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Holiday season’s over
The three week holiday season is coming to a close. First we celebrated Hari Merdeka on 31 August (although I came into the office to work on my tender exercise). Then we celebrated Hari Raya Aidilfitri on 10 and 13 September (good break). And finally we celebrated Hari Malaysia on 16 September (our...
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19th September 2010 2:40pm
Minority racism in Malaysia
From the Letters page of The New Straits Times, 26 August 2010:Shocked at biased attitudeWe are from Sabah and most of us, even though we are born Muslim, do not consider ourselves Malay, especially when we have Kadazandusun parents or grandparents whose forefathers were Chinese or some other race.1Malaysia...
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29th August 2010 6:03pm
PriceWatch: Pokka Lemon Tea
Item: Lemon Tea, 500mlBrand: PokkaPrice: MYR 2.70Date of Purchase/Survey: 24/07/2010Place of Sale: BreadTalk, MidValley Megamall
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14th August 2010 1:53pm
World Cup history tonight
Doesn’t matter who lifts the trophy after tonight’s Holland v Spain match. It’ll be a historic result, since neither team have ever won the World Cup. It’s been a thrilling ride so far, with a fair share of surprises and upsets. My dream final of Brazil v Argentina never materialized, after both...
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11th July 2010 10:58pm
A Father’s Day gift from A’isyah
Yesterday morning A’isyah came to me with a (late) Father’s Day gift. I didn’t get the chance to spend the day with her this weekend, but this made up for it. She gave me a card:a cake (had some of the cake with A’isyah this morning):and a photo-frame, with a picture of us.After a bit of hunting...
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23rd June 2010 9:16pm
World Cup Fever is here
Actually, it arrived about a week ago, and we’re in full swing already. There are already teams who have booked their place in the round of 16. I haven’t watched all the games, but thanks to Astro, I’ve at least watched the highlights of every game. There have been some good games, and there have...
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19th June 2010 10:06pm
Starting a photo-blog
So, I’ve decided to start my own photo-blog. It’ll probably be as infrequently updated as this blog (hehe), but I wanted a place for me to share certain pics. I haven’t decided yet how public I’ll be, but I recently set up a Flickr account to share pics with certain people. That didn’t work out...
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10th June 2010 10:49pm
Citing online images
How does one cite an online image? I had no idea (it’s been a while since I’ve written anything academic), so I searched online. A Google search for “bibliography reference for internet image” led me to a useful page at a virtual middle school library site (how appropriate).To quote from that...
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22nd May 2010 4:03pm
Comparing last weekend and this weekend
Last weekend actually started on Friday, since we got the day off as a replacement for Labour Day falling on Saturday. A couple of noteworthy events from that day, including, catching a movie at the Premiere Class at GSC Signature Gardens for the first time. Interesting layout; very well-suited to those...
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8th May 2010 9:43pm
Cough medicine
Item: Cough linctus, 100mlBrand: Himalaya (Diakof)Price: MYR 13.90Date of Purchase/Survey: 21/04/2010Place of Sale: MidValley Megamall (Watsons)I really like Himalaya products. All herbal, all natural.
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21st April 2010 10:31pm
“Oh, we’re not friends with him any more”
I’m really curious how that conversation would go. It’s a hypothetical conversation of course. At least, as far as I’m concerned.I once was married and now am not. I am also a few friends short.Let’s start with two sets of friends, one mine (M), one hers (H). Then we’ll intersect them (M-I-H)...
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20th April 2010 5:25pm
This is why I don’t play sports
My mind, eternally youthful, seems to believe my body is 16 years old. My body, being at least twice that age, refuses to play along. My mind, able to imagine fantastical feats of physical prowess, is convinced what it can imagine, my body can achieve. My body, woefully untested in actual physical...
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10th April 2010 3:43pm
The Lost Emperor, Chapter 5
Commander Gargalash turned at the sound of his name. Rendoo, the mage, was holding open the entrance flap of the command tent. The mage stepped aside as Gargalash approached, ushering the commander inside. The old man looked weary, no doubt having spent all of last night and the majority of this morning...
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12th October 2009 7:50pm
The Lost Emperor, Chapter 4
Yarga was just reaching for the door when it opened, from the outside. It was the young page from earlier. Feraz, if the Minister remembered correctly. He was the ward of one of the Duchess’ servants. The Duchess preferred to hold court further West, ‘away from the barbarians’, as she put it. If...
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9th October 2009 9:25pm
The Lost Emperor, Chapter 3
“What do you mean they march towards LiYarfah?” Lord Tomaz Cilarfa, Duke of BurJuandar, was more surprised than angry. The news had initially shocked him into sitting down, but a second later he pushed himself away from the table and marched to the mural on the west wall, stopping right in front of...
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30th September 2009 10:22pm
The Lost Emperor, Chapter 2
The door creaked open and a ray of light stabbed into the room. The shadow preceded the page, who squeezed past the barely open doorway and made his way to the Ministers clustered around the only table in the room. Such was the discipline required of all servants in the Duke’s household that even in...
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29th September 2009 9:54pm
NaNoWriMo 2007 – The Lost Emperor
In October 2007, when someone introduced me to NaNoWriMo, I thought it was a cool idea. I also thought it might provide me the impetus to keep at a writing project. That’s why I signed up after a few days thought.The story I started writing was one that had been bouncing around in my head for some time...
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24th September 2009 9:18pm
Mission: Evacuation, Episode 1
Three minutes after coming through the gate and I was under attack. Not much of an attack, but an attack nonetheless. Three AK's and two Storms don't give me any concern (I barely noticed them), but now the Core was alerted to my position. They knew an Arm Commander was on the scene. After a few seconds...
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8th September 2009 10:21pm
About A Beginning in Sight
After a short break from Utopia, I recreated an account. I don’t recall the exact timeline, but I wrote another story around that time and dated it in Age 15 (Q1 2002). I didn’t share the story with my Kingdom-mates for some reason or another, although I did post it to my GeoCities page.It’s not a...
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3rd September 2009 6:48pm
About Homeward Bound
My second Utopia-based fiction was written as an introduction piece to a new Kingdom. It was Age 11 (Q1 2001, soon after I left Canada) and I had actually done the unthinkable. I had traded into an existing Kingdom, taking over someone else’s province. This is expressly forbidden by the rules of the...
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2nd September 2009 10:10pm