Monthly Archives: October 2005

a neglected city

Posted on October 23, 2005 by gee

This photo was taken last weekend when I was back in Ipoh. What you see is weeks worth of crap being deposited outside of my home. Actually, this was what’s left after my aunt had paid someone to take some … Continue reading →

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Things left to be done

Posted on October 22, 2005 by gee

A news item from Scotsman – NATO vetoes Berlin-style airlift for quake victims. “Oxfam said children faced freezing to death as temperatures drop with the onset of winter.” Regardless of the veto, I’m stunned that more help isn’t getting to … Continue reading →

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The Meaning to Life and Death

Posted on October 22, 2005 by gee

Endon Mahmood, the wife of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, died Thursday October 20th, 2005. I could not write about this till now because I didn’t know what to say. Personally, I take it as an affront to human kind … Continue reading →

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those irish are funny

Posted on October 21, 2005 by gee

Heh. Photo by Brendan Loy. Check out the rest of the photos. He snapped over 250 shots at the USC-Notre Dame weekend. For the uninitiated, the University Notre Dame is a Catholic university. (Oh, how my family would have loved … Continue reading →

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Sometimes you really have to wonder

Posted on October 21, 2005 by gee

USA Today reports that U.S. Senator Judd Gregg has just won $853,492 in Powerball. Senator I-like-double-consonants is already a multi millionaire so what’s he going to do with his extra 800k? All my years in US, I’ve always had shit … Continue reading →

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Streamyx on the fritz

Posted on October 21, 2005 by gee

Grrr.. The broadband was down for 18 hours, since early evening last nite. When I called the Streamyx people yesterday they had that pre-recorded thing saying that there was some teachnical problems in the Klang Valley. Orite, fair enough. I … Continue reading →

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Draco Malfoy in Muggle world

Posted on October 20, 2005 by gee

Aha! The pure blood was found cozying up to an honest-to-god muggle, namely Paris Hilton: He looks like he’s enjoying it, too.

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No Flintstones Jokes, Please

Posted on October 19, 2005 by gee

From Dr. Jeff Master’s Wunderblog: “Wilma became a hurricane today, tying the record of 12 hurricanes in a season set in 1969. In that year, the last two hurricanes formed after October 30, so 2005 has a decent chance of … Continue reading →

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Sounds from the game

Posted on October 18, 2005 by gee

I tried to embed an mp3 player here so you could listen to some highlights, the radio commentary of the last minutes of the game — the way I followed the match. Obviously, I couldn’t get the player to work… … Continue reading →

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can be used for reading too

Posted on October 18, 2005 by gee

We (Emran, Lisa and I) came across this funny little window display while walking around at the Ikano Power Center last weekend: Photo by Emran The display is created with the UK editions of both the children and adult covers … Continue reading →

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Reading news on Yahoo! Sports

Posted on October 17, 2005 by gee

All that squawking was for nothing as USC stays on top of the rankings while Notre Dame is a non mover. UCLA (still unbeaten!!) has moved to the top ten. If they stay there until the rivalry weekend in November, … Continue reading →

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It’s not feminism when it’s me

Posted on October 16, 2005 by gee

I forgot to mention that I also recently bought the book “He’s Just Not That Into You” by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo. My plan is to ask/force/coerce/demand every one of my single and currently-dating female friends (and that one … Continue reading →

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down the wire, up again

Posted on October 16, 2005 by gee

#11 Matt Leinart topples over into the endzone for touchdown with 3 seconds left on the clock. I’ve been following college football for six years and finally I have witnessed one of those classic greatest game in history which I … Continue reading →

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this week’s sign of the apocalypse

Posted on October 14, 2005 by gee

I was reading The Sun newspaper and wanted to share something with y’all but couldn’t find the article online, so here is a scanned version: 2 hours!! Mein Gott!! Here’s to the muscial being a better venture than the movie.

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acquisitions for the bored

Posted on October 14, 2005 by gee

Today I bought: DVDs – CD – Books -

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