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Once Upon A Time

there lived an Internet Troll by the nick of boob_omatic in the land of www.xes.cx …

Imagine you’re in Shibuya, Tokyo. Beautiful and colourful neon lights are behind you. You pass your camera to a friend and..
Friend: oi oi, go back abit. stand far away from me.
You: okok.
*FLASH*
Then you find a great photo of Shibuya with your face, as small as a pinhead.

Spot Bimbobum @ Shibuya 😀
When taking photographs of a person and a distinctive background, always make sure that the person’s face is clear. But some people do not understand this concept. Many times I’ve seen people standing far away from the camera when posing in front of distinctive background.
SEE WHAT LA LIDDAT?

Continue reading Photography 101

How to tell if your staff have been drinking on the job?

We all know what beer can do to us. This is what it did to the people in the Heineken factory. =D
Is this a common sight on beer bottles btw?

Have you seen this girl?

Ms. Michelle Kirsten Tai, another fellow blogger with the url of http://www.michelle-kirsten.blogspot.com/ has been missing since last Friday. Her family has made a police report and a local Chinese newspaper has issued a front page notice looking for her.
Her cousin, Ms. Jessie has left a message on Michelle’s tagboard stating:-
Jessie: Hi Everyone I am Michelle’s cousin Please help us to find Michelle as she has not been back home since yesterday afternoon….. Please tell her to contact us back home as we are very worried about her and we have already lodge a police report…. Please call us at 03-77811819(home), 017-8835 118 (Dad), 017-3139 658 (Mum), 012-653 2114 (Jessie) MIchelle ….please call back..we miss you & we all love you – Jessie-
This is unlike the usual missing person notice, this notice is not just a face. A visit to her blog reveals a life before this tragedy. A love life, good friends, trips to here and there, her devotion to God and so on. It’s sad to see such calamity affecting a young person like her. So please, contact the above numbers if you have any information and save tEh turtles.
This community service message is brought to you by www.xes.cx. Please pass the message around.

FOUND!
SOURCE: http://angelzparadise.blogspot.com/2006/08/thank-god-shes-found.html

www.xes.cx HACKED..again..

First and foremost, I must thank pikey and Big Ben for informing me early in the morning that my website got hacked.

This is not the first time a website of mine got hacked. Few months back, the xes.cx forum was hacked and defaced. My forum data was lost and I had to reinstall a new forum because of that.

Many years back, when I had www.xes.net.my, a friend of mine hacked in to www.xes.net.my and defaced the main page. Fortunately, no harm was done.

Anyway, a brief history. Prior to www.xes.cx , I had xes.net.my. The url was cancelled because the person in charge of maintaining my url, Sai-X neglected to do. And before xes.net.my, I had xes.org. That died as well.

Maintaining a website is certainly not easy. I have gone through pain and tears because of websites. Recently, I have been threatened with a police report due to one entry I made about friendster accounts of an 85 years old lawyer and a 20++ years old girl. The lawyer sent me a letter accusing me of setting up the fake friendster accounts, which of course was denied. The entry has been removed.

Then last year, a photographer emailed me demanding me to remove photographs that I posted on my website. They were photos of night spots in Kuala Lumpur. He was about to sue me for fees for using his pictures. But fortunately, he decided to forget about it.
Also, not forgetting the occasional blog trolls such as iloveu. These blog trolls usually post insulting messages anonymously. Sometimes they make my blood boil. But most of the time, they’re creating bad karma for themselves 😛

Anyway, back to www.xes.cx, my admin has just informed me that the problem has been fixed. I discovered that www.xes.cx was involved in a mass defacement by some hackers.

Yet another drama @ www.xes.cx!

My tenant’s dog

My tenant has been keeping a dog for more than a year. He kept it subtly without my Mum’s knowledge. Sometimes he brings his dog into his room and keeps it in his room for the entire night. This is of course, not acceptable in my house. Few times he was threaten by my Mum saying that she will kick him out from the house.
The dog was cute initially but when I found that it bitten off my one and only durable slippers, I develop hatred towards it.
As a result, the dog will run whenever it sees me. Nevertheless, my tenant’s love towards the dog is unconditional. Although that bloody dog has caused him numerous headache and troubles, he feeds the dog well and cleans it like his own child.
Other than my tenant’s dog, there are 2 more other dogs belonging to my neighbours, one opposite my house and another one next to my house. The first dog’s owner has abandoned him and left it in care of his housemate. But this housemate neglects the first dog. Mum and I always had to tahpao leftover food for the first dog.
As for the second dog, it came from no where, probably a stray. However, my kind hearted neighbour adopted the second dog and cared for it like their own. They feed it and even bought a tag for it.
With the power of these 3 dogs combined, they form, the ultimate rubbish bin dissecting squad. (This sentence reminds me of Captain Planet. By our power combine, I am captain planet1 *background music – captain planet he’s a hero, gonna bring pollution down to zero.*)
Every day I see rubbish strewed on the streets due to those 3 dogs. Mum and I had to take turns to clean the street outside our house. Sometimes we find bags of rubbish in our house brought over by my tenant’s dog. Despite repeated scolding and verbal abuse on my tenant, my tenant’s love to his dog was nevertheless unconditional.
However, 2 days back, my tenant couldn’t find his dog. After searching high and low, he found his dog. Dead in the drain. Poisoned.
My tenant said that his dog was poisoned by some biscuits left outside our compound.
The 2 other dogs survived. However, the second dog was hospitalized and the first dog is suffering from side effects of the poison. I wonder if they could make it.
Recently, local authorities came to my area to catch stray dogs. I heard that dogs which strayed from their compound will be caught. Nevertheless, those 3 dogs managed to escape the dog catcher’s noose. Unfortunately, one dog belonging to one man on another street happened to pass by my house. That dog was caught and was never to be seen again.
Although I cannot say that it was the local authorities who left those poisonous biscuits outside my house. Nevertheless, circumstances show that they are the culprit.
How inhumane. How can they leave poison on the streets for dogs to eat? These dogs are not rats or cockroaches. In fact, they were treated like human beings by their owners.
So far, no news on what my tenant will do. At the moment, my tenant is grieving over the loss of his dog.

Sow’s Age

Halfway through the OHM event, Sow and I went to a grocery shop nearby to buy beer. The lady shop keeper thought Sow was a foreigner.

FYI: Sow is 25 years old.
Lady Shop Keeper: Where are you from?
Sow: Er. KL?
Me: Guess how old is he!!!!
Sow: O_O|||
Lady Shop Keeper: Oh, ummm around 25 – 26 years old?
Me: /(*O*)\ How did you know!!??
Lady Shop Keeper: I can see from his hands.
Sow: O_O! YEAH for the first time, someone got it right. Most people think I’m 30 over years old.
I’ve always thought that the only way to tell Sow’s age is to ask him or maybe carbon date him. But now, I DIDN’T KNOW YOU CAN TELL SOMEONE’S AGE BY THE LOOKS OF HIS/HER HAND!

All things Japanese

LOL!!
Doraemon anime series! In Cantonese though 😀

More @ http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_sort=relevance&search_query=doraemon+tvb&search=Search
If you have noticed, Nobita’s Dad gives all his monthly income to his wife. Thereafter, his wife would distribute it accordingly. I’ve seen in couple of episodes where Nobita’s Dad argues with Nobita’s mum over the former’s allowance. I know this is a common practice in the Japanese society, but I don’t think it’s acceptable for me la. My money is my money, your money is YOUR MONEY and my money is not yours!
The Wackiest World of Japanese Ice Cream
If you think durian ice cream is weird? think again..
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photospecials/graph/060528icecream/index.html
On another hand, check this out BBC: In pictures: Food for thought

An open letter to bimbobum

This is a letter from a fellow lawyer and also reader of www.xes.cx.

Love

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