Tick tick tick TOCK and a book launch
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Many happenings.
If you have a problem losing weight, force your boyfriend / girlfriend to propose to you. The countdown to the wedding process will guarantee some kind of weight loss.
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I got kind of lucky today. Had a phone call and was invited to some medical health campaign screening as a preview for the Tropicana Medical Centre (to be opened very soon). So both Eric and me are both getting full body checkups, complimentary teeth polishing and scaling service and a facial spa experience FOC, just in time for the wedding, lucky or what?
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Speaking of lucky, or unlucky, based on the current scenarios of the political 'unrest' in good old Tanah Airku, I'm getting kind of impatient with this stupid tug of war nonsense that's going on in the country. I dunno about you but I have never ever seen a politician who is so adamant on insisting that everything is all right and that he's still go the support of the people one. And dude, this isn't because I surf the internet regularly. You can just go to the local petrol station, go to one, anyone, and start saying 'Bodohwi' and hey lots of people will applaud in response.
Go to the gym, you get clusters of people hanging around the machines going, 'What the hell is the government doing…'
Go to the local market, you get the ah sohs and the hawkers bitching about how crazy the politicians in this country are… and how they can no longer believe the stupid sodomy allegations heaped upon DSAI.
Go to a five star hotel buffet (its ramadhan yoh), and the topic is, hot hot, guess what, 'I wonder who is on his stupid 'think tank' department, if I were him I'd just retire gracefully and enjoy the rest of my life as a very rich man.'
I tak tau lah some people. Possibly its because he's had it so good, he doesn't even know that we have a freaking refugee problem in Malaysia.
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Speaking of which, there's going to be this book launch for that Revolving Doors special by the NGO called TENAGANITA , which, btw, is helmed by the very esteemed Irene Fernandez (who btw, is still facing legal problems – stupid government, sampai sekarang pun tak settle settle lagi… gawd). Anyway details:
Date: 27 September 2008 (that's this Saturday)
Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: The Mandarin Court Hotel, KL.
Shortcut to the website and press statement is here.
Now, my kai kor (God Brother) who works in Tenaganita tells me that these UNSCRUPULOUs Malaysia sometimes bring in the Burmese girls (and guys), at measly cost of RM500 and then later on, unsuspecting Malaysian clients will pay the standard fees of RM6000 – RM7000… and these refugees will have to work like cow like horse (chinese slang here). If the girls are pretty, they get prostituted. YOU THINK WHAT?
This is serious stuff folks, this is precisely why our country is no longer safe. Look if we don't care about how we treat these foreign workers (who're being abused, and actually, REFUGEES), you think we'll bother about the Nurins and the Sharlini's of this country? This is why our streets are no longer safe because stupid and irresponsible money-hungry Malaysians will not hesitate to treat human beings like commodities…
I seem to get angry all the time at night. I think I better go now. But btw, if you're going to the Revolving Doors book launch, see you there! Ta!
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September 25, 2008 at 6:53 pm
I wanted to get a full body check up, but no doctor has four hours spare and a ladder to climb my stomach to do it.
September 25, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Striked up a conversation with a petrol station attendant few weeks ago. He was conned by a Malaysian agency. He was promised a salary of 2K but ended up working as a petrol station attendant with a salary of 500 bucks per month. Back in his homeland, he’s an English and Japanese language teacher! Poor guy…
Feel bad for him. He’s been here for close to a year, but thankfully he’ll be going home soon.
September 26, 2008 at 12:59 am
Here’s food for thought.
That fella is incompetant and everything, and everybody knows that.
But credit where credit is due. The fact that you and I are both writing about this, the fact that you mentioned that you can go out there and talk to a stranger about this and everybody can critisize freely – well, I don’t know about you, but I was brought up well aware of the situation at that time, and was always warned NEVER to talk politics in public, because people might hear you and throw you in jail.
The fact that there are a lot of dissenters out there who are not in jail is an indication of something. Some call it being weak, others call it being liberal.
You and I can make what we like out of it.
p/s: I do know people who believe the main-belakang story, so for those people it isn’t exactly ‘stupid allegations’
September 26, 2008 at 8:57 am
u mean the petrol station guy?