<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880</id><updated>2011-11-28T09:17:34.158+08:00</updated><category term='Bachelor Party Elvin Geevaraj Jeevaraj Kevin Lau Woon Chiew Adrian Lee Puchong Damansara'/><category term='christian'/><category term='Vostro Inspiron rebadged relabelled duped Adrian'/><category term='Adrian Lee Coconut Opening first post'/><category term='Michael Lai Su Leen Marcus baby expecting proclaiming'/><title type='text'>BOING!!!!</title><subtitle type='html'>Adrian Lee's way of voicing out his thoughts and opinions.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>36</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-3690169766554805547</id><published>2011-11-03T12:47:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-11-03T12:47:38.863+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Cycle And Carriage PJ - Lousy Service and Lousy Workmanship</title><content type='html'>Allow me to warn every existing Mercedes Benz car owner from servicing their car at Cycle And Carriage PJ (Lot19 Jalan 51A/219)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I  sent my E200K (2007, 29343km, bought brand new from C&amp;amp;CPJ) for a  fault that was displayed on the dashboard. The ESP warning light came  on, and the car prompted out inoperative See Owner&amp;#39;s Manual. I also had a  problem whereby there was a knocking sound whenever I drove over a  bump.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I sent the car in on Friday 28th October 2011, and was  informed that the following items were found when the diagnostic machine  was plugged in:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1. Steering Angle Sensor Unit&lt;br&gt;2. Front torsion bar bushing cracked.&lt;br&gt;3. Compressor vacuum hose leak&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At  first, the bill amounted to RM7200, but after speaking to the service  manager (Bala), the amount was reduced to RM6600. The car was released  to me on Monday, 31st October 2011. This wasn&amp;#39;t so much an issue for as I  drove the car for one day and all was well.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On Tuesday, 1st Nov  2011, the same ESP warning light prompted out again. The car was brought  back to Cycle And Carriage PJ on Wednesday morning, and after the same  diagnostic test, the brand new Steering Angle Sensor unit was found to  be faulty again!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Since the unit was under warranty, it was  replaced, and the car was released back to me at 4.55pm. The moment I  drove the car out of the centre, I was faced with yet another problem  whereby the steering was angled wrongly to the left even though the car  was heading straight ahead. The car was brought back into C&amp;amp;C  immediately and the steering was repositioned.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;MY HONEST ADVICE  TO ALL MERCEDES BENZ CAR OWNERS IS TO AVOID USING CYCLE AND CARRIAGE PJ  AS YOUR SERVICE CENTRE. I HAVE HAD MANY PROBLEMS WITH THIS PLACE EVER  SINCE I SERVICED MY CAR HERE AND THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE CAR IS NOT  MADE TO LAST, REPAIRED WITH LOUSY COMPONENTS, AND LOUSY WORKMANSHIP.  AVOID AVOID AVOID!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is a list of other lousy incidences that I have experienced at Cycle And Carriage PJ before:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1. Warranty request to adjust headlights beam height since the car was delivered to me with wrongly adjusted beam height.&lt;br&gt;  2. Warranty repair of fog lamps which had water condensation on the inside.&lt;br&gt;3. Warranty replacement of broken seat control unit.&lt;br&gt;4.  Car ECU reset after servicing as the car reverted to emergency mode  (ENGINE WARNING LIGHT, CAR MAX SPEED 40KMH) after car delivered back to  me after a normal service!!!&lt;br&gt;5. Front camber bolts installation as camber had drifted (29000km only, yet requires camber bolts!)&lt;br&gt;6. Car drifting to the left after wheel alignment done. Had to resend back to Cycle And Carriage.&lt;br&gt;  &lt;br&gt;My  Service Assistants were Vicky, Ben, and another gentleman who has since  resigned. I bought the car from Sales Assistant Albert. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Again, do not go to Cycle And Carriage PJ. I have decided to not use their facilities any further. 				 				 				 &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-3690169766554805547?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/3690169766554805547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/3690169766554805547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2011/11/cycle-and-carriage-pj-lousy-service-and.html' title='Cycle And Carriage PJ - Lousy Service and Lousy Workmanship'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-1754570968214230976</id><published>2011-11-01T16:46:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T16:47:06.086+08:00</updated><title type='text'>UNIFI Why you so problem!</title><content type='html'>I had my unifi done recently. First thing first was the change my unifi wifi router password, and get online to change my login password.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Could not change my unifi account password though cos the servers were down. Oh well, later on.&lt;br&gt;  &lt;br&gt;Biggest problem was my unifi HyppTV. EVery 5 minutes, the screen will freeze. No solution. Apparently, this is a common problem, as my colleague experiences the same problem.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;UNIFI has been told, still no improvement so see how.&lt;br&gt;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Anyway, after gettting unifi, here&amp;#39;s a link to Nazham who can guide you on how to secure your unifi network.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://nazham.com/2010/06/01/things-to-do-immediately-after-getting-your-tmnet-unifi-hsbb/"&gt;http://nazham.com/2010/06/01/things-to-do-immediately-after-getting-your-tmnet-unifi-hsbb/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br clear="all"&gt;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-1754570968214230976?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/1754570968214230976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/1754570968214230976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2011/11/unifi-why-you-so-problem.html' title='UNIFI Why you so problem!'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-4775732892298580865</id><published>2011-09-04T12:58:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-04T12:59:10.629+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Notes About Worship Playing for Church</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Notes about worship playing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is what it is, the service is a performance with a crowd. Understand that you are playing songs to help that crowd to engage emotionally and spiritually with God. This means that a bad performance will not achieve that. Here's a few tips to address the many incidents that happen during a normal performance. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Engage with the band before engaging with the crowd&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lead. Use eye contact or established signals with the musicians. Three piece bands do so much better due to the quality of the communication. A bigger band requires much more planning and agreements between musicians to achieve a quality performance. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When the song is played, not nice to talk during the song. Breaks concentration. Nobody can engage with the song emotionally when you are gabbing away. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Speaking once in transition is good enough. Stick to a few seconds of exhortation, more than that will risk a mood dip. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When the song ends, end it musically confident. A definite end. Wrong notes are the most audible at this point. Decide on  chords before the performance. There is only so many times you can wing it by saying "in faith". &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Transition without dead sound or awkward silence. Only if the situation calls for it, otherwise do not. Any eyes that were closed in spiritual alignment will begin to open in curiosity. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Begin the new song confidently, for goodness sake! Weak vocals or instrument will dull the song. A vocal squeek that builds into a roar is highly regarded as odd. Or bad. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When an instrument is playing the lead, don't clash with a verbal conversation. Nobody can hear the gibberish. Yeah, really. GwannnggPRAISEOURGODANDSTARTYOURPRIASEANDDONPTjengjengjengRAISEYOURHANDSANDGIVRTTULTIMATEPRAISEbwuanhbwuangsgywkpfhrhejamam...etc&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;See how gibberish it is?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Do not close your eyes if you are leading the song. If the holy spirit is leading, He needs your eyes to see what's happening!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nuff said. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The speed and tonal range of the songs can be the definite theme of the service. Choose wisely and with assistance from senior experienced leaders. A song too fast or too high in tone or vice versa can murder the performance. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pastor is the Ultimate worship leader. There is no co-leading. Follow what he says, signals or requests. Do not at any time close your eyes so that you can play to Pastors leading. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Any instrument mishap is not the end of the service. Kill other instruments by playing with fewer instruments to have enough time for repair. Pick up the song in due time. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No matter what anyone says, mistakes are audible. They are heard. Too bad, deal with it later, and polish up the performance later. End the performance with a quick round up. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Learning and knowing the song by heart is excellent. Quite good. Having the sheets as reference is good. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you are a worship leader, knowing an instrument to convey the song is fantastic. If not, make sure the song is conveyed PROPERLY and the expectation defined. Musicians are emotional people and reacting to failed expectations is prelude to an argument. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-4775732892298580865?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/4775732892298580865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/4775732892298580865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2011/09/notes-about-worship-playing-for-church.html' title='Notes About Worship Playing for Church'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-7015091924470350640</id><published>2009-09-04T16:02:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T16:03:19.555+08:00</updated><title type='text'>State of Things Are</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;Have u read Malaysia Today yet?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/26421/84/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;Have u read of the allegation about Samy Velu?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/26404/84/"&gt;Have u read about the allegation of why Chua Soi Lek was sacked?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;Have u read about how Xavier Jayakumar demands Hishamuddin to step down?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;  &lt;br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;Have u read about how The Star reports that Hishamuddin wants the Cow Head Carriers (CHC, kinda catchy) to to be brought to justice?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;  &lt;br style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;Interesting eh?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-7015091924470350640?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/7015091924470350640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/7015091924470350640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2009/09/state-of-things-are.html' title='State of Things Are'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-2871407825229121926</id><published>2009-08-22T09:07:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-08-22T09:23:57.776+08:00</updated><title type='text'>h1n1, baby, wife, innova....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__We68gl-8pw/So9GklytXvI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/ICwsTNf0CAo/s1600-h/14082009683.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I am getting better.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Actually, I am very much better. I've just spent the last 4 days cooped up at home, coughing and hacking and fevering away. I was convinced that I had h1n1, but my health didn't deteriorate that badly, and today, SATURDAY, i am ok. It was no fun sleeping and dozing in bed, while trying to find a good position to sleep in (I HAVE GOT TO GET A NEW PILLOW!) and the worst part was thinking if Hannah would get what I got. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;She did, I think, cos she got sick too. But thank God (and I do mean You, God) that she is ok this evening. Her temp was on the high side (about 38.6 degrees at one point) but she's down to 37. We're watching her.  Wife got the bug too, sore throat and coughing, but her throat may have something cos its itching and its really bugging her. SJMC, here we come! Get ready for my wife cos I'm bringing her in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I destroyed my INnova tires last week. Totally ripped both tires on the left side as I was taking a turn, promptly shreded the side walls. My fault. My own stupid fault. Called the tire shop, and they came with an extra tire, which was wrong. Had to wait for the guy to bring one of the bad tires to their shop to repair and come back again to finally get BOTH tires up. Got a burger while waiting.... and the Pakcik wasn't fully convinced that I wasn't muslim, simply cos I chose to wear a baju melayu that day. Hey, i love baju melayus, cooling and comfortable. Don't need to assume I'm muslim cos of it. Comon..... anyhow, the Pak and Makcik were quite impressed with me. Made me cheer up a lil.... not for long though cos after I fixed the innova, came the bill.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;600 bucks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*sigh* there goes my new Nokia E66 that I was hoping to buy. celaka.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__We68gl-8pw/So9GklytXvI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/ICwsTNf0CAo/s1600-h/14082009683.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__We68gl-8pw/So9GklytXvI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/ICwsTNf0CAo/s400/14082009683.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372590474910326514" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last week, attended &lt;a href="http://ecfdamansara.blogspot.com/"&gt;ECFD&lt;/a&gt; on Sunday after the Awning company installed the awning. Heard that Ryan wasn't feeling well, had a fever. Hope things turned out OK guys! Our prayers are with you! Let me know how things turned out yah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And about the awning company. They were recommended by a friend, and let me tell you how disappointed I am with them. First of all, they FORGOT the installation date and came one week later, then they installed faulty awnings, and wanted to escape the blame, and destroyed the flooring at the same time. Who are they? They are &lt;a href="http://www.awning.com.my"&gt;PIONEER IRON TRADING&lt;/a&gt;. DO NOT BUY FROM THEM. CALL ME, I WILL RECOMMEND A BETTER PERSON. First of all, the installation crew came at 11.30am, dropped off the awnings and went for lunch until 1pm. Then, they dragged a normal 2 day job into a potential 5 day job (bcos they now have to bring in NEW AWNINGS to replaced the screwed up ones they installed). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Of course, money is power, and they need to finish the job before I pay. Hey, Stephen... here's a hint.... change the installers, i don't like that guy who keeps disappearing between jobs. We caught that guy sleeping and having a jolly time strolling while the other three dudes were working their butts off doing his share of the work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ahwell, one can never expect perfection until one's expectation is significantly imperfected.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have been up awake throughout the whole night. I found a Myvi that I like. Will call the guy later and find out how much he wants for it. Let's see if I can get it below $40k. Hee hee.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-2871407825229121926?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/2871407825229121926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/2871407825229121926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2009/08/h1n1-baby-wife-innova.html' title='h1n1, baby, wife, innova....'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__We68gl-8pw/So9GklytXvI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/ICwsTNf0CAo/s72-c/14082009683.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-6155144649543107345</id><published>2009-06-08T16:10:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-10T19:32:26.828+08:00</updated><title type='text'>How Malaysians treat Malaysians</title><content type='html'>Recent developments in Malaysia show that PKR and UMNO are at logger heads. No big deal. Its been like that since time immemorial.&lt;p&gt;The similarities are there too. One declares itself better than the other and convinces the rakyat to believe them. The other retorts and come up with something to say 'nay!' The cycle repeats itself, and its been like that for 40 years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That sucks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, what makes the difference between this fighting is that PKR and UMNO are fighting over leadership of Malaysia, which is basically about Power. This is a stark contrast to how the rakyat fight with each other. I se the word fight, cos its shorter than the word 'disagree', and my fingers find it easier to type the word 'fight'.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is how the rich and powderful Malaysians treat each other...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The rakyet 'fights' with each other over car accidents, dirty roads, rubbish thrown over each other's lawns, accidentally bumping into each other in the mall, jumping queues, flinging rubbish or dirty water into each other's face, pets encroaching into the neighbors lawn to poop, car parking, letterbox rubbish, getting kids into school, getting kids to stay in school, finding a seat at a hawker centre, ordering food, paying bills at the post office.....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No fights regarding power, just daily basic amenities. We fight over the stuff that we do everyday. While a portion of people, who have bungalows and garages of cars, and companies under their datukship titles, are fighting with each other to stay rich, the rest of us are 'fighting' to feed ourselves and our families. Every 4 years, the portion of rich greedy people will have to find the 'support' of the rakyat through a process of voting, The promises begin, and the emotional war cries are made, but after that short time, things go back to what they were, with the rich fighting the rich, and the so-called-poor fighting themselves. This is how the everyday blue collar Malaysians deal with each other...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Malaysians like to call themselves courteous and kind, but we aren't, actually. We like to call ourselves knowledgeable and talented, but we're not. We like to call ourselves enterprising and hardworking, but that's just a shadow of a distant time. In truth, we're a bunch of lazy incompetent idiots, who are a laughing stock of the South East Asean countries. Singapore looks at us and sneers (even the Malaysians who work in Singapore do it!), Indonesia giggles because without them, we won't have any labor do do anything! Bangladesh and Myanmar just found out about this, and give them a couple of days and they'll probably be chuckling too. The services industry in Malaysia is ironically manned by foreigners, and this gives visitors and tourists the impression that we are short handed, untalented, and physically incapable of doing everyday routine work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, Mat Rempits on motorcycles go about robbing people of their money and phones because they say they don't have 'MoneY' or work to do!. What the heck??!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, who wants to improve Malaysia? For one thing, its going to take a long time for that to happen. No Malay boy I know would degrade themselves to picking up rubbish or mopping canteen floors, or sweeping streets because it would make them look 'poor' in front of their friends or relatives. This is the Malaysian way right, to be technically superior! How can you look technically superior sweeping floors? Better to stay home and do nothing rather than sweeping floors right? Hah!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Indian boys feel the exact same way, but they are different. They are willing to put their emotions aside just so that they can earn a respectful living, and please their families by putting food on the table. Many Indian boys I know do this. Yes, they talk big, and swagger, but they aren't afraid to work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chinese boys who find themselves short on cash only just need to head over to the local DVD shop and help their brothers sell their wares. Hence, DVD DVD!! Or sell beer at the kopitiam. Or fix motorcycles, or cars, or make money being electricians or air conditioner repairmen. Or sell chicken rice or char koay teow at the local hawker centre.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Screw you!" they say, as they make you pay $8 for a single DVD that costs $2 to make and sell. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Kiss my Arse" as they install the Astro unit in your living room.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"You suck!" they mutter as they deliver the third plate of noodles at your table in the cafe you are at.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I digress. I was thinking about how Malaysians shouldn't really be called Malaysians. We should come up with a new name for ourselves, something that will reflect the TRUE nature of our beliefs and origins. We should politically declare to the world how selfish and useless we really are (based on majority of course!) and that the only reason we come to existence is because a huge bunch of us choose to sit down and relax while another chooses to make money at the expense of the lazy ones. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hmm, Moneysians is nice. Or how about Lazicia. Or omit the Y in Malaysia so that we truly declare our love for sitting on our butts all day and typing meaningless blogs. Malasia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Malaka Barisan National UMNO MP, made a comment saying that Chinese should go back to China and Indians should go back to India. He said this because some political party was 'betraying' UMNO and making some fuss (as they all do!) Bearing this in mind, should the Malays go back to Indonesia (Bugis, Jawa?). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh noooo, cannot.... Malays are from Malaysia he says. Malays have rights.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Screw you dude, I'm from Malaysia and I have every right as deserved in this country. Telling me that just because my forefathers are from China doesn't mean a thing, because then that rule should apply to ALL Malaysians, and not just 'some' Malaysians. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You know what sucks? What sucks is having some unemployed dude choosing crime to earn a living, because he can't imagine himself sweeping floors. What sucks is seeing Mat Rempits terrorizing communities while Indonesians and Bangladeshis working their asses off building government buildings and toll booths. What sucks is seeing Chinese boys earning from International Companies because the local companies are obligated to employ shadow  Malays who don't know how to run companies and rely on proxy Chinese boys to do it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Malasia needs a big kick in the rump. Start working eagerly. Enough with the spoon feeding already. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-6155144649543107345?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6155144649543107345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6155144649543107345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-malaysians-treat-malaysians.html' title='How Malaysians treat Malaysians'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-2569471421134178024</id><published>2009-03-20T15:44:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-03-20T15:44:02.857+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I am Malaysian. But I am also Chinese, and because of that I am  feared...</title><content type='html'>&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;If you were following this blog, then you would know that I was racially attacked a few days ago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;I was verbally assaulted by a Malay man, who screamed about my presence in Malaysia, yelled at how I eat pork, and threatened with the return of May 13.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;All after he kicked my wife&amp;#39;s car door. WTH?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;Thing is, I was trying to make heads and tails about it. What made this elderly man get so worked up, and so threatened by me. Was it because I was Chinese? I did a wiki search, and I found out a few things:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;1) Chinese are generally regarded as freaking rich industrialists who have the means and power to overcome any condition no matter how destitute they are to grow to be a considerable authority in the financial and economic industry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;2) Other races hate the chinese because of that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;An article in wiki regarded &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinophobia"&gt;Sinophobia&lt;/a&gt; (the fear of Chinese people, their culture and origins) explains that all wonderfully, even going so far as to give examples like the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_13_Incident"&gt;Malaysian May 13 1969 incident&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href="goog_1237533602439"&gt;Indonesian Jakarta Riot 1998. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta_Riots_of_May_1998"&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;br&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta_Riots_of_May_1998&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;Bottomline, as long as I&amp;#39;m Chinese, other races will fear me. Why? Because they will. Malaysia is no exception, especially with the May 13 incident. Indicently, 2009 will be the 40th Anniversary of that catastrophe (I&amp;#39;m considering leaving the country during that time, seriously). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;Why has it become so? Why is there fear everywhere we turn? Is it biblical? Well, there was a consdirable amount of fear in the bible (from the fear of God to the fear of man) and all that just explains and details the very nature of man that when we are threatened, we will respond (positively or otherwise)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;So, how will I deal with this? I will continue to live my life without compromise, BUT I will always be looking around with eyes at the back of my head to ensure that my life and my family is protected.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;To the extremists out there, note this. Do to others what you want others to do unto you. What goes around, comes around.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketuanan_Melayu"&gt;Before, I could say I was proud to be Malaysian. Ask me again when you see me, and I&amp;#39;ll tell you what my new answer is.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-2569471421134178024?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/2569471421134178024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/2569471421134178024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-am-malaysian-but-i-am-also-chinese.html' title='I am Malaysian. But I am also Chinese, and because of that I am  feared...'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-6693421113101308884</id><published>2009-03-18T21:37:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-03-18T21:48:37.960+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Today, I am sad...</title><content type='html'>For the first time, for many years (since I was born), I was told in the face to go back to my native country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had an argument with this Malay man who had gotten into an altercation with the wife. He kicked the door of her car because there was contact while she was passing him. Oh, he was stationary some more and waved her to pass, but her car still nudged his bike and it fell. He went ballistic and gave a kung fu kick on the door. Since I was driving right next to her, I came out to correct him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Within MINUTES, he starts to get racist on me by telling me to back to my native country. How odd, cos I'm Malaysian. Just not Malay. How odd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, he gets all angry, and starts to threaten me, my family and all that. All I take with a pinch of salt. But just for the record, his motorcycle number is MBA 2615. So, if any of you meet this man, pity him because he thinks that all Chinese should go back to China, and all Indians should go back to India.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malays_%28ethnic_group%29"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He'll need to go back to Indonesia though. Click this sentence to read why. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But still, this is the first time I've encountered a racist. Oh well.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-6693421113101308884?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6693421113101308884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6693421113101308884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2009/03/today-i-am-sad.html' title='Today, I am sad...'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-8179356365502731820</id><published>2009-03-17T12:51:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-03-17T12:51:31.846+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Malaysian will never succeed in the services industry......</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;MALAYS in MALAYSIA.... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;INDONESIANS in MALAYSIA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;CHINESE in MALAYSIA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;INDIANS in MALAYSIA&lt;br&gt;NEPALESE in MALAYSIA&lt;br&gt; BANGLADESHIS in MALAYSIA&lt;br&gt;VIETNAMESE in MALAYSIA&lt;br&gt;BURMESE in MALAYSIA&lt;br&gt;THAIS in MALAYSIA&lt;br&gt;CAUCASIANS in MALAYSIA&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;Who are the most hardworking of the lot? You figure it out yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;-------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;h3 style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;" id="story_date"&gt;Tuesday March 17, 2009&lt;/h3&gt;					 					&lt;h1 style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;" id="story_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/3/17/focus/3490174&amp;amp;sec=focus"&gt;Foreign labour a lot better than lazy locals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;THE statement by Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam that doubling the levy on foreign workers will discourage their employment and will result in increased salaries for the locals is immature.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;I have owned a restaurant for more than 20 years and during this period I have hired both Malaysian and Indonesian staff. The working conditions are the same for both nationalities and it does not matter what position they are in - manager, kitchen staff or waiters.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;When we first opened for business, we hired locals. In the beginning, there were not much of a problem but when business began to pick up, my cook began to talk about leaving. It is her way of wanting to renegotiate her pay.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;I put up with the "blackmailing" by ignoring it, but by the third time, I paid her her salary and showed her the door. That brought a temporary end to such threats from the others when they realised that I was not going to be held to ransom.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;Then, with the influx of Indonesians, we hired them to work alongside with the locals. However, the Indonesians were hard working and had better attitude towards work.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;But, when the Government began to make it harder to hire Indonesians, we had no choice but to look to local labour again. It was the mid-1990s boom and we needed the staff.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;We found the locals arriving late for work and leaving early – sometimes before even the close of business, leaving the clean-up to be done by the foreign workers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;The locals would come to work unkempt and they sat around smoking cigarettes despite the "no smoking" sign in the restaurant.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; Meanwhile, the Indonesian workers would ensure business goes on in the restaurant.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;The locals refused to learn anything new because they thought they knew better. They were not happy at being told what to do by a woman - even if she was the manager.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;They showed their displeasure by making the food inedible - adding too much salt or chilli.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; Local staff are simply unreliable. Perhaps what is most disturbing is their health. The Indonesian workers have to pass a medical examination before they get a work visa. Locals do not.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;Just to make sure, we would ask all new foreign workers to go for another medical test before they commenced work at the restaurant. However, this backfired. If he or she failed the test and cannot be hired, we still had to pay the bill which came to a few hundred ringgit.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;To be fair, not every local we have hired was a nightmare. However, the dreadful ones we have hired far outnumbered the good ones.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;If Dr Subramaniam thinks that raising the levy on foreign workers will lead to more locals being hired in the restauraunt business, he is sorely mistaken. They have poor work ethics and are not worth the trouble. If I can't afford the levy, I would rather close my business than to be held ransom by local workers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESTAURANT OWNER,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Petaling Jaya.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-8179356365502731820?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/8179356365502731820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/8179356365502731820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-malaysian-will-never-succeed-in.html' title='Why Malaysian will never succeed in the services industry......'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-5268995969294448309</id><published>2009-01-12T16:34:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-12T16:42:02.993+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Who said MUSLIMS cannot hold BEER Cans?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__We68gl-8pw/SWsArDK_oQI/AAAAAAAAAUY/7QRmECyj3FI/s1600-h/muslims+holding+beer+cans-792135.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__We68gl-8pw/SWsArDK_oQI/AAAAAAAAAUY/7QRmECyj3FI/s320/muslims+holding+beer+cans-792135.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290322926862573826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2009/1/12/central/2988528&amp;amp;sec=central"&gt;This article came out in the Malaysian local publication, 'THE STAR", today.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2009/1/12/central/2988528&amp;amp;sec=central"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It carries the header 'UNSUSPECTING KLANG VALLEY PUB OWNERS BEING DUPED BY UNSCRUPULOUS GROUPS", and shows Customs Deputy Director-General (Prevention) Datuk Mardina Alwi and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" &gt;Selangor Customs Director Datuk Roslan Yusof holding beer cans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have faced and encountered numerous occasions whereby some of our Muslim folks absolutely REFUSE to hold BEER, WINE, ALCOPOP cans, until they wear gloves or line their hands with a plastic bag etc..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, Muslims can hold beer cans! Just don't drink em....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-5268995969294448309?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/5268995969294448309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/5268995969294448309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2009/01/who-said-muslims-cannot-hold-beer-cans.html' title='Who said MUSLIMS cannot hold BEER Cans?'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__We68gl-8pw/SWsArDK_oQI/AAAAAAAAAUY/7QRmECyj3FI/s72-c/muslims+holding+beer+cans-792135.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-8317216759494916455</id><published>2008-11-24T09:20:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2009-01-12T16:42:49.901+08:00</updated><title type='text'>first time for everything</title><content type='html'>This is the first time i'm writing a blog using my mobile phone. Its quite liberating, having the freedom to type or sure anywhere i am. Freedom comes at a cost though, at a rate of 1sen per kb, thanks to Mr. Maxis (interestingly, type maxis on your t9 phone and see what comes out).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's always a first time for everything. resolved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's a first time for everything, for everyone, everywhere. Hmmm...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-8317216759494916455?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/8317216759494916455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/8317216759494916455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/11/first-time-for-everything.html' title='first time for everything'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-7332775818295969906</id><published>2008-09-17T10:47:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T13:25:32.246+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christian'/><title type='text'>I couldn't have said it myself about Christians and the Church</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="article-publish"&gt;        &lt;p class="author"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,,24265176-2682,00.html"&gt;Article from an Australian newspaper, "THE ADVERTISER", as published in Adelaidenow.com.au&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="author"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;REBEKAH DEVLIN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;            &lt;p class="published-date"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;August 30, 2008 12:01am&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;/div&gt;           &lt;!-- // .content-row clearfloat --&gt;                &lt;!-- Article body --&gt;                           &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THERE are rarely darker times for a church than when someone in leadership falls from grace.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;       In the case of Michael Guglielmucci, he has fallen spectacularly and very publicly. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The extent of his deceit is hard to fathom and, sadly, I think there are more revelations to come.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I have a faith in God. While no church at present is my home base, I have visited a number, searching for the right place to laymy Bible.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I have been to Edge Church International a few times. I found the people very warm and hospitable, very inclusive. With them I have no problem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;However, I think something is on the nose within the Assemblies of God movement, or the Australian Christian Churches, as they are now known.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;While there were quiet dissenters before this scandal, now many in the church are finding their voice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Reverend Philip Powell left Paradise Community Church in 1992, quitting his post as secretary-generalof the AOG because hewas so disenchanted with what he was seeing in the movement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"It was very, very political," said the pastor, who now leads a Brisbane non-denominational church.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"It's become like a corporation, like a business operation."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He said the downfall of Michael Guglielmucci was a symptom of the denomination heading in the wrong spiritual direction.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"When the church becomes money-driven or music-driven, it's on the wrong track – they're excellent servants but poor masters," Mr Powell said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"Many of the people wake up too late and realise they've . . . lost the significance of what the Gospel is all about."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In my view, serious questions must be raised about the way people are promoted to positions of authority in the church.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Family dynasties dominate the leadership of Australia's biggest – and richest – churches.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Michael Guglielmucci is the son of Edge Church International founder Danny Guglielmucci.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Michael was a pastor at Russell Evans' church in Melbourne – Russell himself is the son of AOG legend Andrew Evans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Brian Houston, who runs Australia's biggest church, Hillsong in Sydney, is the son of Frank Houston, another preacher who suffered a fall from grace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Brian's son Joel helps run the church's music department, including the prolifically profitable music-selling arm – which creates the albums that often top the ARIA charts. It seems wrong some pastors are getting around in expensive cars and expensive suits, holidaying in their beach homes and riding their jet skis and Harleys.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;When did that become part of the deal with answering God's calling?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The "love offerings" – an offering taken up for a guest preacher – seem to have become a "scratch my back I'll scratch yours" exchange between powerful pastors, knowing a weekend visit to another church can net upwards of $10,000.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In my opinion, the rise of the celebrity pastor is something that must be addressed. Somehow the church has embraced all that is destructive about the world of celebrity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The money, the fame – ultimately it has a tendency to corrupt. Why should we expect those in Christian circles to be any different?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Many AOG churches have become so obsessed with presenting a picture-perfect world, they have forgotten they are meant to be the one place where it is OK not to have it all together – to have problems, to sin, to have doubts. Churches are hospitals for the soul.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;But instead, those who do not fit the cookie-cutter vision of a "successful Christian" have been cast aside, or even pushed out the door.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Services have become lavish displays these days – rock music-style praise, flashy video presentations – young, pretty-looking vocalists performing with their hands raised dutifully (yes, all carbon copies of Matt Corby).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Speaking in tongues, something which had previously confused and dismayed some visitors, has been banished.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Nothing about church these days is controversial, it is all about projecting success – "become a Christian and you too could have a life as perfect as mine".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I wonder whether this vision of unobtainable perfection actually now turns people away.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The sick in body and the sick in spirit are seldom prayed for out the front as they were in years gone by. This is now done during weekday meetings in believers' houses – away from potential visitors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Many AOG churches do fantastic things for their community, as do churches of all denominations. There is good in every church.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I just think they have been striving too hard for success.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In the wake of this sorry affair with Michael Guglielmucci, questions must be asked and churchgoers should not be content with what the all-powerful pastors tell them from the pulpit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;My hope is this horrendous breach of trust will not damage the faith of believers – we are all human, but we need to ensure we are not blinded by faith.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-7332775818295969906?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/7332775818295969906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/7332775818295969906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-couldnt-have-said-it-myself-about.html' title='I couldn&apos;t have said it myself about Christians and the Church'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-7657798157135706654</id><published>2008-09-17T10:42:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2008-09-17T10:47:11.061+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Fall from Grace :  Michael Guglielmucci</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;I was doing a follow up on Michael Guglielmucci's fall from grace, and I found out that he's been addicted to PORN for 16 years. This made his body to manifest and reject it, but he used the cancer thing as a cover-up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;This is what the human mind is capable of. Wow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;This article is a follow up, in THE AUSTRALIAN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="section-header"&gt;          &lt;h1 class="section-heading"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24232365-5006787,00.html"&gt;Disgraced pastor Michael Guglielmucci a porn addict&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;               &lt;div id="section-header-ads"&gt;         &lt;div class="ad"&gt;         &lt;!-- START Dummy ad code - real code to be inserted instead. --&gt;                           &lt;!-- END Dummy ad code - real code to be inserted instead. --&gt;               &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- // .ad --&gt;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- // #section-header-ads --&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;!-- END Story Header Block --&gt;        &lt;!-- START primary content/left column --&gt;            &lt;!-- Story Toolbar--&gt;   &lt;!-- // .article-tools --&gt;   &lt;!-- End Story Toolbar--&gt;            &lt;div class="module-subheader"&gt;&lt;p&gt;By Elissa Lawrence    | &lt;em class="timestamp"&gt;August 24, 2008&lt;/em&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- // .module-subheader --&gt;   &lt;div class="module-content" id="article"&gt;         &lt;p class="intro"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;ul class="story-summary-list clearfloat"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Disgraced pastor a severe porn addict, dad says &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;'Addicted' to porn since the age of 12&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dad says son made full confession about porn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;!-- Image Caption ("module lead-image") --&gt;   &lt;div id="module lead-image" class="module lead-image"&gt;&lt;div class="module-item active"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6214245,00.jpg" alt="Michael Guglielmucci " title="Michael Guglielmucci " width="350" height="240" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="caption"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Confession ... the father of disgraced pastor Michael Guglielmucci has revealed his son has been addicted to pornography since the age of 12.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- // .module-item --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;!-- END Image Caption ("module lead-image") --&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;THE father of disgraced pastor Michael Guglielmucci has revealed his son has been addicted to pornography since the age of 12.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Danny Guglielmucci – whose high-profile preacher son last week week admitted his two-year battle with cancer was fake – said the "severe addiction to pornography" was part of a bizarre double life his son had been leading. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Mr Guglielmucci, who established Edge Church International, an Assemblies of God church in Adelaide, said Melbourne-based Michael had made a full confession to his family about his past, including revelations about the 16-year porn obsession and the lies over his supposed battle with terminal illness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an exclusive interview with Adelaide's &lt;em&gt;Sunday Mail&lt;/em&gt; this week, Mr Guglielmucci also revealed:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HIS son has been suffering "mystery illnesses" since the age of 12.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOCTORS gave his parents the option of admitting him to a psychiatric ward for assessment as a child over the ongoing "illnesses", but they refused.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE family's "absolute shock" at discovering Michael was not terminally ill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Guglielmucci said he and wife Sharonne – who founded Edge Church International with him – were struggling to comprehend what their son had done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are expected to address the church's Adelaide congregation today to explain his actions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"When (Michael) rang me last Tuesday, I was on my way to New Zealand," Mr Guglielmucci said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"He said, 'Dad you've got to come and see me'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I said to my wife, 'Maybe the doctors have told him he's only got a few weeks to live'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"So we cancelled everything and jumped on the plane and went to see him in Melbourne, and that's when he told us the story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We were just in absolute shock and we still are. We haven't had time to get our head around it. He said, 'I don't have cancer. I've had two lives that I've lived'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"His wife (Amanda), who has been with him for seven years, found out the day before we did and she's had no idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Michael has had a severe addiction to pornography. The addiction to pornography started when he was 12.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's horrendous because we don't have that sort of stuff around. He was raised in a Christian home; we've never brought that stuff into our home."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Guglielmucci was one of Australia's highest-profile Christian preachers, inspiring hundreds of thousands around the world as he performed his hit song &lt;em&gt;Healer&lt;/em&gt; with an oxygen tube in his nose. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He was a pastor with Planetshakers, a Christian youth movement that began in Adelaide and has grown into an international ministry. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that all came crashing down this week when his deception became public.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Guglielmucci said his son finally confessed after the guilt of his lies and addiction became overwhelming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"He lived the two lives and he would get sick as a result of the guilt," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"He was feeling like he was letting God down, letting his family down, his church, his friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"He's been living this for so long, feeling like he's had these two lives and now he's the one that's come out in the open. He confessed it, he didn't get caught.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"To deal with the guilt he would pour himself into doing good work. He's touched the lives of young people all over the world. Now they are all affected by this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"He hasn't done this for any reasons that have been portrayed that he's a fraud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It was either keep pretending or come out with the truth and tell everything. He's come out with everything but now we've got the consequences of it all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We have to accept it. We're hoping to share with our congregation how it all started and how it got where it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We understand people's anger, we understand their questioning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There's so many questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"An addiction like this is not going to be fixed overnight. You can't have a 16-year problem and fix it in a week."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Guglielmucci said his son was undergoing psychiatric assessment with Adelaide doctors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"They have said to me that he is very ill. They are assessing where reality stopped and fantasy kicked in and what's caused all this," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The doctor believes that at times Michael was totally convinced that he had this sickness."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Guglielmucci said his son had a long history of "mystery illnesses", starting in childhood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"When he was about 12 he did vomit all the time, he'd get really really sick," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"He was in the Adelaide Children's Hospital for seven weeks at one stage; he didn't eat and we thought we were going to lose him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"They took out his appendix, thinking that it might be that, but they realised that it wasn't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"They gave us the option of putting him in a psychiatric ward to see if there was something psychological but we felt uncomfortable with that at the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We signed him out from hospital and then he would go a few months and then he would get sick again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We'd always take him to hospital; we'd always do the proper thing but they couldn't get to the bottom of it until now."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Guglielmucci said he and his wife were in "absolute shock" to discover their son was not terminally ill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We have watched our son go through what we thought was cancer," he said. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"My wife and I, over the past two years, have watched him vomit in buckets, having nosebleeds, and even his hair fell out in clumps at one stage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Every time we saw him, we saw symptoms. He stayed with us for a while where we had to put a special air-conditioner in one of the rooms because he would heat up so much in the middle of winter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"He had this cold air-conditioner blowing on him to try to keep the heat down. As a professional minister I've stood in front of my congregation and cried and said to pray for my son.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I've travelled the world asking people to pray for him. Can you imagine what a horrible thing it would be if I was playing a game?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"To be honest, I ask myself as a father, 'What did I miss, what did I not do? What could I have done better?' "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Guglielmucci said Michael's wife was "getting really good counselling".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"She's not made any decision at this point," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's happened so quickly. There's so many questions." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-7657798157135706654?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/7657798157135706654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/7657798157135706654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/09/fall-from-grace-michael-guglielmucci.html' title='Fall from Grace :  Michael Guglielmucci'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-1891505095385190537</id><published>2008-08-23T23:40:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-08-23T23:46:16.508+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Unappreciated...</title><content type='html'>I just feel so unappreciated these days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No doubt, my family is still rock solid, but when it comes to my friends from before, it has changed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Different people have taken different paths in their lives, and that has changed the relationship between them and I. No doubt, it takes time to build and sustain relationships, as it is between my wife and I, but when I recollect, I recall spending tonnes of time with my friends back then. I virtually spent my whole week with them, but what have I got to show for it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;..... an odd junk mail now and then.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whoever reads this, then just let you know, I appreciate you. THank you for taking the time to come here, and I do hope to see you soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;til then...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-1891505095385190537?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/1891505095385190537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/1891505095385190537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/08/unappreciated.html' title='Unappreciated...'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-6170473462306563464</id><published>2008-08-21T21:33:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-08-21T21:50:14.073+08:00</updated><title type='text'>A hero falls.....</title><content type='html'>I just heard...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I am sad, to hear that Michael Guglielmucci, bass player of Planetshakers, Pastor of Planetshakers, had been lying that he had cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He had been allegedly doing it for the past two years, and wrote a song 'Healer', that touched the lives of thousands, millions even...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How will this news affect the lives of people that Mike had touched? I am reminded so vividly of another renounced fallen hero, then Pastor Teddy from New Life Church, who was found out to be a closet homosexual. This was in 2006, and my heart just went out to the millions of people who had been ever so close to him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another hero falls....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I pray that Mike finds himself, and finds the strength to rise above this situation. I pray he finds life and joy to dedicate and devote his life to God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24216087-5006787,00.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;From The Australian&lt;/span&gt;....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="section-header"&gt;          &lt;h1 class="section-heading"&gt;Pastor Michael Guglielmucci spun gospel of lies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;               &lt;div id="section-header-ads"&gt;         &lt;div class="ad"&gt;         &lt;!-- START Dummy ad code - real code to be inserted instead. --&gt;                           &lt;!-- END Dummy ad code - real code to be inserted instead. --&gt;               &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- // .ad --&gt;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- // #section-header-ads --&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;!-- END Story Header Block --&gt;        &lt;!-- START primary content/left column --&gt;            &lt;!-- Story Toolbar--&gt;   &lt;!-- // .article-tools --&gt;   &lt;!-- End Story Toolbar--&gt;            &lt;div class="module-subheader"&gt;&lt;p&gt;By Kim Wheatley    | &lt;em class="timestamp"&gt;August 21, 2008&lt;/em&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- // .module-subheader --&gt;            &lt;p class="intro"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;ul class="story-summary-list clearfloat"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pastor told congregation he had cancer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recorded hit song &lt;i&gt;Healer&lt;/i&gt; to inspire people&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;He's a fraud - but he's getting help&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;!-- Image Caption ("module lead-image") --&gt;   &lt;div id="module lead-image" class="module lead-image"&gt;&lt;div class="module-item active"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6208837,00.jpg" alt="Pastor" title="Pastor" width="350" height="240" /&gt;&lt;p class="caption"&gt;Not quite terminal ... Michael Guglielmucci, who preached about his battle against deadly cancer, is getting professional help after being exposed as a fraud.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- // .module-item --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;!-- END Image Caption ("module lead-image") --&gt;    &lt;p&gt;HE preached to thousands about his terminal illness and tugged at hearts with a hit song.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem is the pastor wasn't dying at all &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Michael Guglielmucci, who inspired hundreds of thousands of young Christians with his terminal cancer "battle", has been exposed as a fraud. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Guglielmucci, whose parents established Edge Church International, an Assemblies of God church at O'Halloran Hill in Adelaide's southern suburbs, now is seeking professional help. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Earlier this year, Mr Guglielmucci released a hit song, &lt;em&gt;Healer&lt;/em&gt; , which was featured on Sydney church Hillsong's latest album. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The song debuted at No. 2 on the ARIA charts. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It since has become an anthem of faith for believers, many of whom are suffering their own illness and were praying for a miracle for Mr Guglielmucci, who has claimed for two years to be terminally ill. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In one church performance that has attracted 300,000 hits on YouTube, he performs his hit song with an oxygen tube in his nose. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It appears Mr Guglielmucci, who was a pastor with one of Australia's biggest youth churches, Planetshakers, may even have deceived his own family. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"This news has come as a great shock to everyone including, it seems, his own wife and family," Hillsong general manager George Aghajanian said in an email to his congregation yesterday. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"Michael has confirmed that he is not suffering with a terminal illness and is seeking professional help in Adelaide with the support of his family. We are asking our church to pray for the Guglielmucci family during this difficult time." &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.adelaideadvertiser.com.au/"&gt;The Advertiser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was told last night Mr Guglielmucci may release a statement on the situation. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Australian Christian Church said Mr Guglielmucci's credentials immediately were suspended once he told the national executive that his cancer claims were "untrue". &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"The national executive is taking this matter very seriously and is awaiting the results of medical tests before determining the full extent of the discipline that will be imposed upon him," vice president Alun Davies said. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"We are very concerned for the many people who have been or will be hurt by Michael's actions. &lt;/p&gt; "We encourage all of our churches to pray for all those affected.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-6170473462306563464?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6170473462306563464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6170473462306563464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/08/hero-falls.html' title='A hero falls.....'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-4336282950881882324</id><published>2008-07-29T12:45:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-07-29T12:45:05.486+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Demand and Supply</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;" size="2"&gt;Demand and Supply&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to the mini-market he pays Rm3.50 a dozen. Since a dozen eggs won&amp;#39;t last a week he normally buys two dozens at a time. One day while buying eggs he notices that the price has risen to Rm3.72. The next time he buys groceries, eggs are RM3.76 a dozen. When asked to explain the price of eggs the store owner says, &amp;quot;The price has gone up and I have to raise my price accordingly&amp;quot;. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;This store buys 100 dozen eggs a day. He checked around for a better price and all the distributors have raised their prices. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The distributors have begun to buy from the huge egg farms. The small egg farms have been driven out of business. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The huge egg farms sell 100,000 dozen eggs a day to distributors. With no competition, they can set the price as they see fit. The distributors then have to raise their prices to the mini-markets. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And on and on and on. As the man kept buying eggs the price kept going up. He saw the big egg trucks delivering 100 dozen eggs each day. Nothing changed there. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;He checked out the huge egg farms and found they were selling 100,000 dozen eggs to the distributors daily. Nothing had changed but the price of eggs. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then week before Hari Raya the price of eggs shot up to RMRM4.00 a dozen. Again he asked the grocery owner why and was told, &amp;quot;Cakes and baking for the holiday&amp;quot;. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The huge egg farmers know there will be a lot of baking going on and more eggs will be used. Hence, the price of eggs goes up. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Expect the same thing at Chinese New Year and other times when family cooking, baking, etc. happen. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;This pattern continues until the price of eggs is RM8.00 a dozen. The man says,&amp;quot; There must be something we can do about the price of eggs&amp;quot;. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He starts talking to all the people in his town and they decide to stop buying eggs. This didn&amp;#39;t work because everyone needed eggs. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Finally, the man suggested only buying what you need. He ate 2 eggs a day. On the way home from work he would stop at the grocery and buy two eggs. Everyone in town started buying 2 or 3 eggs a day. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The mini-market owner began complaining that he had too many eggs in his cooler. He told the distributor that he didn&amp;#39;t need any eggs. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Maybe wouldn&amp;#39;t need any all week. The distributor had eggs piling up at his warehouse. He told the huge egg farms that he didn&amp;#39;t have any room for eggs would not need any for at least two weeks. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs. To relieve the pressure, the huge egg farm told the distributor that they could buy the eggs at a lower price. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The distributor said, &amp;quot; I don&amp;#39;t have the room for the eggs even if they were free&amp;quot;. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The distributor told the mini-market owner that he would lower the price of the eggs if the store would start buying again. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The mini-market owner said, &amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t have room for more eggs. The customers are only buying 2 or 3 eggs at a time&amp;quot;. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Now if you were to drop the price of eggs back down to the original price, the customers would start buying by the dozen again&amp;quot;. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The distributors sent that proposal to the huge egg farmers. They liked the price they were getting for their eggs but, those chickens just kept on laying. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Finally, the egg farmers lowered the price of their eggs. But only by a few cents. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The customers still bought 2 or 3 eggs at a time. They said, &amp;quot;When the price of eggs gets down to where it was before, we will start buying by the dozen.&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Slowly the price of eggs started dropping. The distributors had to slash their prices to make room for the eggs coming from the egg farmers. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The egg farmers cut their prices because the distributors wouldn&amp;#39;t buy at a higher price than they were selling eggs for. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Anyway, they had full warehouses and wouldn&amp;#39;t need eggs for quite a while. And those chickens kept on laying. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Eventually, the egg farmers cut their prices because they were throwing away eggs they couldn&amp;#39;t sell. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The distributors started buying again because the eggs were priced to where the stores could afford to sell them at the lower price. And the customers starting buying by the dozen again. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Now, transpose this analogy to the gasoline industry. What if everyone only bought RM10.00 worth of gas each time they pulled to the pump? The dealer&amp;#39;s tanks would stay semi full all the time. The dealers wouldn&amp;#39;t have room for the gas coming from the huge tank farms. The tank farms wouldn&amp;#39;t have room for the gas coming from the refining plants. And the refining plants wouldn&amp;#39;t have room for the oil being off loaded from the huge tankers coming from the Middle East. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Just RM10.00 each time you buy gas. Don&amp;#39;t fill it up. You may have to stop for gas twice a week but, the price should come down. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also, don&amp;#39;t buy anything else at the gas station; don&amp;#39;t give them any more of your hard earned money than what you spend on gas, until the prices come down...&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Please pass this concept around....reaching out &lt;br&gt; to the mass... the world... the universe!!!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-4336282950881882324?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/4336282950881882324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/4336282950881882324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/07/demand-and-supply.html' title='Demand and Supply'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-1656595968368973474</id><published>2008-07-28T11:23:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-07-28T11:23:30.158+08:00</updated><title type='text'>TheStar - Toddler Drowns In A Pail Of Water</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;This was today&amp;#39;s article in &lt;a href="http://thestar.com"&gt;thestar.com&lt;/a&gt; and my heart just went out to the parents of the child who drowned. I am so so so sorry..&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;IPOH: An 18-month-old baby girl drowned in a plastic pail at her home in Taman Tasek Dawai here on Saturday.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Irdina Nasuha Irwan Azlani was pronounced dead on arrival at the Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital after the 8.30pm incident.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;Ipoh deputy OCPD Supt Ibrahim Abu Bakar said the toddler's grandparents were looking after her while her parents were in the bedroom when the incident occurred.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;"When she suddenly disappeared, the grandmother went looking and found her in the bathroom with her head inside the pail of water," he said yesterday.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;A post-mortem would be conducted today before her remains are sent to Pasir Mas in Kelantan for burial.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-1656595968368973474?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/1656595968368973474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/1656595968368973474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/07/thestar-toddler-drowns-in-pail-of-water.html' title='TheStar - Toddler Drowns In A Pail Of Water'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-8838761847150798811</id><published>2008-07-27T00:01:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-07-27T00:10:35.660+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I have a friend, James..</title><content type='html'>I have a friend named James.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, he's a fairly decent guy. He has had his share of ups and downs, and he's had many opportunities to find and hook up with a girl, to get married to and settle down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, u see, James has a problem. He has a HUGE problem, to the point where he's so disillusioned about his situation. And it's a problem that has spread into his very beliefs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And James, the one with the shaved head, don't worry, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about a different James....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James, the one I'm talking about, is stubborn, and unhygienic, and is in perpetual denial. He has a heart of gold, but he doesn't understand that ladies want to sit next to him, and NOT scrunch up their noses as whiffs of sourness and staleness impurify their senses. Ladies do not want to have to argue with him about what the best movie is, and where the best foods are. Ladies do not want to be sms'ing with him, when all they really want is someone to listen and give attention too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James, if u ever do read this blog, then I shall await one of few things: Your rant of anger as u attempt to push your reasonings on me, or ur complete and utter cold shoulder on me. =)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its all good. =)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-8838761847150798811?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/8838761847150798811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/8838761847150798811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-friend-james.html' title='I have a friend, James..'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-6784785683500502098</id><published>2008-07-26T03:17:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-07-26T03:19:50.983+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I LOVE THE WHOLE WORLD</title><content type='html'>I was watching this Discovery Channel advert, themed "Isn't the world... AWESOME?" and their new advert called "I love the whole world" and it just made me feel.... happy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here it is, do have a view and watch it over, and over, and over, and over... hee hee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/at_f98qOGY0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/at_f98qOGY0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-6784785683500502098?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6784785683500502098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6784785683500502098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-love-whole-world.html' title='I LOVE THE WHOLE WORLD'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-9053622021001205608</id><published>2008-07-23T16:05:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-07-23T16:05:11.731+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Najib mastermind abour ANWAR IBRAHIM's sodomy charge. "An evening with an ‘accomplice’"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;This is actually a link taken from Malaysia-Today.net. It alleges that Najib and Saiful had met to discuss about Anwar Ibrahim&amp;#39;s Sodomy charge. Basically, Raja Petra has talked to the alleged accomplice, and has managed to video record the interview, which speaks about how Saiful and him went to meet Najib to discuss abour charging Anwar Ibrahim with the sodomy case.&lt;br&gt; &lt;div dir="ltr"&gt; &lt;br&gt;HOWEVER...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It doesn&amp;#39;t clarify who the accomplice of Saiful is. He (or she) can be easily dismissed as a troublemaker. This also doesn&amp;#39;t say anything much, as it could be made up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We&amp;#39;ll see....&lt;p&gt;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;And now, the article...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Actually, I did not know why we were going to see Najib. Saiful just said that he wanted to go and see Najib and he wanted me to follow him. So I followed him.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;NO HOLDS BARRED&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Raja Petra Kamarudin&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://w2.malaysia-today.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=10296&amp;amp;Itemid=84" target="_blank"&gt;-click link for full article-&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;  &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br clear="all"&gt;&lt;br&gt;-- &lt;br&gt;Regards,&lt;br&gt;Adrian Lee &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-9053622021001205608?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/9053622021001205608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/9053622021001205608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/07/najib-mastermind-abour-anwar-ibrahims.html' title='Najib mastermind abour ANWAR IBRAHIM&apos;s sodomy charge. &quot;An evening with an ‘accomplice’&quot;'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-4149120685212798560</id><published>2008-07-23T14:58:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-07-23T14:58:30.883+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hmmmm</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Transformation or transforma-shawn?&lt;br&gt;Nation or na-shawn?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hmm.....&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&amp;#39;m just saying......!&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-4149120685212798560?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/4149120685212798560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/4149120685212798560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/07/hmmmm.html' title='Hmmmm'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-8795058778365324501</id><published>2008-07-06T02:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-07-06T02:13:52.076+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Defend yourself with a flexible weapon!</title><content type='html'>Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't believe it at first, but a video of it shows that it is utterly possible to defend yourself with a sarong!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Silat Suffian Bela Diri, Close Quarters Flexible Weapon originated from Brunei, and its a form of self-defense/martial arts that educates and provides a person with the ability to defend himself/herself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You gotta view the video. I'm convinced!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2391LgTOumc&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2391LgTOumc&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-8795058778365324501?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/8795058778365324501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/8795058778365324501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/07/defend-yourself-with-flexible-weapon.html' title='Defend yourself with a flexible weapon!'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-3612727317215863112</id><published>2008-07-03T22:01:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-07-03T22:04:51.743+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rude Busses, Rudeness rudeness!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" &gt;Was driving back to KL from Tg Malim. Was about 5 minutes away from Bt Tagar, and driving on the middle lane at about 100km/h. At 11pm, 2nd July 2008, an express buss PEN7979 flashed me from behind, but I couldn't switch lanes as there was a truck on my left, PLUS i didn't feel the need to switch lanes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bus proceeded to overtake me and then purposely tried to scare me by trying to swipe me on the way cutting in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't blow my top, just cruised behind him taking the bus details, and will be making a police report shortly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-3612727317215863112?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/3612727317215863112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/3612727317215863112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/07/rude-busses-rudeness-rudeness.html' title='Rude Busses, Rudeness rudeness!'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-2000151692470441368</id><published>2008-06-14T09:05:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-06-14T09:08:11.448+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pastor Timothy Loh is on da web!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2008/6/14/central/21502095&amp;amp;sec=central"&gt;My pastor is on thestar.com. The newspaper featured him on their website today.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/__We68gl-8pw/SFMZtKJ0gKI/AAAAAAAAAKE/yZwRtcDEBys/s1600-h/m_26loh.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/__We68gl-8pw/SFMZtKJ0gKI/AAAAAAAAAKE/yZwRtcDEBys/s400/m_26loh.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211537457408147618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="caption"&gt;F&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;ood for a worthy cause: Loh holding up a plate of Cucur Sayur and Cucur Udang. He is also the director of Community At Heart, a programme that aids the poor in Puchong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-2000151692470441368?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/2000151692470441368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/2000151692470441368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/06/pastor-timothy-loh-is-on-da-web.html' title='Pastor Timothy Loh is on da web!!'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/__We68gl-8pw/SFMZtKJ0gKI/AAAAAAAAAKE/yZwRtcDEBys/s72-c/m_26loh.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-4033976071247521924</id><published>2008-06-02T11:29:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-06-02T12:04:44.779+08:00</updated><title type='text'>True example of CHRONIC idiocy of the Malaysian Education Ministry</title><content type='html'>I came across an article posted in The Star, 2 June 2008 at its &lt;a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/6/2/nation/21425360&amp;amp;sec=nation"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and it says the the Public Service Department (PSD) are complaining that bumiputeras are not getting enough scholarships.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Star actually heads the article as &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Malay Students Affected"&lt;/span&gt; while the superman from PSD who made the statement is Ahmad Ikmal Ismail. First of all, scholarships are meant to be given &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BASED ON MERIT&lt;/span&gt;.  Earlier in May this year, another superman, the Parliamentery Affairs Minister, Nazri Abdul Aziz, said that &lt;a href="http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/8136/84/"&gt;scholarship quotas for Non-Bumiputeras are to increase&lt;/a&gt;. Both stories just don't make sense!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My view is that if scholarships are to be given based on merit, then complains that 'Malay Students' (as defined by &lt;a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/6/2/nation/21425360&amp;amp;sec=nation"&gt;The Star newspaper&lt;/a&gt;) are getting less shouldn't exist at all. Second, how on earth is it that bumiputeras and non-bumiputeras get segregated AT ALL? Why the need to divide? OI, KITA SAMA SAMA MALAYSIANS! Wei, superman  Nazri Abdul Aziz, you and I are both Malaysians, so why must I be labelled non-bumi while you are bumi? I was born and bred in Malaysia, Johor some more where UMNO won the state in the recent elections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Likewise, how do we, the public, know that students who get scholarships are judged based on their exam results? I've heard of 'pelajar cemerlang' 10A SPM students wanting to do Engineering or Medicine, but getting scholarships to do Forrestry or Fishery Services. Perhaps a  student who was dropped out of the quota? Or is it a deliberate attempt to meet the quota but give the lousiest choice of scholarships so that this &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;pelajar cemerlang&lt;/span&gt; will enrol himself into Taylor's/Sunway/Inti/Metropolitan/Sedaya College. Comon Malaysia, there must be change. You're not kidding this generation of children. 2012 elections is just a few years away and by then the people whom you've shunned will have aged to 'votable' age....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have three suggestions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1. Get rid of the bumi/non-bumi statements. Segregation is the road to revolution.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2. Base scholarships on MERIT. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3. Publicize the scholarship handouts through significant medias without prejudice.&lt;br /&gt;4. Oh, since Ahmad Ikmal Ismail is the 'chairman' of the PSD group, then get rid of the chairman, his board members, and re-elect a balance of 40% non-bumi and 60% bumiputeras in the board. And put a Malaysian Chinese as the Chairman. Lets see how things are by then. ( I suspect this may happen in 2013 though...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of you are have reached this part of the blog, I am attaching the article from The Star:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-style: italic;" id="story_title"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Malay students affected&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;PETALING JAYA: Increasing the quota for non-bumiputras for Public Service Department (PSD) scholarships without increasing the actual number of scholarships has drastically affected the bumiputras, the Umno Youth Education Bureau said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Its chairman Ahmad Ikmal Ismail said while the bureau agreed with the Government to give more scholarships to non-bumiputras, it did not agree with the way it was done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“The quota for non-bumiputras has increased from 10% to 45% but the number of total scholarships has remained at 2,000.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ahmad Ikmal said this meant that scholarships were being taken from the bumiputras to be given to the non-bumiputras.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“We object to this move because it now means that 700 scholarships for bumiputra students are gone,” he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ahmad Ikmal said a better way would be to use the New Economic Policy concept to increase the number of total scholarships. He said this was to ensure that the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;bumiputras were not affected &lt;/span&gt;and the non-bumiputras would get even more opportunities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-4033976071247521924?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/4033976071247521924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/4033976071247521924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/06/true-example-of-chronic-idiocy-of.html' title='True example of CHRONIC idiocy of the Malaysian Education Ministry'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-3315837079834799449</id><published>2008-05-28T11:05:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-05-28T11:26:23.379+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Grand Saga Highway Cheat!!</title><content type='html'>Here's a way for people to escape the Grand Saga Highway blocked road, as depictred through David Chan in his blogsite. Excellent work, i must say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://david-blindfolded.blogspot.com/2008/05/highway-consumers-aint-stupid.html"&gt;CLICK HERE TO GO TO HIS BLOG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-3315837079834799449?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/3315837079834799449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/3315837079834799449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/05/grand-saga-highway-cheat.html' title='Grand Saga Highway Cheat!!'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-9148473731632135029</id><published>2008-05-25T15:34:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-05-28T11:21:24.350+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rafael Nadal vs Alien (kia Proceed Commercial)</title><content type='html'>Hi all,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man, i love this video from Kia. its meant to promote the kia proceed and euro2008, but having Nadal fight an alien is just a laugh! I love the Voltron parody!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F1EFmP4snHg&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F1EFmP4snHg&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-9148473731632135029?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/9148473731632135029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/9148473731632135029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/05/rafael-nadal-vs-alien-kia-proceed.html' title='Rafael Nadal vs Alien (kia Proceed Commercial)'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-6012210147110953771</id><published>2008-03-31T22:21:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-03-31T22:28:23.617+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Its been a month...</title><content type='html'>Hi there all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last time I blogged, it was a month before the general elections in Malaysia. If you've been following the news of the general elections in Malaysia, you'll know by now that Barisan Nasional has lost five states to the Opposition party (Penang, Selangor, Kelantan, Kedah and Perak) which is a massive blow. In addition, many many political dramas has sprung up due to this, and all I can say is that its a very big change for the Malaysian political scene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anwar Ibrahim and his Justice Party is just a weeks to being back in Parliament.&lt;br /&gt;Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah is a month away from getting himself running for the post of PM.&lt;br /&gt;Existing PM Abdullah Badawi is close to being fired from his post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So many stories to tell, but too little time. Check out the dramas from www.malaysiakini.com and www.malaysia-today.net. Both are web based news that favour the opposition ruling party, but news is news.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-6012210147110953771?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6012210147110953771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6012210147110953771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/03/its-been-month.html' title='Its been a month...'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-7487229516951938711</id><published>2008-02-08T15:06:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T15:07:45.784+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Chinese New Year 2008!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Hi there!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here's wishing you a Happy chinese new year for 2008. All the greatest and bestest wishes in your future ahead for you. =)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Adrian and Family&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-7487229516951938711?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/7487229516951938711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/7487229516951938711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/02/happy-chinese-new-year-2008.html' title='Happy Chinese New Year 2008!'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-2975821892933604196</id><published>2008-01-27T23:31:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T13:33:41.616+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Michael Lai Su Leen Marcus baby expecting proclaiming'/><title type='text'>More people I know are getting pregnant...</title><content type='html'>I just heard the news that Michael Lai and Lee Leng are expecting a baby. More interestingly , Leen and Marcus too. =) Nice to know that they're gonna be having a baby in September 2008, such a nice number too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congratulations to the expecting parents!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just a few thoughts, Vehemently proclaiming to the world that you're not gonna have kids until the next two years is an almost sure fire way of having one immediately.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-2975821892933604196?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/2975821892933604196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/2975821892933604196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/01/more-people-i-know-are-getting-pregnant.html' title='More people I know are getting pregnant...'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-6493519126594398346</id><published>2008-01-21T21:34:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-01-21T21:39:27.850+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bachelor Party Elvin Geevaraj Jeevaraj Kevin Lau Woon Chiew Adrian Lee Puchong Damansara'/><title type='text'>Bachelor Party Videoz of Some Friends...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;A few years back, a group of us decided to throw a few bachelor parties for our soon-to-be-wed friends... I'm attaching two of em to share with the rest of the world..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1st one, Elvin Geevaraj Bachelor Nite..(Lai Khuan, its all really for you...really..)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7ZjegvTJZPU&amp;amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7ZjegvTJZPU&amp;amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2nd one, Kevin Lau Woon Chiew, Bachelor Nite in Damansara (again, Cheryl, it was all for you)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WpDXVmEtG8A&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WpDXVmEtG8A&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-6493519126594398346?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6493519126594398346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6493519126594398346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/01/bachelor-party-videoz-of-some-friends.html' title='Bachelor Party Videoz of Some Friends...'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-7030885418737053018</id><published>2008-01-21T18:31:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-01-21T21:42:48.390+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vostro Inspiron rebadged relabelled duped Adrian'/><title type='text'>I think I've been duped by Dell!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/__We68gl-8pw/R5R1o2U3sBI/AAAAAAAAAJI/B_G1MMLIdhM/s1600-h/inspiron.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/__We68gl-8pw/R5R1o2U3sBI/AAAAAAAAAJI/B_G1MMLIdhM/s400/inspiron.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157876817884327954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/__We68gl-8pw/R5R1eGU3sAI/AAAAAAAAAJA/E4sBKrcsKto/s1600-h/vostro.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/__We68gl-8pw/R5R1eGU3sAI/AAAAAAAAAJA/E4sBKrcsKto/s400/vostro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157876633200734210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just bought a laptop. Its a Dell Vostro 1000. When I received it and opened the box, whatever exhilaration and excitement about its arrival was quickly diminished when the object of my anticipation is none other but a rebadged, repainted, relabeled Dell Inspiron.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sheesh, Dell dell delllllll... I feel so duped!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-7030885418737053018?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/7030885418737053018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/7030885418737053018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-think-ive-been-duped-by-dell.html' title='I think I&apos;ve been duped by Dell!'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/__We68gl-8pw/R5R1o2U3sBI/AAAAAAAAAJI/B_G1MMLIdhM/s72-c/inspiron.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-6467585853890331037</id><published>2008-01-15T16:18:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T19:30:41.742+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I want a new car</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/__We68gl-8pw/R43qwGU3r-I/AAAAAAAAAIY/RiwGAAucv6k/s1600-h/07052006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/__We68gl-8pw/R43qwGU3r-I/AAAAAAAAAIY/RiwGAAucv6k/s200/07052006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156035260461854690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want a new car.&lt;br /&gt;I don't need a new car, but i want a new car.&lt;br /&gt;Hence hereforth lies the ultimate human behavioural trait that has gotten many a person into trouble... Need vs Want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want a new car, although i don't need it.&lt;br /&gt;I want a new phone, although i don't need it.&lt;br /&gt;I want a PS3, but i don't need it cos i have the older version.&lt;br /&gt;I want a new computer, but i have two so i don't need a new one.&lt;br /&gt;I want a new hard disk, but i don't need it.&lt;br /&gt;I NEED a new mindset, but i don't want to change......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ouch!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There goes the pinch, Need vs Want is compounded by Change. If there's no Change, there's no difference to need vs want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do I need something that overides the desire to want something? How bout you?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-6467585853890331037?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6467585853890331037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/6467585853890331037'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-want-new-car.html' title='I want a new car'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/__We68gl-8pw/R43qwGU3r-I/AAAAAAAAAIY/RiwGAAucv6k/s72-c/07052006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-8852336813009787645</id><published>2008-01-15T16:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-01-15T16:18:03.774+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Life's mysteries that don't make sense...</title><content type='html'>Why...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. ... does the phone ring when I'm in the shower...&lt;br /&gt;2. ... do people drift into your side of the road JUST as your approach them from behind...&lt;br /&gt;3. ... are traffic jams caused by people wanting to see a dead body at the accident site...&lt;br /&gt;4. ... do pedestrians cross the road ONLY when they see a car coming...&lt;br /&gt;5. ... do dogs and cats do the same thing?&lt;br /&gt;6. ... don't neighbours park their cars INSIDE the porch, and not block the side roads in the housing estates??!!!&lt;br /&gt;7. ... can't the police STOP taking bribes from us.&lt;br /&gt;8. ... can't Chinese and Indians born in Malaysia get the same rights as our Malay brothers. We're ALL MALAYSIANS right?&lt;br /&gt;9. ... did Proton take such a long time to release the Persona?&lt;br /&gt;10 ... can't the iPhone or iMacs be cheaper?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-8852336813009787645?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/8852336813009787645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/8852336813009787645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/01/lifes-mysteries-that-dont-make-sense.html' title='Life&apos;s mysteries that don&apos;t make sense...'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-4842341380413752253</id><published>2008-01-15T16:04:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-01-15T16:06:50.978+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Most boring Training ever</title><content type='html'>Currently in Nota Asia having a Microsoft Office Excel training. Gosh, its so boring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only good thing about all this is that I have internet access and can blog to stop myself from sleeping..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oh, have to mark attendance... xcuse me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-4842341380413752253?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/4842341380413752253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/4842341380413752253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2008/01/most-boring-training-ever.html' title='Most boring Training ever'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120954151283336880.post-1781810638507673742</id><published>2007-11-24T00:49:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-01-21T21:45:29.564+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Adrian Lee Coconut Opening first post'/><title type='text'>Its always cool to start from Number 1...</title><content type='html'>Ahh, once again, i have the chance to blog. Previously was on another site, but found that that site couldn't get me moolah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, starting from the beginning again, nothing to report nothin to say YET. Anyway, here's a video I made with my Nokia 6680 a few years back, complete with video taking, editing, sound editing and final product. Its corny, but I'm proud of it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GOgpEh3zvSw&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GOgpEh3zvSw&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5120954151283336880-1781810638507673742?l=adrian-lee.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/1781810638507673742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5120954151283336880/posts/default/1781810638507673742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adrian-lee.blogspot.com/2007/11/its-always-cool-to-start-from-number-1.html' title='Its always cool to start from Number 1...'/><author><name>Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18059906173815063724</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://server3.uploadit.org/files/althing-avatar.jpg'/></author></entry></feed>
