Sunday, November 04, 2007
Sunday Breakfast
9am
What are you doing up so early?
I am a morning person - wanna go for breakfast?
Sure yeah, but let me get organized. I just woke up.
I wanna have chee cheong fun
CARB! Aaarghhhh!
Alah, you go work out later lah!
OK, you wanna bring your camera?
Do I have to?
Bring lah
OK lah
K:Rew and I had chee cheong fun breakfast in Taman Megah. KLow introduced to me this joint because I love chee cheong fun with curry (only with curry!)
There is another place in Desa Sri Hartamas. Not as good, but very convinient. The auntie knows me already. Whenever I went to eat there, she would say "chee cheong fun with curry, I make the curry hot for you first ah?"
Way to go auntie!
We actually ordered roti bakar for dessert but we ate it before I manage to shoot the pic....
What are you doing up so early?
I am a morning person - wanna go for breakfast?
Sure yeah, but let me get organized. I just woke up.
I wanna have chee cheong fun
CARB! Aaarghhhh!
Alah, you go work out later lah!
OK, you wanna bring your camera?
Do I have to?
Bring lah
OK lah
K:Rew and I had chee cheong fun breakfast in Taman Megah. KLow introduced to me this joint because I love chee cheong fun with curry (only with curry!)
There is another place in Desa Sri Hartamas. Not as good, but very convinient. The auntie knows me already. Whenever I went to eat there, she would say "chee cheong fun with curry, I make the curry hot for you first ah?"
Way to go auntie!
We actually ordered roti bakar for dessert but we ate it before I manage to shoot the pic....
Saturday, November 03, 2007
One Whole Month of Hari Raya Celebration
The only good thing about open houses is to get togther and catch up with family and friends.
BUT,
I gained (my weight) what ever I lost during Ramadhan in just a matter of 2 weeks.
Weekends are packed with invites and some I cannot escape.
The traffic is just horrendous.
Tomorrow I have to go tp 2 invites. One in Bukit Rahman Putra (near Sungai Buloh) and another one is in Kajang. I feel like I have to drive from Orchard to Sukhumvit.
Last week I had to go to TPR open house with massive hangover. It was NOT funny. I could not even enjoy the real taste of her nasi dagang and keropok lekor.
BUT, it's Raya nevertheless. Only once a year (Thank God for that!)
Friday, November 02, 2007
To the dogs in the drain!
The CCID – the RM 27 mil cop faced 3 charges in session court in KL yesterday.
Charges:
Failure to reveal info on 2 office units in Jalan Yap Kwan Seng: estimated about RM1 mil
Failure to reveal 154,000 units of shares in Pemaju Industries Berhad: Estimated value RM200,000
Unlawful engagement in business - no value indicated.
I would like to propose to ACA, do the same thing to all, I mean ALL of the high ranking government officials and cabinet ministers to declare their assets. And yes, please find out what their children, nieces, nephews, uncle, unties, brothers and sisters.
Lets find out who has how many mansions in Damansara Heights, Kelang or Shah Alam, flats in London, bank accounts in Zurich or perhaps a stable of exotic cars in their garages, "winning" in Las Vegas.
KALAU BRANI!
If they have nothing to hide, then, ACA has no problem to accumulate all the info.
Why only pick on CCID Chief? What about other bigger fish?
If the leadership claim this government is clean, then please prove it!. Let’s be transparent and see who is really clean.
This country is going to the dogs in the drain. (if we do not do anyhitng about it!)
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Show of Force
I had lunch with Mr D70s before he left for Melbourne for his show-of-force trip.
He is very much infatuated by this girl that he recently met and decided to pursue her all the way to Melbourne.
I am not really interested in his sex life (if there is any!) - but we had good japanese lunch at the Gardens.
Yo, Mr D70s - Please return my Lonely Planet Australia and buy me lunch!
He is very much infatuated by this girl that he recently met and decided to pursue her all the way to Melbourne.
I am not really interested in his sex life (if there is any!) - but we had good japanese lunch at the Gardens.
Yo, Mr D70s - Please return my Lonely Planet Australia and buy me lunch!
Monday, October 29, 2007
The politics of hypocrisy
I've got this from The Guardian
UK business interests in Burma are more important to this government than justice
The news is no more from Burma. The young monks are quiet in their cells, or they are dead. But words have escaped: the defiant, beautiful poetry of Aung Than and Zeya Aung; and we know of the unbroken will of the journalist U Win Tin, who makes ink out of brick powder on the walls of his prison cell and writes with a pen made from a bamboo mat - at the age of 77. These are the bravest of the brave. What shame they bring to those in the west whose hypocrisy and silence helps to feed the monster that rules Burma.
Condoleezza Rice comes to mind. "The United States," she said, "is determined to keep an international focus on the travesty that is taking place in Burma." What she is less keen to keep a focus on is that the huge American company, Chevron, on whose board of directors she sat, is part of a consortium with the junta and the French company, Total, that operates in Burma's offshore oilfields. The gas from these fields is exported through a pipeline that was built with forced labour and whose construction involved Halliburton, of which Vice-President Cheney was chief executive.
For many years, the Foreign Office in London promoted business as usual in Burma. When I interviewed Aung San Suu Kyi a decade ago I read her a Foreign Office press release that said, "Through commercial contacts with democratic nations such as Britain, the Burmese people will gain experience of democratic principles." She smiled sardonically and said, "Not a bit of it."
In Britain, the official PR line has changed; Burma is a favourite New Labour "cause"; Gordon Brown has written a platitudinous chapter in a book about his admiration of Suu Kyi. On Thursday, he wrote a letter to Pen, waffling about prisoners of conscience, no doubt part of his current empty theme of "returning liberty" when none can be returned without a fight. As for Burma, the essence of Britain's compliance and collusion has not changed. British tour firms - such as Orient Express and Asean Explorer - are able to make a handsome profit on the suffering of the Burmese people. Aquatic, a sort of mini-Halliburton, has its snout in the same trough, together with Rolls-Royce and others that use Burmese teak.
When did Brown or Blair ever use their platforms at the CBI and in the City of London to name and shame those British companies that make money on the back of the Burmese people? When did a British prime minister call for the EU to plug the loopholes of arms supply to Burma. The reason ought to be obvious. The British government is itself one of the world's leading arms suppliers. Next week, the dictator of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, whose tyranny gorges itself on British arms, will receive a state visit. On Thursday the Brown government approved Washington's latest fabricated prelude to a criminal attack on Iran - as if the horrors of Iraq and Afghanistan were not enough for the "liberal" lionhearts in Downing Street and Whitehall.
And when did a British prime minister call on its ally and client, Israel, to end its long and sinister relationship with the Burmese junta? Or does Israel's immunity and impunity also cover its supply of weapons technology to Burma and its reported training of the junta's most feared internal security thugs? Of course, that is not unusual. The Australian government - so vocal lately in its condemnation of the junta - has not stopped the Australian Federal Police training Burma's internal security forces.
Those who care for freedom in Burma and Iraq and Iran and Saudi Arabia and beyond must not be distracted by the posturing and weasel pronouncements of our leaders, who themselves should be called to account as accomplices. We owe nothing less to Burma's bravest of the brave.
www.johnpilger.com
John Pilger
Saturday October 27, 2007
The Guardian
UK business interests in Burma are more important to this government than justice
The news is no more from Burma. The young monks are quiet in their cells, or they are dead. But words have escaped: the defiant, beautiful poetry of Aung Than and Zeya Aung; and we know of the unbroken will of the journalist U Win Tin, who makes ink out of brick powder on the walls of his prison cell and writes with a pen made from a bamboo mat - at the age of 77. These are the bravest of the brave. What shame they bring to those in the west whose hypocrisy and silence helps to feed the monster that rules Burma.
Condoleezza Rice comes to mind. "The United States," she said, "is determined to keep an international focus on the travesty that is taking place in Burma." What she is less keen to keep a focus on is that the huge American company, Chevron, on whose board of directors she sat, is part of a consortium with the junta and the French company, Total, that operates in Burma's offshore oilfields. The gas from these fields is exported through a pipeline that was built with forced labour and whose construction involved Halliburton, of which Vice-President Cheney was chief executive.
For many years, the Foreign Office in London promoted business as usual in Burma. When I interviewed Aung San Suu Kyi a decade ago I read her a Foreign Office press release that said, "Through commercial contacts with democratic nations such as Britain, the Burmese people will gain experience of democratic principles." She smiled sardonically and said, "Not a bit of it."
In Britain, the official PR line has changed; Burma is a favourite New Labour "cause"; Gordon Brown has written a platitudinous chapter in a book about his admiration of Suu Kyi. On Thursday, he wrote a letter to Pen, waffling about prisoners of conscience, no doubt part of his current empty theme of "returning liberty" when none can be returned without a fight. As for Burma, the essence of Britain's compliance and collusion has not changed. British tour firms - such as Orient Express and Asean Explorer - are able to make a handsome profit on the suffering of the Burmese people. Aquatic, a sort of mini-Halliburton, has its snout in the same trough, together with Rolls-Royce and others that use Burmese teak.
When did Brown or Blair ever use their platforms at the CBI and in the City of London to name and shame those British companies that make money on the back of the Burmese people? When did a British prime minister call for the EU to plug the loopholes of arms supply to Burma. The reason ought to be obvious. The British government is itself one of the world's leading arms suppliers. Next week, the dictator of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, whose tyranny gorges itself on British arms, will receive a state visit. On Thursday the Brown government approved Washington's latest fabricated prelude to a criminal attack on Iran - as if the horrors of Iraq and Afghanistan were not enough for the "liberal" lionhearts in Downing Street and Whitehall.
And when did a British prime minister call on its ally and client, Israel, to end its long and sinister relationship with the Burmese junta? Or does Israel's immunity and impunity also cover its supply of weapons technology to Burma and its reported training of the junta's most feared internal security thugs? Of course, that is not unusual. The Australian government - so vocal lately in its condemnation of the junta - has not stopped the Australian Federal Police training Burma's internal security forces.
Those who care for freedom in Burma and Iraq and Iran and Saudi Arabia and beyond must not be distracted by the posturing and weasel pronouncements of our leaders, who themselves should be called to account as accomplices. We owe nothing less to Burma's bravest of the brave.
www.johnpilger.com
John Pilger
Saturday October 27, 2007
The Guardian
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Joy ride
Just completed Kiara loop with Tiger Hill, who is itchy to upgrade his bike. I guess he deserves it. His current Cannondale (hardtail - oh so uncomfartable!) has been with him for years. But, just like Mr D70s, he takes really good care of his toys.
I am very happy (though I wish I was fitter) to ride Kiara again. Tiger took me to some trails I have not explored before. Beautiful! Even if you are not a mountain biker, you can surely enjoy trekking it on foot. Lovely trails with streams and all.
If you enjoy the nature, do try it.
The best thing is, it is just close by and you do not even have to drive out of the city to enjoy it.
I had a small crashed, wounded my knees :-(
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