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Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 4:20 PM | 0 comments  
A caucasian couple hanging around a distance from my information counter. The wife approached me to ask for direction to the nearest bus-stop. She can barely speak english and probably was still in doubt of the directions that I gave. She walked back to the husband probably relaying she was not sure of what I told her. Guess what the husband did from a distance.... he got very animated with his hands. He started to make signals which I believe to be some military hand signals. I just nodded to his hand signals to re-affirm that was indeed the direction they should take. It's not the same in words...you need to see his gestures and facial expressions to experience that comical moment.
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Friday, August 15, 2008 at 12:45 AM | 0 comments  

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hmm... macam salah tempat




and yours truly.....
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Moral of the story.... 1st place is not always the best. LOL. We should be thankful of what we have. This materialistic world is just temporary.

Dah hampir 4 tahun kau berbakti untuk aku. Sekarang ni pun... ko tengah buat hal. Terkopeklah aku lagi. Aku tak pernah bawak kau gi JB untuk repair. Skrg dah buruk sikit... agak2 rasa lebih selamat bawak kau gi sana.
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I'll let you ponder
Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 8:55 PM | 0 comments  


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Singapore Garden Festival
Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 12:41 AM | 0 comments  





8 days of suntec convention is over. I was fortunate enough to be part of the Singapore Garden Festival. These pictures that I took does no justice of how beautiful the exhibits were. I was mainly helping out in the stage area but was also doing ad-hoc stuffs like design and printing posters.

I got a free family pass and gave it to my siblings. They went on thursday.... when I was not on duty. I did not really get to enjoy the exhibits like I wanted to but... at least I got to get some shots for keepsake.

It was a cool experience and I kinda get to have a rough idea on how some aspects of a major event such as this runs. I will finally get some rest and on Monday.... mundane work will resume.
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I love the whole world
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 11:18 PM | 0 comments  


For some reason, I was grinning from ear to ear when I first saw this clip on Discovery Channel. It gives me a fuzzy kind of feeling and also of hope... and almost too naive. I'm quite a fan of the channel.

Now everybody go... Boom De Ah Dah! Boom De Ah Dah!
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Friday the 13
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 10:20 PM | 0 comments  
13 Rejab 1402H, when Muslims were performing Friday prayers, I came into existence. It's now 13 Rejab 1429H. By calculation of the Hijri calendar, that makes me 27.
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The Ring
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 10:59 PM | 0 comments  
The Ring

I got a missed call today. I didn't pick it up as I was riding. The number was strange but I quickly dismissed the call as a ricochet call from some foreign country.

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I got home to find out that my house got the same call from that same number. Nobody answered the call for safety sake. There was a report in Berita Harian of people dying in Indonesia after receiving a mysterious phone call or SMS. It was warning people not to answer calls that has strange prefixes. I have my suspicions to the credibility of the report but it's something I would not entirely dismiss either. Perhaps black magic decided to keep up with times and got an upgrade.

I needed to get the bottom of this and started to browse the web if any of these is true. Some indonesian sites has this to say:

Ketua Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) Sumut Prof DR H Abdullah Syah, MA mengimbau masyarakat tidak mempercayai rumor yang "berbau" syirik tersebut. Menurut dia, rumor tersebut sangat meresahkan dan tidak perlu dipercaya karena dapat merusak akidah (keyakinan) beragama. "Hidup dan mati manusia telah ditentukan Tuhan dan bukan disebabkan karena menerima telepon atau SMS," katanya.

I conclude that the Berita Harian report is very likely a rumour gone wild. If you think about it, it's from a plot of the movies.

Then I decided to google the number : 000190853203. It seems that people have been getting these calls for some time. You can check out the link but in short, its a scam.


The Ring 2

Another incident with phones happened about 2 months back. I was calling a friend over my phone. Out of nowhere, I heard a lady's voice. My friend was no longer on the other side. The lady was saying, "Ouh... sorry". Then she hung up.

I called my friend again. He told me that he got cut off as well and found himself talking to some guy. The incident got me thinking,

"was it just an honest mistake of an operator?"
"do we even need operators for our local calls?"
"who was really on the other side, who seemed to realise she made a mistake?"
"are my calls being tracked?"

Technology made life easy for man. But it also empowers the people who has control of that technology.... and what if that technology falls into the wrong hands and we get exploited.

Am I just being paranoid or is there a genuine need to ensure that technology doesn't fall in the wrong hands. I shall elaborate in later posts.
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