Offbeat
Oh, What The Heck… Imagine No More For It Will Be Pointless
Close your eyes and imagine, for a while, that dinosaurs are still roaming our jungles and plains, with T-Rex thundering past, hunting smaller dinosaurs and occasionally human, and Brontosaurus chomping tree leaves by the riverbanks and giant birds swooping down from mountains afar.
What the heck, open your eyes. Imagine no more for it would be [...]
Joe The Plumber
… and Ali the Taxi Driver, Ah Chong the Chicken Rice Seller, Gopal the Barber, Yomogun the Farmer.
If you have been following the US presidential election, you would know who Joe the Plumber is. He is, well… a plumber, who confronted Barack Obama over the Democrat candidate’s tax proposals.
Obama’s Republican rival John McCain, seized [...]
Weird Dream
I was with a group of editors trying to decide whether to run a story about the discovery of Jesus’ treasure worth millions of pound sterling written by a junior reporter, who based his report on a blog entry.
We, the group of editors were not only trying to decide; we were arguing about it.
I was [...]
Malaysia TMTH
TMTH. Too much to handle. Around noon yesterday, a friend asked me if I was going to work because if I was, I had better leave the house early.
“The jam’s pretty bad,” he said. “The police are blocking all roads to the city.” Ah, must be because of all the protests again, I thought.
So I [...]
Perceiving Sarcasm
“…perceiving sarcasm, the smirking put-down that buries its barb by stating the opposite, requires a nifty mental trick that lies at the heart of social relations: figuring out what others are thinking.”
Those who lose the ability, whether through a head injury or the frontotemporal dementias, just do not get it when someone says during a [...]
Food For Thought
HOW MANY OF us still remember the Rukunegara or the National Principles? I bet not many, including yours truly.
However, if for some reasons you find yourself in a situation where you must be able to remember what the five National Principles are, all you need to do is head over to a nearby shop and [...]
Judge Orders Facebook To Hand Over Fake Profile Authors’ Info
A US judge has ordered popular social networking media, Facebook, to reveal information on the authors of a fake Facebook profile, set up in the name of Tim Puntarelli, the Dean of Roncalli High School in Indianapolis.
The authors had used the profile to send inappropriate messages to students, reports said.
Indystar.com reported that:
School officials came one [...]
Eight-Year-Old Chemistry Prodigy Enters Singapore Polytechnic
Child prodigy. Ainan Celeste Cawley, 8, the Singaporean Chemistry child prodigy, has entered Singapore Polytechnic and become the youngest student ever to attend a third year tertiary module in the world.
While working as a foreign correspondent in Singapore, I had written one or two articles on him.
Just weeks before my stint in Singapore ended, I [...]
The Toad Who Won’t Be King
It was a terrible thing for this toad to find itself trapped inside a garbage pit — the small cavern you’d normally find next to the front gate of semi-terrace houses in KL where you put all your garbage bags for the guys from some company to collect.
This one, this adult toad — let’s call [...]
Cash Advance Is What I Need Right Now
It is one thing, really, to be able to assure yourself that you’d never need any personal cash loan but it’s another to be able know that you could have one within reach, should you ever need one.
So long as you have the Internet connection, that is. And of course, if you are in the [...]
