Investing in the dead

A friend, Gary met me yesterday and told me about investing in "aiyah, what do you call this place where you keep the ashes of the creamated" in Shah Alam. I thought it was a good deal and bought three lots for about RM20 000 each...pay by instalment lah...thinking...after one year, sell off one lot, i would have gained the profit for which i would continue to pay instalment for the rest...now...if cannot sell...then die lor...then will use the place for myself...LOL!!!

Writer's block

welll....it has been sometime that i have not written anything in this blog...hmmm...dunno what to write..."writer's block"....but just remembered an incident last Saturday. was queuing for taxi in desa setapak...there was a queue...when here comes a young couple (husband and wife, i presume) who decided to beat the queue and went into a taxi...and the B*&%$# taxi took them in....hmmm...if i was in a b#$@%^ mood, i would have scolded the couple and the taxi driver....queuing is just not in our Malaysian culture...yet so much emphasis on religion, religion, religion...but in practice...very uncultured....

waves in the air....

i am sitting right now in my office, i have my laptop, my desktop, my cell phone and my PDA, all on the table...i wonder....ten or twenty years from now...will i get brain tumor? :-) with all these waves travelling in the air...will our brains get cooked? hmmm...i read somewhere one should always use a hands free device...minimizes the 'cooking' done to our brains as compared to listening to the cell phone on our ears directly.....hmmm....

exams exams

students sitting for their exams tomorrow...reminds me of my exam days.....and realise that perhaps my techniques in studying for exams were not that right...have always been a "memorizer"...until uni days when i learnt to "read enough, and use what i have read to produce something to show that i understand something"....students should be allowed to do this...then they won't be regurtitating what they have read...but then, it all depends on the kind of questions set by the teachers and examiners....and the cycle goes on....ultimately, we won't be producing a thinking society....

I guess only in Malaysia....

brought a friend to clinic and now waiting for the doctor. sitting here at the lobby, i see, outside a man "booking" a car park with a plastic container..i am pretty sure this is illegal and not to say very selfish...but then who cares when there is no enforcement? I guess this is the main problem here in this country..the laws r there but lack of enforcement...hmmm...that guy who booked his parking space with a plastic bottle needs to be whacked...:-)

heavy heavy rain

was raining very heavily on my way from my office to go see dad...wah...road flooded and very scared that my car would get stalled. prayed silently...God please let me pass through the flooded road...i didn't expect the flood waters to part...at least don't go into my engine...wah....oklah was relieved when i managed to go past the flooded part of the road...really flooded...

Just back from Celine Dion's concert---phenomenal

Just back from C.D's concert. It started about nine, just after the royal family arrived (a part of the stadium showed their disapproval of this by murmurings, boos, etc, i guess they must have been waiting a long time....but didn't they check the website?)...but all I guess was forgotten when the diva started off her concert....honestly, can't remember what she sang but i do remember what song she ended the concert with...the much expected "My Heart will go on"....all in all the one and half hour concert was simply marvelous, phenomenal, fantastic, etc... i am pretty sure everyone left the stadium happy...

between starbucks and coffee bean

am here in OUG coffee bean, waiting for a friend. have my laptop with me, so log on into the internet....and what do you know...over here, i have to pay for it...as I have to register through aized to get access into cyber world....hmmm...in starbucks i get it free. i don' t have to register through any service provider... So i decided to log on using my maxis broadband...yeah...thank God for this maxis..but thumbs down to coffee bean....will have to keep going to starbucks the next time...

yahoo conference

was in yahoo conference late last night with my sis and a friend...wah...so good technology these days...connects people round the world and makes the world smaller...used to think that my sis is in a place far far away (actually in London) but now with the touch of a button on the laptop and we are connected....wonder in the next 50 years what sort of technological development we will see....

dishonest salesperson????

Sign up for maxis broadband on sunday. was told i could log on to the internet within three hours. in the night when i tried, still could not go in. called up maxis center and was told i was still not signed up in their system by the vendor. tried again on monday, and again on tuesday....so it has been thirty six hours already....so...three hours my foot....where are the honest sales person today? is such a person a rare breed? these sales people can't do a simple thing i guess....very frustrating....i guess will keep on waiting....

Japanese Exhibition

Today, the Japanese language students, through the leadership of its lecturer Mr Nahan, organized the first ever Japanese exhibition in the faculty. it was fanta-bulous...booths on japanese culture, life, food, drinks, games, etc. were on display. I was told the students were very enthusiastic about it...some came as early as 6.30 a.m. to prepare the booths...well done UTAR students...

I did learn that when you see two cups...the bigger one belongs to the man, the smaller belongs to the woman...hmmm...so patriarchal...

Universe of discouse

an interesting linguistics concept is "universe of discourse"; in simple terms, the elements (real or abstract) that are within the world of an individual....me wonder if bloggers have their own world of discourse...what are the elements of their discourse? do they bridge between the real world and their cyber world? do bloggers live within their own abstract world...me wonders....

Convocation

UTAR held its convocation recently. As I was sitting on stage, watching the graduates pass by with the scrolls, i remember the time when I was them, with my scroll---three times on the same stage, once for my bachelor, the second time for my master and the third time for my Phd...all on the same stage because i did all three degrees in the same uni...as i sat there watching them, i was thinking...how many of them will turn out to be academics so that in ten years time or so, they will be sitting on stage watching others walk pass by with their scrolls...but that is the issue nowadays----how many graduates actually want to be in the academic line? How many actually want to teach?