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Smiling For Dalilah (Scenes from Kg. Labuhan Dagang) 20 Jul 2010 | 01:34 am
I DON'T HAVE much to say here 'cept good-bye, Dalilah... For a kick-off, don't you think it's a strange coincidence that my last posting was EXACTLY a year ago? July 19, 2009? Yes, that's when we los...
Good Bye, 'Bang Captain 20 Jul 2009 | 01:29 am
Mat Salo said... Bang Cap... Salam Takziah.. Alfatehah.. Your beloved mum passed on at the same age as my nenek last year. Salam. 16 July 2009 22:01:00 MYT Bang Captain, a main who does not mince...
London in June ... and a treat by AG 10 Jul 2009 | 04:04 am
It turned out I wasn't the only one feted by Awang Goneng. Pak Zawi was already there days earlier terrorizing AG's wallet and relieving our confounded host of his Great British Pounds. Yes, that AG,...
Lives In The Balance: Party Time! 29 May 2009 | 06:03 am
In my previous post, Pak Aa Gym's story took place the day after. This is about what transpired the night before. In my book it's called redemption, to find a balance between light and dark, the bad a...
Lives In The Balance: Good Works Vs Bad 29 May 2009 | 01:53 am
I have always held firm to the belief that we must have some balance in our lives; some sort of yin and yang in equal measure. To do some bad and to do some good, because to see the worst in human nat...
"Rainbow Warrior" aka Laskar Pelangi 20 May 2009 | 05:37 am
Best movie I've seen in a long while, folks. And that includes all the Hollywood ones. An adaptation from Andrea Hirata's novel, the first of the tetralogy, this movie broke all box office records in...
Reshmonu's HARAPAN CD - Buy it! 12 Apr 2009 | 02:13 am
If you have tuned in to our local stations when you make that daily grind to the office you most probably have heard Oh Anok Anok right? Yeah, that's the one, the catchy Kelantanese-inspired anthem. (...
More (Yawn) Bike Stories 9 Apr 2009 | 02:09 pm
My boy turned 8 yesterday, and he also came out 3rd in his term exams, so what did I do to reward him amidst this raging recession and BN's recent humiliating loss? (Is this Perak's and Kedah's "gift"...
On Cloud Nine Pt. 2 - "V009" actually made 9th!!! 5 Apr 2009 | 04:25 am
That's right, folks. I was "upgraded" to 9th! Damn the organizers, or praise 'em, rather? - because the official race classification came in almost a week later! Slackers. This is something akin to...
On Cloud Nine 30 Mar 2009 | 12:36 am
My smile says it all... Folks, today I surprised even myself. The presence of expat Pat "Pig Pen" Brundson, Gary Choong of CycleWorx Singapore, Farizul, and some hard core athletes like Wan Shahidan ...
