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Productive Absurdity: Investment lessons from giant furry animals will make you rich!

Today I will expose the alternative investment strategies big playas use to roll RM30 million (USD8.1m). Thought I don’t mean to offend anyone with this essay, if I get in trouble for this blog post, please bail me out with all the money you might make from reading this. Deal? Deal. Photo adapted from Thinkpanama [...]

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Of Prosperity Burgers and Morality

Update: Part of this post was featured here in The Malay Mail, thanks Sheila! If I knew my brief encounter with the Prosperity Burger at McDonalds would haunt me forever, I would’ve never made that order. But you know how it can be difficult to predict the future right? It’s much easier to blog about [...]

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Watching out for love

I never thought I would fall in love on the plane. But yeah I’m on the plane right now, on the way to Sarawak, and guess what.   No, it’s not the dude in the magazine. I know you like looking at pictures, but let me give you the full picture. I think I found [...]

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The Death of SMS

Three weeks ago my mobile phone decided not to send SMSes on my  behalf. If you sent me an SMS, I would read it and compose 160 characters of wit just for you… but you would never receive it. What a pity. Then the unexpected happened… I would call you instead! You send me an [...]

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How to combat snatch thieves and robbers

I just got back from the Police station. It was a long night. Nika’s friend had a friend visiting from Poland, it is her first night here in KL. She was walking in front of Bangsar Permai apartments on Jln Tanduk, Bangsar, when 3 men leapt out of the car, armed with a giant curved [...]

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Protect The Fat Kids From Getting Punished During Chinese New Year

Poor fat kids. In my extended Chinese family, the annual exodus back to the village for Chinese New Year is pure hell for fat kids. Pure. Hell. My relatives have no mercy on fat kids. Maybe it’s just my relatives. Or maybe all Malaysian families, not just Chinese ones like mine. I don’t know. You [...]

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A Morning In The Cemetery : Full Picture Story

Rule number 5 for writing fiction, according to the late Kurt Vonnegut, is to start as close to the end as possible.. I’m not sure if I can get closer to the end than this, considering today’s story begins in a cemetery.  But then again, this is not a piece of fiction. Or maybe it is. I’m [...]

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Last Night’s Panic in My Home. True Story!

My hand clutched on to the kitchen cleaver, even after the 5 burly weapon-wielding men left my house. I wasn’t relieved. The skies were still dark, and I had a lot of explaining to do to. Last night was a bit of a mess, and I’ll have to start from the beginning…

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Galleriiizu – If You’re in KL – You must Go!

Today, I had a real good peek into Malaysia’s undergound art movement…. That’s www.galleriiizu.com – 2 ‘L’s 3 ‘I’s…. 1172 Please read this whole post so you know why I’m begging all of you to come next Sunday!

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Recent Weeks + Pics + My 1st steps in the singersongwriter scene

The recent weeks have been tiring… apart from work and a bit more socialising that usual, there was: Lezel celebated her Birthday by throwing poor me into a Karaoke room chock-full with veterans! 1132 Then it was a series of MindValley parties. First, in celebration of Hannu’s new apartment. 1134 Then there was celebrating the [...]

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