Author: bimbobum

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!

Pick-Up Lines

1. Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?
2. Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?
3. Aren’t your legs tired, because you’ve been running through my mind the whole day?
4. Are your parents thieves? Because they stole the stars and sparkles in the sky and put them in your eyes.
5. Help the homeless. Take me home with you!
6. I’m lost. Can you show me the way to my heart?
7. My name is Justin. Justincredible.
8. You remind me of Pokemon. I just wanna piccachu. (OMG!)
9. Somebody better call God, cos he’s missing an angel!
10. If I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put U and I together.
11. You must be Jamaican, because Jamaican me crazy.
We’ve either heard it all before or we’ve read it through forwarded emails and on websites.
How about geeky pick-up lines?
1. You can put a Trojan on my Hard Drive anytime.
2. Resistance is futile.
3. What’s a nice girl like you doing in a chatroom like this?
4. You compute me.
[source]
5. You make my software turn to hardware!
Why don’t pick up lines work?
1. They can be insulting. Most smart people find classic pick up lines too lame. Those who response sometimes do so out of the goodness of their hearts.
2. They don’t show off your personality. It doesn’t show your wit or intelligence by ripping off these classic pick up lines.

Some Links:
Pick-Up Lines That Work (Not that Complete, don’t bother)
The Most Complete and Useless Collection of Pick-Up Lines
Tell me what pick-up line you’ve used, worked or failed; and what you’ve received before. And I’ll tell you mine! ;P

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

LET GO

We all know that after a break up, it’s wise to move on. Obviously those who don’t read my posts don’t know this. ;P (Just joking! I’m no guru and we all know that.)
Nevertheless, some of us busybodies would like to be updated about the ex-es’ lives, through friends or by other means, but not directly from the horse’s mouth. I admit, I’m actually reaaaally curious about my ex, how he’s doing and all. (I called him once and I broke out in sweat, and I don’t know whether i was more upset or relieved when he never picked up the call. No, I wasn’t using my handphone when I called him, so he wouldn’t have known it was me!)
There are some ex-es who
do
not
want
to
move
on.
They are obsessed.
They don’t want to LET GO.
I know of a guy who is currently doing just that. His girlfriend called for a break up a few months ago, citing different interests as one of the grounds. He acted like a broken man the first month of the break up, but gradually got a hold of himself.
How?
He started dating again. Extremely fast, I should say.
His ex-girlfriend was duly informed, and she was shocked. Shocked because …….. it was fast!
“Didn’t I mean anything to him?” went through her mind.
Because even after they broke up, they were still in touch, and were going out as friends.
But never mind, she decided to move on anyway. She didn’t give a damn about him.
However, the guy kept tabs on her. Any updates on her blog or her friendster profile, he’d be the first to comment and tell her what he thought. And when she posted picture of her and her friends having a whale of a time, he got jealous.
He ‘confronted’ her online and demanded to know who was the guy who had his arm around her, why were they sitting so close, etc. When she told him that the guy was just someone she got to know recently, and they have been on several dates, her ex-boyfriend went berserk.
He slagged off the guy in the picture that he wasn’t the right one for her, how could she do this to him… repeatedly breaking his heart into pieces. She was confused. She reminded him that they were over, so get a grip of himself.
A few days later, he called her up, sobbing on the phone. He told her that he dreamt of them together last night, and he felt betrayed that she was going out with someone else.
WAKE UP, BOY, smell the poo.
Aren’t both of you seeing different people now?
I totally don’t get the idiot.
LET GO.
Even if you want to be updated about your ex’s life, you don’t come barging in and scream betrayal!
And she has now abandoned her blog since the ex is eagerly checking up on her via her blog. So sad.
He too blogs about her. Hello? You’re in a new relationship, why are you blogging about your ex? He goes on and on, moping and feeling sorry for himself and wondering what went wrong with their relationship.
I wish I could slap him. ;D
Anyway, I bet it’s his ego that is bruised because she was the one who asked for the break up. AHAHAHAHA he’s a piece of sad shit, I’m sorry to say. His current girlfriend should dump him since he has emotional baggage he’s still dealing with.

No “Undesirable” Names, Please

Ah Kow
Ah Gong
Chai Too
Kai Chai
Sum Seng
Tua Pui
Woti
Zaniah
Zani
Putih
Hitam
Karruppan
Sivappi
Vellayan
Amma-kanna
Batu Malai
Zero Zero Seven
Adolf Hitler
On 30 July 2006, local newspapers have highlighted that the National Registration Department have come up with a list of “undesirable” names for Malays, Chinese and Indians.

“Among the no-no names for Malays are Zaniah (female adulterer) and Woti (sexual intercourse). Zani is a male adulterer.
While it is crass to name your son, Ah Kow (dog), the department has also Ah Gong (unsound mind), Chai Too (pig), Kai Chai(chick) and Sum Seng (gangster) on its “undesirable list”.
Besides Karruppan (black fellow), other Indian names which are quite “colourful” are in the undesirable list, like Sivappi and Vellayan (both meaning fair), and Amma-kannu (mother’s eye).”
“…. parents are not allowed to name their babies after animals, insects, fruits, vegetables or colours…..”
[source – The New Straits Times]

Reading NRD has no right to dictate to parents and What if your name sounds like ‘waiting to use toilet’? [A prominent figure with a peculiar name, but he doesn’t mind it!], you will realise that the public are well versed with meaning of names and have no qualms in choosing distinctively unique names. So what if their old parents who may not have known how to read and write named them something which gave their children a hard time in school?
A person grows up being comfortable with his name. If you’re not, then fine, go ahead and have your name in your MyKad changed, and you’d have to go through a process of filing documents in court and the NRD. And they make it difficult for you.
I still have people having difficulties in pronouncing my name, but i’ll just smile and correct them, secretly thinking they’re just stupid fools. hehehe. So easy also cannot pronounce! ;P

How, now? I can’t name my children Velvet Zoukifli or Ruumi Haksikuens because they’re related to night spots and events? ;P
Related article: Malaysia outlaws unsuitable names

An open letter to bimbobum

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

    Dear Bimbobum,
    I write to seek your advice on a personal problem of mine. You see, I have this problem, I sleep around and it’s hard to control myself.
    I have been having this problem since I was in high school. Teachers have reprimanded me many times but I’ve never listened. Now, I’ve brought this habit to my working life as well.
    I must highlight to you that this problem is very serious. I might lose my life one day because of this problem.
    You see, I get very sleepy during the day. Sometimes I sleep in the office although I try to control myself and due to this I have to work longer hours to get my work done. Also, last week, during one of the talks by a visitor to my office, I fell asleep but woke up in time to clap my hands. Then a few weeks back, I had a meeting with a client. While at it, I fell asleep and I was the only lawyer there! I was fortunate that my client was forgiving.
    Also, when I drive, I get sleepy too. This is the problem that might cause my life one day.
    Please advise me on what I should do to curb this disease of mine. Although I drink coffee every morning, it doesn’t last me to the end of the day.
    OH THE MIGHTY BIMBOBUM. PLEASE HELP ME! *kowtows*
    Yours Truly
    Sleepy

Asian Festival of Speed in Jakarta

AFOS comprises of the FIA-Sanctioned Asian Touring Car Championship, Formula BMW Asia Series, Porsche Carrera Cup Asia Series and the latest addition single-seater race series, Formula V6 Asia by Renault.
In the past, drivers such as Takuma Sato (F1), Alex Yoong (A1GP & F1) and Narain Karthikeyan (F1), along with many others, were all participants of AFOS.
This year, AFOS will head to eight different circuits around Asia and once again the event will attract great media attention at each venue. In 2005 the AFOS TV programmes were regularly watched by an audience of over 230 million viewers in more than 65 countries. Over 197 publications worldwide carry regularly reports from all AFOS events.
On July 21st – July 23rd 2006, the race was held at Sentul International Circuit in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Of course I was not lucky enough to have covered the event, but Channel [V] was there! Lucky people, our VJs Paula and Sarah. ;P
The VJ’s were there interviewing and conducting vox pops with the various drivers to get them to tell us some interesting and fun facts of racing.
Question: What do you do when you need to go while racing?
Answer: They just go! (Most of them have this tube thing to pee in….)
Yikes.

HOT HOT HOT! Hot weather, I mean..
VJ Paula looking cool under the sun in her sunnies and a white outfit.

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