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• Found out I have osteoarthritis in my right knee. The suspects: martial arts, lots of driving, genetics, & yeah I’m getting old. #
• My doc gave me an injection in my knee & said it’ll hurt a till tomorrow. I love doctors’ penchant for understatement. #ow #
• Ok, Seemic Look is buggy. Where’s the rest of that previous tweet? #
• Waa si Rais langsung tak suka benda2 rojak. Orang, bahasa…mana dia nak cari orang dan bahasa yg dia suka? Sini takde. #
• #yorais, I rasa lebih baik u cepat pensyen. Kerja yg u buat tak sesuai untuk orang yg tak faham dunia moden. #
• Eh maaf ye, silap tadi, bukan pensyen tapi pencen…alamak, tu pension kan? Ya Allah BI telah diracuni oleh BI! Tidaaak! #yorais, tolong! #
• eh silap lagi. BM telah diracuni oleh BI. Diracuni! Tidaaaak! #
• And what was up with that host? That guy a mob enforcer or something? #
• Ok, baik i tak tulis dalam BM malam ni. Tak reti. #yorais, I’m going to change my mode now, boleh tak? #
• Sarimah Ibrahim’s cute but she needs to stop getting Ronald McDonald to do her makeup. #
• All I really got from that interview is that Rais can count backwards from 10 in English. Terer lah si Rais. Next! Eh maaf…seterusnya! #
• Ok, either the painkillers aren’t working, which would suck, or this IS the painkillers working, which would suck. #
• Maaan got some wicked hiccups here. #
• My doc was right: right knee feels way better today. Not 100% but I can walk without a limp. Nice. #
• Some last-minute 2nd thoughts re A2’s name, but I doubt we can change it since Al already calls him by a certain name. #
• I’ve had wicked hiccups since last night; now the baby has them as well. I took Gavison. If A2 would come out, maybe we could help him haha. #
• We’re all watching Glee when suddenly Al shakes his head at the cheerleading coach & yells “Jahat!” (evil) #
• The cheerleading coach on Glee would make a good love interest for Dr. House. Just imagine THAT crossover. #
• Gotta love David Letterman singing O Canada, even if it does sound like crap. #
• So far no hiccups today. They were so bad last night they woke me up, Leen too. Al somehow slept through it. #
• Not surprised The Star didn’t name the zoo they were shaming today. They are spineless, after all. #
• Hey, my country has a backwards right-wing govt too: Gay rights section nixed for immigrants’ guide http://bit.ly/cfgKfJ #
• #yorais, when #ZulWalks maybe you should follow. And keep on walking. #
• If you haven’t read my take on what Rais said, please take a look & feel free to comment. http://bit.ly/c3u2pz #
• It’s amazing how many ppl fall for the whole ‘you can see who views your profile’ stuff on FB. #
• #yorais, how can your govt reverse the brain-drain if you make Msians married to foreigners want to stay away? #
• I keep hesitating to pull the trigger on a blog post abt the whole Al-Islam/Catholic Church issue. Tempting but I’ll get myself deported. #
• Just looking for an excuse to share my own ‘Undercover Holy Communion Infiltration’ story. What. Doesn’t everyone have one of those? #
• We’re going into the labour room. Here we go! #
• Man, my wife’s a trooper. I knew that, but just sayin’. #
• She says, “Oh poor you,. you must be tired.”
  “Um, it’s ok darling. I’m not the one having a baby here.” #
• Dentist have strong forearms. Dentist in labour? Popeye. #
• Finally! Aaron Yusuf Macvay, 3.68kg, born 07 Mar, 5.56am (via csec) #
• Thanks to everyone for the kind wishes, & thanks to Azlin for helping me ‘live tweet’ Aaron’s birth! #
• had a wee nap at home, now off to the hospital again to see Leen & Aaron. Real sleep later (I fear later=2012). #
• What a day! I’m home with Al now. He’s sleeping next to me. Feeling really blessed. Well, that and exhausted. Going to sleep like a rock! #

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• Besides all the fireworks & firecrackers, another sound I hear is my Arab neighbours’ kids crying. Poor buggers, must sound like a war zone. #
• What a bunch of morons. BBC News - Car bomb explodes at Newry courthouse http://bit.ly/d14aFl #
• Oh, and speaking of morons: CBC News - Nova Scotia - N.S. couple shaken by cross burning http://bit.ly/a8OrMO #
• Yay, the drawing on Al’s pirate t-shirt didn’t wash off. Now he can wear it again & continue being the Scourge of the 7 Seas. Yaaarrrr! #
• Resisting the temptation to draw on more of Al’s shirts now. Oh, the possibilities. #
• http://twitpic.com/14v7og - Cutest pirates ever. #
• Giant George is world’s biggest dog - Scotsman.com #
• We’re all sitting on the couch & suddenly Al turns to me & says ‘I love you Daddy’ & gives me a big hug. *MELTS* #
• The apartment bldgs around here would look so much nicer without all the bars on the windows/balconies. Sucks that they’re necessary. #
• I just love the cute little black yellow-breasted birds that perch on my Astro dish & sing to me & don’t shit on my balcony. Love ‘em. #
• To my great chagrin, yelling out YOU COCKSUCKER when the power goes off doesn’t make it come right back on. #
• Nice. About time! Halifax apologizes for razing Africville http://bit.ly/cifz8q #
• Man did our boys ever kill the Russians eh? Now bring on Sweden! Or even Slovakia. #
• Go Canada go! #
• Ok read this : http://bit.ly/c9wsPF (sorry it’s in Malay). I’ve got a lot to say & I’m going to make damn sure Rais sees it. Damn sure. #
• Jasmine, the Mother Theresa Greyhound http://bit.ly/TjsXa #
• So if our marriage is doomed to fail as Rais says, I guess Leen needs to find a guy who’s half Javanese & half Bugis or that’ll fail too. #
• Rais Yatim needs to understand the only way to stick to your own kind is incest. #
• We asked Al when his little brother’s going to come out & he said 1 day. Not sure abt that but we’ll see. Should start a pool haha. #
• Leen’s trying to get me hooked on Cafe World. No! I won’t do it! I won’t! So cute the way the customers eat though. No! I won’t do it! #
• Mom says she wishes the Dog Whisperer had been on TV when she was raising my brother and me. Haha arf! #
• Ok wow it’s hot. Wow. #
• I hate when clicking a link in a tweet just takes me to a Facebook page where I have to click another link. Yes I’m that lazy. #
• Another reason to vote out the Conservatives as soon as the opportunity presents itself: Canada’s neoconservative turn http://bit.ly/9zNWT4 #
• Ppl have to remember, a tsunami wave only a few cm high can grow real big real fast when it hits shallow water close to land. #
• The good news is, after Dec 26 2004 ppl won’t see a white line on the horizon & say ‘Hey what’s that?’ Now it’s all ‘Shit, tsunami!’ #
• Excited abt the baby coming but Al just fell & hit his head pretty hard & reminded us that parenthood is also scary shit. #
• Little boy in a Spiderman costume walks up to me & says “I am Ahmad Spiderman.” Told me he was from “Maleezya…just over there.” #
• Record for most gold medals by a host country in a Winter Olympics. Nice! #

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• Spent the whole day cleaning. Haha look at me, I’m nesting. #
• Holy sweet lord THE HEAT. #
• You know you’re a history buff when you’re on the can reading a 75-yr-old newspaper. #
• Not only does this country still cane people, it does so for stupid reasons. #
• Canada’s last WW I veteran dies http://bit.ly/dAv6U1 #
• If you’re an adrenaline junkie, I highly recommend arm-wrestling a 3-yr-old boy while getting your face shaved with a straight razor. FUN. #
• If I work 5 days a week I spend 800+ on parking, tolls & petrol. Looks like I’ll be working from home for a while! #
• found a white hair on Al’s head today. That’s the 2nd one. I know the Malay side of the family goes grey early, but 3 yrs old? #
• Cranky today so I don’t care if quietly unfollowing someone on Buzz over one shitty comment means I’m passive aggressive. Sorry. Cranky. #
• Ok, having water with one of those effervescent vitamin c things in it right after drinking coffee is not good for the guts. #
• Off to a birthday party. Theme is fairies, elves & pirates. Al is going to be the scourge of the seven seas. YAARRRR… #
• Went to friends’ kid’s birthday party today. Last time I saw that many white people was when I last visited Canada. #

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• RHB finally replied. They basically said 1) It doesn’t concern me; 2) They ‘empathize’ w/ Leen; but 3) The repo man meant no harm. WTF? #
• 1) Technically correct; 2) Empathize? Not apologize? 3) Can you carjack someone without expecting them to be traumatized? Again: WTF? #
• During Black History Month we can learn abt all sorts of interesting people. Here’s Stagecoach Mary: the Black Cowgirl http://bit.ly/bEHlgD #
• Aw man, Capt. Phil from Deadliest Catch died. Stroke. Crap. #
• So FB will have email, & now Google has this Buzz thing. Jeez, get a room, you two. #
• I’d call having another coffee the bad idea of the day, but it’s only an idea if I don’t actually do it, right? Right? Mmm…coffee… #
• Is anyone actually reading my Duncan MacLeod stories? I have at least a dozen more. Just gonna keep posting till I run out! #
• Watching an episode of Tom & Jerry that’s set in Penang. Tom just got a durian in the face. #
• For some reason I’m suddenly unable to leave comments on Blogspot blogs. In Chrome, anyway. #
• Al’s developed a stutter, but he mostly stutters in English, not Malay. Strange. #
• Oh yeah baby, high-speed broadband at the office. I think I’ll come to the office more often. #
• Imagine, Leen thinks she’ll be able to sleep tonight. #
• No matter how many fireworks go off tonight, all I can think abt is ‘Meh. CNY in China is crazier.’ Night became day, I swear. #
• Having said that, it’s still pretty crazy out there. I don’t think Leen will be getting a good sleep tonight. #
• Oh, by the way: Gong Xi Fa Cai! #

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• 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 The Star today. There’s a sliver (teehee) of hope yet for those of us who loathe Msia’s censorship of the press. #
• It was so hot today that when it pissed down rain just before sunset, I didn’t see anyone run for cover. #
• No liking RHB’s proposal: a face-to-face meeting between our friend, the repo man & the branch manager. What, a healing circle? No way. #
• One of Khir Toyo’s clinics wanted Leen to work for them. Walaupun dia ‘wong jowo’ jugak, jangan harap. #
• Finally found a blog design a like. I think I’ll keep it. #
• It’s World Cancer Day today. Now all I need to do is find something yellow to wear. #
• Caught Al & his cousins playing GTA: San Andreas. Never thought I’d be Killjoy Adult Who Ruins Everything but yeah that was me. #
• My buddy Neil’s going on a road trip in the US. One of the attractions: the Arkansas Alligator Farm & Petting Zoo. Careful, man! LOL #
• If Captain Yusof were still alive he’d tell the story about bathing with Anwar at school. Funny stuff. But no funny stuff, he’d say. #
• CBC News - Politics - Layton vows to beat prostate cancer http://bit.ly/bizvDF #

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• 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 a nice acoustic version of Radiohead’s Creep, so I’ll let that one live. For now. #
• Cha mhisde sgeul mhath aithris da uair. A good tale is not the worse of being twice told. (Gaelic proverb) #
• Is fhearr na’n t-òr sgeul air inns’ air chòir. Better than gold is the tale well told. (Gaelic proverb) #
• Was going to tell Leen abt the false Brangelina breakup rumor but didn’t want to raise any false hopes. Sorry Brad, she’s still mine. #
• ‘Se Cheap Breatainn tìr mo ghràidh/ Tìr nan craobh ’s nam beanntan àrd/ ‘Se Ceap Breatainn tìr mo ghràidh/ Tìr is àillidh leinn air thalamh. #
• Not only is Zee Avi’s Kantoi cute, it’s caught the attention of linguists: Language Log » Indie-pop Manglish http://bit.ly/6o9KbC #
• Dr Blair, Dr Blair, Dr J Hamilton, Dr J Hamilton…anyone else know/remember why that’s funny? #
• Was gonna have green tea but a cup of coffee jumped in front of it screaming ‘NOOOOOO!’ I shall reward its gumption. #
• Off to immigration this morning. Just picking up forms, so not expecting frustration. But ya never know. Will ask about PR. #
• Bienvenue, Jean-Francois http://bit.ly/cDBmsT #
• Malaysia: Where the news is all about cow heads, boar heads, and human assholes. #
• Morning: smooth immigration visit. Noon: nice lunch with Kak Ena. Afternoon: my car died in traffic. I guess 2 out of 3 ain’t bad. #
• Taman Len Sen is like the Bermuda Triangle or something. After my car broke down, another car & a van broke down at the same intersection. #
• Leen was going to come meet me in her friend’s car, but it got snatched from right under her arse by repo men. How crazy is that. #
• Leen & her friend Hanim were pulled over & bullied out of Hanim’s car by repo men, who stuck the car to a tow-truck & drove off. Nasty. #
• They should totally call the Apple tablet iMegaphone. #
• Sure, the Blackberry Bold 9700 is cooler than my Nokia 1208, but if I drop my Nokia 1208 I won’t have a heart attack. Cheap-ass phone FTW! #
• Anyone know any higher-ups in RHB I can contact? Unleashing a shitstorm on them tomorrow & would rather not yell at underlings. #
• Ulster Heritage Magazine: The Ulster Psyche http://bit.ly/ak1Og9 #
• A pie for a pie? PETA protester hit with pie http://bit.ly/bY39eZ #
• If you’ve ever been carjacked by Msian repo men, check out my latest blog post. Please RT http://bit.ly/cDktOn #
• Watching a show about a guy who restores muscle cars. Al’s in a trance. Suddenly he says ‘I want a place like that.’ #
• We were worried about Al’s weekday morning tummy-aches…till we figured out he just fakes them to get tummy-rubs from his babysitter. #
• Watching a show on Astro Prima abt exorcism & wondering how ppl can be so god damn stupid. Me, I mean. For watching this crap. #
• Going for our umpteenth sworn declaration of marriage tomorrow, then off to Shah Alam to submit forms for my visa renewal. Fun. #

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• 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 mean, I’m mixed. So are you. #
• Malays & Chinese calling each other different ‘races’ reminds me of how English people said that of the Irish ages ago. It’s that silly. #
• Sleep is ignoring me but oatmeal and coffee still want to be my friends. Aww, I love those guys. #
• Germany asks its citizens to stop using Internet Explorer http://bit.ly/7t6xoV #
• Man it’s awesome when Leen goes to these dental conferences. We won’t have to buy toothpaste/brushes/mouthwash for months. #
• http://twitpic.com/ymbhx - @unmsia Here’s another one you might like. #
• Oh Coffee, I like you, I really do…but honestly I’m just doing this to make Sleep jealous. #
• The best article I’ve seen so far on the ‘Allah’ issue: http://bit.ly/7I01wg #
• Either I just heard a jet with a really messed-up engine flying overhead or someone’s car is badly in need of servicing. #
• Follow @CBCReporters for Canadian journos’ 1st-hand accounts of what’s happening in Haiti. #
• Finding Dr. King’s Roots in Slavery http://bit.ly/8×38jy #
• Under the ‘Allah’ rules etc, I suppose Tony Eusoff (org S’rawak) can still play a Malay on tv but Hans Isaac (org JB) can’t. #Allah #
• Experimenting with replacing my daily coffee intake with green tea. So far so good. #
• Given the heat lately, this cool post-thunderstorm breeze tiptoeing in off my balcony is the most refreshing thing EVER. #
• Rais is so ancient, you know the only way he’ll go away is if a giant meteor hits earth and blacks out the sun. #yorais #
• Rais is so ancient he’s still bitter over someone building those darn pyramids and ruining his favourite desert view. #yorais #
• Rais is so ancient his ears are still ringing from the Big Bang. #yorais #
• Rais is so ancient, in his day social media was all on cave walls; his username was dudethrowingspearatbuffalo7. #yorais #
• Rais is so ancient he remembers when flooding in the Klang Valley caused lots of lava damage. #yorais #
• Rais is so ancient he once saw a papyrus scroll & said ‘This writing thing will never catch on.’ #yorais #
• Rais is so ancient he remembers when this chick was HAWT: http://bit.ly/2pVLlH #yorais #
• Rais is so ancient he totally won’t see the humour in all this. Actually, he totally won’t see this. #yorais #
• Rais is so ancient he remembers when Venus de Milo had arms. #yorais #
• Tun says Avatar means the US could’ve done 9/11 themselves. So does he also think Star Wars means they faked the moon landing? #
• Didn’t notice #whentwitterwasdown because I was playing with my kid. I’m no addict. Awww, ain’t that tweet? Uh I mean sweet. #
• Dah la Al cakap BI dengan slang Melayu, tapi dia melatah jugak. ‘Alamak!’ ‘Oh pocut!’ Yang paling best: ‘Oh mak kau jatuh!’ #
• Not sure what’s worse: that Al says certain words with a Malay accent, or that he’s just copying the way his daddy talks. #
• Leen’s phone mysteriously died like a day after the warranty expired so guess who’s hogging the Blackberry Celcom gave me to review. #hmmm #
• Animals rafted to Madagascar http://bit.ly/7KBAv9 I like to move it move it, she like to move it move it, he like to move it move it… #
• Shooting an Elephant: Film documents the brutality of Operation Cast Lead http://bit.ly/7jUBrp #
• ‘Lesson number one, I thought: you’re lucky to be in a wooden building.’ http://bit.ly/5qUNXb #
• Now they’re trying to burn down suraus in Muar? What a bunch of twats. #
• RT @netraKL RT @phrTweets: Use the #closegitmo hashtag today, the 1 yr anniversary of Obama’s executive order to close Gitmo. Pls RETWEET. #
• The Heavy doing ‘How You Like Me Now’ on Letterman. WICKED. http://bit.ly/5rPvOr #
• ‘I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the Internet there’d be only one website left, & it’d be called ‘Bring Back the Porn’.’ Dr Perry Cox #
• FedEx dude at the door was probably a bit shocked to see a mat salleh wearing kain pelikat LOL #
• Just finished watching A History of Scotland: Language is Power. Moran taing to Colin Tan for the DVD! http://bit.ly/6aQ0mm #
• WTF? St. John’s man fined for not driving car http://bit.ly/7HSLze #
• God bless the children. They can still smile. http://twitpic.com/z90jz (via @CBCReporters) #
• Get Fiona J Mackenzie’s song Loch Maruibhe- Loch Maree for free in exchange for one tweet: http://trkurl.com/mt9goR #TFAT #
• Al: Apa tu Mummy? Leen: Tu burung hantu. Al: Look daddy! Me: Yes, it’s an owl. Al: No Daddy, it’s a ghost bird. #bilingual kids rock. #
• Ho. Lee. Shit. The heat. #
• Saw two Malays with family names on TV today: one named Fenner, the other Ross. Then I spent the day with a Malay kid named MacVay. #

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• 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 a story abt a guy who fell in love with a Muslim girl & converted to get married. It wasn’t me. #
• 51% of respondents in a popular Israeli TV channel’s online poll choose option D: ‘Destroy Gaza’. http://bit.ly/5SNLmq #
• May get a Blackberry Bold 2 from Celcom tomorrow to use free for a month, unless my non-Malaysian status puts the kaibosh on the whole plan. #
• I’m not one of the ‘eligible signatories’ but if you’re Malaysian please do sign this petition (& ignore the spam) http://bit.ly/7tbYzS #
• There were Msian Xtians calling God Allah when my wife’s family was still Buddhist. The ‘Oh no you don’t’ crowd need to read more. #
• It’s cool Al’s sleeping in his own room now, except for the part where he runs shrieking into our room sometime before 5am. #
• Woohoo, got a Blackberry Bold 2 (& a Celcom line) all free for 1 month. Sweet! #
• Hilarious! RT @boostventilator RT @BindleParty This is where I go to stay informed about current events in Sydney, NS: http://bit.ly/7VEm6z #
• Initial thoughts on the Bold 9700: I prefer keyboards to touchscreens, but wow the keys are small. I have really big hands. Learning curve! #
• Also, the Bold 9700 is sitting neglected on a table because the Celcom line can’t open gmail, facebook etc. #
• Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground… #
• RT @netraKL RT @TheNutGraph: The impact of migration. Who will fuel economic growth in Msia? http://bit.ly/4yIfRJ #
• What are your thoughts on the new rules re petrol prices/subsidies? #malaysia #
• I swear I won’t censor websites! LOL just kidding RT @netraKL RT @aainaaridtz: #Jordan to Censor Websites #Gov http://bit.ly/8PZzFJ #
• Migraine. Crap. #
• It’s amazing how a simple thing like going out into the sunlight can screw me over when I have a migraine. Going into vampire mode now. #
• RT @netraKL RT @juanajaafar: RT @PalestineToday: John Pilger: For Israel, a reckoning http://ow.ly/WHta #
• It speaks volumes of how mature the govt thinks Msians are when the news describes a 25-yr-old man as a youth. http://bit.ly/R7cTu #
• Camera on Australian beach leads to Ontario couple http://bit.ly/6mWWWL #
• Spotted a ‘Mitzvah tank’ in Kajang today, of all places. Religious diversity in Malaysia FTW! #
• When ZAM was done as Information Minister I applauded because no one could be worse. Turns out I was wrong. #
• A Blackberry with a shitty Internet connection is like a Ferrari in the jungle. #
• So far the only real use I’ve got out of this loaner Blackberry Bold 9700 is playing a game where you break bricks. Otherwise useless. #
• Told Al to stand next to a Lambourghini so I could take a pic. He went to sit on it & almost gave a security guard a heart attack. Hehe #
• Off to Sunway to hang out with Alisdair. #
• Last weekend while cleaning the storeroom I found the devil’s business card. Name: Larry Usifer. Occupation: Life insurance salesman. #
• Seriously, when a guy named Larry Usifer shows up at your door selling life insurance, you’re probably not going to sign anything. #
• Snoop Dogg Shocked by Genealogy Results http://bit.ly/69CkWQ Well he can still take comfort in that American staple, the ‘one drop rule’. #
• Holy heat Batman. Is the hole in the ozone layer like right over my place or what? #
• Mr. L. Usifer knocked on my door one day in 1995, if I recall correctly. He was selling life insurance. As if I’m gonna sign with L. Usifer. #
• Thig crioch air an saoghal, ach mairidh gaol is ceòl. The world will pass away, but love and music will endure. (Gaelic proverb) #
• This country has aged me. Ok, actually it was time that aged me. But Malaysia egged it on. #

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• 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 of Islam | Taj Hargey - Times Online http://bit.ly/7ZQja8 #
• A2 kicked one of Leen’s patients in the head today. I tell ya, kids can get away with anything these days. #
• I think I want to start a testicular cancer support group here in Msia. TC’s rarity here is good but it means awareness & resources are low. #
• How crazy is it that I’m writing a screenplay? 2010 looks set to be an interesting year. #
• Wow, I’d be pissed if this happened to me. RTÉ News: Explosive reached Ireland after failed test http://bit.ly/7pVipy #
• Thinking of going to the Egyptian embassy to join those demanding EGY let the VivaPalestina convoy into Gaza http://fb.me/49gVzo3 #
• Ok no protest for me today. Leen’s scared I’ll get arrested. ‘U bukan org Msia tau! Kalo u kene tangkap dan kene keluar dari Msia, ha, how?’ #
• RT @netraKL Check this video out — Viva Palestina Convoy Attacked in El-Arish #3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVwGnqHwk7U #
• Cuimhnich air na daoine bho ’n d’ thàinig thu. Remember those from whom you came. #
• Skipping my writers group meet-up tomorrow. My excuse? I’ll be too busy writing. Heh. #
• Few things are as beautiful as distant lightning silently painting stories on clouds in the night sky. I could watch it for hours. #
• Way to go! Aid convoy breaks Gaza siege
  http://bit.ly/6jvDdE #
• Can we please recognize ‘hate-filled imbeciles’ as a unique ethnic group & give them an island or something? Jesus what morons we have here. #
• The MacVays lived in Northern Ireland for 200 yrs before finding peace in Canada. Now here I am in Msia & people are burning churches. FML #
• RT @meeshly RT @NazimEsa I love god. It’s his fan club I can’t stand #
• Where the hell do all these NGOs come from every time there’s a protest? Dozens & dozens of ‘em. I’ll bet most of ‘em are one-man shows. #
• I hereby interrupt this sectarian violence nonsense to brag about the awesome pasta dish I just cooked. MMM GOOD Suck on that haters. #
• http://twitpic.com/x6lch - Aaaaand here comes the rain. #
• Fatwa declares any attack on US or Canada to be an attack on Muslims http://bit.ly/8wL5kL #
• Sigh. I wish there could be a story abt Msia in the int’l news that doesn’t make us look like dolts. @meeshly @netraKL @monaeltahawy #
• The whole family just had a 5-minute laughing fit for no reason at all. Either we’re all nuts or we’re just the best family EVAR. #
• How could I possibly be against non-Muslims calling God Allah? I still yell ‘JESUS CHRIST!’ when startled. #
• I don’t know why I keep gaining weight, said the 35-yr-old man microwaving chicken sausages at 2am. Life’s little mysteries! #
• Marvel sues Spider-Man, Hulk artist heirs for rights http://bit.ly/7dIPu3 #
• Oh, hello Sleep. Let’s hang out. You talk, I’ll listen. You tell the best stories. #

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• Configured my blog to publish a weekly twitter update & it made a post with every update (excluding replies) from 2009. Hmmm #
• I smell burnt toast. Since I’m not epileptic & there’s no doctor poking things into my brain, I’ll assume someone somewhere just burnt toast #
• Spent New Year’s Eve in Muar. Our cat Mimi was with us. Left her there. In her place are some guppies & neon tetras. Al’s ok with that. Phew #
• Rolled-up Trousers: Douglas Alexander should be with the protesters at Egypt’s border http://bit.ly/82daCo #
• Unearthed: Journal Gives Eye Witness Account of Slavery http://bit.ly/5V6Aft #
• Predictions for the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900 http://bit.ly/5QIh7F #
• Robert Fisk: Walls never work: in the Middle East or in Ireland http://bit.ly/8rXOkY #
• Ok, what’s with the heat? Yeah we’re near the equator and all that but damn it’s hot tonight. #

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• If the Disney cartoon about crazy US drivers was made in the 50s, does that mean I have to wait over 50 yrs for Malaysian drivers to learn? #
• Where the heck can I find quinoa in Malaysia? Anyone? #
• Went on a gluten-free shopping rampage at Cold Storage. Felt like home…only 10x more expensive. #
• I wonder if Al’s sudden habit of making the ssss sound is an early sign of Tourette’s or just him making the ssss sound. I have to wonder… #
• If Goofy’s a dog, does that mean Pluto’s just mentally challenged? #
• I don’t get blog trolls. You ignore & delete, they get mad. You reply, they get mad AND they look stupid. So why do they want door #2? #
• Is it just me or is quinoa really awesome? #
• Interesting that the only way to stop Al’s tantrum was to show him video of himself having a tantrum. Too bad the effect quickly wore off. #
• What to do when wifeless for a day? Go fly a kite. Really. #
• had fun flying kites & playing in the river with Al & Faaris yesterday, except when the poisonous snake charged at us (but what a rush). #
• just spent 2 hrs eating a bowl of oatmeal with blueberries. It was a big bowl of oatmeal. Lots of blueberries. Don’t come near me later. #
• The ghastly pics of a shirtless me from yesterday’s outing shall further motivate me to start exercising. I’m so horrified. #
• Been experimenting with a gluten-free diet, which in Malaysia is exceedingly tricky. So I guess it’s actually a low-gluten diet instead. #
• Burnt my lunch a little but I ate it anyway. Mmmm… #
• Does anyone else out there hate songs with saxophone? If that upsets you, you’ll really hate me for admitting I like the sound of bagpipes. #
• Valentine’s sucks. However, I AM looking forward to buying Leen chocolates & taking her out on a date. Hypocrite? No…opportunist. #
• Valentine’s still sucks. But we had a good time anyway. #
• Bad enough developers never consider parking; add the fact that restaurants use parking spaces for seating and the result is just stupid. #
• Basic chat etiquette: If you’re really there, respond; if you can’t, drop a note later. Otherwise why are we ‘friends’? #
• It’s times like this that make me wonder why I moved so close to the equator. DAMN it’s hot. #
• If I’m eating ‘lightly salted’ rice cakes, the ‘no salt added’ ones must taste exactly like styrofoam. Because these ones are damn close. #
• Even if I only got a penny for every time someone wrote ‘loose’ when they meant ‘lose’, I’d be rich in no time. #
• Got my copy of Down the Block in the mail yesterday. So nice to get ‘real’ mail once in a while! #
• just had oatmeal for lunch. Mmmm…delicious soluble fiber… #
• would love to name a (hypothetical) 2nd son Duncan, except Malaysians would just associate it with Dunkin Donuts. Damn it. #
• Speaking of Damansara: Spot the problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damansara #
• Wow it is really dark outside for this time of day. #
• I find ‘what I’m eating’ updates annoying. But damn this fish, potatoes and veggies concoction Leen cooked for lunch RAWKS. #
• paid a phone bill from 2005 today #
• knows it’s time to clean the litterbox when he finds a pile of crap on the bathroom floor. Smokey’s right, that’s unpleasant. #
• 2 months rain in 2 hours. So Tuesday WAS as bad as it looked! #
• finally found something to hate about this job: colleague has been playing Elvis songs all afternoon #
• Spouses of skilled Malaysians who return get PR in 6 months, but spouses of skilled Malaysians already here can’t get PR at all. Huh? #
• tried three times to wipe a little piece of tissue off my face before finally realizing it was actually white hair #
• Down the Block is now at Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/d5hltt #
• Smokey used up the last of his 9 lives today. See ya buddy. #
• buried Smokey in Kampung Melayu Subang this morning #
• should probably try to remember how to tie the belt before I step back into a judo dojo #
• Migraine all week. Suspect named Grief still at large. May have an accomplice named Gluten. #
• Your dad is CM of Sarawak? This too could be yours! http://tinyurl.com/cdrmp3 #
• Colleague has asthma, can’t have air-con on; I sweat excessively & get headaches when only using fans. So how? #
• If I ran this country I would so do something about the way they pack garbage bags here. Then you could just take ONE out of the bag. #
• People who chop chicken without regard for its anatomy shall share my wrath with the garbage bag packers. I’m gonna need more wrath then. #
• it’s just wrong to sweat this much if you haven’t just exercised and/or had sex. Why did I have to move so close to the equator? #
• should pack a lunch every day because all this ‘where will I eat’ stuff is very draining #
• gave into temptation; now lovingly devouring a ‘dinner plate’ from KFC #
• Jeremy Clarkson may hate the Kelisa, but if he drove one in KL traffic he’d change his mind. I kinda like mine. #
• Today’s priority: not looking like a complete n00b at judo. Tomorrow’s priority: getting out of bed without screaming like a girl. #
• got pretty scraped up at judo last night; even popped something in my ribcage. Doing it again Sunday, hopefully with less rib-popping #
• “It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.” - Jigoro Kano #
• went to see ‘Knowing’ last night. Kinda creepy. #
• It’s official: that ‘pop’ I felt at judo last Friday was my rib cracking. No judo for at least a month, maybe two. Major suckage. #
• The We’re related FB app April Fool’s joke about Obama being my cousin might have worked if they’d said Hilary Clinton, who IS my cousin #
• TMNet is ridiculously slow today #
• OK, the slowness of Screamyx is beyond ridiculous now. I can’t even blog. #
• The Internet is so slow right now I can’t even edit my blog to enable comments (which should have been enabled by default anyway). Grrr…. #
• Hey, a Wikipedia page just loaded in 15 secs. That’s better than 15 mins. Maybe the problem is almost fixed. #
• I think I might go for a brisk walk around Bukit Damansara. If the trees will shade me, of course. It’s bloody hot out there. #
• enjoyed hearing about Al’s dream about eating cake with Ben 10, the Power Rangers and Batman after they saved him from a monster #
• Depressing as the news is, what I’m really wondering about is the AP’s use of the word ’shet’. Like shed+shit? http://tinyurl.com/d4gssw #
• spending the day at Immigration. 1-month special pass expiring; 6-month ’spouse’ pass not ready yet; getting another 1-month pass. Woo. #
• Rain in Shah Alam this afternoon was worst daytime visibility I’ve ever seen outside of a blizzard or a Halifax fog bank. Crazy. #
• Is Libya playing a big footie match right now? I keep hearing cheers down at the mamak. Yes, that many Libyans live in Sungai Chua. Imagine. #
• I thought I could go catless, but here I am contemplating a visit to the SPCA tomorrow. This place needs a cat. #
• Spent the morning at Immigration to get my 2nd 1-month pass in a row. Crowded as usual. But hey, it wasn’t Thailand. Hooray for optimism! #
• One of the guys featured in Amir Muhammad’s ‘Apa Khabar Orang Kampung’ has a blog: http://matamin.blogspot.com/. Very interesting. #
• stands by his climbing ability, but begrudgingly admits he’s a poor judge of the load-bearing capacity of vines. #
• lost his right to vote almost 2 yrs ago due to a quirky bit of Canadian electoral law and is now ineligible to vote in any country. Nice. #
• just finished a bottle of non-alcoholic beer I bought from the Lebanese-Australian guy’s shop downstairs. Actually tasted like beer. Sigh. #
• the funny thing is, the guy I would never peg for Australian before he spoke actually thought I was Syrian before I spoke. I look Syrian? #
• almost forgot how good Shaolin Soccer was. On TV3 now. #
• shoulda watched that match in the wee hours, since screaming fans at the mamak woke me up at 430am anyway. Sheesh. #
• tried Bavaria Malt yesterday. Even better than Barbican. Sure, not ‘real’ beer, but it tastes right, and I can drink and drive. Nyeah nyeah. #
• Anyone wanna join me and @tariqk in starting an acid dangdut punk band? Wouldn’t that be trippy? Or not? OK, maybe not. #
• Twitter Tools appears to be broken, so I have to tell you myself to go read my blog. So go read it. READ IT! #
• it’s funny that my 2002 Proton Wira is basically a 1993 Mitsubishi lancer/Dodge Colt. #
• had too much petai last night. Morning bathroom visit was just wrong. Enjoyed the petai, though. #
• is about to have a nice nap at the office. Driving to Penang tonight and want to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. #
• heading to Penang / Kedah for the weekend #
• got pulled over near Tapah last night. Cop: ‘Is there anything you’d like to say before I write this ticket?’ Laaa just ask me for the RM50. #
• sweltering in Mak Ngah’s house in Sg Dua. Next stop: Jitra. #
• in a tiny little hotel room in Jitra. But God bless air-conditioning. #
• There was a Satay kajang place behind our hotel in Jitra. Needless to say, we skipped it. I mean, we get enough satay Kajang as it is. #
• saw dozens of Vespas on the NSE last night. Some sort of Vespa gang? Oooh, scary. Especially the ones with stacks of side mirrors. Horror. #
• safe to say Malaysians suck at geography, considering how many mistake the North-South expressway for the Autobahn. Wrong country, folks. #
• Canadian authorities urge washing hands with hot water & soap, among other things, to avoid new swine flu. So basically Malaysia’s screwed. #
• Or, for those who prefer more upbeat status updates: purple Gatorade is yummy and contains 0% swine flu. Yay! #
• was going to get down to doing some work, but ah screw it, how about a really long lunch? Oh yeah. #
• yeah go ahead and laugh at my cheap Asadi knock-off crocs, but bear in mind they’re popular with wacky achilles tendons. Well, mine anyway. #
• had things to edit but took a 3+hr lunch instead. Tomorrow: some editing and another 3+hr lunch. #
• why I get paid to edit: “X might seem an ordinary man to you, but you will be surprised to discover that he is nothing but ordinary.” #
• Why is the Malay word for ‘rebate’ spelled ‘rebat’ when everyone pronounces it just like ‘rebate’? #
• Funny how today’s Star has page after page on the swine flu, which isn’t here, but a cholera outbreak in Klang is buried somewhere on p. +++ #
• You’d think I’d have a favourite football team by now, but I STILL don’t know which one I like. EPL I mean. #
• If you’ve ever read Archie comics & wondered what the heck was up with Jughead’s hat, someone’s figured it out: http://tinyurl.com/cfsm86 #
• I finally know where the term “half-past six” (in one sense anyway) comes from: http://tinyurl.com/dg5vm4 #
• didn’t panic about SARS because I wasn’t a parent. This new flu is freaking me out. Docs in Mexico too it seems: http://tinyurl.com/c53n7y #
• can’t say this office is like others. Colleague spends all day in t-shirt & boxer shorts. #
• Ah, there you are, Rain. I’m actually glad you’re here this time. But please tell your friend Wind not to drop branches in front of me, ok? #
• relaxing in Sitiawan, enjoying good company and good steaks. Ping-pong too, but my gimpy leg made me stop. So back to steak then. #
• Ping-pong may have actually helped. My limp is less gimpy now. The body works in mysterious ways. #
• Like I said, still looking for an EPL team to support. Maybe Liverpool (history!), or Chelsea (blue!), or Newcastle (Geordies). But not MU. #
• Or Portsmouth maybe. Nice logo. And they’re blue! And they’re an island. I like islands. #
• The connection error this stupid Celcom ‘broadband’ throws up is ‘Find an incorrect size of the structure’. So their English sucks too. #
• So @sazdaud insists that if I don’t like MU (I really don’t), in all fairness to her I should also shun Liverpool. @sashi1977? Hmmm….. #
• So far it’s Liverpool, Newcastle, Portsmouth. Man City have potential. Maybe Tottenham. Oh I don’t know. #
• My lunch FTW: grilled salmon, brown rice, baby carrots, green beans & kacang botol with lemon pepper and a sweet ginger sauce. Mmmm…. #
• Sweet berimbau action: http://tinyurl.com/3hvs2g #
• Best Wintersleep song ever: http://tinyurl.com/yqjopk #
• The other best Wintersleep song ever (& definitely their best video ever): http://tinyurl.com/dlf4jf #
• It’s impossible to twitter everything, cos then you’d have ‘Just tweeted about pooping’ then ‘Tweeted about tweeting about pooping’ etc. Die #
• I want mee rebus. Oh look it’s Tuesday. So mee rebus it is then. With lots and lots of fried shallots. #
• I want to play futsal. But only if I can find other people who suck at it so I won’t feel so out of place. #
• Watching The Wrestler. “It’s the Passion of the Christ. You have the same hair.” LOL #
• Marisa Tomei failed at playing someone not as smokin’ as the other girls. Please. Mid-40s and you could bounce a quar…OK I’ll stop now. #
• Seriously thinking about joining the gym near my place. With Leen. Have to kick each other’s arses. #
• Lemme get this straight: ppl eating breakfast get arrested for wearing black, but ppl who rob & kill pregnant moms get away. Riiiight. FAIL. #
• Sivakumar should start throwing punches like they do in Taiwan or Korea. If you’re going down, go down fighting. #
• LOL RT @insider_latest: FLASH - Ipoh restaurant owners refuse to close shop. Police give up and instead start buying drinks. #
• Awakened by screaming footie fans again last night. Going to talk to the mamak owner tonight. If all else fails, I’ll unplug the damn TV. #
• I feel for Pakatan, but if they walk away from this without asserting their authority, then whine about it, my sympathy level falls a bit. #
• Come on, at least get dragged out kicking and screaming instead of ‘I’m the speaker. I’m the…oh darn, I’m not the speaker. Let’s leave.’ #
• Ok, looks like they’re not leaving. Siva’s stepping up. Yay Siva! #
• BTW, where is the sultan? And Raja Nazrin? It would take but a word or two from them to end this shit one way or another. #
• Interesting point at anilnetto.com: Since Raja Nazrin hasn’t declared sitting open, nothing that has transpired is official. Siva is speaker #
• Watching the rest of The Wrestler. More Marisa Tomei. Still not buying her as the ‘too old now’ stripper. Damn. Movie rocks though. #
• Our ‘leaders’: RT @insider_latest: Perak Assembly - Chaos as lawmakers scuffle and fight with some trying to strangle each other. #
• Canada can have its boring politics. Here in M’sia politicians punch, strangle and pepper-spray one another. What’s next…tasers? #
• Bubar? No, no. I believe the correct word for all of this is FUBAR. #
• Today’s politcal hullabaloo in Perak goes into the fizzle bin with Sept. 16th. #
• In other news, Leen & I bought 1-yr gym memberships yesterday. Watch out, people. #
• couldn’t get online all weekend. So much for my celcom ‘broadband’. #
• High court declares Nizar is MB of Perak! Whoa! #
• spent the last 2 days at immigration. Visa delayed because JPN can’t read our wedding cert (it’s in jawi). Malaysia boleh apa? #
• Gardenia butterscotch bread tastes awesome, but it appears to have given me some sort of food poisoning. Can I stop peeing from my ass now? #
• Hey, today’s my 5-yr ‘blogiversary’. Wow. #
• Going to blame this bout of diarrhea on chicken sandwiches from the petrol station. Shoulda known better. It’s ALWAYS the petrol station. #
• RT @lainie Loving Reach, this short film animation by Luke Randall of a tiny robot, and the power cable he’s bound to. http://is.gd/zJ7V #
• Publisher & editor want my tsunami book to be rewritten as fiction. Would help in some big ways, but I’m torn. Decisions, decisions… #
• Last week: a cold, immigration woes, food poisoning, & internetlessness. Dear This Week: Don’t make me break ma foot offa yo ass. #
• Just downloaded a Coldplay album for free. Woohoo! Thanks to @ShaolinTiger for sharing the link: http://bit.ly/WTgiP Now go get it. #
• Car scraped by road bully’s truck & I can’t do anything because I didn’t quite see the plate number. Punched the shit out of his hood though #
• Should I even bother making a police report? #
• If you have a weird name, no Facebook for you. http://tinyurl.com/ok8q6k #
• Speaking of names: If Msia had a surname law like Turkey, I wonder what surnames Malays would get? Easy for those with Nik, Meor, Raden, etc #
• If you type ‘best country’ into Wolfram Alpha it tells you it’s the Netherlands. Well, because there’s a place called Best there. Hah. #
• I guess I won’t be one of those writers who always talk about the novel they never write. This tsunami book is morphing into my 1st novel. #
• Ah, Malaysian girls http://bit.ly/uAq7a
  WTF? #
• Going to the gym with Leen after work. Still sore from my session with the personal trainer. Just going to do cardio and lots of stretching #
• Parents in Alberta could be able to choose not to have their kids learn about evolution in school? Disturbing! http://tinyurl.com/papk26 #
• The guy who’s been Mickey Mouse’s voice for 30 yrs has died. He was actually married to the voice of Minnie. RIP. http://tinyurl.com/re97xv #
• LOL RT @thatjames American Idol: Adam vs Kris. Your votes count! Perak Idol: Zambry vs Nizar. Your votes don’t! #
• Good mood? I think he looks like someone just kicked him in the balls. http://twitpic.com/5lqos #
• LOL RT @suanie overheard on the howard stern show: “that was the gayest thing i’d ever seen, and i’ve seen two guys blowing each other.” #
• Wow, and I thought Al was bad! RT @ShaolinTiger This baby is genius, gibberish ftw ROFL - http://bit.ly/gGaF #
• The Star tells ppl to follow @aichunstar for the latest Nizar vs Zambry. Her latest tweet is ‘I got kicked out’. So much for that! #
• was very impressed by Papa John’s Pizza. I mean, it actually tastes like PIZZA. #
• Archie’s supposedly getting married. But will it be Betty or Veronica? http://tinyurl.com/p4lzh3 I’ve always preferred Betty. #
• Yay Canadian writers http://bit.ly/qdv3M #
• may just join the screaming masses tonight and root for Barcelona. #
• I’m too tired to watch the match, but the local fans will wake me up with their screaming anyway. So I suppose I might as well watch it. #
• was awakened by screaming footie fans & went down to join them. That 2nd goal was sweet. Pretty emphatic win. Way to go Barca! #
• LOL RT @lezzles:There’s an email going around saying that some tinned pork products contain H1-N1 aka “Swine Flu”. I think it might be spam. #
• Working at home all day. Later: playing footie with Al. For a 2-yr-old the kid can really boot a ball. #
• Isn’t it kind of disturbing that Chicky the KFC mascot cooks & serves his own kind? Al has a toy Chicky in a chef’s hat holding a fried egg. #
• I know Energizer lithium batteries rock anyway but the ones in my camera now are freakishly good. I think they’ve been going over a month. #
• got to where Leen works way too early. Thank God for a full laptop battery and wireless broadband. #
• going to the gym soon to work off a weekend of yummy food. #
• Passed a lorry exiting LDP. Passenger was waving something. Looked in rearview mirror & saw him waving a .44. I hope that was a toy! #
• Anyone got a really good Malay dictionary handy? One that gives etymologies of words? Mine are at home & I want to look up a word. #
• I have to go to a place not too far from my office but because of the weird roads probably can’t get back without driving all over KL. Meh. #
• Robber gets away with a new religion and even a new name LOL http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/02/new.york.robber.mercy/index.html #
• I think the biggest leap of imagination in the new Terminator film is not how advanced the robots are but how dumb they are. #
• just noticed on Wikimapia that in the place my great-great-grandparents (the MacArtneys) lived there’s now a place called Leen’s Lodge. Heh. #
• The Canadian dollar can’t win: when it’s low, people complain. It goes up, they still complain. Poor Canadian dollar. #
• It’s about bloody time: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/06/04/abdelrasik.html #
• Not sure what this guy did (supposedly rape) but damn, is this Malaysian justice? (Link is NSFW) http://tinyurl.com/pmydb4 #
• Cats are so smart. The 2 stray kittens we took home last night could apparently read the word SUCKER written all over me and Leen. #
• Problem: my book needs an editor but I don’t have money to fork out for an editor. My only option now is to go it alone & hope for the best. #
• off to buy kitten food so the little buggers will stop eating all my tuna. #
• Not a card-carrying NDP member, but kinda hope they win. They deserve a chance to screw Nova Scotia like the others have. It’s only fair eh? #
• “…if necessary will arrest any person wearing black as they approach the outlets…” Wow, now THAT would be dumb.http://tinyurl.com/mg48tj #
• found one white hair on Al’s head yesterday. Very strange. I know some people go grey early, but he’s not even 3 yet! #
• wouldn’t be shocked if Al’s hair colour changed. Mine was black at birth, then fiery red, then really blond. Now it’s dirty-blondish. #
• Why is someone retweeting something I never tweeted in the first place? Or am I simply meant to see it? Forgive me, I’m sleepy. #
• Canadian MP Bob Re deported from Sri Lanka. Is the Sri Lankan govt really that stupid? Apparently so. http://tinyurl.com/lg2yz8 #
• I’m in stay-at-home-dad mode all week; today Al is in spend-every-moment-playing-with-me mode. I’m gonna need more coffee. #
• just had dinner with CEO of Naza & a bunch of journos/bloggers. Got a 75GB external hard drive in the gift bag. I like this guy already. #
• Great, the ‘haze’ is back. I wish we could afford to spend these hazy summers in Canada. #
• just got up from a 2-hr nap with Al, who fell back asleep. Somehow have to get him dressed so we can go get his mommy. #
• Leen’s watching the Kardashians & we’re both horrified. But for some reason it’s still on. #
• took our new kitten to the vet. Need a name for him. He’s brown but no way will I name him Coco or Mocha or the vet’s suggestion, Brown. #
• decided to name the kitten Maximus, Max for short. Then learned Max is the most popular cat name. So nope. Gotta be more original than that. #
• Malaysians are little help. Most white cats are named Putih. Black ones are Hitam. Also popular is Comel. Not naming this one Coklat. #
• Ok, so if uncle Hugh can name his dog after his own father & brother, surely I can name a cat after my grandfather. So Duncan it is, then. #
• Besides the fact that Duncan is good for a brown cat, this one is small & scrappy and we thought he might be a goner. Now that’s my Duncan. #
• I hate when people correct me when I say I dislike sushi (they point out the raw fish is sashimi). I dislike sushi AND ALL THE SHIT IN IT. #
• Were police roadblocks the reason for the shitty morning traffic? School holidays are done but traffic wasn’t that shitty before the hols. #
• Man did Spain ever massacre the kiwis last night. I’d make fun of that, but I’m Canadian and we suck at football too. #
• Duncan the kitten died last night. I think he died on the floor & Mimi put him in her cat bed. Poor little fella. Had a few good days anyway #
• Off to eat Kak Ton’s delicious mee rebus. Mmmm… #
• Got P1 WiMax at home now. Celcom ‘broadband’ just didn’t cut it. #
• LOL Fighting for his right for TIm Horton’s coffee http://bit.ly/92hCl #
• RT @davewordswords Evolution is so gay. http://bit.ly/11te7U #
• One animator’s tribute to another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrsVa3CzQj0 #
• Bought Al a set of plastic army toys: jeeps, little green men etc. Opened it & found a detailed map of Afghanistan. Oh how times change. #
• Upon closer inspection: package even says it contains ‘Taliban ground army’. When I was a kid the plastic baddies were Nazis & Japanese. #
• Another weird thing abt the toy army set is the flags of the armies: Brazil & Uruguay. One of the jeeps has a USSR flag on it. #
• This morning’s entertainment: reading last night’s tweets from drunk friends. I shudder to imagine what I’d tweet if I were still a drinker. #
• I think our cat Mimi is deadly to other animals. The week we got her Leen’s rabbits got sick & died. Took in 2 cats, same thing. Creepy. #
• I think Mimi might also be a little slow. No cat should run into things at full speed as often as she does. She’s lucky she’s cute. #
• Al wants to play with Faaris today. Off we go. #
• Happy Father’s Day to all the daddies out there! #
• RT @lord_ashe Pixar grants a dying little girl’s wish. Kudos, and an example of how a little kindness goes a long way. http://bit.ly/18uWiX #
• The only good thing I got from the video of that Iranian girl dying was proof that tv/movie/game violence hasn’t actually desensitized me. #
• “While the idea of a modern Islamic theocracy was born in Iran and practised in Iran, it’s being buried in Iran too.” http://bit.ly/fyXAX #
• Today’s sign Twitter has arrived: credit for this story’s photo is ‘Twitter/Reuters’ http://bit.ly/oSjnf #
• eating fava beans before bed = so, so wrong…though the boy in me was mighty impressed (unlike the woman next to me). #
• dropped a piece of paper at LHDN, instinctively said ‘Alamak!’ and got a laugh + really surprised look from the Malay guy standing nearby. #
• A NYT article from 1901 on ‘Negroes speaking Gaelic’. I blogged this stuff before (without racist 1901 terminology). http://bit.ly/zDLgb #
• Off to play with Al, which will probably involve a pillow fight. #
• Chua Soi Lek is being silly if he thinks there’s something un-Malaysian about crowds of Indons and Banglas in Puduraya. http://bit.ly/UYIf #
• You need hundreds of thousands of foreigners to build your homes & wipe your kids’ asses, but you’d prefer they stay out of sight? FAIL. #
• will have another cup of coffee, thank you. If I don’t finish these reports tonight, have to slice a chunk out of family time tomorrow. No. #
• watched a huge fireworks display from the balcony at about 1130. I think it was in Bangi. Nice. Now back to work. #
• is sending a can of Tesco-brand isotonic stuff into his gut to do battle with those two cups of coffee. Poor bastard’s outnumbered. #
• was going to go to the bank but what sheer lunacy that would be. I haven’t had my coffee! Disaster averted: check. #
• Any other twitter users out there find it a bit annoying to be called ‘tweeps’? #
• Having thousands of Twitter followers sounds cool, but how the hell do you interact with them? You might only see 1% of tweets aimed at you. #
• off to the bank, AKA The World’s Worst Parking Nightmare. Pray for me. #
• just had a strange conversation with Amir Hafizi abt race, religion, MLM & Thai prostitutes. He bought pizza, so I listened. Domino’s FTW! #
• Tim’s is going home http://bit.ly/clB0X #
• Msians who complain at the idea of giving the maids who wipe their kids arses a day off should read Sazlin’s article. http://bit.ly/D1fnx #
• With international communication so easy now, we forget the thrill of finding a message in a…balloon? http://bit.ly/JP5oB #
• And I remember sitting in my room as a kid, straining to make out faint signals from Boston and New York on AM radio, excited when I did. #
• Guess what time it is. Oh, you’re so slow. It’s coffee time, silly. #
• RT @sashi1977 RT @nikicheong: I LOVE IT!!!!! RT: @sochews: This has to be the world’s most addictive banner ad. http://bit.ly/Cy9SI #
• In honour of Canada Day, here’s a classic: http://bit.ly/q8vR or, if you prefer, William Shatner’s version: http://bit.ly/lPiI0 #
• was going to write about how great P1 WiMAX is, but this morning it’s really, really slow. Booooo. #
• Omar Shaban shouldn’t be the VP of the Canadian Arab Federation. http://bit.ly/19UMUt #
• thought the babysitter had been kidnapped or something until Leen called me & said ‘Oh btw you have to drop Al off at Liza’s place.’ Grr. #
• Videos of Canadian senators bickering. Ah yes, the house of sober second thought. http://bit.ly/gbgfV & http://bit.ly/tgxiy #
• Nasty vp of Canadian Arab Federation seems to have agreed with my (and many others’) view that he was a dick. http://bit.ly/aC49y #
• V for Vendetta is on TV and I can’t help thinking it’s just an 80s movie that was made way too late. #
• thought my Cape Breton accent had faded away, but then heard Al saying he wanted to watch Mickey Mose. Score one for Cape Breton! #
• Ah, I see local TV stations still sometimes forget how to cut gracefully to commercial. And why must Nightline always split TV3 movies? Grr. #
• Interesting: Gamer robs virtual bank to get real-world cash http://bit.ly/14sjWV #
• Oh look, self-help is officially bullshit: http://bit.ly/VMWnk #
• Playing Transformers with Al. He calls me ‘Eticon’ and delivers an impressive kick to my face. More proof he should only watch disney stuff. #
• And where the heck did Al learn Muay Thai knee strikes? #
• Was out on the balcony getting clothes off the rack this morning & realized I was completely naked. Oh the trauma. Oh the humanity. #
• So far the only thing I don’t like about P1 WiMAX is the fact that people keep tripping over the cord & knocking the receiver off the table. #
• Has anyone read The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri? In the middle of it now and really enjoying it. #
• Can anyone name a recent Malaysian commercial property development that properly addressed both parking & traffic? I certainly can’t. #
• spent a night & a day at Leen’s aunty’s place. It’s like home. 1st place I slept in Msia. Also where I buried Smokey (& Al’s uri). Home. #
• Taking Azlin’s son Faaris for a photo shoot today. Thinking of taking Al along, but that could turn into a major disaster. #
• I used to be a fan of DC Comics, so I find this interesting: http://bit.ly/LoIaO #
• Brought Al to Faaris’s photoshoot. Pro: ppl now want Al in their ads. Con: Al + Faaris = MAYHEM. It was cute but it wasn’t pretty. #
• RT @boostventilator Nothing says “rest in peace” like a lottery for fans, ticket scalping & a stadium named after an office supply retailer. #
• Anyone wanna take a cute Siamese/tabby mix? She’s not good with kids, presumably including brand-new ones. #
• What does a band do when United Airlines breaks their guitars? How about a video called United Breaks Guitars? LOL http://bit.ly/z2GU5 #
• So they’re scrapping teaching of maths & science in English. I think that’s a bad move. Not that PPSMI was a rousing success, but come on. #
• From a selfish standpoint, since my kid is bilingual he wins either way. But I think it’s a step backward for the country. #
• Was going to give up coffee today, but I’ll do that another time, when I’m not sleeeepy. #
• Someone’s thinking about baby names again, but I’m not sayin’ who… #
• Now that MJ’s gone will we have MJ impersonators all over Vegas? And will people claim he’s alive & packing groceries in Kalamazoo? I dread. #
• From a chat with a friend on gmail: ‘fulamak, for a laki with satu telor you very keng arr.’ LOL #
• I don’t believe the reversion to teaching maths/science in BM will help rural folk. Instead, it will keep them firmly in their place. #
• More on the saga of United Airlines and the broken guitars: http://bit.ly/vIIrf #
• would like to thank the govt for scrapping PPSMI, thus ensuring my kids a spot in an elite whose English skills will be scarce & prized. Thx #
• See? I am truly an optimist. #
• So who wants my cat? Other than being intolerant of kids, lethal to other cats & slightly stupid, she’s awesome. C’mon, ya know ya want her. #
• Off to pick Leen up at work. Tonight, visiting the doctor & hopefully getting a thumbs-up & an official due date. Woohoo! #
• You know you have a cheap crap phone when something falls hard onto the floor & you think Whew! It was only my phone. #
• I blog about Malaysian construction safety standards & a guy leaves a long comment about Jews and Michael Jackson. WTF? #
• Bloggers who have ‘infolinks’ and other things that turn words into links for no reason should know this: it’s bloody annoying. Stop it. #
• Mmm….coffee… #
• MY GAWD RT @icilalune RT @SteveCadwell: Retro Comedy: The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time - http://shar.es/4Dfh #
• Wouldn’t it be ironic to be from Oklahoma and get killed by a tornado at a fishing resort in Ontario? Oh yes it would. http://bit.ly/1CEwoL #
• off to Muar for two birthdays, an anniversary, and surprisingly not a single wedding. #
• If sleepy, get off the highway. If only a bit sleepy, get in the fast lane. Adrenaline, it seems, is way more effective than coffee. #
• Dear Malaysian Road Bullies: I don’t play the Flash-Flash Get the Fuck Out of My Way game. Ok, thanks. Now back off. Love, Jordan. #
• You can’t outrun faster cars but you can outdrive stupid drivers. My creaky old Wira reeks of WIN. #
• So what to do when you get home from a weekend with the in-laws? Make a coffee, put on Return of the Tres, and do some work. Deadlines yo! #
• Put the needle on the record when the drum beats go like this (cue Ofra haza and whatever that crazy shit is she’s singing). #
• Tony Fernandes takes his beef with Malaysia Airports to Wall Street: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124700645894708209.html #
• LOL RT @boostventilator Posted without comment: Saving Private Ryan Final Scene and End Credits http://bit.ly/6WdnW (via Picnicface) #
• Saw this before but it never gets old: http://bit.ly/okHO #
• Brown says Afghan war ‘keeps Britain’s streets safe’. Quick, someone check the stats on how many purse-snatchers in the UK are Taliban. #
• If I had 5 minutes with the ppl responsible for the haze I’d tell them my wife’s a pregnant asthmatic. No, screw that, I’d just punch them. #
• Today’s our 8th wedding anniversary. How awesome is that? Love you, baby! #
• I don’t know why ppl leave their Gmail status on ‘busy’ all the time. It’s not like it makes me less likely to msg them. Hehe. #
• Can barely see Bangi from my place. Can hit it with a rock from here, but can hardly see it now. Damn haze. #
• Trying to decide whether a headache is from too much coffee or not enough is kinda like deciding which wire to snip on a time bomb. #
• Knew it already but…Blueberries FTW! RT @kzamri The Healthiest Foods << Smart Living http://is.gd/1xbA0 via @ecobject #food #
• Yay, it’s Mee Rebus Tuesday! #
• A boy and his toy http://bit.ly/NDpSs #
• Ok, can we please be done with by-elections now? #
• Listening to Stone to Throw by Nathaniel Matthew on http://www.thesixtyone.com. Nice. #
• I blame @kzamri for getting me hooked on http://www.thesixtyone.com. Where else would I find bands like King of Prussia? #
• LOL http://www.stockholmpride.org/howhetero/ According to the Swedes I’m 87% hetero. #
• Kinda sucks when the mag you edit has speeches by the PM & a prince & they contain little errors, but you’re supposed to print them as-is. #
• Might fix them anyway. Here’s hoping I don’t get deported for it. Heh. #
• Taking communion when you’re not catholic is one thing (I did it once. Long story) but spitting out the wafer? That’s disrespectful man. #
• Slow connection + boss forgot lunch meeting + no office furniture + shelling out my own money for the new phone line = I have a headache. #
• Now, where to get good, cheap food within walking distance of Mutiara Bangsar? #
• Keeping fingers crossed. If tonight’s ultrasound shows nothing, word of the day is ‘ectopic’. Hoping for a different word. Like ‘normal’. #
• Ok, we can breathe a bit now. Ultrasound shows everything where it should be. Early days yet (only 4 wks), but woohoo! #
• One of my favourite books ever. RT @sharonbakar “Angela’s Ashes” author gravely ill. http://bit.ly/mw9u2 #
• Follow the Apollo 11 mission in real time (yes I said Apollo 11): @ApolloPlus40 #
• Facebook breaches Canadian privacy law: http://bit.ly/Aabz0 #
• I have just over an hour before I have to shower, dress & go get Leen. A: Have a nap. B: Drink coffee & get work done. Hmmm… #
• Too much work to do dammit. Coffee wins. This time. #
• Going to meet @idlan this evening. Hope it’s not too sudden. We’ve only known each other for five years. #
• Syed Mumtaz Ali, 1st Muslim lawyer in Canada, dies at 82 http://bit.ly/edXa2 #
• Fiddler Jerry Holland of Cape Breton dies http://bit.ly/fqm0q His ‘In Memory of Herbie MacLeod’ is my favourite fiddle tune. #
• Can’t find my Heart of Cape Breton CD. Quick, someone hum this for me. http://bit.ly/2l1IUp #
• You know I’ve been here a long time when ‘Selembar Kaseh’ (and its prelude) by Dewangga Sakti satisfies my sudden yearning for fiddle music. #
• Watching Wall-E on tv & wondering if anyone’s done a study on the portrayal of robot sexuality vs. platonic companionship. #
• Off to spend the day with Al, Leen, & a guy who lived across the back fence when I was a kid. I’m sick of satay now but it’s new to him so.. #
• Next time someone begins a sentence with ‘Don’t ever let it be said that…’, stop them right there & say ‘OK.’ #
• Jeez, everywhere you go, you’ll find another Canadian. http://bit.ly/OFNIf #
• World’s oldest man dies at 113 http://bit.ly/VQo7w #
• I hear KISS played in the rain. No injuries were reported during the Running of the Mascara. #kissifax #
• Kudos to Amri Yahyah for scoring TWICE against MU even though his countrymen were cheering for the opposing team. #
• RT @elviza Al Fathehah: Captain Yusof Ahmad @ Ancient Mariner among bloggers, passes away this morning. His body taken back to Seremban #
• Sounds cool for a second but it’s a ridiculous idea. Akwesasne chief pushes for Mohawk sovereignty http://bit.ly/KdIa1 #
• Didn’t know Capt. Yusof Ahmad very well, but I enjoyed his stories & will miss his laugh, the laugh of an ancient mariner. #
• Now back to the Mohawk sovereignty thing. If they got sovereignty, where would they get money, without Canadian taxpayers to fund them? #
• Made maggi goreng. The smell made Leen gag. I had to eat in the spare bedroom. And so it begins. LOL. #
• After I explained the inner workings of the elevator to Al, he looked puzzled for a moment then smiled & said ‘I see!’ #
• Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, dies at 78 http://bit.ly/3Jmji #
• It must be a sign of getting older when so many of your tweets & status messages are about deaths of people you know and/or like. #
• RT @sashi1977 RT @eyerizzz: BRILLIANT RANT. A die-hard Manyoo fan hits out at ‘Malaysian’ Manyoo fans –> http://bit.ly/1as8Fh #
• Here’s hoping game 2 sees Malaysians actually supporting THEIR OWN TEAM. I know you folks love ManU, but COME ON. #
• Scary shit indeed! RT @meeshly Scary shit. Stay away from BKK duty-free man - http://bit.ly/FwfBp #
• How pleasantly odd. Al, who usually won’t go to bed without us, announced he was tired, said goodnight, and went to bed. #
• Staying up late when you’re really tired is like seeing how long you can hold your head underwater. It’s ok, I can still see bubbles. #
• Ah, Cape Breton fiddling at its finest. http://bit.ly/ype9A #
• Funny how Malaysians call it by an English name (tomato sauce/sos tomato) but we Westerners call it by a name derived from Malay (ketchup). #
• Leen’s friend kept pronouncing ‘gestation’ wrong; Leen spent several minutes thinking ‘But I don’t own a gas station…’. #
• had a shitty night. Sore throat, fever, chills, & some thunder & lightning just to make sure what little sleep I got was disturbed. Sigh. #
• Bread + gobs of peanut butter + loads of blueberry jam = just what the doctor ordered. Nom nom nom… #
• Ok so it appears I have a flu. No runny nose or cough, but lots of fatigue, aches & a damn sore throat. Better not be swine flu. #
• Can’t seem to get into cooking shows. So disappointed that they took over the travel channel. #
• On a bottle spotted among the condiments at a stall at the KLCC food court: black paper sauce. #
• Someone please rickroll me. I feel so left out. Oh the sorrow of having never been rickrolled. Oh the dejection. #
• All I did so far today was make a list of all the things I’d do if not for the fact that I never seem to be able to get anything done. Meh. #
• Interesting. Friend rickrolled me, then mentioned ‘2 Girls 1 Cup’, which I hadn’t seen. Looked for it, found it and…got rickrolled again. #
• Note to everyone who writes in English: sentences beginning with ‘I wonder’ are usually not questions, so put that question mark away. #
• I find myself getting so easily annoyed lately. I think I’m pregnant too! #
• So disrespectful! My grandparents & great-grandparents are buried there. Gravesite vandalism astounds grieving mother http://bit.ly/LOeF3 #
• LOL I guess this wouldn’t work for me. RT @danny_lim Tips I got from those who’ve been to Afghan: #1. Don’t stand near mat salleh. #
• Someone should tell Saiful Bukhari that he’ll need to die under mysterious circumstances before he can be compared to Teoh Beng Hock. #
• Not only are they talented, but one is named Al. Nice. RT @ShaolinTiger Man these kids REALLY rock out. http://bit.ly/UL6OC&gt; #
• Sharing a delicious cake with Al. I can’t see, smell, touch or taste it, but Al swears it’s there, it’s blue, and it’s really good. Mmmmm! #
• Annoyance of the day: blogs that play music. Right up there with blogs that have too much flashy shit going on. #
• All 3 restaurants in my taman are closed because Immigration came & carted all their workers away last night. No nasi goreng pattaya for me! #
• ‘You’re eating again!?’ Leen asks just before midnight. ‘Yeah,’ I reply. ‘It’s for the baby.’ #
• So let’s see, we’ve got stories about the devil screwing Malay women 17 times a night, AND poor writing/editing. Why do I read the Star? #
• Find the error that might piss off a local politician in this article: http://bit.ly/TnVdW #
• At the office. Looks like today is a big waste of petrol, toll & lunch money. #
• Mamak place in Mutiara bangsar = FAIL. RM7.30 for a small portion of rice, a bit of egg & 3 tiny pieces of…dunno, pigeon? + drink? FAIL. #
• On the plus side, the office aircon works better than I thought. I may have to take a nap on this sofa. #
• LOL Yeah unfortunate acronym for them RT @ecomad Headline on the Malaysian Insider news website today - MILF action pleases OIC chief #
• I really love House but the whole patient-has-multiple-crazy-symptoms-till-House-has-an-epiphany thing is almost getting old. Just almost. #
• As I watch Al excitedly showing a booger to the cat, I suddenly wish I could remember being three. #
• Listening to Indosesta by Berroguetto. I didn’t find this song, it found me. #
• I sure wish I could have delicious mee rebus for lun…hey look, it’s Mee Rebus Tuesday! Yay! #
• Mmmm…kacang pul….sedap gile…jgn marah kalau org kentut ye. #
• It’s not just Msians who stupidly want to change their skin colour. Mat sallehs do it too, & risk their lives to boot. http://bit.ly/11QuFW #
• The Star has redeemed itself ever so slightly in my eyes with today’s article on Islam & alcohol by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. #
• Here’s the article on Islam & alcohol. Hopefully the judge who ordered that woman caned will read it. http://bit.ly/NhuRT #
• RT @meeshly And yet, so many still remain silent on Darfur. Child drawings of Darfur. Chilling - http://bit.ly/WJZfH #
• Ok, ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here’ is almost as bad as the Kardashians. Some chick just said ‘Jesus was all over me.’ #
• Good night, Malaysia; good morning, Canada. #
• Inspirations are like snowflakes; artistic talent is the ability to bring snowflakes inside and show them to everyone. #
• Aw man, it’s bad enough Leen has asthma, now this: Swine flu risks make pregnant women a priority: CDC http://bit.ly/TbTMN #
• The English teacher in me is HORRIFIED! Haha: http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/07/27 #
• Awww, this cat reminds me of Smokey…well, except Smokey wasn’t quite as good at playing piano. http://bit.ly/9TxBD. #
• Internet + ADD = another unproductive day. #
• ‘Operating System not found’. This, kiddies, is why you should always back up your files. Whew! #
• ‘Rich Kids Cattle Drive’? Is there a reality show for everything now? That’s it, I want my own reality show. #
• Fascinating to see a really old lady at her father’s funeral. World’s oldest man laid to rest: http://bit.ly/f9Xkc #
• Oh great, another by-election. Anyone else out there really tired of by-elections? #
• So what to do when your 3-yr-old’s babysitter is away & you need to meet with clients? Take your 3-yr-old to meet the clients. Cue madness. #
• To spank or not to spank? http://bit.ly/Sb5Nv #
• Here’s an awesome article on Malaysia’s shitty education system by @sazlindaud (I got her twitter name right this time) http://bit.ly/141WHF #
• The mee goreng & nasi goreng @ the stall near our place are damn spicy, but they’re damn good too. The secret ingredient must be crack. #
• It’s funny how the govt always blames protesters for inconveniencing the public, when actually the problem is roadblock overkill. #
• Aww…Leen said she had a tummy ache, then Al disappeared into our room. He came out with a bottle of minyak sapu & gave it to his mommy. Aw #
• Watching Malay TV dramas/comedies, you’d think every family lived in old kampung houses. #
• Watching ‘Light at the End of the World’ on National Geographic. Yeah, that’s my Saturday night. It’s all good. #
• Mmmm…nasi goreng…pedas is just sedap rearranged. Mmmm…. #
• You’d think that after suffering through a wicked migraine I’d leave the Toblerone dark chocolate in the freezer. But noooo… #
• Al naming letters he knows on my laptop keyboard: “A…B…C…L…McDonalds…O…” #
• There are many reasons Malaysian movies generally suck, but here’s a big one: dubbing. It’s just so wrong. #
• It’s not at all surprising that the top-selling Msian books on Amazon are cookbooks. http://bit.ly/zgQjq #
• Hurray for Battlestar Galactica! http://bit.ly/WNbkL #
• Speaking of Amazon: they can’t steal back books they regret selling, so why is it they can delete stuff from people’s Kindles? #
• Two guys are having a drum battle on the roof of a small car near my place and it actually reminds me of the Nova Scotia Tattoo. #
• Speaking of home, now that I’ve got Al pronouncing ‘mouse’ like a Caper, my next task is to have him call his little toy cars ‘dinkies’. #
• I was thinking about how there are currently only 2 guys named MacVay in Malaysia; then I remembered there are only 3 in Canada. No pressure #
• Well, duh. Brazilian environmentalists: If you’ve got to go, go green - by going in the shower http://bit.ly/OgPsr #
• I’m lying in bed, just like Brian Wilson did. Well, except I have a laptop. Oh, and I’m not depressed or obese. Or on cocaine. But anyway… #
• If you’re the praying kind, please pray for Dalilah Tamrin: http://bit.ly/sibJq #
• Man, the things Bill Clinton will do to pick up women. #
• FB’s nice photo uploader never works for me, no matter what computer or which browser I use. Odd. I always have to use the simple uploader. #
• “Why did you pee your pants?” I asked. Al folded his arms, gave me a deadly-serious look and said, “Decepticons, Daddy. Decepticons.” #
• RT @sashi1977 RT @Asohan: At 56sec past 12:34pm on Aug 7, the time/date will be 12:34:56 07/08/09 — 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ! #
• Other than the fact that their sub has apparently gone on vacation, Off the Edge’s July issue is really good. #
• The world (well, Reuters) sees through the govt’s Internet censorship idea: http://bit.ly/PnbCv Najib smartens up: http://bit.ly/13ieMl #
• First Kuantan, then…? Malaysia maverick plans world’s largest open access FTTH network http://bit.ly/vEE3C #
• I must be a nerd, because I’m excited about Draining the Oceans on National Geographic Sunday night. #
• WHoa, crazy stuff: Paraguayan baby declared dead, found breathing during wake http://bit.ly/rZ5Cl #
• Why men in ads are dumb, goofy or completely inept - The Globe and Mail http://bit.ly/Pc2gY #
• Leen’s checking the TV guide & when the word Wall-E comes up (no pics or graphics, just the name), Al yells out “Wall-E!” WTF? #
• I’m gonna stray from the herd & say I think it sucks that the travel channel is now dominated by cooking shows. #
• Seen in a piece describing the Airbus A380: “I am also told by pilot friends that they find it hard to sleep on the aircraft…” LOL #
• I’m in awe of the oceans (awe perhaps bordering on terror) so I found ‘Drain the Ocean’ on NatGeo really fascinating. #
• It seems the head of Sri Lanka’s LTTE was arrested in KL. I seem to recall local news leaving the KL part out. http://bit.ly/cNrVU #
• just did a silly Facebook quiz & fears this may lead to doing more silly Facebook quizzes. Why, WHY?! After staying strong for so long… #
• It’s interesting that Malays very frequently ask me what my ‘Muslim’ name is, but none of them ever ask my wife what hers is. #
• Wow, what a moron. RT @meeshly: Homosexuality & masturbation causes H1N1? WTF KINDA DUMBASS IS THIS - http://bit.ly/EysIR #
• Not the 1st time; probably not the last: The Cape Breton Post: Local News | Flying Dutchmen land in wrong Sydney http://bit.ly/TJVYp #
• Mmmm peanut butter & blueberry jam sandwiches…mmmm… #
• Going to Immigration tomorrow to see if I can get my 5th pass this year. #
• will be spending tomorrow with hundreds of other people Malaysia needs but doesn’t want. #
• spent the day at Immigration trying to get my 17th pass…or, as they like to call it, my 1st. Going back for more tomorrow. Ugh. #
• Friend of a friend of a friend, 34, perfectly healthy, died of H1N1. Docs say it’s a new strain. Will believe when I see news, but still… #
• LOL Check out number 8: 10 Manliest Names Ever - Oddee.com http://bit.ly/bTSdc #
• spent last evening hanging out with students from Yemen. I think it’s time to learn Arabic. #
• Felt an earthquake for the 1st time today. Mild, but an odd, crazy experience nonetheless. #
• The earthquake I felt was in Southern Sumatra & was 6.9 on the Richter Scale. http://bit.ly/SdUZC #
• This guy’s amazing, and he’s just getting started! Bolt obliterates 100-metre world record http://bit.ly/n4QuF #
• Anyone know where I can find a Semai dictionary? Visited the Semai once & remain fascinated by them. #
• Can’t wait to see pics from the big bbq/kitchen party at Mary Theresa’s place. I really wish I could have been there! #
• I think it’s time for someone to retire. Umno members will not go to heaven, says Nik Aziz http://bit.ly/3fTfBN #
• The only thing I like abt Stephen Harper is that he’s beefing up defense in the North. Maybe that’s where he should move when he’s voted out #
• Realized the cat was missing & went searching. She had the right apartment number, but the wrong floor. Bet she won’t do that again. #
• I went to bed at 4 last night thinking I could sleep in today. Now Al’s babysitter has a wicked fever & is under home quarantine. COFFEE. #
• The only way to drop race from official forms in Msia would be to drop names from them too. I guess it’s a start though. #
• I wonder if JPA scholarship applications still ask which political party your father supports? Might not have met Leen if she had put PAS. #
• Sleep deprived, full of Nescafe, watching Al throw paper, crayons & markers all over the apartment. Daddy tantrum in 5…4…3…2…1… #
• Just made ‘pizza’ with Cavendish hash browns, pasta sauce & tuna. As long as Al keeps saying ‘Mmmm pizza’ we’re good here. #
• About to have a nap with Al. Day’s not over yet though. I still have to have dinner with the CEO of TM tonight. Think I’ll need more coffee. #
• Palestinians are condemned as anti-Semitic etc. Hmmm…but read Eli Roth’s views on resistance in Inglourious Basterds. http://bit.ly/VvlFl #
• Can’t decide what’s weirder: that someone did a study on zombies, or that the researcher has a question mark in his name.http://bit.ly/svCYS #
• Al insists on using chopsticks to eat his pb&j sandwich. What can I say, he was made in China… #
• Interesting. I got way more done yesterday when I was tired & cranky than today when I’m well-rested and in a relatively good mood. #
• Had dinner with the CEO of Telekom last night, along with his VPs and some bloggers. Interesting stuff. Will blog about it soon. #
• Leen’s watching a movie on 8TV. They bleeped out ‘bitch’ but not ’shit’ and ‘faggot’. Not following the logic. #
• This whole thing abt ppl saying who’s going to hell brings me back to the day I became a Muslim. It irked me then, it irks me now. #
• A religious extremist is anyone who thinks God cares more about how you treat Him than how you treat other people, IMHO. #
• Mom always tells me I remind her of her uncle Lawrence. I didn’t really believe it till Al saw a pic of him today and yelled “Daddy!” #
• Now that my hair’s really short the cat wants to groom me. Thanks Mimi, but I think I want to wash my hair with shampoo now. #
• Wondering if a certain politician’s plastic surgery was just practice for when he needs to change his identity & flee the country. Soonish. #
• Panasssss….http://bit.ly/QtH5R #
• When they’re awake, Mimi & Al are constantly fighting. But when Al has a nap, Mimi snuggles up to him & sleeps with him the entire time. #
• Did the really old guy who speaks incredibly slowly come on TV yet? #
• Al usually won’t eat any more than a bite or two of ANY food. But he can drink about 2 litres of his milk in a day. And it’s not cheap! #
• Ready for my 10th Ramadhan. The 1st 9 have varied in success, from full months to almost total write-offs. Let’s see how this year goes. #
• Al thinks the whole point of spending an hour putting a puzzle together is to immediately smash it & then beg Daddy to put it together again #
• Off to a shaky start. Alarm was only set for Mon-Fri. Didn’t get up for Sahur. Gonna be a rough day, peeps! #
• Yes, let’s! RT @netraKL Let’s Read the Quran 2 http://bit.ly/GyuGQ #
• Alhamdulillah. Almost cried when it was time to eat. A good time to remember those who sometimes don’t get to eat. #
• Murtabak Singapura FTW! But I should add that it’s not as good as the one in Muar. Mmmm…. #
• Evolutionists who deny creation and creationists who deny evolution are two groups of people that truly deserve each other. #
• You can tell I’m a night-owl: instead of getting up really early to eat, I’m going to have a really, really late dinner. #
• An unextpected, pleasant surprise: breaking our fast with our elusive friends Alain & Jija. Pizza, donuts & good company. Awesome. #
• Hey where’d that T come from? It appears the fasting has led me to develop Fat Fingers Syndrome. #
• My tummy’s telling me all that pizza, donuts and coke after a day of fasting may not have been such a great idea. I beg to differ! #
• If ($sahur == $oatmeal) {echo “Excellent choice.”;} elseif ($sahur == $leftover pizza) {echo “Someone’s asking for trouble.”;} #
• I feel kinda sorry for the ants attacking the remaining donuts. They probably weren’t expecting the reaction of a man who’d been fasting. #
• Know what’s wicked awesome? Oatmeal. #
• So if he didn’t have cancer he might serve close to the full 150 years? This article has a really dumb 1st line: http://bit.ly/yvPEt #
• Opened FB to see so many interesting discussions I’d love to take part in, but my brain is FRIED. #
• The current Canadian government is stupid. http://bit.ly/4ry5Z6 #
• Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf shares my opinion that the Malaysian religious authorities are just plain WRONG. http://bit.ly/wWrio #
• Just noticed that on Wikimapia the name of Kuching is listed as ‘Kuching / pussy’. #
• 2 guys + 1500 hrs of work = an awesome 8-bit trip http://bit.ly/4D9ipl #
• Andy Borowitz: CNN: Michael Jackson’s Death Ruled a Primetime Special http://bit.ly/4bEpBW #
• Whoever first used the word ‘fast’ to refer to what I’m doing now obviously never went through it. I feel bloody slow these days. #
• Maybe it’s because I’m so long out of high school, but I find blogs that play music incredibly annoying. #
• Maggi kari & sugar donuts for sahur. Tune in tomorrow to see our intrepid hero suffer for his foolishness. #
• Facebook to make privacy changes http://bit.ly/2y2cnx #
• Blood-boiling mistake of the evening: reading comments made by anti-circumcision dingbats. http://bit.ly/iSQiO #
• I challenge you to read this guy’s tweets without laughing your arse off: http://twitter.com/fireland #
• Heading off to Muar (aka MuO, aka Muwor) tonight for the long weekend. This doesn’t bode well for my Ramadhan weight-loss hopes. #
• I wonder how the pricks who protested building of a Hindu temple with a cow head would feel if someone showed up at their mosque with a pig. #
• At a very noisy cybercafe in Muar, since my wireless broadband doesn’t work at Leen’s place. They should hand out earplugs at these places. #
• Spent yesterday being clumsy. Spilled coffee on laptop. Sleep disrupted by wicked migraine. September, don’t fuck with me. Please. #
• In a cybercafe, trying hard to see through the fog in my head, and hoping some guy named Masood can fix my laptop. #
• I complain about how lax Malaysian safety standards are, but wow, folks back home are at the other extreme. http://bit.ly/goPa5 #
• Getting my laptop back tonight woohoo. #
• Finally got my laptop back. Some of the keys are a bit wonky, but no worse than the keyboards at your average cybercafe I suppose. #
• Watching a show called Expose Mistik & finding it sad that cases of mental illness get mistaken for ‘possession’ here. #
• Ugly indeed. RT @netraKL The Ugly Malay http://bit.ly/fIN1B #
• M’sians boast of peace & harmony. Yeah, well then stop acting like your street becomes Love Canal when a Hindu temple is built nearby. #
• Wow, it’s quite windy outside. Kinda reminds me of home. Except here ‘quite windy’ almost always means it’s going to rain any minute. #
• Watching the vid of the Section 23 temple dispute, I can’t help feeling that anyone who agrees with the antics of those ppl is SICK. #
• Played with Al all evening & talked to Papa on the phone; now eating a big scoff Leen cooked up earlier. Now that’s how to end a day. #
• Got an earful from an aunt in Canada because Al goes to bed later than Canadian kids. Yeah, well I agree somewhat, but this ain’t Canada. #
• Wow, so telling kids to stay in school is a socialist plot now? US right-wingers are almost as FUBAR as the ones here. #
• Papa told me he and Nana had gone out together for the 1st time in yrs. “Yep,” he said, “we went out to the clothesline.” #
• Once again getting sucked into the black hole that is my Acadian genealogy. Man, those people kept awesome records. #
• Canadian literacy levels mapped online: http://bit.ly/gLR2s (more details here: http://bit.ly/13XKkD). #
• Craving nasi ambeng. I blame this on @pickyin #
• Crawled into bed at 5. Leen calls at 830 to say she forgot to tell me the babysitter’s off today. And with my next words I batal puasa. #
• You know it’s going to be a long day when you hear yourself saying “Let’s get that poop out of your hair.” #
• FB’s privacy settings are pretty good, but if you’re REALLY paranoid there’s FaceCloak: http://bit.ly/11q8XR #
• The good thing about yesterday’s sleeplessness: my sleep schedule has been whacked back to ‘normal’. Technically anyway. #
• So now we sort of have a Canadian automaker. Magna wins battle for Opel http://bit.ly/FCcJm #
• Now getting dragged from the abyss that is my French heritage to another abyss: my English heritage. Taking a virtual tour of Dorset & Devon #
• Aaaand here comes a migraine. #
• Dear Migraine: not tonight, please, I have a…oh damn, that’s you. Whatever, not tonight please. #
• Brilliant commercial advocating same-sex marriage rights in Ireland: http://bit.ly/M6cnZ The guy even speaks in Irish. #
• Why couldn’t Kanye just write SOY BOMB on his chest and dance around like a goofball like a good stage-crasher should? What a jerk. #
• Kudos to the person who read the sports news on Mix FM this morning. She pronounced all of the foreign names properly. #
• Michael Preston - Deep Background – Why I can’t take the 9/12 movement and the GOP seriously - True/Slant http://bit.ly/x4kJI #
• Not that foreign names MUST be pronounced the way natives pronounce them (that would get annoying), but still, way to go Mix FM newsreader. #
• I don’t want to jinx anything, but it’s almost 4pm and I still don’t have a migraine. Only a few days left to go! #
• Cranky child + mat salleh driver playing dumb + foreign driving license = cop getting overwhelmed & saying ‘Oh ok just go, GO.’ Hah! #
• Philadelphia to Close All Free Libraries http://bit.ly/UX4Pw Sad. After a few years without libraries, they might be Republicans. #
• It’s a sad read, but I’m glad CBC didn’t ‘clean up’ this Newfie’s speech. Don’t often see it ‘as-is’ in print news. http://bit.ly/yuoEf #
• If there’s any justice in this world, no one will complain about Obama calling Kanye West a jackass. http://bit.ly/3ZJVJE #
• Remember these guys? http://bit.ly/OvyaB Here they are 8 yrs later, hoping for some change: http://bit.ly/BTIbY #
• Reminds me of Smokey’s month on the lam…only waaay longer & further afield: http://bit.ly/4DEVoS #
• Odd headline of the day: N.S. garlic farm wards off high-speed internet http://bit.ly/2t3LDn #
• Wow is it ever raining. #
• This is really cool: RT @netraKL RT @staronline: US synagogue serves as mosque during Ramadan http://bit.ly/u2o9p #
• I think this time of year the Malay papers might as well just have a whole ‘Kids Who Blew Their fingers Off’ section. Sheesh. #
• They should also have a ‘Kids Who Drowned in Rivers & Storm Drains’ section. #
• Or maybe they could just have a big Tragedy section, where every headline could be ‘Tak sempat berbuka puasa’ or something. Sigh. #
• Playhouse Disney vs Ceria: the former taught Al to count seconds between lightning & thunder; the latter taught him how to do a drop-kick. #
• Ok, either there’s an earthquake coming or my cat really does have serious mental problems. #
• Muar & Batu Pahat, here we come! In case I can’t get online till I get back: Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri! Maaf zahir dan batin. #
• It’s hard to watch Sifu & Tongga without thinking there must have been lots of drugs involved. #
• Anyone else find it a little freaky how Amy Mastura doesn’t seem to have aged at all in a long, long time? Siti’s another story though. #
• You know I’ve just spent several days with the in-laws when I write a status message that mentions both Siti Nurhaliza & Amy Mastura. #
• How clever of National Geographic to have Kevin Bacon narrate The Human Family Tree. #
• Iran’s leaders are jerks; Canada’s are hypocrites. http://bit.ly/yNPdk It’s sad that I can’t help remove either group from office. #
• Went to 3 open houses yesterday but it felt like 5 or 6. Not complaining though. Yummy. #
• Wow, Star World is showing the Trailer Park Boys movie. Who would have thought listening to Bubbles talk could make me all homesick? #
• Migraine + spending the day alone with Al = Thank God for drugs! #
• Finding people who may have been Jews in my family tree brings me back to the day a lady from NY told me I looked “like a good Jewish boy.” #
• Pureed loads of veggies, made soup for Al; made what was left into pasta sauce for me. Today’s lunch tastes awesome & smells like WIN. #
• Well, lunch will be a big win only if I can get Al to eat it. My mom must be roaring her arse off now that I’ve got a kid as picky as I was. #
• Al keeps saying my soup is tasty but he’s gritting his teeth and taking tiny sips from the spoon. Poor bugger. It is really tasty though. #
• Anyone else realise if you follow all the ’stuff not to share online’ advice you’d have pretty much nothing to say & no reason to be online? #
• The look in my eyes when that quake hit was probably just like the ‘WTF?’ look in Al’s eyes. Needless to say we went from 18th flr to G fast #
• Woohoo, we’ve found a good babysitting arrangement for Al. Everyone wins. #
• Things that make blog suck: rainbow text, tHiS sHiT, music, & centre-justified text. I’d throw in ‘poor writing’ but let’s stick to design. #
• DAMN my calves hurt & it’s all because of that stupid earthquake (which sent me down 18 flights of stairs carrying Al). I need more exercise #
• Fixing a toilet was so much easier when all the clothes hangers weren’t made of plastic. #
• I keeps saying I’m gonna go to the Olympics but this time I mean it. Rio de Janeiro! Gosto muito disso porque falo portugues. Vamos! #
• So now instead of joining my wife & son in dreamland I’m eating a sandwich. YEAH YOU JUST WAIT RED BULL I’LL GET YOU FOR THIS. #
• Finding out I may have some Jewish roots: interesting. Finding out Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have even more: PRICELESS. http://bit.ly/PVhGB #
• I thought my cat hated Al always trapping her in the laundry basket, but now she’s sitting in it waiting for him to come home. She’s so odd. #
• Helped a friend write a ‘Hey I just filed for divorce’ email to her deranged deadbeat husband. Cue long impotent-rage-filled rants. #
• Glued to Apocalypse: The Second World War on NatGeo. #
• Mmm…bell peppers stuffed with tuna, broccoli, cauliflower & creamy tomato/mozzarella pasta sauce. #
• Know what sucks? Slow internet. Know what else sucks? That’s all we can get here in Malaysia. #
• Saw an old Mini cooper today (you know, the one that was actually mini) and it was a pick-up. A Freakin’ mini pick-up, awww, it was so cute. #
• Best solution for all: Call the show Jon & Kate Plus Hate, make Jon & Kate appear together in every scene with new bf/gf. Let the 8 vote LOL #
• Those Bendera guys will probably arrive as tourists, decide to stay, and will all have PR before I do. There’s your invasion. #
• Snipers in Rosmah’s hair to fight Bendera? Funny, but wouldn’t you run the other way even if she didn’t have snipers? *shivers* #defendMsia #
• Nothing racist abt #defendMsia (unless Bendera is a race of their own). But whoever suggested throwing ppl into the sea needs to grow up. #
• Pigging out on Al’s Honey Stars. Here’s hoping he doesn’t want to eat Honey Stars in the next couple of days. #
• It’s interesting how English papers in Msia sometimes follow Malay grammar rules, not English. Or maybe we can just say it’s Msian English. #
• SMS messages I send sometimes don’t get sent; incoming ones sometimes reach me hours later. Changed phones & it still happens. Hmm… #
• Canadian archbishop charged with having/distributing kiddie porn has been to Malaysia: http://bit.ly/1yzuW7 #
• Muslim group calls for burka ban http://bit.ly/1lmTD I agree. I’ll defend a woman’s right to wear hijab, but burka/niqab? Nope. Take it off. #
• Scientist at particle collider arrested in terror link http://bit.ly/24ahk Well, if anyone wants another Big Bang, it’s al-Qaeda. #
• LOL RT @davewordswords RT @nealgillis: #NASA moon bombing was 10% science, 90% drunken rocket-scientist party stunt. #
• I’m getting kind of tired of seeing the yellow light on my modem #p1 #p1wimax #
• Quietly singing all the right parts of ‘Roxanne’ to my P1 modem. #p1wimax #
• LOL ‘A Christian who enters a mosque risks losing his soles.’ altmuslim - Perspectives: Infidel in the mosque http://bit.ly/117vJE #
• Damon & Affleck being 10th cousins would wow me if I didn’t have a clue how many 10th cousins a person can have. http://bit.ly/249NhD #
• Dear #P1wimax : Last night I couldn’t watch Chris Cornell sing Hunger Strike on stage with Pearl Jam. Be kind tonight. Love, Jordan. #
• My cat slipped off the bed’s headboard today, & instead of stepping onto the bed 1 cm from her foot she panicked, crawled back up & ran back #
• More proof my cat is mental: she bites Al for nothing but then lets him dump her in the laundry basket, fill it with toys & drag it around. #
• My laptop no longer likes my camera. That card reader I see every day but suddenly can’t find sure would come in handy right about now. #
• Maybe I don’t understand how merging works on @Geni, but I’m really not liking that suddenly I have profiles in my tree that I can’t edit. #
• And I REALLY don’t like that other people (who I haven’t invited to collaborate with me) can edit my @Geni profiles. Now my tree’s a mess! #
• The fact that we need a registration table for Family Day next weekend hints at just how big Leen’s family is. #
• When Msian TV characters balik kampung they always go to old wooden kampung houses, never to the terrace houses most ppl actually live in. #
• Al refuses to accept the letter W is not called ‘dopey’. I guess he takes after his dad & isn’t a fan of George Bush. #
• Real love is when your dentist wife asks if she can use you for a dental experiment & you say yes instead of leaping from the balcony. #
• I normally don’t relish watching Friends reruns with my wife but when we play the Spot Rachel’s Pokies game it somehow becomes enjoyable. #
• Has anyone else out there read any of the Alan Banks novels by Peter Robinson? Got two as gifts (thanks Nizar!) & must say I’m now a fan. #
• If I see another ‘what I’m having for lunch’ status update, I may just barf up this delicious cream of mushroom soup I’m having for lunch. #
• The people downstairs should stop cooking. The delicious aroma crawling up my balcony makes my just-add-hot-water mushroom soup seem…blah. #
• Speaking of smells: followed one to a dark corner of the kitchen; am still asking myself, ‘Did those things used to be bananas?’ #mush #
• I think it’s time to change my phone line. DiGi’s ‘ambassador plan’ is easy on the wallet, but I’m tired of calls & SMSes not going through. #
• It’s driving me nuts that I can’t watch Chimamanda Adichie’s TED speech because P1-Wimax is doing upgrade work. #
• “The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.” Chimamanda Adichie http://bit.ly/lMjsq #
• ‘Iranian-Texans, Vancouver-based lesbian Pakistanis and the converted son of a white supremacist wife-beater.’ Punks. http://bit.ly/fATcw #
• First thought on Pudu demolition: it’ll make the story I tell my grandkids about my limp just a little cooler. #
• Second thought on Pudu demolition: Another shopping mall? Seriously? Is Malaysia trying for a world record or something? #
• The Canadian connection in the northernmost battle of the U.S. Civil War http://bit.ly/mM8Cv #
• Headline made me think he got what he deserved. Article burst my bubble. Man sentenced for abuse of puppies left in snow http://bit.ly/7c04X #
• The fact that Mimi doesn’t try to drink my coffee when I’m not looking doesn’t make me miss Smokey any less. #
• Seriously thinking about doing NaNoWriMo this year. Note to self: buy lots of coffee. #
• Closed eyes, picked random book off shelf, opened, found strange word scrawled on random page. Tried again weeks later: same book, same page #
• P1 Wimax is still down in my area. FAIL. Now I’m working from the neighbourhood cybercafe. Dodgy keyboard, noisy kids…FAIL. #
• Apparently ‘Hey, what’s up?’ typed on a typical cybercafe keyboard is ‘Heym, wh’. #
• If 1) Al’s babysitter is home and 2) the Streamyx dude shows up at the office, there’s a chance I won’t need painkillers tomorrow. #OMGpleez #
• Yet again, Malaysia makes it into the news back home for something stupid. http://bit.ly/2O3b1m #
• If this happened to me I’d end up in jail for hurting someone badly. RT @netraKL Things are getting out of hand!! http://tinyurl.com/yg84fby #
• Family Day was fun. We conquered an entire resort. Yeah, it’s a big family. #
• If I don’t wake up tomorrow, tell the authorities about the blueberry bread I just ate. I swear green looks like blue under these lights. #
• Insane POV base jumping video: http://bit.ly/3xYW9d #
• Could still be fake but WOW. World’s largest gun suppressor: http://bit.ly/18ifTZ #
• What AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com might have looked like before 1930: http://bit.ly/LzvhV #
• A security guard in Bangsar called me ‘boy’ today. I don’t know whether to be insulted or flattered. Flattered sounds good. #
• So Al has chicken pox. It’s gonna be a long week. #
• I swear next time I find a decent shopping cart at Tesco I’m going to act as if I’ve just found the Holy Grail. #
• Just had a torrential sunshower here in Sungai Chua. Very cool. #
• Turns out Al loves peanut butter. Eats it with a spoon, right from the jar. Awww, that’s Daddy’s boy. #
• Woke up on the sofa around 4:45am. Problem is, I had gone to bed around 10:30pm. Leen & I are both stumped. #sleepwalking #
• The Twitter bird is my Internet coal-mine canary. When my connection starts to lag, Twitter’s the first site to become unavailable. #
• Not even noon & we’ve played Ultraman vs. Robot, played an alphabet game & hunted dragons. For a sick kid he sure is full of energy. #
• Hey fans of Anne of Green Gables: there’s one more book. But don’t expect it to be as cheery as the rest of the series. http://bit.ly/3XPWf4 #
• Leen’s having her monthly ultrasound but I have to watch Al at home. On pins & needles waiting for the latest update. #
• Leen just called. Doc has confirmed: if we want a girl, we’ll have to try one more time. MacVay boys FTW! #
• Heard Al humming Stravinsky’s Firebird. Kids who watch nothing but Ceria can hum…what, the Ultraman theme? Little Einsteins rock. #
• Dear body: That stuff I just pumped into you is called caffeine. It’s supposed to make you feel all awake & alert, not sleepy. Humor me. #
• FB’s News Feed is a bit wonky but since it doesn’t make me see who got ‘Gas-Powered With Pull Cord’ on the Which Dildo R U quiz, I’m happy. #
• Got a call from a Malay Mail reporter asking me about my thoughts on the news that foreign husbands will get PR. Talked his ear off. #
• Great, my connection sucks at home, so I come to a cybercafe to get some work done and…the connection here sucks too. #
• Can’t figure out if the problem is Gmail or Streamyx. It’s usually the latter but this time other sites seem to be OK. #
• Great, just great. Turns out this cybercafe also uses @P1w1max. So basically I’m paying twice for this shitty connection. #
• Canadians not welcome in Libya? That’s ok, there are so many Libyans in my neighbourhood I don’t need to visit Libya. http://bit.ly/4hcBg3 #
• Check out the article ‘Budget 2010: Visa cheer for foreigners’ in today’s Malay Mail. #
• Had to go out for some things. Had to bring Al. Probably infected half-a-dozen cheek-pinchers with chickenpox. Tried to warn them. Oh well. #
• Reporter spelled my name wrong & did such a hack job on my words I wonder if they’re even mine. But here’s the article: http://bit.ly/Fz6cu #
• Al hands me a jar of Body Shop foot butter & asks for a foot massage. When I’m done he says ‘Much better. Mmm, smells nice.’ #spoiledrotten #
• Excellent choice! Alistair MacLeod’s No Great Mischief is tops in a ranking of Atlantic Canada’s 100 best books: http://bit.ly/4yOCr #
• Malaysian PR: Some McVay Guy’s Thoughts (and Mine) : M A C V A Y S I A http://bit.ly/2w2zoy #
• Kinda weird how they keep finding shoes with feet in them. This is the 7th. http://bit.ly/1Z0h39 #
• Wow, nasty. That’s our favourite hiking trail. Coyotes kill Toronto singer in Cape Breton http://bit.ly/1IS3wO #
• Al’s looking at a pic of a dog next to a fireplace and totally isn’t buying my explanation that the fireplace isn’t an indoor doghouse. #
• Dead on about Msia making global news for the wrong reasons! RT @netraKL Beyonce’s bellybutton the least of our worries http://bit.ly/hUA1c #
• Dear Facebook: I’ve supported past layout changes, but this whole News Feed/Live Feed thing OMG WTF it makes no sense to me. #
• Coffee’s bad for me = give up coffee right? Yeah right, just like every time I was hunched over a toilet I swore I’d never get drunk again. #
• Oct 31st shall be remembered as the day Al discovered the usefulness of backwash in securing all for himself whatever his daddy’s drinking. #
• Other things Al has discovered lately: flushing the toilet (& therefore using it, not peeing his pants); the fridge light; windshield wipers #
• Damn, I wish I had a gun. I need a new camera. Guns for cameras in Halifax amnesty program http://bit.ly/3fdm6a #
• Planned to nap at 3, then take Al out. Suddenly the whole family wakes up at 7 @ we’re all Oops WTF let’s have dinner. #
• I’d bitch endlessly about Al being a really picky eater if I wasn’t 100% sure he inherited that from me. #
• Disney Magic: When a 3-yr-old not only enjoys watching 80-yr-old cartoons but also knows the characters. http://bit.ly/11AHgD #
• RT @meeshly Najib is “puzzled” over Asri’s arrest. THEN DO SOMETHING ABT IT LA. Don’t just be PUZZLED. -_- #
• 5 yrs from now will everyone look back at Google Wave as some bloated, confusing failure, or will it actually change things? #
• RT @sharonbakar short story by Malaysian author Preeta Samarasan. http://bit.ly/4FbDeI #
• Just set up my Google Wave account. Now all I have to do is figure out what the heck I’ll even use it for. #
• At the tail end of two weeks taking care of Al. We drove each other crazy but we’re still alive so it’s all good. #
• Al is already calling A2 by one of the names we like. So I guess the name has been chosen. (Don’t blab if you know, please). #
• I hate how people here think a white man’s baby’s supposed to be big. The way they say Al’s skinny you’d swear he had a disease. Cmon, WTF. #
• Wow, quite a storm we’re having in Kajang right now. #
• That was one of the most intense rainstorms I’ve ever seen. #
• The MacVays went on a cleaning rampage yesterday. Al’s room is finally Al’s room again. Chucked lots of junk & 7 bags of clothes. #
• If my kids ever ask ‘Daddy, what are we? Are we Malay, Canadian, Scottish or Javanese?’ I’m just going to say ‘Yes. Yes you are.’ #
• Yes! RT @kzamri RT @CikBedah: There, thanks paris ! RT @paris_b: http://twitpic.com/oz7ik - Spotted! WTF1! #
• Anyone else part of the beta group for the new retweets feature? Looks pretty cool. #
• It’s that time again. Don’t forget. http://bit.ly/VN8NC #
• I’d like to say I did some landscaping today but I don’t have a yard, just a balcony. So I did some gardening today. Sort of. #
• Not just true but awesome! RT @ashyusof Probably the truest thing I’ve read all day: http://i.imgur.com/NWYiq.jpg #
• A Canadian-Malaysian Connection: Unwanted Soldiers http://bit.ly/4bqhtv #
• Congrats to a writer from home for taking home the Giller Prize. Well done! http://bit.ly/3m2vR8 #
• Travel guide names Cabot Trail as one of world’s top 10 cycle trips http://bit.ly/11Fjih #
• Is Gaelic an Indigenous Language? http://bit.ly/20BOPX Tough question. Depends on what the criteria are for the ‘indigenous’ label. #
• Complained about @P1W1MAX on Twitter, they called within minutes. Problem magically went away. Hmmm. I’m happy but hmmm… #
• Twitter must’ve thought I didn’t deserve the new retweet feature after all. Now it’s gone. #
• So H1N1 is worse than docs thought http://bit.ly/387Aft but not as bad as everyone else thought. http://bit.ly/3KaxZZ #
• Anyone wanna bet Lou Dobbs is off to Fox? #
• It’s kind of ironic that Malay has a perfectly functioning gender-neutral 3rd person singular pronoun & English doesn’t have any. #
• Why Caloric Restriction is not on my Menu | h+ Magazine http://bit.ly/2B9RQg #
• Hey it’s Friday the 13th! Well, I got married on a Friday the 13th, and I’m still alive suckas! #
• Went to Bintang to buy oatmeal. Ended up buying over RM100 worth of groceries. Forgot to buy oatmeal. #
• http://twitpic.com/pbqje - My dad’s ‘48 Chev pickup #
• Kinda cool, but did they have to put in that Crouching Tiger running-on-treetops shit? Besouro : Nasce um herói http://bit.ly/1ws6p2 #
• RT @sharonbakar Congrats to Tan Twan Eng and Ivan Yeo Mun Kit - joint winners of MPH Alliance Short Story Prize. #
• NASA’s moon crash reveals ‘lots of water’ http://bit.ly/3ZRHrI #
• Eating the spiciest fried rice EVER. Breathing fire but can’t stop eating because I SWEAR IT’S FULL OF CRACK. #
• Mad trampoline skills http://bit.ly/2NLQwe #
• Mmmm….mee siput….mmmmm…. #
• Dropped Leen off at a conference & took Al to the KLCC park. Man did he ever play the shit out of that place. #
• I’m Malay. At least, I would be if ‘masuk melayu’ hadn’t been trumped by the later race-based definition. http://bit.ly/xsGLR #
• People back home who make signs for their homes reading The Randall’s or The Watson’s should go to this site: http://bit.ly/1EGSzs #
• CBC News - Technology & Science - Twitter to scrap suggested user list http://bit.ly/1Hohws #
• Whoa, wicked thunder & lightning. #
• There’s a kid in my building who always speaks to me in Arabic even though I try to make it clear I can’t understand. He just goes on and on #
• When Leen & I watch TV she points out things abt ppl’s teeth: ‘She’s Class 3′; He’s class 2′; ‘Those aren’t real, they’re veneers.’ LOL #
• Whoa RT @CBCAlerts A 6.5 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of British Columbia. No further details immediately available. #
• Hey look, the retweet button’s back, after last week’s hasty retweet (tee hee). #
• You know you’ve been working from home a lot lately when your wife calls to say a friend’s coming over & adds ‘Put on some clothes.’ #
• LOL RT @idlan RT @daraobriain: RT @RichardWiseman: check out tweets of @big_ben_clock - 14k followers! (via @zizapiz) #
• History does not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme. — Mark Twain #
• All this rain lately makes drying clothes a huge pain in the arse, but if it means the temperature goes down a bit, baby I’ll take it. #
• If anyone’s wondering how much various dental treatments cost in Msia, my wife’s posted a list: http://bit.ly/2BUizg #
• WTF were ppl thinking anyway? RT @sashi_ M’sian Met Dept: There’ll be NO Winter Storm tomorrow. http://bit.ly/HNhFW [PDF]. #
• Agreed RT @sashi_ RT @pigduck: Sums it up pretty well me thinks RT @Steveology Why Twitters New Retweet Feature Sucks http://ow.ly/DCl4 #
• ‘Ride me like a throbbing’ fish LOL Got this from Dina: The Worst Sex Scene in Comics - ComicsAlliance.com http://bit.ly/FwxBi #
• I cheered for France in ‘06, but next year I’ll cheer for whoever plays against them haha. #
• Archiving Social Media http://bit.ly/dZRSe (via @NS_Archives) #
• The cat’s doing her chargingaroundthehouselikeshescrazy thing. I’ll have to watch the computer cables. #
• 2005 Uzbekistan-Bahrain WC qualifying match: Ref screwed up, match was invalidated. France, FIFA: do the right thing, s’il vous plait. #
• That last tweet would seem like something other than daydreaming if not for the fact that FIFA seems determined to have France go through. #
• Haha this reminds me of Al’s photography. the hive : kyle cassidy http://bit.ly/2kcjKA (via Metafilter) #
• Facebook is showing me Capt. Yusof’s profile on the sidebar & saying I should ‘Reconnect with him.’ Cold shiver in 5…4…3…2…1… #
• OK, I officially hate the new retweet function. A tweet by Yoko Ono just showed up on my page. OMGWTF #
• I often think we should have something like this. Now someone’s actually done it. Nice! http://bit.ly/48rkeg #
• My quest to find my family’s former residence in Ireland got a boost from a historian there who thinks my main theory is right. Woohoo! #
• Irony of the day: A lot of Americans who hate Obama are my ‘kinfolk’. (That is, we’re all descendants of Ulster Scots). http://bit.ly/18krwS #
• I’m a cracker-ass cracker. I make 50k a month & chicks wanna hump my ass. http://bit.ly/5j6ReP I’m both honored and disturbed. LOL #
• RT @MickFealty RT @johnheaven RT @civicolive: #pdfeu Liz Mair: 85% of political journalists look to blogs for stories (US) #
• Methinks retweet needs to be retweaked. #
• RT @netraKL RT @TheNutGraph: Closed Penan rape cases indictment of criminal justice system http://tinyurl.com/ydsl48h #
• I can haz extra cheeez. Dominos FTW. #
• “Don’t cry, Shark. You’ll only make the ocean more salty.” Ah, the wisdom of Playhouse Disney. #
• 85-yr-old Scottish pensioner takes on Donald Trump: http://bit.ly/7EOuvW #
• The MacVays of Malaysia haven’t really done Xmas in years, but now Al is making snow angels on the floor & squealing about Xmas trees. Haha #
• Al’s still not getting the concept of Santa though. “No,” I said, “you don’t push Santa off the balcony. He’s coming to GIVE you things.” #
• Natasha Fatah: “…sometimes when you’re a Muslim woman, membership does not have its privileges.” http://bit.ly/8PYVqo #
• RT @netraKL: Today is international Day 4 the Elimination of #VAW. Pls don’t remain silent if u see or hear women n girls being abused. #
• My initial reaction: ppl who do this shit should have it done to them in return. But really it should just stop. Now. http://bit.ly/53nrGJ #
• Does the Malaysian Insider site load incredibly slowly for everyone else too, or is it just me the site doesn’t like? #
• Saw A2’s face on the screen during Leen’s ultrasound the other night. Same big squeezable cheeks as Al. #
• Kids sure are nice when they’re sleeping. #
• Several Msians on ‘500 most influential Muslims’ list. Also there: the guy who married Leen & me, and a guy who made balloon animals for Al. #
• Interesting, but I’d like to know their definition of ‘expat’. http://bit.ly/6GzX9h Cause ya know, here in Msia expat = white. #
• Was reading up on Ramallah & saw this amazing restored, hand-tinted photo from 1919: http://bit.ly/5L8eYN #
• Apparently when a 3-yr-old asks “What’s that?” or “Why?” the answer can’t be “I don’t know.” #
• Hmmm…if this is true, there’s no such thing as a silent fart. Hehe. http://bit.ly/7Ka80t #
• Off to Muar for the weekend. Probably won’t be on here till I get back. Have a good weekend, everyone. Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha! #
• Back from Muar. Did a whole lot of nothing all weekend. Well, except for eating. I refuse to get on the scale now. Takut. #
• A friend just told me JPN now lists child’s ancestry on birth certs & that by default it follows that of the father. So Al’s European. #
• If a Malaysian child’s father is white, the child’s ‘keturunan’ on their birth cert is European by default. #
• Re previous tweets: The whole ‘White father = European kid’ thing applies no matter what the ‘white’ father lists as his ancestry. #
• was mistaken for an Arab while shopping at Bintang. That’s the 2nd time this month someone asked me if I’m Arab. #
• RT @netra KL RT @TheNutGraph: Haunting, poignant photos of Pudu Jail, once an icon, now demolished. http://bit.ly/7ZUmxF #
• The only good thing about this article is the pile of comments pointing out the writer is horribly sexist. http://bit.ly/92NY1e #
• Happy St. Andrew’s Day to all Scots out there (that’s you @lezzles) #
• If you think Malaysians can make a proton accelerate, you should see how THESE folks do it. http://bit.ly/4G8hhi #
• The Swiss minaret ban is silly. So are the comments on this article (’radicle islamics’, minarets=sharia etc) http://bit.ly/5IetxQ #
• I wear this red ribbon in solidarity w the 33.4 million ppl living with HIV on World AIDS Day. Get yours: http://bit.ly/5YATny #
• Migraine. #
• Leen’s assistant’s staying w us, does housework in lieu of rent. Everyone’s happy except girl’s mom, who fears the libido of the mat salleh. #
• Our house guest’s mom actually said “What if he knocks on your door in the middle of the night and says ‘Kopi secawan’?” #
• I hate when ants get into the cereal. But when they won’t touch it, ya just gotta wonder what’s in it. I mean, it’s right there, but no ants #
• Ok this migraine is pretty vicious. But Arcoxia rox bebeh! That shit is potent, kids. #
• Leen just called. Her assistant, who drove her to work today, has a flat. I have to go rescue them. With a migraine. THANK GOD FOR DRUGS. #
• The good news: the arcoxia dampened the migraine a bit. The bad news: a bit. Seems I’ve developed tolerance. #
• ‘Armstrong is apparently undaunted by the fact that this new word sounds like a-hole without the h.’ http://bit.ly/7OMLlZ #
• Ladies and gentlemen, shoe-throwing has just become a meme. http://bit.ly/4FEJXV #
• I’ve long avoided LGF due to all the far-right crap spewed there. Looks like the blogger got sick of it too. Good on ya!http://bit.ly/5cgi2K #
• I posted two blog posts today. Go read them if you’re a foreign spouse and/or have kids in Malaysia. Or if you just want something to read. #
• Natasha Fatah: The story is behind the photo http://bit.ly/8×7y2m #
• Ever wondered what a place’s opposite point on the earth is? Antipodal location for any map point http://bit.ly/10dwG #
• RT @MickFealty RT @TheHistoryWoman Publishing jobs go as celebrity books fail http://tinyurl.com/yawspee #
• Homeless Hungarian brothers inherit $7 billion. Crazy if it’s true. Awesome. http://bit.ly/4LQycf & http://bit.ly/6xmNCw #
• Was supposed to get 2 wks knocked off my @P1W1MAX bill this month for recent disruptions, but now they say ‘maybe next month’. WTF? #
• This lady is creepy & has some serious baggage…but oh, those eyes. http://bit.ly/93h9B2 #
• For any history buffs out there, @NS_Archives is tweeting the hell out of the Halifax Explosion. Lots of pics & even film footage. Go see! #
• I want to comment on things but my inability to focus on more than 1 thing at a time means it’ll probably happen Monday. It’s family time! #
• The difference between Not-Enough-Sleep Al & Well-Rested Al is incredible but he’s the latter now so I’ll just pretend 3 pm didn’t happen. #
• will go looking for a Christmas tree this evening. Pro: no need to choose between real & fake. Con: the fake ones here are damn ugly. #
• Of course, after spending RM160 on a new brake pump today, an ugly fake tree may be exactly what we end up buying. #
• Prepared a bottle of milk for Al, then walked into the living room, held it out in front of Leen’s face. We laughed. Early senility FTW? #
• The girl in the Omnia 2 ad just asked ‘What distincts the Omnia 2 from other phones?’ #
• We were at this store that sells Christmas trees and decorations, and Alisdair got all upset because we didn’t buy snow. #
• Queue-jumper freaked when I blocked him. Got out of his car, wanted me to get out. He even opened my door. Leen saved him. His lucky day. #
• makan rusa tadi. Dengan kari pekat. Mmmmmmmm sedapnye. #
• England’s council candidates: representative democracy? http://bit.ly/7wsY8Q #
• Leen: ‘Babies cry for lots of reasons, like colic. But in my kampung, it’s because of hantu, so they’ll call a bomoh’ #pantanginkajangjelah #
• Would’ve been cool to have today’s tech growing up, right? Hell no. Then people would see all the stupid shit I did. So…whew! #
• A2’s name will be easier to pronounce for Msians. So far the only person here to say Al’s name right upon reading it was an Irish lady. #
• There’s a house being built over Smokey’s grave. On the plus side, he’ll have a roof over his head. #
• Malay girl asked me why Arab ‘kuih’ are so sweet. When I said I didn’t really eat it, she asked ‘Huh? Aren’t you Arab?’ #
• RT @blanket Stay tuned for more on #climategate. But first: Medicine - good for our health? Or evil wizardry in disguise? #
• Oooh been looking for something like this for a while. Belajar Bahasa Jawa http://bit.ly/7TWrqM (via @kzamri) #
• People who resent the recording industry’s hard line on file sharing might find this amusing: http://bit.ly/75zkf8 #
• Please say a prayer for little James Delorey’s family. http://bit.ly/5mxHEK #
• Marina’s column: Oh, the shame of it all http://bit.ly/6Y1enn #
• Ok, it’s one thing to see people not on my Twitter list appear via RT, but when they appear at random, not retweeted by anyone? WTF? #
• Perhaps @godblessseanzha appeared at random on my Twitter feed solely so I could see the craziest Halloween costume EVAR. #
• Hmm…@P1W1MAX just tweeted that they’re ‘going to a long holidays this weekend’. Let’s hope they’re not talking about the connection. LOL #
• Tariq Ramadan’s in town & I’m spending the weekend with my family instead. I’m either completely insane or totally frickin’ awesome. #
• We gathered round to put up our tree, took it out of the box, & found the stand was missing 3 legs. Great. #
• Yay the tree’s up. And so begins the annual tradition of having Al place the star on top. #
• My dad asked if the in-laws are ok with my xmas tree. I said if I have to put up with all their superstitions, they can put up with my tree. #
• How am I supposed to get in a Christmas mood in this damn heat? Forget snow, I’d take rain now. #
• As bad ideas go, cherry coke at 2am is right up there with, I dunno, half the stupid shit I did in high school. #
• Mind you, cherry coke at 2am isn’t against the law, so no, maybe it’s not up there with half the stupid shit I did in high school. #
• Girl on the radio only wants to party with boys who look like Mick Jagger. I fear the apocalypse may be upon us. #kidsthesedaysitellya #
• Spent days complaining about crazy heat, wishing for rain. This afternoon the sky opened up & I got stranded. #okgoodoneyagotme #
• With the appearance of white hairs, my head now has hair of every colour at once. #
• RT @copyblogger: Yes, James of @menwithpens is a woman. See the reaction: http://bit.ly/65Cica (via @netraKL) #
• Aw yeah baby bring on the rain. Bring it! #
• Do any of the supermarkets here sell eggnog? Cold Storage, Carrefour, Village Grocer, etc.? #
• What’s the best inexpensive digital camera? My old Sony is nearing death due to old age, wear & tear. Recommendations welcome. #
• Seeing Msia win gold in the SEA Games football final last night was so awesome it made up for the fact that I ironed my finger yesterday. #
• Hmm it’s been awhile since I complained about blogs that autoplay music. So I’ll do that now. AUTOPLAY IS ANNOYING, KIDS. STOP IT! #
• Going camera-shopping tomorrow. Apparently there’s some big camera sale at/near Giant Shah Alam. Will also buy Al lotsof gifts tomorrow. #
• Did all our Xmas shopping today. All that walking, wondering and waiting reminded me why I don’t like Xmas shopping. But it’s done so yeeaah #
• Starting to catch myself pronouncing certain words like a Malay speaking English. But with folks back home I say words the old way. For now. #
• Deadliest Catch wasn’t on last week. Oh Discovery Channel, don’t disappoint me again this week. #
• How to keep some privacy on Facebook http://bit.ly/5wgF5V #
• With another kid on the way, I foresee my 2nd childhood lasting even longer than the 1st one. I play with Al’s toys every day. Loving this. #
• Have been a bit of a Sherlock Holmes fan since I was a kid so I’m not sure what to make of the new movie. Guess I’ll have to see it 1st. #
• Whitening cream ad’s going on about ‘inner fairness’. Jesus, it’s bad enough people here want to be white on the outside. #
• Even if Sherlock Holmes ends up sucking, at least the hype’s got me reading my old Complete Sherlock Holmes Treasury again. Good stuff. #
• Got all teary-eyed watching Deadliest Catch. Life’s full of funny little surprises. #
• Had an awesome conversation with my grandmother today. Old people are like time machines. #
• I’ve got New Year’s resolutions, but I’m going to call them 2010 priorities instead. #
• Turn over Facebook history, judge orders http://bit.ly/6mMBgF #
• Finally got Al to take a nap, which means we (probably) won’t be dealing with a cranky kid at Farah’s Xmas gathering tonight. Naps rule. #
• Had a nice Xmas dinner at Farah & Jeremy’s place. Turkey, gravy, great conversation, a giant spruce tree, & Al got a pirate ship. Nice. #
• Mother-in-law had a mini-fit over our tree. Tempted to remind her of all the ‘un-Islamic’ things Malays believe in. Ghosts, black magic, etc #
• The Grinch diagnosed with depression http://bit.ly/7Tu2CJ #
• My seemingly neverending book project may have just spawned an interesting side project. Looks like 2010 will be a crazy year. #

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