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SERIOUSLY….WTF!!! Nasi Lemak is as Thai as fondue or sauerkraut is English. For a beer brand that claims to be ASIAN, this is UNFORGIVABLE. Absolutely UNFORGIVABLE. I am so angry..how can the PR department be so IGNORANT? I won’t even be pissed off if they claim it to be Singaporean, but I have never ever ever ever seen Nasi Lemak being sold in Thailand before ever. Hey, even the name gives it away; in Malay Nasi=Rice Lemak=Cream. In Thai? kâa-wá-săan gà-tí (courtesy of thai-english translator)

I WILL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER TIGER BEER AGAIN. EVER.

hateu tiger!!

I need a beer now…

I am supposed to be extracting data from SAS, a statistical software by next week for my new job. Theoretically, someone in my position should already be well versed in data extraction and programing. Not only I have none of the skills, I am in a department where I know nothing about the products, procedure or people. The only thread I am hanging from is the fact that I ‘used’ to have exposure to SQL – ableit minimal. And whatever minimal knowledge I had in SQL has rusted away to tetanus status by now. Coupled that with what looks like Visual Basic-like programing, I seem to be doing everything that I hated in college – all rolled into one!

Guess I could not be doing criminology (I rocked in that class) nor could I be doing music history (I rocked in that class as well!). Regrets, I have few, but at the moment it is definately not paying more attention in stats class in uni…and SQL class. And wondering how did i get here. My worse classes in uni are Chemistry, Maths,Programing – and at the moment I forsee my life to consist chunks of programing, maths and stats in the very forseeable future unless i get sacked. So I guess I just have to suck it up.

Chi sq, regression, anova …. I am going to have to pick up some stats book this weekend. My brains are getting so sharp that I am correcting bacon during our grocery shopping as we always compare price vs. value. I am either getting smarter or his maths is just deterioting. And to think that I used to send him stuff from work for him to count from me.

So boys and girls – make sure you pay very very close attention in class – irregardless of whether you like it or not ! And contrary to popular belief, maths is VERY useful.

Dr Liu…I am so sorry for not paying closer attention in class…

My initial post was obviously done in anger – as foul-mouthed as I am in real I tend to keep sourrain.com as family friendly as I can, god knows why. I really don’t understand. I really really don’t. As a traveller, this means more to me than the keris brandishing and having separate queues for male and female. It is no one’s business WHAT I do or WHERE I go. So what if I choose to be a drug mule? Surely it is my own idiocy therefore my own downfall and I should bite the bullet and languish in jail?

Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim ,

Malaysia is known for its strict laws against drugs – if those choosing to be drug mules do it in Malaysia, would there be even the slightest iota of concern to rescue them from the gaols??

Drug mules are from all over the world, not only restricted to stupid Malaysian women. Mostly these women (or men) do it for the money and glamour of being a world traveller. And honestly, if you are greedy enough to be a drug mule, then you should be ballsy enough to do the time that comes with it.

Why is the 100 or so females dragging the whole country (and about 10mil women) two centuries back? Or rather, I see that the government is again using something insignificant as an excuse to control its citizens. This time it’s the females of the country.

From nst.com.my:

Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen said she would have to study the matter further.

“I will have to speak to him (Rais) and also get feedback from the NGOs,” she said.

Dr Ng added that from a personal viewpoint, she agreed that it was an infringement on women’s rights, but added that there were always two sides to a coin and one needed to look at the bigger picture.

WHAT?? Two sides of the story??This is not the time to sit on the fence. Surely as the figurehead Minister of Women she should realize that this infringes all the rights that women around the world have strived to achieve in the past century? Does she not realize that she would be unable to travel to even Singapore without her PARENTS or the bloody Prime Minister (her boss) signing an approval letter and certifying that she is there to shop?

What is the bigger picture? I really wish she would elaborate at what picture is she looking at, because we sure ain’t looking at the same one, and the view from our end ain’t pretty at all. In fact it is pretty much chains and shackles.

MIC Puteri chief Usha Nanthini said the proposal was too vague, adding that there was a need for finer details and practicality to be looked into.

She said, however, that the proposal was generally good as it took into account the safety of Malaysian women.

And this brainless TwaT.GENERALLY GOOD????I guess if you REALLY want the women of Malaysia to be safe then it is just easier to cage them up, and release them just for reproductive purposes. And whilst you are there, why not do some snipping down below just so that they don’t enjoy sex as well?

I have never said this before, but if this does by some crazy reason (I don’t actually think it will happen) get passed as the law, I will actually go back on my words and tear my Malaysian passport into half. There is no point being the citizen of a country that believes that women should be treated like dogs, quarantined until proven innocent.

I am so angry I can’t sleep!!!!!!! F**king hell…

A very good take here by the daughter of Malaysia’s former premier and an accomplished journalist amongst other things.

And apparently Malaysia is a free country – unlike some middle eastern countries where their ‘womenfolk’ needs to be either accompanied by a male escort or have written consent from their husbands before travelling abroad.

Ministry wants women going abroad alone to get family consent

KUALA KLAWANG: Local women intending to travel abroad alone may need family consent in a bid to prevent them from being used as “drug mules” by international syndicates. Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said a proposal to this effect would be made soon to the Cabinet, following several incidents where women were used to smuggle drugs overseas.

Out of 119 cases of Malaysian women hauled up before foreign courts, 90% were linked to drugs, he said. “Last night, my ministry, together with the Home Ministry, have jointly forwarded a report to the Cabinet on the matter.

“Both ministries agreed that factors like family, religion, immigration laws and preventive measures need to be considered before a Malaysian woman goes abroad alone,” Rais told reporters after officiating at the Malaysian Silambam Association’s Jelebu branch here yesterday.

On the proposed requirement for family consent, he said it would enable the woman’s family to monitor her departure and serve as a preventive measure against her being duped by international drug syndicates. – Bernama

What do I say to that? F**K OFF.

Having worked in the energy industry, I am always wary of the tree-hugging greenies who insist on exhorbitant flights taxes, renewable energy for all and no packaging for any food. And of course, all for a very cheap price. I do not believe in extremism (unless the word chocolate is in there somewhere) yet I always think that one should do as much as they can. There is no point staying under your shell and never leaving your country of residence due to CO2 emmissions – what sort of ignorant children will you breed then? And as an acciddental migrant, the fact that my instant noodles were flown across the world or my salted duck eggs sailed seas to get to me is really irrelevant to my inevitable homesickness.

But it definately does not mean that I am just out there with my light-saber preparing to slaughter the world. And unlike many people I know of who is all talk about saving the world but no action, I am in the progress of changing my habits whenever I can.

Today is Earth Day. What have YOU done for your planet?

I have:

Converted most of my lightbulbs to energy saving sort
Walk around the house turning lights off that bacon had left in his blazing trail
Lowered my heating to 16 degrees
Restrict heating to 3 hours at night and 2 hours in the morning.
Iron really quickly (thus the burn!)
Try extra hard to remember to use my own bags for grocery shopping
Do not use separate plastic bags designed for grouping loose fruits & vegs.
Request for no bags for items small enough to fit into my handbag (creams, hairbands ect)
Try extra hard to recycle, even though it means glass bottles collecting dust in my kitchen before my next trip to the bottle bank
Recycle magazines, plastic containers & newspapers

Happy earth day!