Valentine’s Day
More than a mere date flick, Valentine’s Day realizes it can turn a profit on recycled plotlines as long as you throw enough big names at it (Carol pointed out that the star billings on the poster are in alphabetical order).
That said, it does make for a decent date night. One of those [...]
The Old Frees’ Association for Penang Free School alumni has a long history dating back to 1923. Most old boys will know it, especially those in Penang. It has its own association building with recreation halls and a fairly good public cafeteria which I used to visit regularly, and holds annual games with the students.
Driving [...]
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In a socialogical study by Professor George Tamarin, more than a thousand Israeli schoolchildren aged eight to fourteen were given this account of the battle of Jericho, from the book of Joshua (this story should be familiar to all kids who grew up attending Sunday School):
Joshua said to the people, “Shout; for the LORD has [...]
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Note: Since I am notoriously lazy when it comes to taking pictures, most of the pictures here are shamelessly stolen from Carol’s blog.
Ok ok my new year resolution is to go on a holiday this year! It’s been quite a while since I’ve managed to get away on a good long holiday and now’s [...]
Never register anything but your real name as your primary email address. You’ll regret it when you grow older.
Knowledge is power. It really is! Read all you can. Use Google Reader.
Learning to Google and Wiki is one of the best things you can teach yourself.
Memorize keyboard shortcuts. They’ll save you a lot of time.
When going [...]
Continue reading about Life Lessons: 25 things I’ve learnt at 25
Yesterday was a fun night out with the Nuffies courtesy of our very nice boss Stewie.
He took us to catch the MACC (Malaysian Association of Chinese Comedians) at PJLA, Jaya One.
First off was dinner at Duck King. We were all hemming and hawing at first because Duck King is known to be great but pricey, [...]
Well I’m 26 years Rais now, and I guess it feels okay, hey 25 was a nice round age and I’m now designated to be in my “upper twenties” but I don’t think one really starts feeling old until after 30. Although Carol did scare when she went “So you’re going to be 25? What? [...]
Well the tweet deluge on Information and Communications Minister Rais Yatim’s “twitter is against our culture” comment has dropped off twitter’s trending topics since everyone’s going to sleep. What a day; I think many would agree they could really feel the power of social media today. [See the previous post I wrote when the trend [...]
Avatar
I think Avatar sums up quite nicely why I seem to be unable to fully enjoy “blockbusters” lately: I’m numb to good visuals and overthink.
Visuals – Avatar really did have top-notch CGI. You couldn’t tell the whole movie was probably filmed in front of a bluescreen. You might say I’m spoiled but to me, that’s [...]
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