Peaceful Public Gathering (II)

Bersih, the organiser for Saturday's peaceful march to deliver a memorandum calling for a clean and fair election (which could materialise any time). It was heard that police will monitor cars coming from other states into the city early morning onwards, maybe stopping them from entering the city. Rumours are also heard that outstation participants will flock into the city by Friday night or wee hours of Saturday morning.

The organiser did mention that four alternative places be fixed as the gathering place if Dataran Merdeka was closed to the public by the police manning the area. The four alternative places are Sogo departmental store area, Masjid India area, Central Market and Masjid Negara.

The peaceful gathering will still commence at 3pm where participants will continue with a peaceful march towards the King's palace. The organiser was targetting the presence of 100,000 people in this rally. Wow..... if there were 100,000 people, both the traffic direction in front of the King's palace would be packed to the maximum.

Advise Kuala Lumpur folks not to go near that those areas being mentioned else they will be caught in the mother of all traffic jams. My view on this gathering - the general public are calling for a clean and fair election only. If the relevant authorities are worried that it might caused ruckus, please do arrest those troublemakers but leave the others alone. I hope that many international observers or international new agencies will be amongst the participants to witness the event as independent observers.

I would say this is not a protest but a request by all Malaysians of all races.

As for me, people may ask where were you since you wrote so much about this peaceful gathering. Well, I'll be tied down with my church drama practises tomorrow, with one of the practises beginning at 10am and followed by another one at 3pm. Later at 5pm, will be a dance practise followed by its drama practise for another team. I'll be like camping in church for the whole day. But I'll be praying for the event and participants.

Remember to wear YELLOW tomorrow wherever you are. If you can't join them, be with them in spirit or what people will usually say "Moral Support".
Tags: Bersih, Sogo, Masjid India, Central Market, Masjid Negara, Dataran Merdeka

Call Centre Operators

I'm sure you have called some companies, banks or mobile phone operator where they would redirect your calls to their call centres who would respond accordingly. Some organisations have an automated response only which would direct you to a specific person by pressing the right number. In the scenario below, it was a call directed to a State Mental Hospital:-

"Hello and thank you for calling The State Mental Hospital.
Please select from the following options menu:-
* If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.
* If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.
* If you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5 and 6.
* If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want, stay on the line so we can trace your call.
* If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be forwarded to the Mother Ship.
* If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
* If you are manic-depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press, nothing will make you happy anyway.
* If you are dyslexic, press 9696969696969696.
* If you are bipolar, please leave a message after the beep or before the beep or after the beep. Please wait for the beep.
* If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.
* If you have low self-esteem, please hang up our operators are too busy to talk with you.
* If you are menopausal, put the gun down, hang up, turn on the fan, lie down and cry. You won't be crazy forever.
* If you are blonde, don't press any buttons, you'll just mess it up."

This is the technology convenience that we have invented to make our life easier.
Tags: Mental Hospital, Call Centre, Funny, Humour

Pisa Tower Dropped to 2nd Placing

The Leaning Tower of Pisa (the name which has been given long time ago) has been drawing lots of visitors to their leaning tower.

Of late, a challenge came from a church steeple in Germany.

And according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tower in the small village of Suurhusen in northwestern Germany leans more than the famous tower in Pisa in Italy.

They say Pisa's tower tilts at an angle of 3.97 degrees, whereas the tower in Suurhusen leans at 5.07 degrees. As of today, the tower in Suurhusen is ranked no. 1. Frankly, who wants their building to be tilting and challenge for the no. 1 ranking. (source: Reuters)

Tags: Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Church Steeple, Suurhusen, Germany, Guinness Book of World Records

Happy Deepavali

To all blog readers who celebrates the Festival of Light, Happy Deepavali to you and your family.

Went to two Indian friends' house, one during lunch time and another for dinner hmmmmmmmm nice meals and missed their food for the last two years when I was away overseas.
Tags: Deepavali, Divali, Festival

All-Time Wingnuttiest Blog Post Contest

In most places, people will try to choose the best blog or blog post but Washington Monthly has started something different. A list of nominees for the All-Time Wingnuttiest Blog Post Contest is listed below. The nominees were nominated for the worst, most embarrassing, most risible wingnut blog posts, etc:-

* Ann Althouse: "Let's take a closer look at those breasts"

* Steven Den Beste (shortly before the Iraq war started): "It's the waiting that wears"
(Cut and paste the link to read the post: http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2003/03/Itsthewaiting.shtml)

* John Derbyshire (after the Virginia Tech shootings): "Where was the spirit of self-defense here?....It's not like this was Rambo, hosing the place down with automatic weapons"

* Ben Domenech: "Pachyderms in the Mist"

* Kim du Toit: "The Pussification of the Western Male"

* Pam "Atlas Shrugs" Geller: "My Sharia!"

* Jonah Goldberg (before Katrina): "Attn: Superdome Residents....grow gills...."

* Robert Hahn: "I will suggest that President Bush understands money better than any President we have ever had"

* Hugh Hewitt: "I'm sitting in the Empire State Building...."

* John Hinderaker: "It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius...."

* Michelle Malkin: "The Defeatocrats Cheer"

* Glenn Reynolds: "Maybe we should rise above the temptation to point out that claims of a 'quagmire' were wrong....Nah"

* Lee Siegel: "The Origins of Blogofascism"

* Bill Whittle (after Katrina): "Tribes"

And the Winners are listed here.
Tags: Wingnuttiest Blog Post, Washington Monthly

Fake and Original Memory Cards

It's not easy to detect a fake memory card, neither is it easy to differentiate it if both fake and genuine cards were given to you. Industry players are at times caught with having received such goods too.

Even tho the fake memory cards could still function when you insert it into your mobile phone, PDA or camera, it will not last long as it's of inferior quality. Moreover such cards do not have warranty. Imagine storing everything important video, pictures or documents and suddenly it went kaput.SanDisk - fake memory card has faded red colour of its brand name. Some of the fake cards do not have serial numbers.Fake card's packaging - hologram is not there.Poor printing quality and alignment of label.

Tags: Memory Card, Fake Memory Card, Memory Stick ProDuo, Sony, SanDisk

Jimmy The Aboriginal

A very rich man living in Darwin decided that he wanted to throw a party and invited all of his buddies and neighbours. He also invited Jimmy, the only aboriginal in the neighbourhood.

He held the party around the pool in the backyard of his mansion. Everyone was having a good time drinking, dancing, eating Prawns and oysters at the BBQ and flirting.

At the height of the party, the host said, "I have a 15ft man-eating crocodile in my pool and I'll give a million dollars to anyone who has the balls to jump in." The words were barely out of his mouth when there was a loud splash and everyone turned around and saw Jimmy in the pool!

Jimmy was fighting the croc and kicking its ass! Jimmy was jabbing the croc in the eyes with his thumbs, throwing punches, doing all kinds of sh!t, like head butts and chokeholds, biting the croc on the tail and flipping the croc through the air like some kind of judo instructor.

The water was churning and splashing everywhere. Both Jimmy and the croc were screaming and raising hell.

Finally Jimmy strangled the croc and let it float to the top like a K-mart goldfish. Jimmy then slowly climbed out of the pool. Everybody was just staring at him in disbelief.

Finally the host says, "Well, Jimmy, I reckon I owe you a million dollars." "Nah, you all right, I don't want it," said Jimmy.

The rich man said, "Man, I have to give you something. You won the bet.", "How about half a million bucks then?" "No thanks. I don't want it," answered Jimmy.

The host said, "Come on, I insist on giving you something. That was amazing. How about a new Porsche and a Rolex and some stock options?" Again Jimmy said no.

Confused, the rich man asked, "Well Jimmy, then what do you want?"

And Jimmy said, "I just want the name of the @$%&*# who pushed me in the pool."
Tags: Jokes, Funny, Humour