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		<title>Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR, JULY 9: The police has launched a nationwide and global manhunt for several foreigners and a local for allegedly masterminding the Bersih rally which had caused the government additional damage to it&#8217;s already less than pristine reputation.
&#8220;We believe them to be extremely dangerous and they could even cause the current government to lose [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>KUALA LUMPUR, JULY 9: The police has launched a nationwide and global manhunt for several foreigners and a local for allegedly masterminding the Bersih rally which had caused the government additional damage to it&#8217;s already less than pristine reputation.</p>
<p>&#8220;We believe them to be extremely dangerous and they could even cause the current government to lose in the next general elections which we must prevent at all costs!!&#8221; a police spokesman was quoted as saying when releasing photos of those he claimed are fully responsible for the rally.</p>
<p>&#8220;We all know yellow is the main colour for this rally and without a doubt these are our main culprits so we will catch them and put them where they belong!&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>He urged the public to hand in any of the culprits should they spot them anywhere.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have reasons to believe that this local has roped in his foreign accomplices to assist him in his dastardly plan to besmirch the good clean reputation of the government with their clean up calls!&#8221; he said while showing a grainy picture of the main suspect.</p>
<p><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/07/09/2391.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/07/09/s_2391.jpg' border='0' width='255' height='281' style='margin:5px' title="Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" alt="s 2391 Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" /></a></center><br />This main suspect goes by the name of &#8220;Yellowman&#8221; and is often found everywhere nationwide. It is believed that he works for a telecommunications company and he was reportedly seen following all sorts of people of all walks of life  in the whole country.</p>
<p>His accomplices were believed to be:</p>
<p><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/07/09/2394.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/07/09/s_2394.jpg' border='0' width='237' height='281' style='margin:5px' title="Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" alt="s 2394 Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" /></a></center><br />Do not be fooled by her innocent appearance. This suspect is known to speak with a lisp and she has reportedly hurt at least one putty cat over and over.</p>
<p><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/07/09/2396.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/07/09/s_2396.jpg' border='0' width='208' height='281' style='margin:5px' title="Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" alt="s 2396 Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" /></a></center><br /> This bird may not look as sweet as the previous one but it is believed to be equally dangerous as it is known to try to kill you with spelling and alphabets.</p>
<p><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/07/09/2397.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/07/09/s_2397.jpg' border='0' width='271' height='281' style='margin:5px' title="Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" alt="s 2397 Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" /></a></center><br />Now this bird may look small and harmless. While it doesn&#8217;t talk much, it could probably kill you with it&#8217;s silence.</p>
<p><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/07/09/2400.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/07/09/s_2400.jpg' border='0' width='243' height='281' style='margin:5px' title="Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" alt="s 2400 Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" /></a></center><br />Here&#8217;s another feathered accomplice. While this particular bird doesn&#8217;t have any name to it, it has been known to kill green pigs with its accelerated speed so stay away! It is one violent bird.</p>
<p><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/07/09/2402.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/07/09/s_2402.jpg' border='0' width='187' height='281' style='margin:5px' title="Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" alt="s 2402 Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" /></a></center><br />Then we have a whole family of accomplices. They may appear to be a normal family but beware, they are so dangerous they could kill you with pure sarcasm.</p>
<p>From the land, into the sea&#8230;</p>
<p><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/07/09/2405.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/07/09/s_2405.jpg' border='0' width='194' height='281' style='margin:5px' title="Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" alt="s 2405 Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" /></a></center><br />This undersea creature has been known to cause grievous hurt repeatedly to an octopus. It may also kill you with it&#8217;s irritating laugh. </p>
<p><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/07/09/2406.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/07/09/s_2406.jpg' border='0' width='222' height='281' style='margin:5px' title="Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" alt="s 2406 Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" /></a></center><br />This dinosaur is far from extinct and very much alive. It is now brainwashing new generations of children with it&#8217;s theme song that gets stuck in your head and kept replaying till you die of frustration.</p>
<p>Finally, another Asian suspect&#8230;</p>
<p><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=11/07/09/2407.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/11/07/09/s_2407.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='224' style='margin:5px' title="Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" alt="s 2407 Foreigners and a local, believed to be behind the Bersih rally, are wanted by the police" /></a></center><br />This little monster has special abilities and powers so it is clearly dangerous!</p>
<p> The police urged anyone with information of any of these suspects to call the police hotline immediately. </p>
<p>&#8220;We will be contacting Interpol soon to track down the foreign accomplices,&#8221; the spokesman said.</p>
<p>- Foong&#8217;s News Network</p>
<p><i>Disclaimer for idiots: </i><i><b>In case you are TOO STUPID to realize it, this whole post is a PARODY.</b></i><br /></p>
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		<title>Bersih this, Bersih that, so sick of all the effing Bersih-ing shit!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t care what the effing shit Bersih does.
I don&#8217;t effing care even if their prime goal is to clean Najib&#8217;s ass.
But all this big huge fuss over the now-cancelled Bersih rally is just so EFFING IRRITATING and ANNOYING.
WTF.
Go get a life.
ALL of you idiots, either you are pro Bersih or not.
All the fanatics are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t care what the effing shit Bersih does.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t effing care even if their prime goal is to clean Najib&#8217;s ass.</p>
<p>But all this big huge fuss over the now-cancelled Bersih rally is just so EFFING IRRITATING and ANNOYING.</p>
<p>WTF.</p>
<p>Go get a life.</p>
<p>ALL of you idiots, either you are pro Bersih or not.</p>
<p>All the fanatics are going overboard as if Bersih is like some God-sent saint.</p>
<p>And all the anti-Bersih idiots are also going overboard as if Bersih is the devil impersonate.</p>
<p>WTF. The rest of us who couldn&#8217;t care less about idiots taking to the streets over one cause or not, with hidden agendas or not, is just not bothered okay?</p>
<p>And the police. What the effing shit is wrong with all ultra-kiasuim? Shit. You are supposed to be minimizing traffic jams but now you are causing traffic jams because you are afraid of some stupid idiots shouting Bersih in a crowd? I dunno about anyone else, this all-of-a-sudden hardworking attitude of the police in having road blocks everywhere to prevent a Bersih rally while robbers, murderers, rapists, serial killers are roaming around free sorta doesn&#8217;t make sense.</p>
<p>Er, hello? Aren&#8217;t the police supposed to be ensuring safety of the people by arresting REAL criminals and not wasting time harassing people donning ugly yellow T-shirts?</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t even know wearing stupid ugly yellow T-shirts with the word Bersih is illegal. Of course, if it&#8217;s the fashion police, these people will be hauled up for the pure ugliness of the attire&#8230;.I mean it really hurts the eyes, no?</p>
<p>Yellow t-shirts aside, tomorrow, I am just gonna stay home and avoid the maddening crowd. Nothing but a bunch of crazies. I am not so stupid to go get stuck in massive jams caused by the idiotic police&#8217;s road blocks.</p>
<p>Better I stay home and watch stupid Astro reruns.</p>
<p>Bersih rally? Not my cup of tea. Thank you very much. I HAVE a life.</p>
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		<title>If only more people deal with racism this way, the world would be a better place</title>
		<link>http://foongsite.com/index.php/2011/05/if-only-more-people-deal-with-racism-this-way-the-world-would-be-a-better-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 10:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was site-hopping for one of my online work when I came across some sites mentioning a racial rant by UCLA student Alexandra Wallace which was put up on Youtube (what else??!?) and what really drew my attention are the responses. Here&#8217;s one of it:

That&#8217;s a really good Vlog in response to Wallace. He is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was site-hopping for one of my online work when I came across some sites mentioning a racial rant by UCLA student Alexandra Wallace which was put up on Youtube (what else??!?) and what really drew my attention are the responses. Here&#8217;s one of it:</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zulEMWj3sVA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>That&#8217;s a really good Vlog in response to Wallace. He is really good at it too! Not to mention, he&#8217;s kinda cute too, eh?</p>
<p>And here&#8217;s another one, which is a real laugh!</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lOGpGoEMu2s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>While many others have responded rather negatively, I think responses like Jimmy Wong&#8217;s (the singer) is the best way to deal with racists. Who needs violence when you can sing sarcastically in response and put it up for the whole world to see? And by the way, he&#8217;s had more than 3 million hits so far!</p>
<p>Anyway, Wallace was ranting about the Asians in UCLA and Asians talking on the cellphone in the library. Something to that effect.  </p>
<p>Racism is so common in our country nowadays regardless of the stupid, pointless 1Malaysia crap. Perhaps we need to deal with it humorously instead of in anger? You tell me!</p>
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		<title>Only in Malaysia, you get framed by Utusan Malaysia, you have to explain while the newspaper escapes scot-free</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 07:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I have been rather busy working on (and stressing over) my lagging (but hopefully improving) photography studio business, I can&#8217;t help but noticing all the hoo-ha over the whole Utusan Malaysia and it&#8217;s false front page news reports.
It is so effing S.T.U.P.I.D.
The said news report, which was written based on what some random blogger [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I have been rather busy working on (and stressing over) my lagging (but hopefully improving)<a title="Sors Bridal" href="http://facebook.com/sorsbridal" target="_blank"> photography studio</a> business, I can&#8217;t help but noticing all the hoo-ha over the whole Utusan Malaysia and it&#8217;s false front page news reports.</p>
<p>It is so effing S.T.U.P.I.D.</p>
<p>The said news report, which was written based on what some random blogger wrote WITHOUT verifying the facts, had brought on such a huge backlash on the Christian groups that reading the newspapers and local MSM today would only make people think the Christian groups started it first!! WTF.</p>
<p>Look, I am no Christian but I can&#8217;t stand such blatant injustice and absolute nonsense over a NON-EXISTANT issue. I mean, what the fark. The Christian groups were minding their own business when out of nowhere some stupid blogger decides to link them to some imaginary &#8216;meeting to make Christianity the main religion in Malaysia&#8217; and lo and behold, all the Christian groups are in deep shit. Meanwhile, Utusan, that published such lies by the blogger WITHOUT bothering to check the accusations, gets a &#8216;reprimand&#8217;.</p>
<p>What I don&#8217;t get is, why must the Christian groups explain and make all sorts of pledges to console and pacify all those crazed idiots who were up in arms over the Utusan report when it is clear no such thing ever happened? What about the blogger who started the ball rolling? Why is it okay for the blogger to spread lies that could possibly incite racial hatred and equally alright for a national newspaper to do exactly the same thing while the victims of the lies had to explain so that they do not get into trouble?</p>
<p>What is our country turning into?</p>
<p>It is obvious that the law is not being upheld but being used to meet the needs and ends of the powers that be.</p>
<p>In case you are wondering, I am no politician and I do not care hoots about any of the political parties in our country be it the BN or the Opposition. However, this glaring injustice against Malaysians is just too much. It is time that Malaysians think and use their brains in the next General Elections.  It is time to show the powers that be that the position they are in now are not a given. It is time to let ALL politicians know that WE, Malaysians, have a say over what our leaders do! Even if it means voting in the Opposition, it will serve as a good lesson to all leaders that they have no right to abuse their powers to meet their own needs and ends.</p>
<p>Sigh. This country is truly going to the dogs.</p>
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		<title>Killing desperate women who dump their babies is not the way to go</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost every day we read news of babies being dumped or foetuses being dumped and as a mother, each time I read such news, I cringed. It hurts to see cute little babies being treated like rubbish. So, of course, there are a lot of outraged people calling for those who dump babies to be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Almost every day we read news of babies being dumped or foetuses being dumped and as a mother, each time I read such news, I cringed. It hurts to see cute little babies being treated like rubbish. So, of course, there are a lot of outraged people calling for those who dump babies to be sentenced to death.</p>
<p>Well, I personally feel that introducing a death penalty for cases like is the worst ever proposal to resolve this problem. What we have now is more of a social problem rather than a criminal one.   Instead of thinking about punishment, more thought and actions should be put into preventing it AND ensuring that the lives of these babies are spared. It is obvious that these women are spurred by desperation when they dump their illegal babies.</p>
<p>If they introduce a death penalty for this, then more babies will suffer as these women will be even more desperate to hide it and they will probably do worse things to get rid of the babies! So, the main priority here is not to punish but to provide a safe haven for these babies.</p>
<p>Like it or not, people are having sex out of wedlock and single women get pregnant everyday. No matter what law you impose, how much you frown upon it, it still happens. So, no point, sweeping it all under the carpet and pretend that our youngsters are are virginal saints. How else do you think these women end up pregnant and desperate?</p>
<p>What needs to be done now is to set up more centres to counsel and help these women. Obviously, they have nowhere to go so they resort to hiding their pregnancies and dumping the babies. They are desperate and they do not know where to go or what to do. Their babies are innocent. They deserve to live and the priority here is to ensure that these babies live!</p>
<p>Why is there so much objection to establishing hatches for unwanted babies? At the very least these hatches will ensure that babies are not dumped into rubbish bins or left to die. All this just because some stupid idiot thinks that hatches promote promiscuous behaviour. Err&#8230;hello, in case you haven&#8217;t noticed, unmarried couples are still doing it and getting pregnant out-of-wedlock now even without hatches!</p>
<p>Of course, society is to be blamed for these baby dumping cases too. It is when these desperate women are shunned, ignored and pushed to a corner that they had no where else to go but down the very wrong road of getting rid of their &#8216;mistake&#8217;.</p>
<p>So, lets stop this pointing fingers and condemning of the poor, desperate women. No mother, whether she wanted the baby or not, will resort to killing or abandoning her own flesh and blood if she was not pushed to a corner where she could not think straight at all. Also don&#8217;t forget that it takes two to make a baby so don&#8217;t just blame the mothers! What about the men? Why were they let off scot-free? Why were they not held responsible?</p>
<p>Sigh. The worse of these incidences is when politicians jump in to give their two cents worth of stupidity. They will blame anything, everything BUT find solutions to prevent and protect these innocent babies?</p>
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		<title>Why Malaysians overseas do not want to come back</title>
		<link>http://foongsite.com/index.php/2009/09/why-malaysians-overseas-do-not-want-to-come-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time and again the government, or some politician, will make a statement about trying to get overseas Malaysians to come back and contribute to the country&#8217;s economy and development. They talk about incentives and nationalism and all that crap. As if those are really great inducement for Malaysians overseas to come back.
Puh-lez. If I am [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Time and again the government, or some politician, will make a statement about trying to get overseas Malaysians to come back and contribute to the country&#8217;s economy and development. They talk about incentives and nationalism and all that crap. As if those are really great inducement for Malaysians overseas to come back.</p>
<p>Puh-lez. If I am overseas, I also don&#8217;t want to come back. Why? And if you mention 1Malaysia, I will kick you.</p>
<p>Here are the simple reasons why most overseas Malaysians, especially the non-Bumis, do not want to come back:</p>
<p>1. Many of them were sent overseas to study using their parents&#8217; hard-earned money and bank loans, not using any &#8216;special benefits&#8217; from the govt so why should they come back to &#8216;serve&#8217; the country when they don&#8217;t owe the country anything?</p>
<p>2.  They get higher salary and were offered high positions based on merits and their abilities and if they build a big huge empire of companies, don&#8217;t have to worry about being forced to hand the profits over to other people just because of some racist policy, nepotism and cronyism.</p>
<p>3. The cost of living there is so much more reasonable than here. Average salary of an executive can be $4,000 to $5,000 and only pay $10,000 to $15,000 for a local car and about $80,000 for a house. Here, average salary of an executive can be RM2,000 to RM3,000 but pay RM50,000 for a local car and more than RM100,000 for a tiny flat.</p>
<p>4. Racism is everywhere but only in Malaysia, it is sanctioned and is a policy.</p>
<p>5.Higher education opportunities are only for those who can afford it or those in a certain group while the rest will have to hope they make it in or else, find ways to get bank loans to further their studies since public scholarships are also reserved for certain groups only. While overseas, higher education coupled with good scholarships are available for those who deserve it, not only for a certain group of people.</p>
<p>6. If they have foreign spouses, the spouses will NEVER be given citizenship because they are of the &#8216;wrong race&#8217;  and the spouse will have to be subjected to renewing their social visit pass every year while there are those who can easily get PR because they are of a certain group.</p>
<p>7. If they do well here based on their own abilities and hard work, they are accused of &#8216;robbing&#8217; a certain group of their privileges but overseas, they can do well based on their own abilities and hard work and nobody will accuse them of anything.</p>
<p>8.  They know their tax money is going to the welfare of the people in various schemes and projects there but here, we all know the tax money only end up in some politicians&#8217; pockets.</p>
<p>9. The grass is always greener on the other side, LITERALLY.</p>
<p>10. All the so-called incentives offered for them to come back are a nothing but short-term promises which will not materialise so they are not so stupid to fall for empty words.</p>
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		<title>Now, that&#8217;s what I call literally haunting someone!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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I don&#8217;t know which is more amusing when reading the news nowadays&#8230;whether it is the ridiculous excuses some so-called minister makes up for those irresponsible, uncouth cow-head protestors, the lack of police actions against those idiots or the wide-spread papparazzing of poor mega-star Andy Lau who is not even remotely Malaysian, although his wife [...]]]></description>
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<p>I don&#8217;t know which is more amusing when reading the news nowadays&#8230;whether it is the ridiculous excuses some so-called minister makes up for those irresponsible, uncouth cow-head protestors, the lack of police actions against those idiots or the wide-spread papparazzing of poor mega-star Andy Lau who is not even remotely Malaysian, although his wife is.</p>
<p>From the day the wife&#8217;s father passed away till now, the Andy Lau saga has commanded quite a lot of newsprint place, especially in the Chinese newspapers. Not that I read the Chinese newspapers, mind you. But seriously, the poor old guy (I&#8217;m referring to Carol Chu&#8217;s father, not Andy) was on his last journey and instead of him haunting anyone, it was the media haunting his funeral or to be specific, his super famous son-in-law, Andy Lau Tak Wah.</p>
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<p>Okay, admittedly, I am a big fan of Andy Lau. I mean, *droolz*, he is darn good looking. He is probably the only Hongkie star I secretly lust after. I know, I know, many younger girls will think I have bad taste when there are supposedly more yummilicious Hong Kong actors around these days. But heck, Andy Lau is my first actor-idol I drool after with a deep school girl crush long ago. It is an obsession hard to forget. Not that I am all that obsessed with him now.</p>
<p>Although I still couldn&#8217;t resist clicking on any news with his name on it.</p>
<p>But I am NOT obsessed, I tell you.</p>
<p>Damn. I AM married with another kid on the way so I definitely do NOT have a schoolgirl crush on Andy Lau.</p>
<p>Okay, fine. I still drool after Andy Lau although it is only in the fantasy, schoolgirl crush sorta way, like I drool over the Winchester brothers in Supernatural. At the very least, I have seen Andy Lau in person in concert donkey years ago when he had the one and only concert in Penang.</p>
<p>But I digress.</p>
<p>I was about to write about how the media are literally haunting him and his wife right up to their <a title="Andy Lau's wife pregnant" href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/9/7/nation/4664935&amp;sec=nation" target="_blank">conceiving a child</a>. Fine. So, I am one of the readers that spurred the media on to act in such a way but heck, the couple do deserve some privacy, don&#8217;t they? I mean, it is one thing to report the good news of the wife being pregnant but to go into details of how they got pregnant?</p>
<p>I mean it is almost like reporting what position they liked most when having sex. The fact that they chose artificial insemination does not mean it should be made public right? Come on. Do give them some privacy. It is no wonder that the poor wife was kept hidden all these years and Andy never admitted to their relationship. I can just imagine what a field day the media would have if they announced their relationship years ago.</p>
<p>Obsessed fans will go crazy, me excluded because seriously, as much as I fantasize about Andy Lau when I was a teen, I know for a fact it is an impossible dream of ever marrying him so he do deserve to find a good partner and settle down. And who he chose to marry is none of our business, isn&#8217;t it? There&#8217;s only one of him and millions of fans. And it is because he worries about what the obsessed fans will do that they decided to keep it under wraps.</p>
<p>And my sympathy really do go all out to Carol. Poor woman. Imagine being hidden and kept like some mistress for all these years. They can&#8217;t even go out in public together. It is a good thing that Andy finally married her last year, although I think he should have done it years ago.</p>
<p>Whatever it is, much as I drool over Andy Lau, I do wish them the best and hope that the media will not continue to haunt them the way they are doing it now.</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s really strange but So-Po blogs are so popular only in Malaysia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you do a search around the net, you&#8217;d find loads of Malaysian bloggers jumping onto the so-po scene. Heck, I used to be one of them, criticising and taking potshots at the stupid politicians that run our country. And I wonder why. What&#8217;s the draw? Why is it that so many Malaysians find it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you do a search around the net, you&#8217;d find loads of Malaysian bloggers jumping onto the so-po scene. Heck, I used to be one of them, criticising and taking potshots at the stupid politicians that run our country. And I wonder why. What&#8217;s the draw? Why is it that so many Malaysians find it extremely fun to blog and rant and criticise or even praise and idolise some politicians.</p>
<p>I got bored of it really, really fast. I mean, we <em>all know</em> politicians are consummate liars. They are no better than some lawyers. And yet, we tend to fall for whatever promises they give and when they failed to keep their promises, we become disillussioned and started throwing imaginary rotten tomatoes at them. What&#8217;s the point?</p>
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<p>Does it make the politicians any less of a liar? Nope.</p>
<p>Does it make them keep their promises? Nope.</p>
<p>And yet, many So-po bloggers are still at it, criticising and dissecting everything the politicians say or do. Some even come up with deep analysis good enough for a Masters&#8217; thesis.  Perhaps it is a way for them to release their frustrations over something they have little or absolutely no control over.</p>
<p>I mean, those BN idiots may corrupt and rob us all blind and we can&#8217;t do naught to stop them.</p>
<p>As for the Opposition parties, they can&#8217;t even stay in the same ship without fighting amongst each other for power, positions and who-knows-what else and there are so many people putting them on pedestals and treating them like demi-Gods.</p>
<p>Puh-lez.</p>
<p>It seems that no matter how much I rant about them idiots, it&#8217;s not going to change a single thing AT ALL. So, why bother? I have better things to do.And So-po blogs practically don&#8217;t make money. In fact, it&#8217;s a waste of time and energy.</p>
<p>Okay, so, I may be money-faced but heck, I got into blogging with two main motives. One is to rant and release steam over ridiculous and annoying stuffs and another is to earn a few bucks outta it. Of course, this blog was never meant to earn money. It&#8217;s more like a sounding board than anything.</p>
<p>Still, I have given up. There is absolutely no point blogging about those darn politicians. And I wonder why some people could go on and on with it. What&#8217;s the fun in blogging about the same people over and over and over and over and over and over and over again? After awhile, they just sound like some broken recorder going over and over and over and over and over about the same thing.</p>
<p>So, I will stay away from political talk for awhile and focus on other stuffs like what would I do with a million ringgit and stuffs like that.</p>
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		<title>Yes sure, revert everything back to BM is really a good idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mean why not?
What with all that paranoia about what language we learn in school and how it can somehow affect our nationalism if we learn any other language is a proven science. Think about it. If we learn too much foreign language like English, we&#8217;d be expose to the whole wide world of evil, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I mean why not?</p>
<p>What with all that paranoia about what language we learn in school and how it can somehow affect our nationalism if we learn any other language is a proven science. Think about it. If we learn too much foreign language like English, we&#8217;d be expose to the whole wide world of evil, evil English blogs.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not good.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s better that our students not speak a word of English and can only speak in BM and a smattering of our mother tongues is good enough. But then, why the heck do we need to learn English when the BM that are being used nowadays practically cannibalised English?</p>
<p>Case in point:</p>
<p><em>persepsi</em></p>
<p><em>situasi</em></p>
<p><em>agensi</em></p>
<p><em>polis</em></p>
<p><em>innovasi</em></p>
<p><em>demonstrasi<br />
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<p>and many more of such words. In fact, there is even a point where I became confused as to the right spelling of a word because it has been cannibalised into BM.</p>
<p>So, yay, good for you for turning our younger generation into a bunch of guinea pigs where at one point, you decide they learn Maths and Science in English and at another point, they learn it in BM or whatever language but not English.</p>
<p>How brilliant.</p>
<p>Never mind that by the time they reach Form Six, they will probably flunk out because Science and Maths in Form Six is in English.</p>
<p>Never mind that their Science will probably suck and their spelling of scientific terms will all be in cannibalised forms that they probably won&#8217;t be able to spell hydrochloric sulfide molecule but spell it as hydroklorik sulfida molekul or something like that.</p>
<p>What matters is that the bahasa kebangsaan must be protected at all costs. The students must be dumbed down at all costs. The people protected from the evils of English Language at all costs. Cannibalising the English words is the best way to deal with the evil language.</p>
<p>This way, the people who can&#8217;t converse, read or write proper English will be stuck in Malaysia for life leading piddly lives thinking the political leaders are the greatest gifts from heaven.</p>
<p>This way, the people with their poor English will not know that:</p>
<p>Our standard of living SUCKS because they won&#8217;t even understand the meaning of sucks.</p>
<p>The costs of living here is exhorbitant</p>
<p>The average salary for the general population is way below par</p>
<p>The grass is in fact greener elsewhere because the people are not blinded by empty promises where political leaders become fatter and richer while the people become thinner and poorer</p>
<p>There are vast opportunities out there that could improve our lives</p>
<p>The promise of emphasis on learning English with more teachers is a way to &#8216;pacify&#8217; those who insists on wanting a better education system</p>
<p>So, you see. English is so evil. It could expose us to the evils of the outside world. It is best that we stick to our narrow minded thinking of studying only in BM and our mother tongues and remain under the coconut shell the government intend to keep us under.</p>
<p>While they are at it, they might as well do away with the education system entirely and only teach BM, basic math, religion and the complete history of Malaysia (with all the unnecessary anti-government events removed as if it never happened). No need for science since it is basically pretty evil considering most of it came from the West.</p>
<p>And who needs education anyway when the preoccupation is more on making the students memorise half truths and learn one language while the actual gaining of knowledge is forgotten and considered unimportant.</p>
<p>Why do we need knowledge at all anyway?</p>
<p>After all, we have always been spoon-fed all those lies, half-truths and whatnots about how great they are, how wonderful they are, how brilliant they are&#8230;etc&#8230;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[To all the regular readers and commentors, I am so sorry about my lack of response to your comments in recent weeks.
First, there&#8217;s this sudden bout of loads of work at work&#8230;and to think, I thought I am paid to surf the net and blog in my personal blog   
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To all the regular readers and commentors, I am so sorry about my lack of response to your comments in recent weeks.</p>
<p>First, there&#8217;s this sudden bout of loads of work at work&#8230;and to think, I thought I am paid to surf the net and blog in my personal blog  <img src='http://foongsite.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif' alt="icon twisted Techie stuffs and such" class='wp-smiley' title="Techie stuffs and such" /> </p>
<p>And then there&#8217;s this stupid techie / script whatever problem with my sites causing the server to crash&#8230;so, every once in a while, my site will be suspended because of the techie script crap problem that is overloading the server. I wouldn&#8217;t flatter myself into thinking this blog is receiving tremendously loads of traffic (HAH!) but it&#8217;s basically down to some techie stuff I don&#8217;t know about or don&#8217;t quite understand.</p>
<p>So, while I am trying to sort that out so that my hosting account doesn&#8217;t get suspended again&#8230;please be patient. I may also be fiddling with new themes and such in order to get rid of whatever bug that&#8217;s bugging this site or my other sites in this account. Crap. Hate these techie related problems.</p>
<p>Damn and it&#8217;s because of my fiddling with different themes that got my blog banned by Google. I didn&#8217;t notice that the theme had HID all the outgoing links in my posts and Google DESPISES hidden links so from a PR3, my site is now a grey bar. Sigh. What luck. Of all the time for the Google PR update, it has to be when I am using a stupid theme that hid the links. Ceh.</p>
<p>So, the search to get rid of the troublematic script problems that&#8217;s plaguing my site is on. Till then, I won&#8217;t be updating this site much for now.</p>
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