I Don't Have Friends, They Are All DEAD!!

Been preparing my PowerPoint presentation on Preventable Blindness today. The roughly 30-40 minutes talk will be held this Wednesday night. My eyes feel like popping out after editing lots of graphics and presentation notes. Anyway its like 90% done. Going to leave the rest for tomorrow. I am more or less zapped.

On a side note. I had an interesting conversation with a patient of mine who is a big time businessman in town.

Me : So Mr X, your business been pretty successful now ya. You got x branches now.
Mr X : I am fortunate. Nowadays I can pretty much relax and let the business run by itself.
Me : That's really good. So what do you normally do during your free time?
Mr X : Not much to be honest. I don't have much friends
Me : Huh? Why not?
Mr X : Most of my friends are either dead or in jail. Besides if I did have my old friends coming to see me its best not to see them. They are normally trouble.
Me : OIC (I quickly changed to a different subject after that)

Now I am beginning to wonder where he got all the wealth from.

5.8 Magnitude Aftershock Hits China

Another big aftershock hit China's Sichuan province today reportedly damaging more than 70,000 homes. Whats more worrying is that Chinese officials warned that 69 dams in the province damaged in the original quake were in danger of bursting their banks.

Let us all pray that this does not happen.

You can read more regarding this here

Fight For Kisses

I got this YouTube link from a friend through MSN

Way cool. Babies with an attitude =))

The Day My Friendster Turned Malay

I have not logged in Friendster for a long time, so just logged in today to see if there is anything new.

I got a surprise when I saw this....


My Friendster have turned Malay on me! I wonder why Friendster changed my settings for no odd reason.

%$&*!#^*&#%@!$&^&##@%$

Life : The Eternal Flight of Steps

So here I am sitting in front of the PC at work with nothing much to do. Somehow all needed to be done have been done and I find myself idling my time away in front of the idiot box.

Suddenly there is a sense of why we are living life as we are. Life seems to be an eternal journey led by mortal desires. When I was a child, I have always wished that I could grow up faster and do what the adults can do. Now I AM an adult, I wished life could be as simple as when I was still a kid.

We grow up having desires and as we achieve one level of desire we then move on to the next. This journey we call life is like and endless flight of steps. Its a flight of stairs that we need to walk on but sometimes we loose touch of where this stairs all leads us to. To some life could be a labyrinth of eternal doors and steps. We move, open the door and there we see many more stairs leading to many more doors ahead.

Isn't it nice if the creator could just make it more convenient for us and make escalators instead of stairs and this escalator leads us straight to where we want to be.

Then again life would be dull and meaningless without some uncertainties and variety.

In short, we are never content with what we have and we strive for better things in life.

After all, we are only human


P.S No worries.... this is not an emo post. I am just shit bored in the office.... lol

Changes Of Time

Had a long conversation with a friend the other day. Talked about how time flies and how all of us change with time. Then a sudden question came out.

"How different are you now compared to Jan 2007?"

Not that easy to answer since Jan 2007 is not long ago. Somehow time seems to walk pass faster then normal. 2007 seems fresh in mind and I can surely tell you most of the nitty gritty events that happened to me that year without needing to think much about it.

Anyways, this was my reply

1. I now have a habit of using a belt stopper when I drive even if its for short distances.
   
2. I am now a blogger (I used to be an anti-blogger before believe it or not)
3. I am less uptight when it comes to money (spending more freely then before)
4. Accept things as it is (some things cannot be achieved just by hard work alone)
5. More open to new possibilities (used to be a self proclaimed skeptic)

How would you answer if the same question was directed at you?

Optical Illusion

Stare at the 4 vertical blue dots of this picture for 30 seconds.

After that look at a clear bright wall or just close your eyes.

Tell me what happened :)

Dr. Mahathir Quits Umno

Former Umno president Dr Mahathir Mohamad today announced that he was quitting Umno with immediate effect and urged other members to follow him. He said he was quitting the party , which he had led for almost 22 years until handing over the reins to Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in 2003, as a sign of no confidence in his successor's leadership. "I will only come back to the party when there is a change in leadership," the ex-premier told a crowd at a forum in his home state of Kedah this morning.

He also called on all Umno ministers, deputy ministers and all levels of party leaders to join him in quitting the party.

However, he asked these members not to join other political parties.

"Wait till Abdullah quit as the prime minister and party president and then we can return to Umno," he said.

Mahathir dropped the bombshell during his speech at the 'The Position of Malays post-12th General Elections' in Alor Star.

His resignation appears to be part of his strategy in upping the ante in his bid to force Umno president Abdullah to step down in the wake of the ruling coalition's worst electoral setback in the March 8 polls. "I will not ask others to do something that I dare not do. "I would rather do it myself first before calling on others to quit party," Mahathir, who was the country's fourth prime minister between 1981 and 2003, told journalists after speaking at the forum.

In an immediate response, Mahathir's close ally Sanusi Junid, the former mentri besar in Kedah, also announced his decision to quit the party.

Source : Malaysiakini


Tun Dr. Mahathir has once again up the ante on Abdulah Badawi. A typical and not surprising move by the master strategist. We can love him or hate him but one thing is for sure, no one can deny that he is one smart "ex-politician".

Will this trigger mass resignation among the UMNO rank and file? That we will know in the days to come.

One thing for sure, I predict other vateran UMNO members allied to Tun will follow suit since they really have nothing to loose (since they are already out of politics). But if senior cabinet ministers and state UMNO leaders starts resigning too then we might see the formation of a new government or snap elections being called.

Will Badawi step down? Somehow I don't think he would.

One things for sure, Anwar Ibrahim will be smiling eye to eye right now.

Times running out for Badawi and maybe the BN as a whole.

Weekend Blues

Its almost 2am and I am still pretty much awake.

Been listening to some music and catching up on blogs that I have not had time to read this week. This is just the sort of month in which you feel that you have a lot of free time but yet you cannot find time to do the trivial type of things that you wish you could do. I haven't polished my car for a whole month and that's normally just a drive down to Jusco Ipoh. I just don't know where my time have been spent on nowadays. Very self conflicting indeed.

This month has also been a month with no weekend for myself. Just as I thought I could take a break on my own this weekend, I found myself needing to visit someone at Gleneagles, Ampang. So I need to get my lazy ass up tomorrow morning and drive down to KL and back. Not sure what I will be doing there afterwards. Call up someone for lunch or coffee perhaps? Will play it by ear.

Anyways, better go to bed. Don't wanna drive halfway and fall asleep tomorrow.

Dr. Mahathir Strikes Back : Challenges Government To Charge Him

Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad today challenged the government to charge him for his alleged involvement in a judge-fixing scandal during his rule.

The government yesterday released a report that found evidence of an "insidious" conspiracy to influence the appointment of judges and had listed Mahathir, along with other top figures, as being involved.

Following the release of the report, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's cabinet agreed for the Attorney-General's Chambers to immediately investigate the allegations against those identified in the report, including Mahathir.

"I welcome it," the 82-year-old influential leader said at a meeting in Johor.

"I want them to charge me in court. Only then will I have the opportunity to expose more conflicts faced by the judges, including those who have implicated me," he told reporters.

The report was prepared by a royal commission that investigated a video clip allegedly showing top lawyer VK Lingam brokering judge appointments.

Source : Malaysiakini


I never doubt for one moment that Dr. M would not strike back. If they proceed with it, then the the government will definitely be eating something more then they could chew.

Skeleton's will be having a field day.