Author: Frank_omatic

Last week, Shah Alam UMNO lodged a report against Malaysian Bar Council for releasing an article that insults Islam in their May/June 2004 edition of Infoline. This was reported by Bernama on 4th August 2004

The article entitled “Local Authorities Ought To Be Sensitive To Individual Rights” described the azan prayer as “noise pollution and an annoyance to neighbours.” The report was lodged by Mohd Azhar Othman, a member of the Shah Alam Umno Division committee and also head of the Section 7 Shah Alam Utara Umno Branch. He said Shah Alam Umno regretted that the Bar Council as a body set up under the Legal Professions Act 1976 had not taken into account the feelings of the Muslim community and Malaysia’s status as a multiracial country when publishing the article.

Bar president Kuthubul Zaman Bukhari defends the Infoline article and said that “”The Bar will be the last to exercise censorship over articles sent to us for publication. Anything that appears on Insaf (KL Bar Committee newsletter) or Infoline does not necessarily reflect the views of the Malaysian Bar,” He added that it did not appear
to be insulting Islam “if it is read within the proper context”. He said it was quite clear that the writer did not intend to cause any insult to any religious practice.” Indeed, the central theme of the article is not on religion but on a call for the adoption of a moderate and tolerant approach by the relevant authorities in regulating people’s activities. Those who read the article in full will understand the context within which the writer had argued his points,” he said.

Do you think what the Bar Council did is correct? Read the article and judge for yourself Human Writes Pull Out (Issue 10) (Page 4)

This photo was taken at 7am, yesterday morning. I think that was the first time that I had actually waked up before noon.

Yesterday was the first day of CLP exam. The civil procedure paper that I had sat for yesterday was easier than July and August paper in the previous years, In fact, the paper seems like a supplementary paper (for the resitters) to me. Unfortunately, common sense tells me that easier paper may mean that the quota for passing will be lower this year. I hope that I am wrong.

www.xes.cx would like to wish Leong Chuo Ming, a very happy 23rd birthday.
Happy Birthday Chuo Ming!!!

Sorry bro, i can’t get you 3g (or is it 3kg) of weed for your birthday la, but la, i use my best photoshop skill to make you this cool pic la. I hope you will like it la. =)

This was reported by Nan Yang Siang Pau yesterday:

“A 6 feet Black Panther was found in the toilet of a sawmill at 8am, Tuesday morning. The owner contacted Selangor Wildlife Department immediately. The other villagers soon got wind of it and flocked to the sawmill to catch a glimpse of the Panther. Some even climbed on the roof of the sawmill to catch a glimpse of the Panther. Not long after that, two personnel from the Wildlife Department arrived and told the villagers that the Black Panther was a protected animal and that they intended to catch it alive. Unfortunately, they did not bring the necessary equipment to do so.

Therefore, all they could do now is to wait for their counterpart from headquarter. Meanwhile, the Panther seems to be disturbed by the noisy crowd and tried to escape by jumping on the roof but fail. Finally, it managed to break itself free from the sawmill by jumping over a wall (which is 2 feet tall) and a man who was squatting near the wall, waiting to see the Black Panther. The man was scratched by the Black Panther. The Black Panther was again trapped in a compartment outside of the sawmill because of the fence but it did not show any hostility to the villagers. In seeing this, the officers from the wildlife Department shot the Black Panther in its head and killed it on the spot.”

In my point of view, the officers of the Wildlife Department had caused the death of the Black Panther. They did not take the necessary precaution to protect the Black Panther.

They panicked when a man was accidentally injured by the Panther. They killed the Panther because this would make their job easier. Moreover, they had to wait for at least 2 hours for their other colleague to arrive and they were also scared. Frankly from the newspaper report, I think that the Panther did not deserve to die at all. It did not show any hostility to anyone while it was there. The Panther did not attack the owner when he find it in his sawmill’s toilet nor the other villagers.

However, what about that villager who was scratched by the Panther? Well, that was his fault for putting himself in such a risk. Any 3 years old can tell you that staying too close to a Black Panther can be dangerous. Nevertheless, the officers were also at fault. They were suppose to disperse off the crowd and lock down the area, to protect the people and the Panther.

In contrast, all they did was to “stand guard” and wait for right moment to kill the panther!

Today, I wake up with a major headache due to the loud Morning Prayer from the flats behind my apartments.

Today is an auspicious day for the Malay behind my house to get marry so they have a Kenduri (party like event). At exactly 9am, they start the day with loud thanksgiving and blessing prayers over the microphone. God damn it, I only went to sleep at 3.30am last night and I thought I was having a bad dream.

However, that does not get me up from bed; I try effortlessly, tossing left and right to fall asleep anew. Finally, I give up at about 11am because they are blasting “Selamat Pengantin Baru” (Congratulation on your wedding day) song repetitively. Fuck, after that I have headache for the whole day.

The kenduri was quite happening. They have Kumpang (damn noisy), Lucky draw (that one last for 2 hours and the first number is 111) and fucking Karaoke session with lousy singers (No pitching at all). They only stop during the 1pm and 4pm prayers but it is short lived. The kenduri did not end until 5.30pm. Anyway, I took photos of the kenduri from my apartment.

Today, I have Domino Pizza’s Aloha Chicken pizza and Extravaganza pizza for dinner. I order thin crust pizza for both flavour. They taste like cheese and meat on crackers but delicious. That is a photo of my left over pizzas.

Today is also the birthday of Gillian Chung

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JILL

10 more days to exam…

The tension is starting to build up now. I am starting to lose sleep. Everyday I wake up, feeling more exhausted than the previous day. Everyday when I look at the past year questions and notes, I feel dumber than yesterday. I cannot remember anything!

10 days are all I have now!

It has been a crazy week for me this week so far. Sometimes not because there is too much work to do but every so often, there are these amusing episodes which again, makes me wonder (like Sow) which circus I work for again??

One day at a senior management photo shoot session; we had a bunch of bosses there to have their annual photos taken. So after a really long time trying to get them to ?Look natural!? or ?Look candid!?, we decided to give them a break ? their smirks were beginning to look plastic. So we headed to the next room where they could chill out awhile. After awhile, one of the bosses ? Mr L ? entered the same room where we were having the photo shoot through a different entrance and here?s what happened?

Mr L: Eh! I didn?t realise there was another photo shoot going on.
Me: ?? It?s the same one, Mr L.
Mr L: No no! I don?t remember this (rattles the light stand) or this (points at chair) or that (gestures at something else in the garish room) just now.
Me: But that?s the same chair you were sitting on a while ago..
Mr L: No no! I remembered very clearly!
Me: (starring at him incredulously, wondering if he was pulling my foot) Erm.. Ok?

Doofus.

Oh well. At least he went on with the shoot, thinking that it was an entirely different setting and room altogether. Its like living a life of a goldfish? round and round the fish bowl, thinking its in a whole new different universe every few seconds or so. Simple.

That could be a good thing though. 😉

Going to the dentist have never been a big deal for me coz my parents took my sis and I to the dentist when we were very young to beat the fear outta us before it actually hit us. The ‘flying’ chair or ‘helicopter’ was a good tactic – even after all these years, I still see the chair as just that. 😀

But last week, the quick trip to the dentist was horrible.. I had a root canal surgery. :'( After a long bout with a slight toothache, I couldn’t take the growing pain anymore and skipped work to head to the dentist who then told me I needed root canal surgery after seeing the xray of my aching tooth. Something about the accident a year ago that caused the nerves inside my bottom front teeth to ‘die’ thus affecting the teeth around it and also nerves near the chin and jaw area… When he started to approach my quivering mouth with those huge injections to numb the area, I wanted to cry so badly. After the hour-long surgery, I walked out quite dazed and my entire jaw was aching coz the dentist had some trouble treating the tooth coz it was so small. Well, I am going for the second part of the surgery tomorrow… finally too, coz the temporary filling he put for me over the affected tooth is beginning to wear out and the aches are all back again.

Never mind that I was shaking the 8ball (y’know those that show answers at the bottom when you ask it a question and shake it?) a minute ago and I end up banging it on my chin/jaw. Paining. 😛

Anyway, tooth issues aside… I was at Ipoh over the weekend for work. There were three of us altogether, so I shared a room with my female colleague, A while my male colleague, K was given his own room. Here was what happened when we were checking into the hotel..

Receptionist: Alrite, I will give you two ladies a room together while Sir, you will be having a room by yourself, yes?
K: Yeah
Receptionist: You won’t be sharing it with anybody then, Sir?
K: Err no…
Receptionist (with the most come hither, seductive, CFM face you can imagine): So… Sir…. you will be sleeping… alone… rite, Sir?
K: YES!

The receptionist was a man, you see.

A rather pretty man too, I might add. My colleague pretty much camped in our room for the fear the receptionist came looking for him later that night or something.. haha ;D

Ok-lah, wish me luck for tomorrow’s root canal and hopefully I won’t have to resort to a soft diet the rest of the week again. Remember, take care of all your teeth!!!

BLOG BLOG BLOOOGGGG!!!!!!!!!!! I bet everyone of Leong’s guest bloggers have gotten that msg from him on ICQ or MSN or SMS at one point or other. 😀 *waves at Leong* 😀

Anyway, life hasn’t been all exciting for me hence the hiatus. But there is this one stalker episode which I really wanna voice out and hopefully he reads it. HAH! Crash and burn!!!

Stalker may have been too harsh a word for him. But he was just plain scary. I hate it when we have to build up rapports and networks when we start working. So many people tend to mistaken these superficial and pretentious ‘friendships’ to mean something more. But only so few seem to get it that non-replies really means fuck off. Ok sure when he started a conversation, I have got to layan the first few replies but after that, when he started to get all creepy with his poems and affectionate name calling .. hell, buzz off, I never want or ever wanted any of these.

I cannot make it more obvious that I wasn?t remotely interested by not replying his msgs or even picking up his phone calls. At one time, I got like 30 missed calls in less than 15 minutes. And then he got all violent by sending me chains of intimidating and hostile msgs. You have got some nerve, you dick. And after that little episode you dare to pretend as if nothing happened and continued with all the affectionate name calling in msgs once again. Everytime I receive them, I feel like vomiting. I wonder how can someone be so thick to just expect a girl to like them just because you spoke to them before. Fuck off, you sad man. He even went as far as to claim to know he knew me psychologically. PSYCHO. (you guys should have read the email he sent, it was stupid/scary in a hilarious way, reading about how much he knows about a person just after one chance meeting) I am not yours to call princess ? heck or anything at all for that matter! ? and I wish you freaking leave me alone. Stop sending me msgs. Stop trying to call me. Stop emailing me. Just stop harassing me, damnit. I can?t get more obvious than this.

Ok. Finally got it out of my system. The fella was really bothering me and bringing it up with Chen didn?t help since all he wants to do is smash his face in.. *thank you dear, but no thanks, k? You can relax your knuckle sandwich now.. yes yes dear.. you can put down the bat too?

On a lighter (I think….) note, have any of you guys seen Happy Tree Friends?? When the video started, I was like “awwwww….” (then it was downhill from there) “aww- ARGH OMG!! ARGHHH!!! OH SHIIEETT! THAT POOR- OMG OMG OMG RUN U POOR TH- ARGH! ARGH SHIET!!! YEEE!! ARGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

*fans myself slowly……. takes a slow deep breath…….

And so yeah, here’s the link for those who have no idea what I am going on about – Happy Tree Friends!