This is funnier than anything ever offered by Senario or Pi Mai Pi Mai Tangtu.

A transcript – part of of a longer recording

Date: February/March 2005
Place: Penampang
Occasion: Chinese New Year 2005?

T: [Doctor ask to] sharing the smoke?
UG: That’s why, doctor advise
G: To smoke again
UG: Not to smoke
N: Not to share [a cigarette]

UG: Because of that if i not smoke my… i’m go away lah, i’m go away
T: Further study?
G: Go where to where, further study?
T: where, to further study or what?
UG: No. Not go to the study … (go) forever.
T: Go to interview Agut* lah?
T: Ok, no… still young, still going strong…

* Agut is the owner of the top funeral management company in Penampang

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Venue: Chung Hwa Kindergarten, Penampang.

Date: 14 August 2005.

Video taken by yours truly.

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Venue: Sabah Cultural Centre, Penampang, Sabah, Malaysia.

This was during the height of Felixmania, his second concert after arriving in Sabah after the end of AF3 on 6th August. The first concert was at KDCA Hall on 15th August.

Unfortunately, he could not hit the high notes here!

Video taken by yours truly.

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The underground has finally gone above ground. I did not read the New Straits Times on 23rd May, when the news made the front page apparently, but after reading ShaolinTiger’s post, I checked out specific info on the world’s oldest profession at our very own Kota Kinabalu.

To use ShaolinTiger’s apt description of what mamakspecial is all about:

It’s a forum where people talk about prostitutes, rate them, give details and directions how to get to the ‘massage parlours’ rate their skills, looks and various other things.

As of the time of writing, mamakspecial is still up and running.

Another site mentioned was the Malaysian section of worldsexguide.com

Before you jump into the forums, you better get acquainted with the acronyms used.

• Ang Pai (Hokkien word meaning red badge) = girls who are highly in demand
• BBBJ = oral sex performed on a man
• Chapatti, curry or tosai = Indian prostitute
• Cheong (Cantonese word for “checkmate”) = sleeping with a prostitute.
• Chew Keng (Cantonese word for checking your reflection in the mirror) = the practice of prostitutes being paraded before the customers at brothels.
• CBJ = Covered Blow Job (use condom)
• CKT (char koay teow) = Chinese “working girl”
• Damage = price of sex
• DATY = Dining At The Y = performing oral sex on a woman
• Dino (dinosaur) = prostitutes in their late 30s and 40s
• FC = Full Course = massage followed by sex
• FJ = Full Job = Sex
• FL = Freelance = independent / part-time prostitutes
• FR = F**k rating (rating of a working’s girl’s assets and skills)
• FS = Full Service = Sex
• GFE = a prostitute who gives a “girlfriend-like experience”. These kinds of girls are highly sought after
• GND = Girl Next Door look
• HJ = Hand Job
• HM = home minister (wife or live-in girlfriend)
• LT = Long Time (overnight)
• Mamasan =lady pimp
• ML = massage lady
• MP = massage parlour
• MS = Mamak Special (the forum)
• NL (nasi lemak) = a Malay lady of the night
• OKT = Pimp = “Captain”
• ON = One Night?
• PRC (People’s Republic of China) = Girls from China
• SOP = ?
• TFK (apparently Cantonese word) = Hand job
• Wind blowing = high probability of place being raided by the authorities
• WIR = Would I Repeat
• YMMV (your mileage may vary) = one might experience a different result from that posted at the forum

Full list of acronyms at mamakspecial.com.

The forums can run into hundreds of pages per thread. Information posted from April, relevant to Kota Kinabalu includes the following: Read the rest of this entry »

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It came and went – time seemed to slow down in the first few weeks of my stay at INTAN Bukit Kiara, then speeded up dramatically towards the end of April.

The exams went well – especially the first (stats) and last (research methods). I thought I didn’t do the second (SPSS) too well, even though I expected it to be easy. Lesson learnt: be overconfident at your peril!

And now, at the time of writing, it’s been 10 days since I came back on the 12th May.

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Regarding the statistics exam – was held 16th April. We had to do 5 questions out of 8 in 3 hours. I ended up doing 7, because (i) I finished 5 questions with 45 minutes to spare; (ii) the last 2 questions was much easier than the first 5, and (iii) the examiners would select the best 5 anyway.

The 2-week crash course in statistics has certainly been eye-opening and quite stressful. It has not been unusual for me to review the day’s lecture till late at night. Everything was done at full speed ahead. For example, the ANOVA (>=3 mean test) part usually takes one whole semester, but in this course it was covered in a day. Every day is a different topic – you had to make sure you fully understood the day’s topic, for tomorrow is a different topic altogether.

The biggest problem is deciding which hypothesis testing approach to use in what situation. Even though the exam is open book, it definitely won’t be easy.

Another is that it’s quite easy to get lost in the long formulas. One wrong step, and you get the whole question wrong.

For example, the formula to work out the t value in hypothesis testing using regression looks like this:

One mistake on the scientific calculator or even Excel on the laptop, and you’ve had it.

One could use SPSS, but there’s no time to get well-versed enough with it. Plus, I think it’s good to know the fundamentals too, rather than simply keying the data.

Adding to the stress is that the statistics module contributes the most i.e. 45% to the whole course.

If we don’t pass the course, automatically the scholarship offer will be withdrawn. Of course, judging from past history, most people would pass, but nobody want to be added to the statistic of people who’ve failed.

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If you have any recommendations, it would be very much appreciated.

It’s for an upcoming house construction.

As a general idea of the price range, I’m looking for 1ft x 1ft tiles for the living room at equal to or less than RM12 per tile.

Thanks!

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I encountered the Rm32++ burger on the 28th April at Hard Rock Cafe, Kuala Lumpur.

To be fair, it was humongous, big enough for 2 people. I was starving but still could not finish it off. The meat was at least an inch thick.

Still, it’s worth it, if only for the live band (Siluet / Silhouette, apparently from Bali, Indonesia). Check out this video which I took of their performance that night: Read the rest of this entry »

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Remember that news report in 2006 (2005?) in the Borneo Post about the 150m stretch of road along km 5, Keningau-Kimanis road (km 32, Kimanis-Keningau road) where apparently vehicles can move by themselves as reported in Borneo Post?

A Richard Lee was the first person who experienced this and he claimed that his car moved backwards up a 15 degree slope heading towards the direction of Keningau.

The newpaper further reported that “it is believed (that) a gravity force under the ground is making vehicles move forward / backward at a speed of 40km an hour.” In fact, that’s exactly what’s happening. That stretch of road is known as a magnetic hill / gravity hill, which is a type of optical illusion created by the surrounding landscape, which gives the impression that a slight downward slope is actually an uphill slope. For the illusion to work, the landscape must have a completely / mostly blocked horizon, which will make judging of the slope difficult due to a lack of reference. Trees which we assume to stand at a 90 degree angle to the ground might actually be leaning, hence offsetting the visual reference.

Other names for these kinds of sites include: haunted hill and anti-gravity hill.

There are hundreds of such places around the world, although I am not sure if Sabah has the nation’s first magnetic hill. Anyhow, I think this is a great opportunity to turn the place into a tourist attraction.

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This was what happened to me middle of last year. Click on the thumbnail below to see bigger picture.

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It’s been making the rounds, so I felt compelled to check it out.

If you’re a Catholic, and next time someone gives you a dough with a recipe and insists that his or her offer cannot be refused, beware.

This has been called the chain letter of the cooking world, a mutated version of the Amish Friendship Bread in the US. Read the rest of this entry »

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