Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07

February 7th, 2010

Glad to see news today that Msian cops will be paid more. Not surprised they ask for bribes, since they’re paid so little now. #
Saw a woman’s ass-crack in [...] Continue Reading…

Highway Robbery: Another Update

February 5th, 2010

I was kind of hoping this case would be resolved by now, considering it’s been just about a week since I first contacted RHB Bank. But there’s been no [...] Continue Reading…

Chronicles of Duncan MacLeod: Up Over the Mountain

February 4th, 2010

On July 2nd, 1937, after school had finished for the summer, Susan MacLeod put her two eldest sons, nine-year-old Duncan and eight-year-old Hughie, on a train bound for Boisdale. [...] Continue Reading…

A Little Understanding

February 3rd, 2010

Me: So, buddy…soon you’re going to be a big brother. Are you excited?

Al: Yes.

Me: But listen…when your little brother comes, sometimes Mummy’s going to be really busy. You know, [...] Continue Reading…

Highway Robbery: An Update (& a Bit of Deja Vu)

February 2nd, 2010

This morning Leen called me from work to tell me someone from RHB had called H. It wasn’t someone from the head office, she said, but rather someone from [...] Continue Reading…

Malaysian PR: A Brief Update

February 1st, 2010

Today Leen and I drove out to Shah Alam and braved the labyrinth that is Kompleks PKNS to submit the documents to the Immigration Dept. for renewal of my [...] Continue Reading…

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31

January 31st, 2010

Tabbed browsing and blogs that autoplay music don’t mix at all, especially when I’m trying to listen to something else. Why, bloggers, WHY. #
Mind you, one blog was playing [...] Continue Reading…

Highway Robbery: Auto Repossession in Malaysia

January 30th, 2010

Wednesday was turning out to be a pretty good day: I had a very smooth, efficient visit to Immigration in Shah Alam; I got paid; I got an awesome, [...] Continue Reading…

Chronicles of Duncan MacLeod: Hold Fast

January 27th, 2010

The death of her husband at noon on the 2nd of June 1937 was a harsh blow to my great-grandmother, Susan MacLeod. But if she thought that day couldn’t [...] Continue Reading…

Chronicles of Duncan MacLeod: One Eye, Two Guns, Three Tunes & Twenty-five Cents

January 26th, 2010

My great-grandfather, John Rory MacLeod, was born in July 1889 in the area of Cape Breton island which contains the small communities of Glencoe and Upper Southwest Mabou. (There [...] Continue Reading…

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24

January 24th, 2010

I like Sunday nights, even though they’re full of Monday morning. #
It’s interesting that we still use something as outdated as race to determine who’s mixed. It’s silly. I [...] Continue Reading…

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-17

January 17th, 2010

Sometimes I think the only thing keeping Msians from killing one another is a non-nuke version of the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction #
In my kids’ family history there’s [...] Continue Reading…

Jawa, Jinn, Johor, Jiran, Janda, Jodoh: A Malaysian Family History

January 14th, 2010

With all the family history stuff I write here in my blog, one might begin to wonder why I don’t write about my wife’s family history. Well unfortunately genealogy [...] Continue Reading…

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10

January 10th, 2010

RT @netraKL RT @TheNutGraph: Looking back, moving forward by Marina Mahathir. http://bit.ly/6dxmaD #
Bad blood between Israel, Palestine & Jordan affects two-thousand-year-old documents: http://bit.ly/8zK2AK #
Minarets are not an essential part [...] Continue Reading…

This is Really Nuts

January 9th, 2010

When I logged into Facebook today I noticed a whole bunch of people on my list were posting one-word status updates, all colours. Then I noticed only the ladies [...] Continue Reading…