…my cuppa iced coffee…

“It looks so real. That’s why we bought it,” said a nine-year-old boy in The Star, Friday 2 November 2007.
“What is it about?” you asked.
“It’s about a new toy.”
“What sort of toy?”
“A toy cigarette.”
Pause.
If you think this is sick, I totally agree with you. What is it with people nowadays? It is not enough that [...]

I read the article yesterday in The Star newspaper on my home after work. It’s about an accident involving a school bus and 4 cars in Ampang. I thought, ok.. this is something worth commenting. So this morning I tried to find it in the archive of The Star Online but surprise surprise, I couldn’t [...]

No, I haven’t done it yet. My blog is still hosted at WordPress.com, although I’ve already signed up with a webhosting company last week. Quite cheap too, at RM80 per year. That’s less than USD25. I chose this company since I already have one forum hosted with them. So far, I’m pretty satisfied with the [...]

“Kak.. could you enter the expiry date, please?” the cashier asked my colleague who wanted to pay for lunch using her Maybankard.
“Expiry date?” asked my astonished colleague. “Dik.. that’s an ATM card. It doesn’t have an expiry date.”
“But the machine is asking for an expiry date,” the cashier insisted.
“Really? That’s odd. I’ve used the card [...]

I remembered being laughed at when I showed my old identity card (IC) to this lady when I wanted to borrow books from my university’s library. That was in 1991, I was 19, the library was at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and my student card was not yet ready. I [...]