Paul rang me late last night, asking me to go to his place today to wash and polish my car. I was thinking that’s a strange request but I thought it’d be fun. Anyway, turned out he wanted to give me some belated birthday presents.

We did end up washing and polishing the car as well. It’s definitely quicker and more enjoyable when you have another person doing it. It also helped that we had a buffing machine. Those things cut the polishing time in half.

One thing that we found out today – metho (methylated spirits) does a great job in cleaning up cloudy headlight covers.

This has been one of the most unique birthday presents (the gifts and the car washing and polishing) that I have received in a while.

What? You don’t know who Tammy is? Go look it up on Technorati. Ain’t gonna link to anything here. The poor girl has got enough publicity as it is. Once again, the Singaporean blogosphere belies the size of the nation.

Then there was the Daphne Teo thing. Till this day I still get ppl who stumble onto my blog through my trackback on Tomorrow.sg (someone submitted me, I didn’t link myself there), or by searching for it on Google.

So enough about Tammy. Let me refocus your attention on one of the original shit-stirrer (or did her shit get stirred?) from the past year. Daphne lah! Fuck’s sake, need me to spell it out for you!?

1. Her new blog – hasn’t been updated since early Jan 2006.
2. Her boyfriend Erik Hagen’s blog – more up to date. Even has a pic of her. Woohoo!

There, isn’t that better? Give your attention to someone who wants it, instead of someone who just had a stroke of bad luck.

Now if and when Dawn Yang resurfaces in the blogosphere (for real life, you all can buy gossip mags or FHM or Maxim), or when Xiaxue shoots off her mouth in the wrong direction again, or some as yet undiscovered blogger pariah comes along, you can count on me to give my $2 dollars worth of commentary. $2 ah! Not just 2c ok?!

Don’t look me no up hor? I is blogosphere commentator #1 baby! Hahahah!

Technorati tag: Singapore, Singaporean, blogosphere

“This is my house. If you want to come in, you should respect me. If you can’t do that, then I won’t welcome you into my house.”

That was essentially what the Federal Treasurer Peter Costello said Tuesday night whilst addressing the Sydney Institute.

From the link below:

… the Treasurer has bluntly called for hard-line Muslims and others who don’t observe Australian values to be stripped of their citizenship.

And he said people coming to Australia should have the same respect for Australian values as visitors to a mosque who are asked to take off their shoes.

And:

“A person who does not acknowledge the supremacy of civil law laid down by democratic processes cannot truthfully take the pledge of allegiance,” he said.

“As such they do not meet the pre-condition for citizenship.”

I agree wholeheartedly. If you have come to live in a Western democracy, then it is highly contradictory for you to hate it. You have freedom of religion, and freedom of dress. You can even practice your form of Sharia law but you cannot expect to impose that on the general populace. And you’d most certainly be prosecuted under the common law if any of your cultural practices harm another person in this country.

There are plenty of Muslims, from all corners of the planet, who have assimilated to the life here in Australia. Extremists and zealots only serve to unfairly put *all* Muslims in this country in a bad light. I can’t claim to speak for moderate Muslims but I can bet you that you are about as welcomed by them as you are by the rest of us – NOT.

The Australian: Costello urges migrant loyalty [February 24, 2006]

Technorati tags: Australia, religion, Islam, multiculturalism

This is too bizarre not to share. Apparently a notice was sent out to students living in the student dormitories at the University of Durham in the UK to stop masturbating in the showers because of recent blockages in the plumbing system caused by …. SEMEN! 0_0″

Hahahahah. Oh man. Here’s my question though: why aren’t all university dormitories around the world populated by oversexed males having this problem too? Or how about tall apartment buildings which presumably share common plumbing from the top of the building to the bottom? Does the size of the pipes matter? Heh.

As the blogger who broke the story says in a very understated manner:

I recently discovered that studying in Durham now has a little bit of a downside.

Link to post.

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Stumbled upon via SpyMy.

These pics were taken on the day described in Penang Update 2.

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Had some breakfast in the morning and lazed around till lunch time. We went and got some rice-porridge with fried pig intestines. Sounds horrible but was absolutely fabulous. Washed it down with the requisite kopi-o-ping – ice black coffee.

On the walk back to the car, came across this shop.

Look closely and it says “Tan Ah Lee Motor”. What’s so funny about that? It’s just a very cliched Chinese name, is all. Like Tan Ah Beng.

After lunch, came home and lazed around again for a bit more. Choy (my dad’s youngest cousin who’s the same age as me) came and pick up my brother and I. We were gonna go to Segafredo in Gurney Plaza nearby for some beers.

That’s Choy in red. He’s a merchant sailor captain.

Came home and ate some more (!!!). Dazed in front of the TV before I went out again with Choy. And you guessed it, we were gonna go for supper. More food!

We went to a kopi-tiam in Pulau Tikus – quite a famous place if a bit more expensive than the others.

I had some FKT, or Fried Kuay Teow and washed that down with more kopi-o-ping. Both being quitessential Penang food items. Mmm. Doesn’t that just look mouth-watering? Choy had some Loh-Mee – yellow noodles with thick egg gravy.

That ended my first day in Penang. There was gonna be more food over the next week – my final week of holidays.

A lot of chain mails are hoaxes. Some are harmless, but some could be potentially dangerous by telling you to do things that you shouldn’t be. Or by telling you to do pointless things while you should be getting help for medical emergencies or similar.

So I implore you to stop sending me chain mails. I don’t want to start filtering your mails straight to my trash folder. Look up the stuff on Snopes.com and About.com’s urban legends site before you click on “Forward”.

A healthy cynicism goes a long way.

Another thing, stop clicking on e-mail attachments even if they may seem to have come from someone you know. Especially when the subject says:

• “Hey check this out!” or,
• “I love you!” or,
• “Naked Anna Kournikova pic!”.

No clicking on “.docs”, “.jpgs”, “.exes”, “.bat”, or “.scrs” either. If you wanna be certain, email the person back and ask him or her if they’d sent something to you.

If they didn’t, tell them to update their anti-virus programs quick smart.

And finally, no banks or credit-card companies would ever send you an email asking you to update your passwords, or to verify that you are who are you by entering said password. If you are gullible enough to click on a phish-y link, look at the site carefully. Does it look dodgy? If it does, then it’s dodgy!

If you are really not sure because the site looked kinda real, then call your bank or credit-card company’s hotline and ask about the emails. Chances are, they never sent out one.

And ARGH….. your penises would not get larger, you don’t need viagra off the net, and there’s no millions of dollars waiting for you in Nigeria! And you won’t earn money “working at home” – pyramid schemes are EVIL!

How do you know when something is a pyramid scheme? When you make money by recruiting more ppl into the scheme instead of actually selling anything real.

*phew* There. I hope I answered all your questions.

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Just because I solve computer problems for a living, it doesn’t mean I’d want to do it in my spare time for FREE. Unless of course you provide me food or sex. Big Big Bonus if you do both.

Snoop – my ever-smiling bull terrier cross.