthwhile. If you know a good place to buy from as well, let me know, otherwise I'm planning to go shopping at Sungai Wang Plaza this Friday.
To Warlock and Siriuz, please comment as well if you guys have some ideas, or at least direct Sai to this post.
Now back to my daily struggle to survive till checkout time.....
Been a bit busy with my thesis (still throwing random words in it in the hopes that it'll gain some form of coherence soon) so haven't been updating the blog as often as I would like to. I've been spending some time trying to make the "Merdeka Madness" post as a header post but unfortunately everytime I try to do it I end up with the blog screwd up. My last attempt made all the post in the blog into the Merdeka Madness :P I hate HTML ..
Ok people go vote at the box at the side , let's give Chino our encouragement so far 2 people have voted for "Chino should come and have gay sex with me" .. remind me to NOT put up Chino's pictures online though. Wouldn't want people stalking him trying to get him to perform gay acts on them.
On another note , Chino . Please be careful. Most of the voters here are people who play DotA with you. When they vote for the "gay" option you should get worried. You wouldn't want someone to 'accidentally' put his hands between your legs when he thanks you for saving him from a DotA ambush. Lot's of things can happen in a game of DotA .....
Transformers : Galaxy Convoy has been the new IN thing in my life at the moment. It's so nostalgic that it brings back memories of watching Transformers when I was small. It's really good , a must see if you can find it. It is just so much fun to watch anime in the original Japanese language (with good English subs of course). Watching Transformers shouting " SUuuuPAaaaa Moooodeee" (Super Mode) or has never been so much fun. In any other dub of the anime the move " Hissatsu , Super Electric Lighting Shock Electric Thunder Cracker Punch !!" would just lose it's flair. I love the way that Japanese makes these weird names seem appropriate. Next time I should try shouting stuff like this when playing DotA ... "Ultimate Supa Pawa Shot-to !!!!" when using Kardell's Assasinate sounds like fun :P
hi hi... errm.. here's some pics from siv's bday... ive been listening to bob carlisle- butterfly kisses and keith urban- you'll think of me ... nice songss :) :) so how has everybody beeen... im still a little curious as to how u guys look.. hmmm.. oh yea.. beckham is no longer playing for england :( i enjoy england games cos of him.. now... no more x-factor :( oh well.... enjoy the pics.. chao
hey ya'll... sorry for the long absence... been busy with exams.. and the considerations of whether to begin dota-ing...addictions can be scary.. found out today ,even my physics lecturer plays Dota... so im hoping to one day have a Maths lecturer vs Physics lecturer dota match.. hmmmm... oh yea, i actually thought i could learn some dota during my holidays but my lecturers have packed us with a whole load of...*cough*..crap..*cough*.. oh yea...i'll post some pics of siva's 21st birthday in my next post.. now going out for dinner.. i'll BE BACK... wooh do i sound like the terminator? HAHAHA..
I caved in and signed up for the DiGi Edge service plan. Tested it out and the speed is quite good, I can download at like 50kbps so it will suit my needs.
Now all I need to do is get myself a new phone to connect to my PC in KL and I will be online ad infinitum!!!!
Plus I can start putting amateur videos of myself up online from home. Whoo hoo!!!
I've been saving this picture for a long while now. The guy with the blue white stripe shirt is Salty Peanuts III . This is his post-DotA look , you'll notice that there is no exultations or whooping from him. Magnus is making the universally recognized "i've got you by the troat wimp" sign.
Conclusion : Total pwnage by Magnus on Salty Peanuts.
Sorry for the lack of posts. Have been a bit busy these past few days. Here is an e-mail that I got from a cousin of mine. I noticed that a lot of the stuff here (the stupid questions) are very common in Malaysia. Hope I get to use some of the nice witty replies one day .. heh heh .. Top 10 most stupid questions people usually ask in obvious situations
1. At the movies: When you meet acquaintances/friends... Stupid Question:- Hey, what are you doing here?
Answer:- Dont u know, I sell tickets in black over here...
2. In the bus: A heavy lady wearing pointed high-heeled shoes steps on your feet... Stupid Question:- Sorry, did that hurt?
Answer:- No, not at all, I'm on local anesthesia.....why don't you try again.
3. At a funeral: One of the teary-eyed people ask... Stupid Question:- Why, why him, of all people.
Answer:- Why? Would it rather have been you?
4. At a restaurant: When you ask the waiter Stupid Question:- Is the "Butter Paneer Masala" good??
Answer:- No, its terrible and made of adulterated cement. We occassionaly also spit in it.
5. At a family get-together: When some distant aunt meets you after years Stupid Question:-Munna,Chickoo, you've become so big.
Answer:- Well you haven't particularly shrunk yourself.
6. When a friend announces her wedding, and you ask... Stupid Question:- Is the guy you're marrying good?
Answer:- No,he's a miserable wife-beating ,insensitive lout...it's just the money.
7. When you get woken up at midnight by a phone call... Stupid Question:- Sorry. were you sleeping?
Answer:- No. I was doing research on whether the Zulu tribes in Africa marry or not. You thought I was sleeping.... you dumb witted moron.
8. When you see a friend/colleague with evidently shorter hair... Stupid Question:- Hey have you had a haircut?
Answer:- No, its autumn and I'm shedding......
9. At the dentist when he's sticking pointed objects in your mouth... Stupid Question:- Tell me if it hurts?
Answer:- No it wont. It will just bleed.
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Wohoo, the good guys finally wins ! Would you believe in the crap newspaper that I read this as a tiny little soapbox while articles like "Siti Nurhaliza is wearing a new wave patterned necklace" gets a bigger box. Sigh .. the sad state of the reading materials in the local university. I can never find The Sun or The New Straits Times in UKM ... depressing place.
I first became dimly aware of this upcoming movie during the MTV awards show. Back then, Samuel L. Jackson said, while presenting the award for best movie of MTV Movie Awards said, "I'm here tonight to present the award everyone's been waiting for: best movie. This award holds a special place in my heart because next year I'll be winning it for Snakes on a Plane. Now I know, I know that sounds cocky, but I don't give a damn. I'm guaranteeing that Snakes on a Plane will win best movie next year. Does not matter what else is coming out. New James Bond... no snakes in that! Ocean's 13... where my snakes at? Shrek the Third... green, but not a snake. No movie shall triumph over Snakes on a Plane. Unless I happen to feel like making a movie called Mo' Motha-fuckin' Snakes on Mo' Motha-fuckin' Planes."
Needless to say, I was speechless.
Turns out, SoaP(Snake on a Plane) had quite a internet follow after a blog entry was made by screenwriter Josh Friedman, who had been offered a chance to work on the script.
In it he said: "Snakes on a Plane. Holy shit, I'm thinking. It's a title. It's a concept. It's a poster and a logline and whatever else you need it to be. It's perfect. Perfect. It's the Everlasting Gobstopper of movie titles."
At one the movie studio wanted to change the movie title to something less campy, but good Samuel Jackson would have none of it. In August 2005, a perturbed Samuel L. Jackson told an interviewer, "We're totally changing that back. That's the only reason I took the job: I read the title."
Sam Jackson's pretty sure he's doing a movie called SNAKES ON A PLANE. And if Sam Jackson thinks he's doing a movie called SNAKES ON A PLANE...you're doing a movie called SNAKES ON A PLANE.
In another interview in early 2006, Jackson claimed that once he learned about the movie title being changed he said: "What are you doing here? It's not Gone with the Wind. It's not On the Waterfront. It's Snakes on a Plane!"
In recognition of the unprecedented Internet buzz for what had been a minor movie in their 2006 line-up, New Line Cinema ordered five days of additional shooting in early March 2006 (principal photography had wrapped in September 2005). While re-shoots normally imply problems with a film, the producers opted to add new scenes to the film to take the movie from PG-13 into R-rated territory and bring the movie in line with growing fan expectations.
Now, with like this, you just know its going to be silly. You just know its going stupid, corny and predictable. But it might just be fun. Hell, the movie has just to got be cool especially with Sam Jackson saying:
"That's it! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!".
I love this comic and you guys should go read it simply for that reason alone. I've link ths pic from Yahoo Comics in their news section, they have them backed up for about two and a half weeks.
So we r having the inaugural 'Malaysian Merdeka Madness Marathon' on d 31st Aug. Warzone is literally going 2 explode with manic all round shouts like "Warlock, how many times Shaun killed u?", "Arvin, stun your brother I wanna ulti.", "Shaun how many times u killed Warlock/Magnus/Siriuz/chino/rudecrudedude/newbie or so on?" for 10 hours straight.(well not really straight as we will have lunch break). So b4 d big day i jz wanna wish all our DOTA warriors best of luck.... u will need it!! n chino can u bring extra pillow 4me if u cum? thx... as for me i'll bring a disposable espresso machine jz 4 dat nite... let me noe how many confirm cumin on merdeka... so far like wat magnus had listed.... this is d confirmed list so far:- 1)woodenmaskdumbdude 2)WarCock 3)Mag "i hump skeleton king's behind twice daily" nus 4)Siriuz_Moron(yeah yeah i noe its lame but i cant think of anything funny) 5)Sai Sei Sii Soi Sui 6)newnoobie a last but definitely not least d one d only 7)DJSKULL666 Enjoy!
We are losing sunlight. No, I am serious. Over the past 4 decades, studies in the developed countries(and some not so developed) have found various degrees of decrease in sunlight.
The effect was first spotted by Gerry Stanhill, an English scientist working in Israel. Comparing Israeli sunlight records from the 1950s with current ones, Stanhill was astonished to find a large fall in solar radiation. "There was a staggering 22% drop in the sunlight, and that really amazed me," he says.
Intrigued, he searched out records from all around the world, and found the same story almost everywhere he looked, with sunlight falling by 10% over the USA, nearly 30% in parts of the former Soviet Union, and even by 16% in parts of the British Isles. Although the effect varied greatly from place to place, overall the decline amounted to 1-2% globally per decade between the 1950s and the 1990s.
Gerry called the phenomenon global dimming, but his research, published in 2001, met with a sceptical response from other scientists(mostly because you know, the world has been getting, I don't know, hotter?). It was only recently, when his conclusions were confirmed by Australian scientists using a completely different method to estimate solar radiation, that climate scientists at last woke up to the reality of global dimming.
Global dimming creates a cooling effect that may have partially masked the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming.
Scientists looking at five decades of sunlight measurements have reached the disturbing conclusion that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth's surface has been gradually falling. Paradoxically, the decline in sunlight may mean that global warming is a far greater threat to society than previously thought.
Dimming appears to be caused by yep, you guess it, air pollution. The usually smog, smoke emissions, planes flying in the air... the same little devils of greenhouse responsible for making this world just a bit hotter. This little buggers reflect sunlight back into space, preventing it reaching the surface. But the pollution also changes the optical properties of clouds. Because the particles seed the formation of water droplets, polluted clouds contain a larger number of droplets than unpolluted clouds. Recent research shows that this makes them more reflective than they would otherwise be, again reflecting the Sun's rays back into space.
Scientists are now worried that dimming, by shielding the oceans from the full power of the Sun, may be disrupting the pattern of the world's rainfall. There are suggestions that dimming was behind the droughts in sub-Saharan Africa which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the 1970s and 1980s.
There are disturbing hints the same thing may be happening today in Asia(that would be us). "My main concern is global dimming is also having a detrimental impact on the Asian monsoon," says Prof Veerhabhadran Ramanathan, one of the world's leading climate scientists. "We are talking about billions of people."
But perhaps the most alarming aspect of global dimming is that it may have led scientists to underestimate the true power of the greenhouse effect(as well as giving Bushies more excuse to stall environmental laws).
They know how much extra energy is being trapped in the Earth's atmosphere by the extra carbon dioxide (CO2) we have placed there. What has been surprising is that this extra energy has so far resulted in a temperature rise of just 0.6°C.
This has led many scientists to conclude(wrongly) that the present-day climate is less sensitive to the effects of carbon dioxide than it was, say, during the ice age, when a similar rise in CO2 led to a temperature rise of 6°C. But it now appears the warming from greenhouse gases has been offset by a strong cooling effect from dimming - in effect two of our pollutants have been cancelling each other out. This means that the climate may in fact be more sensitive to the greenhouse effect than thought.
This means, we are screwed.
As Dr. Peter Cox puts it, "This is bad news."
As things stand, CO2 levels are projected to rise strongly over coming decades, whereas there are encouraging signs that particle pollution is at last being brought under control. "We're going to be in a situation, unless we act, where the cooling pollutant is dropping off while the warming pollutant is going up. That means we'll get reduced cooling and increased heating at the same time and that's a problem for us," says Cox.
Even the most pessimistic forecasts of global warming may now have to be drastically revised upwards. That means a temperature rise of 10°C by 2100 could be on the cards, giving the UK a climate like that of North Africa, and rendering many parts of the world uninhabitable, (like Malaysia).
The world is changed, I feel it in the water, I feel it in the air, I feel it in the earth, I feel it in my pants, What once was has now been forgotten,
Now once again we must fight for our independence. For too long we have let our evil employers hold us back! For too long have we placed trivial matters like our studies and futures at the forefront! For too long we have spent time with the miscreants we call our families!! For too long...
Yet we hear whispers. Faint words that stir a fire in our souls that we thought had gone out long ago. Rumours of Merdeka Madness. Rumours that a day would come when we would stand up and declare that we will not go quietly into the night, after clocking a mere 5 hours at the cyber cafe. That we will no longer be held back by the despotic regime that seeks to prevent us from defending our ancients.
So on the 31st of August, Malaysia was given her independence, but we will fight, kill and maim for ours (in cyberspace of course). We shall do this at the Warzone, where we fight all our great battles. For now the roster includes:
Magnus goldenmaskmacha Warlock Salty Peanuts III (MOMMA's mandate required) Siriuz Sai Newbie
We need 3 more and no more. Commence in the morning and break for lunch after 5 hours and resume after that. Assuming a 9am start time, we would break at 2pm for lunch and probably resume around 4pm and go on till 9pm at night. No one fears the Nightstalker during the day....
Just thought I'd make this official. All of you who want to participate of have suggestions on timing or change of location (e.g. the Forbidden cybercafe) please comment here so we can keep track of everything until the big day. We encourage grudge matches and pre/post game brawls.
For the record, I'm not too keen on going to some weird place that may result in me being molested. So we will most likely choose to locate ourselves at Warzone, unless there's a better place that will let us upload our maps.
Our maps should be the latest version of Dota, Dota Extreme, DDay, and X Hero Seige.
Performance enchancing drugs (re: coca cola, coffee, Ali Cafe) are recommended. Avoid sambal and spicy foods at all costs!!!
Those of you that will not stay for the full 10 hours should not attend Merdeka Madness. I cannot stress this enough. While we will break for a meal and chit chat, it is not advisable for those of you that miss your mommies to come along. Although I suppose we can cater to mommas boys if say we can get someone to replace them in the second half after they leave us. We'll just have to see how this plays our when more members start posting comments, but there MUST be at least a 5 hour minimum per person.
Warlock, please add this to the choice posts section until Merdeka Madness has ended.
And so on the 31st of August 2006, we will let the world know that we will not go quietly into the night, on that day we celebrate our Independence DAy (que Independence Day music, the stuff from the movie not the lame RTM crap).
UPDATED!!! We will be hosting Merdeka Madness at Warzone to avoid any potential problems (plus after his last post, I don't want Salty Peanuts III to get any discounts).
What is this feeling? The power of friendship!! As our souls burn bright with the joy of this impending battle, with the support of our friends we will triumph against the evil Unicron!! (oh wait...been watching too must Transformers: Superlink).
It is sad that we can only manage 10 per game. However, if the Ookie clan will participate it is possible to have two games running simultaneously, but we need at least 16 people then. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
The Council of DotA Elders will convene this weekend to discuss the plans for Merdeka Madness and on an appropriate brainwashing strategy to get Chino to skip one day of classes and get his ass to Seremban. For those of you that don't know, Merdeka Madness 31.08.06 falls on a Thursday and is a public holiday in Malaysia, so all Chino has to do is take Friday off. So stop being a girl and come join us.
My Psycho Powers are fading fast this week, so I believe this will be my last update till next week. Keep commenting and watch out for Version 2.0b next week.
PS. To the super-schizo Salty Peanuts III (smokeydesperado/DJSkull666/and all his other personalities): You have got to stop trash talking us boy. Do you really think it will be remotely possible for you to have fun playing if all 5 opponents just want to kill you, regardless of winning or losing the game? Try being humble (you ain't that good). If all else fails, make it a point to attack the center tower at Level 1.
This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.
Yeay ! I finally got myself a flickr account. Guys let me know about your preferences on your photos appearing here. Do you want mosaic over your eyes :P or are you ok with normal pictures of yourself. Personally I feel that the mosaic or black box over the eye is stupid. Well let me know ok. Post a comment on this blog , if you don't I'll assume you're ok with your pic posted here.
Sigh, I remember the good old days of playing Dungeon Keeper? and Dungeon Keeper 2?
Shame on you if you haven't played these wonderful games. They actually let you build up dungeons and kill stupid wimpy heroes. hee hee. I love torturing them and making them convert to my side.
check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Keeper
as usual, I wanted to post pretty pictures, but web control on my end prohibits this.
Right now I'm playing this joypad destroyingly difficult Strategy RPG on my XboX, though there is a PC version. I seriously love this game and its prequels Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders and Kingdom Under Fire (a strategy game very much like Warcraft 3).
check out the website at
www.kufheroes.com/
I wanted to post pretty pictures, but I can't access the site from over here. You boys will love the dark elves though.
Some of the missions in these games were so hard that I considered hanging myself with the XboX joypad cable many times over. Do get the PC versions, or just download them.
Time to go play Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones now, if I stick to Kingdom games I'll be playing just that for months.
You know all the things that have been happening so far this year are slowly starting to convince me that our Prime Minister isn't the bumbling village man I thought he was. There's almost something sinister behind all this. Let's others play the bad guy and then he steps in as the voice of moderation. The way I see it, its one of two things that's lead to the current state of affairs regarding the actions that may be taken against bloggers (bordering on slander my perfectly shaped ass!!) and the concerns of the media abusing their "freedoms".
Possiblity number one is that this is just the ongoing policy of control and domination that we've been subjected to all these years, and that the truth is that despite all this pecker wagging by our jaguh kampungs is nothing more than "syok sendiri" just like the infamous son-in-law speaking for "all Malaysians". I'm pretty sure Condoleeza Rice has more grey matter in her poo than he does in his head *sigh* but I digress.
Possibility number two is a lot more disconcerting. That the government is afraid. But what are they afraid of? Just being found out. Caught stealing from the cookie jar? If that's the case they could always scapegoat someone in a show of "transparency" and taking action etc. etc. I think its something much worse. I think the situation here is a lot more serious than most people realise. That hatred and segregation is much more prevalent than we think it is. you know how Malaysians are, they don't care until something serious happens. It could be that the government is trying to stop the sparks that could ignite the whole tinder box, already overloaded with the gunpowder of religious zeal and racial superiority and preference.
It could just be me with my grandiose notions of playing Doombringer, but I've been having this feeling lately. Do you ever feel like something really bad is going to happen, that you don't quite know what it is but your gut tells you to watch out? We all know how easy it is to set off people here, and that once it reaches a certain level that it will flare out of control. The most recent actions of the police, showing preferences to certain demonstrators instead of blasting them with water cannons show us where their loyalties lie.
I'm just so tired of everything. All this race race bullshit. All the religion crap. Whatever happened to the good old days where people practiced their religions at home or in their places of worship and shut the hell up about it elsewhere? So fed up of the barbaric behaviour I see on a daily basis. The lack of education (yeah go ahead and say that our universities educate, go on, I dare you). Lack of jobs for the uneducated, and the subsequent blaming of everyone else under the sun for it. Do you realise that there's only so long the government can hold back the tide of rising oil prices. The difference being that in a real recession, we might not have to worry about being beaten to death by mobs of angry people, in another country..
Note to Warlock: Smart, slander is spoken, some speechwrite somewhere needs to be fired. Blogging would be libel, but you can't border on libel. What bull. Opinions wouldn't fall under this, neither would speculation. Plus you can't sue someone for spreading slander and libel about you if everyone already belives these things about you. Plus the onus is on you to PROVE that the slader/libel was untrue, I'd like to see the wonderful transparency happen there. You know what's going to happen, detention, without trial, for the sake of national security.
All in all, I really think we need to play more DotA..
It has been going back and forth like a tennis ball. First Dr Lim Keng Yaik says "NO !" to blog censorship , then Zainuddin Maiden said we must censor the internet (http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news.php?id=211401).
Finally today the government dropped the bomb ... the Prime Minister issued a warning which goes like this :
" If information in blogs, websites and online portals were incorrect, bordered on slander, caused disturbance or compelled the public to lose faith in the nation’s economic policies, their authors would be detained for investigation, said Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi " ( http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/8/2/nation/15022918&sec=nation)
Yeay joy. Looks like Mahathir's 'Multimedia Super Corridor' Bill Of Guarentees which promises NO INTERNET CENSORSHIP can go to the same rubbish dump shared by Article 10.
First he decides to scrap the Article 11 Interfaith discussion which was aimed at discussing certains problems dealing with religious issues in Malaysia (http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/7/28/nation/14980301&sec=nation), next he comes up with this. Man, I don't think he is doing a very good job at managing policies.
Most foreign investors pay close attention to things such as censorship policies and tolerance as they are central in determining a goverment's stability and support from the people, practicing internet censorship doesn't seem like a smart move. I just hope they don't jump off and run away from our country. The better move would be to head up a special website that counters these 'destructive' and 'slanderous' ( is that a word ? i don't know ) information .. that way the government would have it's own propaganda machine source of information.
If our Prime Minister had paid attention to international happenings he should have realised that this has been something that has been tried unsucessfully in many places. For example, take China. Not only has it's attempts to ban and control blogs failed , it has unfortunately gained notoriority for trying to censor the internet.
Until today , there are lots of "help our Chinese blogger friends by hosting their blog" movements which demonises China. I hope we don't see the same happening here.
One thing bothers me ...
" If information in blogs, websites and online portals were incorrect, bordered on slander, caused disturbance or compelled the public to lose faith in the nation’s economic policies, their authors would be detained for investigation, said Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi "
How do you 'border' on slander ? Does this mean even if you haven't written anything that slanders someone ( i know it's libel .. let's not get technical. Defamation would be better though since it covers both slander and libel in one word .. again I have gone off-track ... ) but if you almost did you are still going to find the police or (shudder) the ISA on your back ! Scary woi. (Looks out through window). Hmmm ... weird. I always thought that you either slander someone or you didn't , where did this talk of borders come from ? Magnus is the lawyer , I'll make it a point to ask him .. I anticipate a very interesting mamak session this weekend. I fear that this will be misused and eventually become as controversial as the ISA.
I have a suggestion. Instead of trying to shut up bloggers , which is extremely hard to do why don't the government shut up the No 1 instigator of riots, dissatisfaction and extreme behaviour in this country .. yes I am talking about politicians. With Hissamudin and his keris waving antic (one wonders if it is legal to walk around with a keris and carry it to where you 'work'. I know if I carry a sword to work I'll be pinned down with a fat greasy cop reading me my rights.) or Khairy Jamalludin the 'Riot Man' running around and telling everyone to boycott Starbucks and such .. we should first shut them up so that they don't go around spreading tension and stuff like that.
Instead of gagging the usual riff-raff they go and target bloggers .. aisehman .. catch the big fish first la. It's unfair to demonise bloggers as what they write are their opinion , if the government are serious about protecting the integrity of the nation go and catch those who actually cause these troubles. If Khairy Jamalludin the Prime Minister's son-in-law and his antics of listing companies that support Jews to be boycotted (http://rockybru.blogspot.com/2006/07/jews-behind-pantai-and-other-malaysian.html) doesn't scare away investors and 'compelled the public to lose faith in the nation’s economic policies', then there is nothing a blogger's posts can.
Disclaimer : This piece was written when I was under medication. It is just a product of delerium caused by the medicine. Don't put me in jail for it ok. If you have so much time to read this , go here http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=629#more-629 this is a bigger fish for you to catch .. leave me alone.
I just browsing through Wikipedia when I read about an old game for the Atari system. It's called "Custer's Revenge". What I found shocking was the fact that the game features a heavily pixelated Custer trying to get jiggy with a tied up Indian Squaw. Here have a look and laugh your head off :
Custer approaching tied up American Indian Squaw .. notice the erection ..
Damn, and people actually played this game .. how pathetic.
Been working on my thesis. This is how I feel so you'll excuse me if I don't have anything elso to put up today.
That day I was telling Warlock about one type of coffee that I heard from watching drama. Seeing Arc is at Indonesia now, I wonder he heard about this coffee or not. Behold! The Kopi Luwak.
Kopi Luwak or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The animals gorge on the ripe berries, and the undigested beans are excreted. This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, in the Philippines (where the product is called Kape Alamid), in the country of Vietnam, and the coffee estates of south India. Vietnam has a similar type of coffee, called Weasel Coffee which also comes from the droppings of coffee beans after weasels eat robusta coffee cherries. Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling at $75 USD per quarter pound, and is sold mainly in Japan and United States, but it is increasingly becoming available elsewhere, though supplies are limited.
(extra info) Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee, and luwak is the local name of the Palm Civet. The raw, red coffee berries are part of its normal diet, along with insects, small mammals, and other fruit. The inner bean of the berry is not digested, but it is believed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavor by breaking down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste. The beans are excreted still covered in some inner layers of the cherry, and locals then gather them and sell them to dealers. The beans are washed, and given only a light roast so as to not destroy the complex flavors which develop through the whole process. While praised by many for its rich flavor, the beverage is often derided as "cat poop coffee" or "monkey poo coffee". (Info from wikipedia).
Yes, thats right. Apple's new revolutionary mouse, aptly named the Mighty Mouse comes built in with touch sensitive sensors that replaces buttons all around (inclusive of side pressure sensors!). If that isn't enough, the Mighty Mouse packs bluetooth connectivity as well as a precision laser guided tracking engine into its sleek design. It retails for USD69 (RM250), and is available online now.
Corrected version : Pointed out by Mac Enthusiast Ching Siang, the Mighty Mouse still does involve physical clicking of the mouse, the touch sensors only function to determine whether its a right or left click.
(Info from lowyat.net)
Very lazy to type so just get some info from the net and post it here.:-)
