Posted in Complaint, tagged barbarians in branded clothes, Granny, plagiarists, Seniors, young ones on March 14, 2013 | 12 Comments »
Granny (Looney Tunes) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Irene Ryan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
There are these young ones who like being ”know-all’s”. They seem to imagine that older people, I mean much older people, don’t know the tricks of survival. Well, we weren’t born yesterday, OK? (more…)
Posted in Complaint, tagged Borneo, Chinese New Year, Malaysia, New Year, Plant, Pygmy elephant, Sabah, Waste on January 30, 2013 | 3 Comments »
Daoist (Taoist) symbols carved in stone: yin-yang and animals of the Chinese zodiac. Qingyanggong temple, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The northern tip of Borneo at Tanjung Simpang Mengayau. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Waste! Waste! Waste! Really puts chilli in my mouth. Temperature rises and I definitely see red. Chinese New Year is just a week or so away. There’ll be more waste again. It was an article in the newspapers this morning that set me off. (more…)
Posted in Complaint, tagged local documentaries, Malaysia, news bulletins, TV programs, viewers on December 10, 2012 | 4 Comments »
When it comes to television programs on mainstream TV channels in Malaysia, it can only be described as a job put in the hands of non-professionals with nil in the commonsense department. For starters, prime time television around 6pm to about 10pm (give or take) is filled with talk shows, game shows, food shows and repeats of old serials from the 1990s, interspersed with news bulletins (in 4 languages). (more…)
Posted in Complaint, tagged express bus, journey, Kuala Lumpur, Puduraya, Shah Alam, Klang, cattle truck, public transport on November 20, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The reason I’ve been quiet over the weekend is that I had to go on a long journey down south. Finding no time to get an express bus ticket from my usual, more reliable express coach service, I got to the bus terminus in Sungai Nibong, Penang and was cormered by a ‘tout’. (more…)
Posted in Complaint, tagged bureaucracy, deadwood, petty on October 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
You will get a full blast of typical Malaysian petty bureaucracy when you visit any government department office. A friend of mine who was married to an Englishman was told at the NRD (National Registration Department) in Penang that she could not change the name on her identity card from her maiden name to her married name. (more…)
Posted in Complaint, tagged immigration, reputation on October 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I was traveling in Europe some years back and standing in line to be processed by Immigration at Dublin Airport. When I got to the counter, the Immigration officer looked at my Malaysian passport and told me to stand aside. (more…)
Posted in Complaint, tagged boys, brother, game, girls, pain on October 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The status of women nowadays is apparently ‘more’ equal to men. Yet, there’s an underlying feeling that women are still a step down in ways that are obvious at times, but subtle most of the time. Take the work place, for instance, discrimination against women working in the private sector is allowable and unchallenged by any law in Malaysia. (more…)
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