Umno leaders call PM to quit after defeat

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Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi faced calls to quit from within Umno after opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim scored a landslide by-election victory.

So they're doing it again... calling for Abdullah to step down blah-de-blah-blah-blah. They just don't get it. It's like you have to whack all of them on the head with a big 2-by-4 and pound it into them! Don't they remember it was Najib who "lead" the vile BN campaign in Permatang Pauh to their disasterous failure? Ask them both to step down! Sheesh

Hell, y'know what? Practically the whole cabinet and even the Sabah CM went to campaign in Permatang Pauh. Get them all to step down. They disgraced themselves with all the gutter politics and slander they've been dishing out.

And Mukhriz of course has this gem:

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Mahathir's son Mukhriz, another senior Umno figure, who is vying for the top spot in the party's influential youth wing, also called for Abdullah's immediate resignation. "I think Abdullah should strongly consider for all our sakes, to step down now," he told AFP. "This is a second time that the Malaysian people have given a clear message, with the first at the general elections. It is a rejection of the present leader and he must leave now."

Buddy, it's not just a rejection of Abdullah. It's a rejection of UMNO. Get your facts right. You're just like your father; Delusional and in denial.

Idiots.

Update: And hey, whadya know. Like father like son! To them, it's never UMNO's problem. It's always the leadership's problem. Such blatant denial. Oh, the poor people of Permatang Pauh had no choice but to vote for Anwar although they didn't want to. Yes, it's so tragic that they gave an even bigger majority and a bigger turn out in the by-election than the general election. It's all about getting Abdullah to step down, not about getting Anwar in Parliament.

Boo-fuckin-hoo Dr. M. You're shaking at your knees, aren't you? Your greatest fear is slowly materializing. Karma's catching up. Stop whining. Stop assuming that you know what the people think. You're not their voice. They have their own. Shut the hell up. This is a REJECTION OF UMNO!

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4. Saya biasa menulis berkenaan dilema Melayu. Saya percaya dalam pilihanraya kecil Permatang Pauh ramai yang berada dalam keadaan serba salah. Bukan sahaja Melayu tetapi juga bukan Melayu. 5. Ramai pengundi tidak ingin undi bagi Dato Seri Anwar. Tetapi mereka juga tidak ingin undi Barisan Nasional. Calon Barisan Nasional baik tetapi kalau beliau menang maka Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi akan dakwa yang dirinya menang, dakwa yang sokongan kepada Barisan Nasional iaitu pada dirinya sudah kembali, dakwa Barisan Nasional telah dipulih dibawah kepimpinannya. 6. Saya percaya dengan berat hati penyokong-penyokong Barisan Nasional telah undi PKR supaya Dato Seri Abdullah akan sedar yang kepimpinannya tidak dikehendaki lagi.

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I'm relieved that the citizens of Permatang Pauh have seen the bigger picture and voted Anwar as their representative in Parliament. Even more relieved by the resounding vote of confidence by an even larger majority. BN has been given a good hard kick in the ass. Thank you, Permatang Pauh.

I'm willing to give Anwar a chance rather than continue with the racist and corrupt politics of BN. I've said it before, I'd rather have an alleged sodomite than an alleged murderer be Prime Minister. Whatever Anwar does behind closed doors, whether true or not, is personal to him and I don't give a damn what he does. Let him deal with it when he meets his maker if it's against his religion. It is between God and him.

So let this be the beginning of the end. Our government, no our WHOLE system is rotten to the core. The Executive, the Judiciary, the Royal Malaysian Police, the Anti-Corruption Agency, the Attorney General's Chambers, the NEP, the education system, the civil services, the national service, they are all rotten and festering with pus!

• End the squandering of taxpayers' monies
  
• End the money politics
  
• End the institutionalized racism
  
• End the draconian and outdated laws
  
• End the cronyism and nepotism
  
• End the religious fanaticism
  
• End the close-one-eyes and double standards
  
• End the flip-flopping decisions
  

UMNO is licking it's wounds and scheming for the next course of attack. You can be sure it's going to be vile, poisonous, disgusting and full of vengeance. Let them bury themselves deeper in their graves. Time and time again, the people have shown how they've rejected BN since March 8th. Time and time again, BN has demonstrated how disconnected they are with the people and how they don't listen.

I have no qualms with MPs switching parties anymore. If it is for the greater good, I believe it is a necessary evil (and a much smaller one compared to the continuation of the BN regime). Let this be the start of a two party system with real multiracial policies and a truely democratic Bangsa Malaysia.

Anwar, you've charmed your way into Parliament. You've made many promises that makes music in our ears. You've instilled hope in reforms and to cure the cancer which plagues Malaysia.

Don't disappoint us and pull an Abdullah.

Ah, Barcelona. Beautiful weather. Beautiful people. Beautiful place. The architecture is quite different from those in Britain and France. Gothic, mediterranean, gaudy, majestic are a few words that come to mind, but interesting none-the-less. There are a lot colorful buildings with curvy elements and bright tiles, which I believe earns Barcelona the title of the Glittering Jewel of the Mediterranean.

A lot of the gaudy architecture around Barcelona is attributed to their most famous architect, Antoni Gaudi. You can read more about him over at this wiki. Some of his most famous landmarks around Barcelona are Segrada Familia, La Padrera, Casa Batllo, Parc Guell, and many more. His trademark style is recognizable and he is said to get his inspiration from nature. You'll notice the lack of straight lines in all of his creations. He sure was obsessed with putting bright colored tiles on all his buildings too. I can't help but wonder about etymology of the English word "Gaudy" and whether it comes from his name, "Gaudi".

So my attempts at speaking Spanish were laughable. I had my first attempt at speaking Spanish when I went for breakfast. I tried to order in English at first for a spanish omelette and coffee, but the lady didn't understand me. It didn't strike me that she didn't understand me initially since she kept nodding her head and saying "Si". I think she only understood coffee and repeated out, "cafe?" and then she asked me "solo?". Presuming she meant "just one?", I said "Si". She gave me a shot of espresso instead of coffee... but it was good espresso anyway. After waiting for about ten minutes I realized she didn't get my order for an omelette either. I finally looked through my phrasebook and asked for "La carta" (the menu), and pointed out the omelette that I wanted. It was pretty good actually.

I personally find the Spanish more friendly than the British and definitely the French. Everyone just presumes you speak Spanish, like this old guy sitting next to me as I waited for a Metro. He just starts shaking my hand and going on and on about something I had no idea and the first thing that came to my mind was how badly his teeth were stained. He didn't seem dodgy, so I just said "No comprende" and I don't speak Spanish. He asked me a few more questions in Spanish, kinda like in disbelief that I don't or something.

Finally he managed to think of something English to say, "What country? Where are you from?". I said Malaysia, and he goes "Ah", and I think that got lost on him since he probably had no idea where Malaysia is. Then he goes and talks to the guy on the other side of him. But I still saw a number of Chinese and Indians there so I guess it's normal to asume that an Asian would speak Spanish there.

I'd say Barcelona is a very walkable city just to sight-see, but don't forget to bring your sunscreen if you're there in summer... like I did. It's quite easy to get lost though since there are a number of roads that kind of cut through diagonally, and road signs are almost non-existent most of the time. I wonder how do they find their way around. On the Metro, it isn't as efficient as the London Tube or French Metro, but still 100x better than Malaysian LRT.

Anyway, I took plenty of pictures. I've fully narrated the trip over at the gallery so head on over for the full set of pictures. In the meantime, here are some highlights.


Segrada Familia. A very magnificent and different church from any other I've ever seen.


Tortilla Espanyol. If you're a potato and egg lover, you'll love this.


At the courtyard in Casa Batllo with the ornate ceramic tiles unique to Barcelona.


Inside the magnificent Barcelona Cathedral.


The streets of Barri Gotic


Night view of Placa D'Espanya and Font Magica from Palau Nacional


The entrance to Parc Guell


View of Port Vell from the cable car ride to Montjuic


My Opera pose at Teatre Grec

Drive Bay Toaster makes toast with your PC



... or is the title supposed to be "Drive Bay Toaster makes toast of your PC"?

This is really just a bad idea and I can't see anyone wanting to sacrifice a PCI slot, USB port and a 5.25" bay just to make toast on their desktop PCs. I can't help but think it's a joke (and I do hope it is one). It's just such a fire hazard! Imagine if your toast catches fire! There goes your super rad and fast gaming PC! Hope you don't get electrocuted either

Then I saw that you can actually buy it for $29.99 here, so I guess it really isn't a joke. I can't imagine how much power it draws from your power supply unit. Your CPU and video card isn't going to like it. If you're some gamer who overclocks your CPU, that's just more heat, and we know excess heat and overclocking just don't get along.

Y'know, I think you could probably get a regular kitchen toaster cheaper than $29.99. Which fat-pimply-no-life-gamer-geek is so lazy to walk to the kitchen and pop in a slice of bread into the toaster? You know what else your regular kitchen toaster can do? Toast TWO slices of bread. While you're waiting for your other slice of toast on your PC, I've already put butter and jam on mine and digging into it.

Don't even get me started on the clean up. Imagine digging out bread crumbs from your PC... ugh.

Wow... he's at it again. Yes, this quote is taken out of context from his very famous and very popular blog, and yes I know he's making a point on a different issue, but here's how racist this senile old man really is.

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16. Some countries may be more open than others and still remain stable. Almost all these countries are single ethnic developed countries with the majority of the people atheistic. Still you don't call a black man a n***er but it is okay to call him an SOB (Son of a B***h).

The red highlight and censorship is my own edit, but the rest of it is verbatim. If you take a look at his blog, you'll see that he's tactful enough to censor the word "bitch" but not the derogatory and sensitive "N" word which all African-Americans take offence to (I on the other hand choose to censor the words the other way around). Sure, let's not insult all the female dogs out there, but hey, those Africans now...

Wasn't this senile old man one of the most outspoken Asian leaders opposing the Apartheid in South Africa back in the 80s? I vaguely remember being taught that in school. Unless that was just proper bullshit fed to us mindless and easily moulded younglings then to worship this senile man.

I have no respect for him, honestly. Whatever shred of "statesmanship" he ever had, he lost it along with his marbles. Oh the irony that his whole blog post is about insensitivity and arrogance.

Update: Upon scanning through the 95 comments left on his blog, I'm appalled that no one seems to give a damn about his usage of the "N" word. Someone even expressed excitement about him saying SOB. Just goes to show what a racist and uninformed lot Malaysians are

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Well... it'll get rid of the Senile Old Man of Malaysia.

Dr M will migrate if Anwar becomes PM

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"If he comes Prime Minister, I will get out of the country. Give everything to him," Utusan Malaysia quoted the former prime minister.

Boo-fuckin-hoo Dr. M. You get more and more senile with your childish tantrums. You just can't age gracefully, can you? Stop sulking!

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Lotus Makes Hybrids Sound Like Real Cars

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Lotus took a bone-stock Prius and outfitted it with a waterproof speaker near the radiator that blares simulated yet realistic engine sounds to let pedestrians -- those who don't have earbuds crammed into their ears, anyway -- know to watch out. "Our advanced external sound synthesis technology increases pedestrian safety, while retaining the car's environmental benefits," says Mike Kimberley, CEO of Group Lotus. The system uses a speed sensor on the accelerator to control the vroom-vroom sound. You only hear it as the car approaches, and it cuts out entirely when the car's engine takes over at higher speeds. It's all automated and Lotus says the driver hears almost nothing.

Basically, hybrid cars are quite silent when they're running on the electric motor. The problem is there have been some accidents involving hybrid and electric cars because people just couldn't hear them. This particular one involving a Tesla Roadster is excruciatingly painful.

I've mixed feelings about putting a speaker on a car just to make simulated vroom vroom engine sounds. There's a safety aspect I guess, so that pedestrians and blind people can hear the car, but it still just sounds and feels silly. It's like, cutting off the balls of the car and putting some prosthetic testicles in instead. I just have images of a kid cycling on his bike screaming vroom vroom with a slow crescendo as he picks up speed.

Driving around UK, I've seen a number of hybrids on the road. Not that I can hear them, but y'know what... most of the time I can't hear the regular petrol cars outside when I'm driving anyway, unless a V8 pulls up next to me or something. Don't drivers rely more on visual than aural?

Mmmm... I suddenly feel the urge to go to the Maserati & Ferrari showroom in Egham just to drool.

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Dr. Osman's Statutory Declaration of his medical examination on Saiful Bukhari

The Malaysian police force is a disgusting, vile, and despicable bunch of shameless morons void of any sense of integrity!!!

To those of you who seem to not really care about the whole Anwar vs. BN vs. IGP vs. AG debacle, put it this way - If it could happen to him, it could happen to anyone of us. How can any of us have any faith in the police force or anyone in the federal government? Imagine the very people who are supposed to be protecting us are actually framing people through intimidation and threats! How can you trust them?

There have been so many reports of policemen sexually assaulting women and teenagers in custody. People get beaten up in custody! People even die in custody! Hell, even the policemen are stealing drugs seized from busts which are within police compounds!

Shame! Shame! Shame!

Tag Heuer Meridiist

Hmmm... Right.

• It's got a 60.5 carat sapphire crystal screen
  
• Digital clock on top
  
• 2MP Camera
  
• MP3 Playback
  
• And ooooh... a stopwatch!!!
  

So... No GPS? No Wi-fi? No 3G?

It does look rather sexy with the aluminium casing, although rather bulky. But for GBP2650 (RM17225), this phone better shit gold. I'll pass and stick to getting a HTC Touch Pro.

Full article from the BBC

Some excerpts you just can't miss:

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Flat earth theory is still around. On the internet and in small meeting rooms in Britain and the US, flat earth believers get together to challenge the "conspiracy" that the Earth is round.

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Mr Davis, a 25-year-old computer scientist originally from Canada, first became interested in flat earth theory after "coming across some literature from the Flat Earth Society a few years ago". "I came to realise how much we take at face value," he says. "We humans seem to be pleased with just accepting what we are told, no matter how much it goes against our senses." Mr Davis now believes "the Earth is flat and horizontally infinite - it stretches horizontally forever". "And it is at least 9,000 kilometres deep", he adds.

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James McIntyre, a British-based moderator of a Flat Earth Society discussion website, has a slightly different take. "The Earth is, more or less, a disc," he states. "Obviously it isn't perfectly flat thanks to geological phenomena like hills and valleys. It is around 24,900 miles in diameter." Mr McIntyre, who describes himself as having been "raised a globularist in the British state school system", says the reactions of his friends and family to his new beliefs vary from "sheer incredulity to the conviction that it's all just an elaborate joke".

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What about all the photos from space that show, beyond a shadow of doubt, that the Earth is round? "The space agencies of the world are involved in an international conspiracy to dupe the public for vast profit," says Mr McIntyre. John Davis also says "these photos are fake".

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And what about the fact that no one has ever fallen off the edge of our supposedly disc-shaped world? Mr McIntyre laughs. "This is perhaps one of the most commonly asked questions," he says. "A cursory examination of a flat earth map fairly well explains the reason - the North Pole is central, and Antarctica comprises the entire circumference of the Earth. Circumnavigation is a case of travelling in a very broad circle across the surface of the Earth."

Whether their belief is for real or it's just a hoax, it doesn't discount the fact that they're idiots.


This picture takes the cake

I'm now thinking of starting a group based on the belief that the moon is made of green cheese for the other gullible idiots out there.

Yep. The moon's made of green cheese. It really is. Anyone with me? I'm telling you it's made of green cheese! Why? Because I said so! Those rocks they supposedly brought back are fake! Those pictures are all fake! Neil Armstrong never walked on the moon! The pictures were taken pictures in a studio! NASA never made it to the moon! It's a bloody conspiracy! They're preventing us from tapping into the greatest natural resource of green cheese! Give us our green cheese! My pizza is dry because I'm deprived of GREEN CHEESE!!!

THE MOON IS MADE OF GREEN CHEESE DAMNIT!!!

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