September 2010
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“She can’t stay in the house very long, she...
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“I miss the toilets. It was autumn, I...
August 2010
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Review ingredients include:
What does a concert review look like while it’s still in its original unpolished form? Well for me, it looks something like this:
stream of thought commentary of Belle & Sebastian’s performance in the Escalade (7/8/09)
“Front row stood up from the beginning, a few songs in, the entire section A stood up. Murdoch jokes he wanted everyone to stand near the end, but now...
June 2010
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From Zee Avi’s performance in KL Live Centre on...
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May 2010
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April 2010
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Kelly Clarkson live in Bukit Jalil →
My recording of Kelly Clarkson’s performance at Bukit Jalil from the Malaysian leg of her “All I ever wanted” tour. This set also features local opening acts by Jaclyn Victor & Suki Low.
Run time: 1 hour 56 minutes
Size: 167mb
Downloadable via 4share.
March 2010
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SMCKL 5: Swarm Badge Success!
EDIT: Hell yeah boys & girls, we hit the mark with 50+ people checking in at Menara Star. May this, Malaysia’s first swarm badge, give you ultimate bragging rights. At least until a large group of geeks with smartphones congregate somewhere.
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The fifth SMCKL is going to be about ‘Government in the Age of Social Media’, and the turn out is massive: an expected...
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By Demand: Kings of Convenience →
Here’s a recording of the Kings of Convenience’s session in Wisma Bentley on the 21st of March (click on the title).
The encore features the one of a kind mashup between the Kings with local band, Tenderfist, on the song “I’d Rather Dance with You”.
It’s runs one hour 30 minutes long, at 131mbs, so you have to download it via Zshare. I’ll have an edited version, cut down...
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Zee Avi live in KL →
Here’s a recording of Zee Avi’s session in KL Live Centre on the 20th of March (click on the title).
It’s 90mbs, so you’ve to download it via Zshare. I’ll have an edited version, cut down to individual songs up later.
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February 2010
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“I’ll send you an encik in a moment,”
– - an old Nokia, making me sound like a pimp for sugar daddies by mistaking email for encik*.
*Encik is Malay pronoun for an older man.
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Dem a-galang deh
Picking up an old copy of Black Book (May 2009), I see an article about Beth Ditto of Gossip, covering the usual topics: she’s a big girl (200 pounds to 5 feet), openly lesbian, a radical feminist punk, etc.
And despite all this (oh, how careful they are to make her alternative everything not sound like a disability), despite praising or at least attentively listening to her tales of being...
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Leave your guns at home, Bill
Taken straight from The Star:
SHAH ALAM: Female students in higher-learning institutes here are being persuaded not to wear panties on Valentine’s Day as an expression of true love for their boyfriends.
Looks like going bareback (barebottom?) is the way to go this Valentines. But hold on to your panties, no one’s going to pull a Britney if JAIS (State Islamic Affairs Department) has a say...
January 2010
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Close, well you couldn't get much closer
Let’s get this straight, other than the fact the iTouch’s iCare insurance groups it with the iPods (though it is more expensive), it is not remotely similar to the iPod. So to the Apple fanboys using “but people complained about the iPod 9 years ago, and look where it’s at now”, that defense is pathetic.
But let’s follow the logic for a moment, say the iTouch...
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so I took a walk
Going for the #TaliTenang event in Bangsar. No idea what I’m talking about? Here’s their press release:
Remember ‘KL Freeze in Union’? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… We want to reunite with you! So much has happened in the last few weeks that has cause our country to be buzzing with agreements and disagreements. But we’re proud that despite all that’s happened, we the...
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You Rais me up
To anyone not Malaysian, the #yorais tag must be pretty confusing. What with more important news at hand, like Cadbury’s handover to Kraft.
It started with this news article, where Malaysia’s Information Communication and Culture Minister (aka Censorship goon), Rais Yatim, basically said Malaysians shouldn’t get too into the whole internet business, especially in regards to...
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Deep in the jungle where the mighty tiger lies
“Oh god, that’s terrible. I’ve been asked if I ride an elephant to school though,” - Aditi Machado.
This little gem popped up while I was talking to Aditi, about how someone found her blog by searching “do Indians speak foreign language”. On account that she:
is Indian,
blogs in English,
to my memory, speaks English, French and a few other languages,
...
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The folks are flaming
While Friday is traditionally a day for Muslims to pray in the mosques, some poor sods got confused and went to church instead.
Oh yeah, they also set the church on fire. Of course, the trailblazers started yesterday.
All signs point towards this being part of the ongoing “Silly Christians, Allah is for Muslims” saga.
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“Indisputable proof that literacy is awesome: when typing COOL, my T9 spells...”
– an old Nokia
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Your text that would incite a light
Imagine this: Malaysian Muslims are getting butthurt because a Christian publication is referring to God as “Allah”. That’s like a Windows Vista user getting angry at a Windows XP user for using the name of The Lord, Bill Gates.
I assume the newspapers are blowing this out of proportion, as even old man PAS @ Nik Aziz feels the issue is meh, more MLIA than FML. But when a person...
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Poor Ellen Smith, how was she found?
Song-crush of the week: Neko Case’s cover of Bluegrass classic, Poor Ellen Smith.
Weird thing is that in Neko’s version, she does 7 years for murder, unlike the traditional 20 year sentence. Reduction due to good behavior or is it just a Canadian thing?
My theory is that she’s emphasizing the narrator’s innocence, adding the couplet
“Who had the heart, and who...
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Like Dylan in the movies
I’ve tried to keep track of all the movies watched in theaters, but a few might have slipped my mind. This chronological list includes the movie’s name & rating (out of a possible 10):
Yes Man (7.5/10)
Outlander (4/10)
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2/10)
Inkheart (3.5/10)
Bridewars (4/10)
Curious Case of Benjamin Button (8/10)
The Punisher: War Zone (4.5/10)
Slumdog...
December 2009
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Sugar, oh Honey Honey
Happy New Year, and to celebrate the new decade, sugar prices have gone up by 20 cents/kg. To be fair, the Gov is currently subsidizing sugar by 80 cents/kg, which amounts to RM1.008bil a year. So dial down on the sugar, ya’ damn sweet-tooths.
In other carb related news, wheat flour prices have also increased, but with a much larger leap - from RM1.80 to RM2.70 per kilo. The change is...
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But if there was a sequel, would you love me as an...
You know how movies sometimes insult your intelligence? Other times, they just assault your intelligence.
A word of warning: Storm Warriors 2 will grab your intelligence by the scruff, give it a beating of the lifetime, drug it with horse tranquilizer, then throw it into a wet ditch on a cold night. All the while making “Yo mama” jokes.
It appears the writers (Pang Brothers) wrote...
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Roll the credits
Second day of filming for thisisbinding’s adverts. 7 people, 2 cameras, 2 adverts, 1 day- will they make it out alive? And more importantly, will they get the shots they need?
The fate of their half day rests in the balance!
Btw, have you been to McDonalds recently? The music’s not as bad as I imagined it’d be. 3/10
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
This is a first post, so expect it to be short, awkward, and not as great as your slutty friends told you it would be.
Oh wait…