Hey Woman, Why You So Like Dat?

This is obviously dedicated to all women born between 1960-1990 ... with the advent of karaoke, we get to notice the nuanced "strong feelings" every time these fucking songs are played. Believe you me, these 3 songs somehow represent the angst, fear, war cry, deep set feelings of our women folk.

If you don't believe me, next time you go to a pub or karaoke, secretly ask the band or deejay to play these songs, see how the women react!!!

It is within these three songs that we should understand a lot about our women folk, is it just in Malaysia ... noooooooo... go anywhere, play these songs, you get the same reaction (or erection).

Can I try to break down these 3 fucking songs then?

The first female anthem, I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, its like an empowerment song. See how the ladies just jump up and start dancing and mouthing the words. Its really good to see, as if they have always have their backs to the wall, everything in society against them from the start ... you name it: parents favoring sons, having to go through menstruation (when men do not), having to endure the bloody period pains (when men do not, men just try to be a pain in the ass sometimes), having glass ceilings and a men-favouring corporate scene when they start to work, having assholes questioning that to start a family may wreck their career, having to undergo all sorts of discrimination at most levels just because they are women, having a short time span to have children and if they don't they'd be thought of as "incomplete", and before you know it ... its menopause and the fucking hormonal changes.

So, when the ladies jump up and sing this song... guys, "JOIN IN!!!"




This next song will almost get the same reaction from the ladies, because they ALL have loved the assholes cited in the song. In fact, we could be the very assholes they are singing about!!! I HATE MYSELF FOR LOVING YOU, my Gawd, can you sing that in front of your gfs/wife??? But, the girls can!!!! WHY???? Don't ask, just applaud!!!!

This song is dangerous because women REMEMBER EVERY FUCKING "BAD THING" YOU DID TO THEM (OR DIDN'T DO) ... its only with that mentality can you identify with the song so intimately .... be warned guys!!!.




This third song is a doozie. Somehow this song really gets the women going ... I am not sure if the lyrics are clear to them but it involves a lot of "out there body experiences". But somehow, women folk just love it and they really identify themselves with the song. Just grin and bear it guys. To me, the most inventive and deep meaningful lyrics of the song was punctuated by the two words "subtle whoring" .... soooo deep man.

Don't thank me guys for the valuable information! Another little baby step towards understanding this specie that is called women folk.

The wretched emotions underlying all 3 songs are probably sufficient to turn some guys gay! (Just kidding...) ; 0

Mobile Phones That Fry Your Brain and How To Lessen That

After years of denial, its finally caught up with us.

Earlier this week the World Health Organization announced cell phones pose a risk of causing brain cancer. It turns out that the FCC has been tracking radio frequency (RF) levels in cell phones all along using what's called a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) score.

SAR scores measure how much a phone's RF is absorbed by the human body when held to the ear. The higher the score, the higher the absorption rate. (And that's bad.)

In order for a phone to be approved by the FCC, its SAR score can't be higher than 1.6 watts per kilogram.

The following is the list of the 20 phones with the highest SAR scores. Keep in mind they are all under the limit set by the FCC, so there's no need to freak out. But if you're really worried about this kind of stuff, it's good to know.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/cell-phones-with-the-highest-sar-2011-6?op=1#ixzz1OPcilBSn

A cell phone's SAR, or its Specific Absorption Rate, is a measure of the amount of radio frequency (RF) energy absorbed by the body when using the handset. All cell phones emit RF energy and the SAR varies by handset model.

20 lowest-radiation cell phones (United States)

Editors' note: When a phone is discontinued by a manufacturer or a carrier, it will be removed from this chart.

Rank	Model	SAR (digital)
1	Samsung Blue Earth	0.196
2	Samsung Infuse 4G	0.2
3	Samsung Acclaim	0.29
4	Samsung Replenish	0.3
5	Huawei Ideos X5	0.34
5a	T-Mobile Sidekick 4G	0.34
7	LG Quantum	0.35
8	Samsung Haven	0.41
8a	Samsung Evergreen	0.41
10	Samsung Captivate	0.42
11	Samsung Smiley	0.43
12	HTC Surround	0.439
13	Doro PhoneEasy 410	0.445
14	Motorola Devour	0.45
14a	Motorola i890	0.45
16	Kyocera Neo E1100	0.479
17	Samsung Contour	0.49
18	HTC Imagio	0.498
19	Motorola Flipside	0.5
20	Samsung Flight SGH-A797	0.505

20 highest-radiation cell phones (United States)

Editors' note: When a phone is discontinued by a manufacturer or a carrier, it will be removed from this chart.

Rank	Model	SAR (digital)
1	Motorola Bravo	1.59
2	Motorola Droid 2 Global	1.58
3	Sony Ericsson Satio (Idou)	1.56
4	Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro	1.55
4a	Kyocera Jax S1300	1.55
6	Motorola i335	1.53
7	Nokia Astound	1.53
8	Motorola Defy	1.52
8a	Motorola Grasp	1.52
8b	ZTE Salute	1.52
11	LG Rumor 2	1.51
12	Motorola Droid	1.49
12a	Sanyo Vero	1.49
12b	Motorola Droid 2	1.49
15	HTC Desire	1.48
16	LG Chocolate Touch	1.47
16a	Motorola Atrix 4G	1.47
18	Kyocera Wild Card M1000	1.46
19	Kyocera X-tc	1.45
20	Motorola i576	1.45

Simple Ways To Lessen SAR


1) You could use a Bluetooth headset, but many people think Bluetooth causes cancer as well. But some headphones with a built in mic, or hook up your phone to your car via Bluetooth and leave your phone on the seat next to you. Keeping your phone in your pocket while you use a hands-free device isn't doing much for you, because it's still very close to your body while it's emitting radiation. If you're extra-paranoid, try an Air Tube wired headset, which avoids radiation that may travel up the headphone cord to your ear using conventional wired headsets.

2) Text more. Maybe it's time we listen to today's texting-obsessed teenagers. Texting emits a whole lot less radiation than a call. If you're on the go, text instead of calling. Once you get home, hook up your phone to Wi-Fi in the aforementioned ways.

3) Get a cell phone radiation deflector shield for your phone.

Image: Pong

SAR ratings were reduced 75% by strapping a Pong case onto an iPhone in an FCC laboratory. The Pong cases actually look good, too. Pong has been covered by Wired magazine, and is not an "antenna cap" or "keypad cover" that's meant to block your signal. When your signal is blocked, the phone actually emits more harmful radiation to make up for it. With a deflector like Pong, radiation is diverted away from your head.

4) Don't have lengthy phone conversations when you don't have much service. The fewer bars you have, the harder your phone tries to connect to cell towers, increasing radiation emissions from your cell phone.

5) Don't carry the mobile phone in your pocket. Your phone does a lot of sending/receiving when it's in your pocket, whether your phone is fetching an email, receiving a call, or otherwise. And this goes especially for men. Try carrying your phone around in a bag or backpack.

6) Use your speakerphone as much as possible. If you're going to be using your phone for a long conversation, use the speakerphone and hold the phone away from your body. Keeping your phone glued to your head as you talk is definitely bad for you.

What Is Your "Door 2" Value?

This posting was done 3 years ago, I think I have a bunch of new readers now. Good to rethink our "Door 2".

A fellow blogger put up the following choice: open Door 1 and get RM1,000 or try Door 2 for RM5,000. The thing is Door 2 has only a 50% chance of RM5,000. Hence opening Door 2 can give one of two outcomes: zero or RM5,000. Which door would you take? Are you a risk taker or risk averse? Or do you make your decisions professionally and mathematically? If it’s the latter, chances are you are likely to choose Door 2 because 0.5 x RM5,000 = RM2,500 which is, of higher value than RM1,000.

Let’s go further on this hypothesis. Now, let’s say Door 1 will get you RM500,000 for sure while Door 2 provides a 50% chance to pocket RM10mil. This is where it gets interesting. For many, RM500,000 can pay off your mortgage or send a couple of kids to a foreign university. Hence when faced with the same situation, the theoretically correct and risk-positive choice may not be taken by most. The Door 2 choice has a mathematical reward of 0.5 x RM10mil = RM5mil, but many will not choose that option.

It boils down then to a person’s net worth and their tolerance of risk. If your net worth is RM1mil or less, Door 2 would not even be a choice. However, if you are worth RM50mil, you probably would take Door 2. Hence, where is our mathematical evaluation of risk and reward? The things we study at business schools and MBAs. The stuff you learn for CFA ... all out the window.



This highlights where textbooks theory diverges from what happens in reality. We all make financial decisions based on things more than just pure mathematical models. We are not robots. Seemingly, if we look at each and every financial decision, it is based on more than just cold-blooded numbers.

Is it any wonder then that the markets cannot be understood just via numbers and valuations alone. Things we cannot explain, we call them sentiment or momentum or over-sold or over-bought ... you get the drift. You extrapolate the choices further and you will find investors, who usually start off with a proper well-researched decision on what stock to buy. The same person will make an illogical decision to cut-loss, or take profit too early because there were other factors that will come into the picture for them. Sadly, these “usually irrational” factors tend to play a much bigger role in determining an investor’s final decision. It will cloud and distort.

Models & Madness

A failure to properly evaluate the risk and pricing of collateralised debt obligations and other structured debt products was one of the problems that brought turmoil to the securitisation market last year. Industry experts are now saying market participants shouldn’t rely exclusively on mathematical models but should also use the social sciences to understand behaviours — of home owners, for instance. It seems that risk management is no longer a science but an art form. Although bubble behaviour looks stupid in retrospect, many intelligent people get caught up in it.

Did the models adequately take into account the cumulative human forces of optimism, gullibility, short-term focus, genuine belief in momentum, extrapolation of so-far-profitable speculations, group psychology, and increasing fraud? We need to allocate sophisticated numbers to these intangibles.


Values & Ethics

If we were to take this a step further, you can find risk-reward relationship in other more important areas. Intangibles such as a person’s values or ethics can even be measured. These supposedly absolutes are not really absolutes in reality.

Take corruption or insider trading. Most will say they are against both. However, no one can say with absolute certainty until they have actually been posed with a real choice. Door 1 gives you zero value, and Door 2 is doing some corruption, or acting on some insider information and being rewarded with RM10,000. How well do your values stack up? What if Door 2 is now worth RM1mil? How about RM10mil? Almost everyone has a “Door 2”, what is your “Door 2” value? Some will be a function of their net worth, what is that “x” value? 3x, 5x, 10x ?? Trouble is some also hold bargain basement sales.

Now, even graduate business schools everywhere is teaching ethics. That is quite pointless because they can't really be taught. You may learn why you need to be ethical but you cannot inculcate ethical behaviour unless it comes from introspection. The best we can hope for is regulation. Know the boundaries. A person can still score 100% in ethics class and still churn out Milkens and Boeskys.

That’s why when business, finance, politics mesh - values and ethics are, in most cases, fluid. Hence the comedic routine: “Ethics, I’m so poor I cannot afford to have ethics”.

Regulating risk taking

Hence most countries cannot rely on their people to behave in the appropriate manner all the time. That’s where regulation comes it. There must be punishment, rules and guidelines. For these rules and laws to be effective, there must be effective regulation and enforcement as well or else the rules and punishment will be as there were none at all. Sometimes a low corruption index does not mean the people are inherently “good”. It may just mean they have heavy-handed punitive measures and very effective regulatory processes. In the same vein, a high corruption index does not mean most of the citizens are evil. It may just mean lax regulation and enforcement.

What is your “Door 2”? Does it have a value? Do you know that figure even? Which is why one shouldn’t be overzealous in proclaiming that they are righteous or have a high ethical standard - it may only mean you haven’t been offered a proper “Door 2” yet.

Is it any wonder that monks lock themselves in monasteries, probably to avoid ever having to come face to face with their “Door 2”.

photos: Jolin Tsai

Fancy A RM20 Bowl Of Noodles

Yes, its that expensive cause they ladle up tons of seafood and home made goodies. Its seafood noodles. The food is pretty good, the soup base itself is "sweet and refreshingly clear". The white ballish things are not your fishballs but delectable small fresh scallops. Go and pick your noodles, soup or dry version, and then your preferred accompaniments, or just campur-campur.


You should also order a side bowl of fish stomach and fish liver. The latter has the taste and consistency of uni/foie gras (though you must stand the fishy taste), they are very good.

Some rave about the chilli belacan sauce, its OK, could have done with better toasting of belacan and more calamansi, but still decent. The other side dish that a lot of customers would order is their home made fried fish cake, very springy.


Its the place with two restaurant signs, didn't bother to ask which is the correct one. Its located at Jalan SS4c/5. If you are travelling on LDP from Damansara to Federal Highway, once you see the big Cathoclic church on the right, veer left and you will see Caltex, turn left, go about 400 meters, left again and your are there.


Testimony, bill for 2!!! Had to be good, judging from the amount of fish, fish head and other seafood they go through ... you tend to get a very swift turnover and preserves the freshness of produce. I think they are open for early lunch around 11am till 3pm, but not much goodies left after 2pm.

Check Out Hakka Republic!

See you there!!!

Artist in May & June

Things You Might Not Know About The Man From Pusing

From KL Lifestyle:

Mixing business with social responsibility has always been the hallmark of wellknown philanthropist, educationist and Sunway Group founder and chairman, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah, AO. This trait is based on his firm belief that the key to a meaningful life and true personal satisfaction is when an individual gives back to society what he has reaped. And in the process, leave behind a lasting contribution that will make a huge difference.

So, when this soft-spoken, self-made and remarkable tycoon launched his latest and most serious philanthropic endeavour several months ago, he set a precedent that may be a hard act to match by anyone in the future. His initiative – the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation, the first of its kind in Malaysia, is modelled after the Harvard Foundation which governs one of the world’s oldest and renowned universities.

“I have always believed that the business of education is more than just ‘a business’ for successful and dedicated corporations like the Sunway Group. Education becomes meaningful when it acts as a tool to enrich and improve lives and contribute to the national agenda by raising the quality of human capital, which can then reap greater prosperity for the country,” he says of his foundation. “My dream and vision has been to share these very successes enjoyed by Sunway Group with those in need and who deserve it so that their lives may be changed forever.”

Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah’s philanthropic quest has not gone unnoticed regionally and internationally. He was voted one of Forbes Asia’s Heroes of Philanthropy in 2009 and this kind of recognition is hard to come by indeed. His new foundation’s history actually dates back to more than three decades and is closely linked with the evolution of Sunway Group as a pioneer, innovator and catalyst in the field of private education in Malaysia. Sunway pioneered the now popular twinning programmes in Malaysia and also revolutionised the local education landscape via partnerships with top-ranking universities from around the globe.

The Sunway Education Trust Fund that was established in 1997 was the basis for the recently launched foundation. The Fund had in the past administered its share of proceeds from Sunway institutions for the benefit of present and future students through reinvestment into the institutions and for the disbursement of scholarships and research grants. Thousands of deserving Malaysian students in various fields have been awarded more than RM55 million in scholarships by the Fund thus far.

“With the advent of the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation, it will be the sole vehicle through which my life-long ambition, vision and dream to give back to society will be realised,” says Cheah. Cheah has transferred all his shares held in the Sunway Education Trust Fund to the foundation to be held into perpetuity. He has locked in shares worth RM700 million from the education arm of his Sunway business into the newly launched foundation. The foundation is enriched further with the transfer of the Sunway Group’s four educational institutions, the Sunway University College, Monash University Sunway Campus, Sunway International School and the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

The foundation, governed by a distinguished board of trustees, will execute Cheah’s legacy of giving. Proceeds from the institutions will be disbursed through scholarships to future generations of needy and deserving students. And Cheah has not stopped at that. He has also invited other successful and like-minded corporations and individuals to join him in making this noble cause for education a roaring success in the years to come.

Royal recognition came from the Sultan of Selangor with whom Cheah is close. The Sultan had this to say of the educationist’s latest philanthropic act: “It takes a philanthropic and mmagnanimous man like Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah to transfer the Sunway Group’s top four educational institutions into the foundation, so these assets can be held in perpetuity and they may be used to provide scholarships to future generations of deserving and needy students. “I am glad that Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah, whom I installed as Foundation Chancellor of the Sunway University College in September 2006, has put the cause for education well ahead of the business of education.”

By launching the foundation, Cheah has become a new partner of the Ministry of Higher Education and the government in providing financial assistance to needy students and thereby directly contributing to the building of knowledge-based human capital for the nation.

Notable among his other philanthropic initiatives was the launch of the Safe City concept in Bandar Sunway in 2001, an initiative in which he blazed the trail in Malaysia. In his capacity as Selangor Chapter chairman of the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation, he works closely with the police to combat crime and to ensure a safer and healthier environment for residents in the township.

The initiative, complete with donations of equipment to the police department and involvement of the auxiliary police from the Sunway Group, has ramped up good neighbourliness in the residential area. The concept is also now being emulated in other developments. Aiding needy schools has been another of Cheah’s passions. In 2008, his Sunway Group sponsored a RM1 million, 12-month project to restore the dilapidated 85-year-old SRK Convent in Klang to ensure safety at the school so that the teachers and students could study with peace of mind. “Although it is a missionary school, students of all ethnic groups study there. We were not hesitant to support a school which champions multiculturalism,” he said then.

More millions have also been spent aiding the SMK Bandar Sunway, SJK(C) Chee Wen in Subang Jaya, SMJK Yuk Choy in Ipoh, SK Convent Klang and the Gunung Hijau primary school in Pusing, Perak, where Cheah hails from. Life has indeed been a meaningful journey so far for Cheah. But the visionary is looking ahead. He is always on the lookout for new philanthropic causes that will meld with his lifelong desire to give back to society.

The Jeffrey Cheah Foundation is a unique, first-of-its-kind structure in Malaysia within the field of private higher education, modeled along the lines of some of the oldest and most eminent universities in the world; such as the Harvard University in the United States. It carries on the mandate of the Sunway Education Trust which has, since its inception in March 1997, given out more than RM50 million in scholarships to deserving and needy students.

The advent of the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation will see the transfer of equity ownership worth RM700 million of the not-for-profit Sunway Education Group, made up of Sunway University College, Monash University Sunway campus, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Sunway International School. Today, these education institutions account for over 16,000 students, of which 30% are from 80 different countries. Under the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation, operating surpluses from the Sunway Education Group will be reinvested into the universities and schools. The Foundation will continue to disburse scholarships and research grants to worthy individuals in various fields of study.

19

The only reasonable retort some silly club has been throwing back at Manchester United has been 19. Well, Spinelesspool, you have to think of a better retort now. You do not know how it feels when Manchester United was winning almost everything for the past 20 years .. and all the Bilepool supporters can think of to reply was 19.



You were changing managers like you a polygamist changing wives. You tried everything, at one stage a few years back judging by the type of player you took on, I thought you were going to change your club's name to Liverpool-Herzagovinia.

We long for some real competition from our old enemies. C'mon Rectalpool, do improve and give us a bit of a fight, its pretty boring at the top.