Kua Chi

When it comes to sporting events mascots, it usually gives me an impression that the designing team must be made up of 5 year old playschool brats who eats crayons and watches too much Cartoon Network. This theory has been proven right again by the unveiling of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics mascots:-


From the official website:
Sumi, is an animal-guardian spirit who wears the hat of the orca whale, flies with the wings of the mighty Thunderbird and runs on the furry legs of the black bear.

Quatchi is a sasquatch, but a shy and gentle giant, that loves all winter sports, and is especially fond of hockey and dreams of becoming a world-famous goalie.

Miga is a mythical First Nations sea bear that is part killer whale and part Kermode spirit bear. Miga was based on the legends of the Pacific Northwest First Nations of orca whales that transform into bears when they arrive on land, but is also a snowboarder.

Eventually, they even have a sidekick call Mukmuk. The designs are actually pretty cute, if I have to say so, but does Canadians love Japanese art culture so much they have to design their mascots to look like Hello Kitty?

Of course, if you think that's LOL, wait till you see the logo for the event itself:

Uh. Ok.

You know you weep a little when you hear this song

In light of the impending inflation doomsday we will suffer in a very, very near future, I dedicate this song to everyone who doesn't actually have a Arabic sugar daddy:-

<加价热潮>

你怕我怕个个怕
烟加酒加屋租加
巴士加的士加多士芝士乜都加
加 加 加 加加加加

糖又加 盐又加
成日咁加任佢话
其实无他 你住人屋宇下
佢梗收买路钱嗱两扎
买佢怕买佢怕要加就加 总之惯啦

牛油又加 蚝油又加
燃油又话每“卡”七个六
其实无他 佢石油多到极
可惜真金白银贬哂值
冇法啦冇法啦佢加就加 都由佢啦

红豆沙 茶叶渣 全部要加惨到极
陀累全家靠份粮点够食
卒之渣到匙豉油都冇滴
够了啩了啦啩咪枕住加 喂好了啩

时时话加 年年话加
无尽咁加赶到绝
求助哪咤 我望能生对翼
即刻飞上月球再揾过食
就冇有怕冇有怕 佢加就加 BYE-BYE啦

（加加加加 我怕怕
我怕怕 加加加加）

人人话加 频频话加
成日咁加任佢话
其实无他 我做人多说话
係啲加价热潮风气下
发下啩发下啩 发起烂渣 都鬼戏嘛

This genius of a song is sung by Hong Kong's pop icon Sam Hui, during the the early 80's. You wonder why those so-called music artists nowadays are too busy singing about sappy heart breaks and more sappy heart breaks.

To a dear friend

I know you're pissed at all of us. I know that you felt betrayed, ignored, played with like a fool. And I know that you are probably right. I didn't answered your call this morning because I know that you will be questioning our sense of responsibility and promise, and I don't want to retort your accusations with things you don't want to hear about yourself.

You are a good friend of mine. We've known each ther since we were 14, 15. We went through all the years without a fight, a fall off, to be consider lucky is an understatement. But when you call up your closest friend F at 8 in the morning accusing her being irresponsible and slamming down the phone, I think you might need to rethink the whole situation from our point of view.

2 weeks ago, me, F and S were on MSN talking about vacations, and when F mentioned that she was taking a long weekend off work, everyone suggest a short trip, either to Penang or Malacca. K have to say no to the Penang trip due to financial constrains and we know that you can't take Mondays off, so Malacca was the next best thing. The first suggestion was to go down on Saturday evening and put up a night there. Then we realised S could take the day off, so we changed it to a one day roadtrip. F called you up and invited you, at first I was told you weren't too keen on the trip, citing that it would be packed during the weekends, but after F mentioned that 5 of us haven't been on a holiday for so long, you caved in a bit. Earlier this week, S mentioned you were still undecided on whether to join us on the trip, and we reschedule our plans to Sunday because you said that you're going for a dinner party in the city and will be home late, thinking that might be main reason why you were reluctant of joining us.

On Friday, both S and K told us over dinner that they were both off on Saturday, and F was already back in town, so F called you up and told you this. You got the drift, or we assumed you did, that we were planning to go on Saturday, instead of Sunday. Right up to that point, we updated you with every bits of our schedule and planning. I will readily admit that it was our fault that we didn't gave you a final confirmation on our decision despite having 1 whole day to do that. On the other hand, you had one whole day to do this too. You could have just called, or SMS one of us to asked if the trip was still on. But you didn't and we didn't.

This had become the whole point of the argument between you and F. After you slammed the phone down, F apologize thru SMS, and you again, accused her of doing that just for the sake of trying to get things over with. And from what I heard from S about this incident, I think everyone is pretty tired of trying very hard not to turn things ugly. We were tired of having to reschedule and re-plan the trip over and over again, because you couldn't give us a decision. We plan this 2 weeks ago, and its only a one day road trip for god's sake. It was either a yes or no. Everyone just wanted some time off from everyday life, bond over gossips and silly little jokes, just having a blasting good time on this trip. You gave us an impression that you weren't keen in the first place, and we took the liberty to not pressure you if you aren't really up for it.

All of us are happy go lucky people. We don't like to confront unless necessary. We have problems, worries, regrets like any other people, we just sleep it off and try to forget about it. We hate dramas in our life. Dramas only looks good on TV, in real life, they look awfully stupid. I'm sure we aren't the most perfect friend you ever had, we have annoying peeves that gets to you. So do you. So before you start pointing finger at us, please think from our point of view.

I'm not like other people, I don't like this kind of shit in my relationships. I'm sure I will be pissed too if I was standing in your shoes, but I'm not going to go around and start pointing fingers at my friends based on these circumstances.

Pun of the day

I'm easily amused, thats it.



EDITED: Eventually, BBC has changed it to "dog".

You can haz no cheezeberger, biyatch

Is this Minister, the "Village Idiot" 's Twin ?

Below is a transcript of the telephone interview that Malaysia's Minister of Information Zainuddin Maidin (ZAM) gave to the Doha-based TV Network Al-Jazeera (AJ), moments after the BERSIH memo was delivered to Royal Palace at the close of the biggest anti-government protest in Malaysia in ten years. (reproduced from www.idlethink.com/bersih )

Click here to watch the video clip of the interview

Related article: "Zainuddin Maidin's criticism of Aljazeera"

The transcript below of the interview (as close as it can be transcribed from the ramblings of the Information Minister):

ZAM: ....I commend your journalists trying to project, to exaggerate more than what actually happened. That, that, that, that's it. We, we are not, the, the -- and I, I congratulate your journalists behaving like an actor, that, that's ---

AJ: As you say that, sir, we're watching scenes of protesters being sprayed by chemical-filled water ...

ZAM (interrupts): Ya, I am watching, I hear, [?] .... trying to do it everywhere but in Malaysia people are allowed, to, you know [?] ... Police have allowed the procession to go to the Istana Negara, you know, do police, first police, like, they handle them, they [?] them, they ... the police don't, don't, don't fire anybody ...

AJ: Our correspondent came back to the office, sir, with chemicals in his eyes!

ZAM (speaking over her): ... You, you, you, you are here with the idea, you are trying to project, what is your mind, you think that we are Pakistan, we are Burma, we are Myanmar, everything you, you are thinking ...

AJ: Well unfortunately when you refuse to let people protest, it does appear so.

ZAM (speaking over her): ...Ya, ya, we are not like you, you have early perception, you come here, you want to project us like undemocratic country. This a democratic country!

AJ: So why can't people protest then, if it's a democratic country?

ZAM (interjects at "protest then"): Ya, people protest, people then -- first they protest, we are allowing protests, and they have demonstrated. But we just trying to disperse them and then later they, you know, disperse, but later our police compromise. They have compromised and allowed them to proceed to Negara. Police, our police have succeeded in handling them gently, right? Why do you report that and you take the opposition, someone from opposition party you ask him to speak, you don't take from the government, right?

AJ: Why did you not break up these protesters --

ZAM (interrupting): Pardon? Pardon? Pardon?

AJ: Why did you not break up these protests more peacefully?

ZAM: I can't hear you. I can't hear you.

AJ: Why did you not break up these protests more peacefully?

ZAM: No we, we are, we, this protest is illegal. We don't want, this, the, normally ... (slight pause, then continues to talk while she interjects)

AJ (interjecting): OK, so let me return to my former question. Why is this protest illegal?

ZAM (babbling on): Ya it's illegal protest because (AJ: Why?) we have the election in Malaysia. It's no, no point on having the protest, we are allowing to have every, an election every five years, never fail. We not our like, are not like Myanmar, not like other country. And, and you are helping this. You Al-Jazeera also is helping this, this forces, the, you know, these forces who are not [?], who don't believe in [?] ...

AJ (seems to want to say something, but decides not to): I don't ... many thanks for joining us.

ZAM: I don't, ya, you, Jazeera, this is, is Al-Jazeera attitude. Right?

(she doesn't reply. In the background, the chants of the protesters fill the silence)

This is some serious LULZ shit that resulted from the BERSIH protest last weekend. I have no doubt that the Al-Jazeera news caster had a brilliant field day interviewing(or trying very hard to) this moronic baboon. Remember that BBC interview from not so long ago with our dear Foreign Minister? The quality and standard of it matches this pile of poo poo. No wonder Lee Hsien Loong was trying extremely hard not to laugh at our faces during a recent interview with BBC.(or is it Bloomberg?)