Pet Insurance? Say NO!

I don't know which asshole came up with this idea, but providing our humanity these days, THIS, is a very bad idea.

There are people who are willing to torture their animals (when they abuse, they don't call them pets) to get some money. This is just a plain money-sucking-bad-idea!


SAY NO TO PET INSURANCE.

What you need to know about when there is a natural disaster: Flood

It had been a long long while since I updated, but I think there's a littttttttttttle need for me to update now: the Thai flood.

As far as I've remembered, I've only encountered one small flood when I was back in Malaysia, of which is about 30cm in height. Now that I am working in Bangkok, I'm going to experience it again, maybe. *My place is still dry*

Thai people had been bombarded by massive information over the internet and has got NO CONCLUSION how bad this will go, and how long it will be. For the first few weeks, it caused panic and everyone had been storing food and clean water for use when the flood is coming in.

As for my place, the people here had been waiting for a very long time for the flood to come. From "Flood, please don't come", then they prepared, and waited, to "please come now, we are tired of waiting an anticipating".

Massive bombardment of information had put many yet-to-wet-lands into halt. Business, schools, restaurants and etc. The economy is taking a big hit from this flood. Tourists are worried and many of them cancelled their trips to Bangkok - of which is a good thing, and a bad thing at the same time.

Why bad? Cash flow. The flood had already "prevented" many tourists to come and spend. Let's take the ancient city Ayudhya for example. It had been flooding for weeks, and it's still flooding, and will be flooding. When the water's gonna go away? No one knows exactly. Now is Bangkok's turn.

Many of my friends had retreated from Bangkok but I'm still stucked here with works. It's not to say that my boss's crazy or what but, it's the right thing to do at the moment, for a company to survive. Many of the companies are doing the same thing. We won't know when the flood is coming, we won't know how long we might need to close down our factories.

However, we are all still pretty lucky because food is still widely available, but bottled water is sarced. You can hardly find a tiny bottle of water in Tesco Lotus, 7-11, Family Mart, or even restaurants. Clean drinking water will be one of the main concern and major problem when the flood fully covering Bangkok, I think.

Nonetheless, Thailand is full with kind people. We have got a lot of people helping out each other and at the same time, many charity bodies joined in and help to get things right. Thanks to people like Roosuflood, many people understand more about the flood and get themselves much more well prepared.

Not to forget, we too, have people like @RichardBarrow to update us (the Thai Language illiterate, LOL) in English, with #ThaiFloodEng too. The world is good with people like them all around to help.

Last but not least, pray for Thai and the world. =)

Do you know that you actually killed more people than you thought? 你是否知道，你杀的人比你想象中还要多？

Few days ago, a guy named Alvis Kong (Alviss Kong) suicided after he left a note on Facebook. There were a big hoo-haa and I can safely say that a lot of the chinese communities shared the suicide notes all over the places.

And then more people shared. And still, sharing.




Just recently AGAIN, another guy too, left a note on Facebook again, and plan to suicide on the 15th December 2010. Do we even realised how powerful are these kind of influence to people who does not have a strong will?

Let's go back to animal abuse at first. People shared the first video on the net. Then somewhere on the Earth came another video. Then another. Then another. Another and another. This is a never ending story because we who shared those videos, [we might be scolding those people BUT] actually encouraging the act of animal abuse. It's what we called as adverse effect.

The same effect takes place when we sharing news about somebody suicide. ESPECIALLY, on how detailed they suicided. It makes people learn.

Perhaps, when you choose to suicide for sure, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU DONT DO THE FOLLOWING:

1. Jump off a buidling - you will probably shattered every single organ in your body.
2. Medications - you will probably screw up your liver and kidney so badly.
3. Injections - you will pollute your own blood a lot and followed by destroying all the other organs. 

Now, why am I giving examples of these few? Because when you did any of the 3 (or more), your blood and organs cannot be used anymore! Come on! Before you suicide, please do some good here and suicide at those places itself whereby they can immediately take out your organs so that you can still contribute to the world even after you die. At least drain your blood dry in our Blood Bank!

Be selfish no more, and STOP SHARING THOSE VIDEOS OR NOTES. You're just as good as the mastermind behind their suicides.


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不久前，有一位名叫Alvis Kong （Alviss Kong）的男生在 “面子书” 上留言后自杀。这件事情马上在华社里激起了一阵的轰动。

他自杀的最后留言在网上不停的传，传了又传，传了再传... ...



今早像往常上了 “面子书” 游览，又看到另一位男生要自杀了，计划死于2010年12月15日。他跟Alvis一样，“面子书”上留言后打算自杀。你们是否知道，当我们将这些负面信息分享出去时，多少个有类似想法的人会被影响？

回到前些日子，有人上传了虐待动物的短片。过了不久，世界各地上传了种种的虐待动物短片。当让，我们之间很多人不服气。 “我在传这些短片的时候我都是骂他们的！”，你可否想过，多少人一样也骂了那些虐待动物的人还有Alvis Kong，为什么负面被人家骂的事竟然还是会有人继续做？

“说者无意，听者有心”，同一个道理。尤其是当那些留言或短片里头有非常仔细的虐待/自杀内容，更为容易模仿。都有“老师”教了嘛，不必怕不会做。

话说回来，如果真的要自杀，可以。但是千万别做一下的这几样：

1. 跳楼 - 这样会使到你身体里面的内脏粉碎，九死无生。
2. 药物 - 这样会让你的肝脏和肾脏过于操劳而损坏。
3. 打针 - 不止内脏不好，也将血液污染了。

为什么我会特别提醒这几样东西？因为你如果真的要自杀，那请你不要那么自私，你的器官和内脏还有血液还是可以救很多人的。自杀前请到这里注册成为捐献器官者，那么至少你死后还对社会有用，也顺便积点阴德。也或者，你可以去国家血库银行，在那边将你的血捐给人不好啊？

做人不要再那么自私了。还有，请停止分享/转载这些短片和文章，因为你们不间接就是那些害命的幕后主谋。

From Flying Protons to Warisan Merdeka

From Flying Protons to Warisan Merdeka
Since Najib and his cabinets decided to put this mega tower into the 2011 Budget, they had decided to go against the peoples' will and hence, the downfall of their empire.

Back in the 1990s. Our 4th Prime Minister came out with "Wawasan 2020" with the vision of flying Protons and well-developed light railway transit. Year 2020 is barely about another 10 years away. And Proton has YET to solve the power windows problem. Flying Protons? Hey, great dreams you have there. You know, people often say "it's good to have dreams as motivations, BUT, keep it close to reality".

Oh, did I told you that our 4th Prime Minister, the one who came up with "Wawasan 2020" had withdrew his words? Hmmmm....


Where's the Bolehland's Spirit?
Spending RM 5 billions on one tower that is expected to be completed upon year 2020, I'm pretty sure it's a big, sweet dream. I dare not say 100%, but based on my primary instinct, I'm pretty sure that it's gonna costs more than RM 5 billions at the end of the day.

Now, my my.... What happened to the "Malaysia Boleh" spirit? Come on! By year 2020 and you're only going to make a 100-storey building? Where's your fighting spirit? At least make a 450-storey building and beat the shit out of Dubai!

100-storey building is no Bolehland's spirit!


Uprising Awareness
Too many white elephants had started to keep all Malaysians closer together 'in response' to the "1Malaysia" slogan. Recently there's a group named "1M Malaysians Reject 100-storey Mega Tower" Facebook page had started to circulate actively among the Malaysians.

In just a few days after the group was created, it had hit 152,248 "Likes" on the page at this hour. Massive comments were posted on the wall of the page in objection to the 100-storey tower. Comments from the 1Malaysia's people. Voices of the people.

I strongly urge you all to join this page and voice out your opinion. At the same time, share out the page to your friends and relatives and create this awareness among all. You might ask, "Why should I?"

Here's why.

Since "Wawasan 2020", we had YET to see and effective public transport system. Look at China. Wait, just let us look at Singapore. "I don't have a car, but I can reach to every single corner in Singapore". You might disagree that because Singapore is small. Let's scale down to KL itself. Can we reach out to the whole KL with Monorail? No. We need LRT as well. Why is there 2 systems? And THAT, is not complete yet. 

This is certainly logically, and economically true! What you can generate from that RM 5 billions spent? Just about that amount of economy activity you can generate. But getting a Disneyland here, we can actually continuously generating a great amount of income EVERY SINGLE YEAR. 

Ah, back to square one. 

I don't know what the Tamil translation below but the English words up there and the left down corner, is exactly what the People wants to say

Perhaps the late Tunku Abdul Rahman should climb out from his grave and give some knocking on our government's head.

This is one legendary poster. 

So, did you get the "why" sorted out already?

*All images above were re-directed from 1M Malaysians Reject 100-storey Mega Tower page.

It's time to wake up, people.

 The world had fallen sick. But we are glad that there's still some good people like Michael Jackson, Simple Plan and all singing songs for us. 


Songs that heal us, or AT LEAST, make us feel better and start to wake us up from our selfish dreams.

I'm A Papa Of Two!

Today, I received an email from a familiar name in my Outlook. It was from the WorldVision. I don't know how to express my excitment with words but, I too, seeing hope in these children's future.

WorldVision sent me pictures of my children and a brief details on them. I am now, a father of 2, one male, and one female. Let's move on on the introduction.

Click to enlarge to see my children

Let's start off with Magana, my female child from Thushalusaka, South Africa. She's 9 years old and currently in her first grade. Life skills is her favourite subject in school. She only have her mother, 2 brothers and a sister. Her father's status is unknown. Her mom was unemployed and it means a lot of burden to raise 4 kids.

Next, I have Davulla, my male child from Arpana, India. Davulla is 12 years old and currently studying in 8th grade. He is much more lucky compared to Magana because, he have his father and mother, both employed, together with another sister in the family. He likes Local Language most in school.

As we can see from these children's eyes, I can feel that they are trying, really hard to reach out for something. And I believe, we, can give them this something. It may not happen now, but that something could come in in 5 years, 10 years, or even 15 years! Now that I see them, I had no regret in sponsoring them as my children. If I have the ability, I would sponsor as many of them as I can! The question is, would you like to do your part too? It doesn't mean that you must sponsor a child and so, NO. Your help spreading the words will help to build a better world too!

FYI, we donors, are NOT ENCOURANGE to choose which child we would like to sponsor. That way, WorldVision will be able to ensure that every children gets equal share of help form the world. I'm a Buddhist and I believe in karma. I believe, these children, might had helped me out in my previous lifes and it's my turn, to help them back. Even if you are not Buddhist, I believe, your religion, too, encourage you to help out the others whenever you can, right?

I'm now a papa of two!


p/s: I would like to send gifts to these kids but, there are rules. First, it cannot be expensive. Secondly, it MUST only be able to fit into a A4 envelope. Besides than sending pictures, any other things I might be able to give them as gifts? Please advise!

60 Earth Hour

2030 hours is approaching. Prepare to switch off every lights you can see. This event will last one hour worldwide, today, 28th March 2009. Give Mother Earth a rest.

Also, save a plastic, save a world.

Earth Hour 2009 - Will You Be Answering The Call?

It was started in Australia a few years back, whereby the Aussies say, "Let our Mother Earth rest a while from the pollution that we caused. Just one hour. Everyone." And the whole world answered that call.


Are you going to answer that very call this year?



   Earth Hour 2009 by WWF - Sign up for Earth Hour!

For Our Next Generation

Grrrhhh.. Didn't realised that those pictures are not focused. Nevermind about those.

Today, am here to promote a little thingy here to make our Earth a little bit cleaner. I believe that many of you do take fast foods rite? Especially McD. So now, here's a little suggestion for you how to make our Earth greener when you're eating McD.

Use whatever things that is available as container for sauces. Save a plastic, save a world.



p/s: The moment you're reading this (2130 hours, 21/02/09), I am still at a wedding dinner working as photographer. This is updated automatically hahaha! Finally I know how to use it. XP