Browsing through some issues of National Geographic recently, I came across a feature on tribespeople in Africa.
I was horrified to see that these tribespeople were inconsiderate enough to actually walk around mostly naked! How could they do this to us? Sure it might be the norm in their culture, but relativity is from the [...]

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Tim on September 10th, 2008

Ahmad has been stripped of party posts and suspended from UMNO for 3 years. Fitting enough in my book – although from the reports that are coming in there is still a simmering conflict in the works. Some called for the ISA or Sedition Act to be used against Ahmad, but I think it would have been a bad [...]

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Tim on September 9th, 2008

I would like to apologize for any disgust caused by having to put this picture on my blog (man he’s ugly isn’t he?).Unless you are utterly clueless I don’t think I have to inform you what happened so let’s just jump to my take on it.In one of the earlier Star reports I spotted this: 
A visit [...]

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Tim on June 17th, 2008

“Report is Public”, blares the front page of The Star today:

KUALA LUMPUR: Petronas has been publishing its annual report for the past 18 years and it is easily available, including on its website, said its president and chief executive officer Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Marican.
“We print 5,000 copies of the report every year even though [...]

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Tim on May 15th, 2008

You may recall that some time back the government tried to spin on their rating in the Global Competitiveness Report, claiming that we were “eighth” among nations with a population of above 20mil – a completely arbitrary categorization, conveniently excluding Singapore of course. We had actually fallen two places. (Hey Pak Lah, isn’t it even [...]

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Tim on April 9th, 2008

99% of anything free runs on advertising. That much is true. I don’t have anything against adverts, heck I work for an advertising company and I go early for movies to catch trailers.
But intrusive advertising only serves to turn people off, a kind of reverse branding.
Straight to the point, from the newly redesigned (i.e. more space for ads ) Star Online:

Riots in Tibet? Time for DiGi!

Sunbear dies in [...]

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