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The above is the title of an article found in The Sun (2 July 2009) except the ‘WTF?’ part.

It says this particular women’s section of an association is against bringing in domestic helpers from China. Have they considered the following before they decided it?

1. Language barrier with other maids –  this applies to Chinese community only
2. Recent ban from Indonesia? Who else can you turn to with less trouble like intelligent, diligent, etc?
3. Generally men don’t fuck their own maid as their motto is “Don’t eat and shit at same place”. Only imbeciles would do so (which reminds me of a person I know who is a MD of an IT company alleged to rape his maid)
4. Cost effectiveness – cheap labor?
5. China maid less likely to run away?
6. Hire China maid above 35 years old? (suggested by my wife)

If common culture, language, religion and culinary habits will make it easier for Chinese maids to get close to their male Chinese employers thus posing a threat to family relationships, then doesn’t it mean that the wife is not doing her “duties” effectively?

Take away the Chinese maid and replace with any other girls and you’ll still get threaten to wreak havoc to family relationships. So why the need to target Chinese maid specifically? Sigh, it’s the same scene with Malays with Indonesian maids and yet unfounded claims. Lives still goes on.

What I hate most is the general statement “a marriage counsellor has handled many cases of marital woes stamped from Chinese women”. My question is :

1. How many cases a month?
2. Compared to other causes of marital woes (in terms of statistic)?
3. Compared to other race of women?
4. Compared to other country women?
5. Age group?
6. Location – rural or urban which has higher rate? By state?

If the above info was given and support their claim, then I might change my mind. For now, I’ll say “WTF?!?”

I know. I know. It’s not the latest HK drama.

What I wanted to say is that my wife is currently watching this show. Whenever she watches any drama series, whether HK or Korean, she’ll give me less attention.

Anyway, from what I’ve gathered, this show is is called The Greatness of a Hero is a TVB costume drama series released in February 2009.

Dik Yan-Kit was a legendary chancellor in China’s history. He served as chancellor during the Tang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty and was greatly trusted by Mo Chak-Tin. The Empress’s nephew, Mo Sing-Chi, was jealous and sought every opportunity to frame him. He accused Dik Yan-Kit of colluding with his son-in-law Sung Ting-Yuk in order to usurp the Empress’s throne. Dik Yan-Kit’s family was seized but in the confusion, Dik Yan-Kit escaped. Mo Sing-Chi then threatened to kill Dik Yan Kit’s wife, Cho Yuet. Will Dik Yan-Kit be able to win against his enemies? (Synopsis from Wikipedia)

According to my wife, this show is considered worth watching. Sigh, she’s currently half way through (total 20 episodes).

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I’ve stumbled across an article about Mask Pro and was wondering whether this program is worth looking into. The description as follows:

Mask Pro 4.1 allows you to mask out objects that you simply can not with Photoshop alone. Cut out complex objects like hair, clouds, glass or a wedding veil in real-time with no jaggies or halos so your masks look realistic and life-like.

Mask Pro 4.1 now supports 16-bit images, Photoshop CS3 and Intel-based Macintosh computers. Several new “Show Me How” video tutorials are built right in the product, as well as 1.5 hours of training videos available for free on Lynda.com. No other masking or selection tools give you the professional level results like Mask Pro 4.1.

New Features:

Support for Photoshop CS3 · Ready for the latest version of Photoshop, and Universal Binary for Intel-based Macs

Support for 16-Bit Images · Mask your 16-Bit images without losing color gamut

“Show Me How” Tutorial Videos · New built-in videos so you get the most out of Mask Pro

Automatic Update Checking · Make sure you always have the latest version

Complete Collection of Masking Tools

Mask Pro 4.1 allows you to cut out a subject from the background by assigning keep and drop colors and simply painting away the background. Mask Pro 4.1 makes it easy to create masks, selections and clipping paths on difficult subjects like hair, glass and fog all in real-time. The built-in tutorials allow you to quickly learn how to mask even the most complex images.

Replace backgrounds with ease

Features all the right masking tools in a single interface

Advanced color decontamination technology for masking transparent objects

Preview your results in real-time eliminating guess work

Supports 16 -bit Images

Learn more about the Features in Mask Pro 4.1.

Maybe will try it on of these days.

I still remember my first impression of this show when I saw it was announced as Best Foreign Film in the recent Academy Awards ceremony. I thought it’s one of those non-exciting film. Only recent review of it in the newspaper got my attention and curiosity.

It’s about a person named Daigo Kobayashi who happened upon fate involuntary join an “encoffinment” instead of a travel agency. His journey unfolds as of others. It’s not creepy even if it has corpse/coffin/funeral.

Update : After watching it, I can’t help but to praise this show. It started with some light comedy, frustration and sadness in the middle and ended with closure and pride.

It’s worth to watch it.

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Yup. After changing my email and corresponding address, it’s finally approved. Guess their algorithm really detects few characters off from the inputs. My name and my younger brother have similar name with just 2 alphabets off. Both of us used the same corresponding address.

Like I’ve said, it’s not sibling friendly if you have similar name.

I just received a reply from Google Adsense Team informing me my application has been rejected because my account info matches a “currently approved AdSense account” associated with my younger brother’s account. WTF?!?!

You’ve gotta be kidding me!!!

Worse yet to come. I’ve been scanning through their FAQ/Support and whatever pages they have and still don’t have a proper solution nor any means to contact them about this issue. Now I’m trying with different email and change my address. Now I have to wait another few more days. What the hell????

So basically, Google Adsense has no common sense to differentiate siblings with similar name and same correspondence address. Sigh.

Found this at digg.com

It’s an ads by a fitness outlet. The top picture shows with and without a person sitting while it also shows the weight of the person. I appreciate the creativity of it but I’m not gonna sit in that seat. If she’s 68kg, then what mine gonna show? Don’t think I want to know … sigh

Wah, it’s like lottery. Now H1N1 finally got 1 victim in Malaysia. What to do? Go buy number lah. That’s what you’re supposed to do. Ok, ok. Give you tips.

H1N1.

“H” looks like 4

“N” looks like 2 if you rotate it.

So, it’s “4121″. Remember to share share with me if you win, ok?

Hmm. I’m worried about the crime rates these days. Snatch thieves took more than just money and valuables. They even took life of another person (and unborn babies). Robbery in broad daylight. Car thieves rampaging. So where is the police?

Of course, I’ll expect them to say “not enough resources” but I see headlines like “taking opposition parties into custody”, “deny lawyer from representing detainee”, and other unfavorable headlines, I’ll start to question “where is justice for the people?”.

Police is supposed to be neutral entity and yet I was given the impression otherwise while more crimes are being committed that really hurts the people. People can have the choice to replace politicians but not criminals. So please focus on crimes & criminals, not politicians. Can?

After reading online (PSD scholarship review and Top scorers discover again PSD scholarships are not guaranteed), I was wondering “Why study so hard for?” because the current system doesn’t take in fantastic results into account as criteria for scholarship and therefore future generation shouldn’t be bothered with results.

So relax la. Go lepak in shopping complex. Go spend more time in cyber cafe. When you do join the work force, take fifteen minute (or longer) break to read the newspaper while working. No problem because current system encourage us to do so. Why bother with results?

Don’t like ah? Go find your own solution la. Remember, current criteria don’t like top scorers. I tell you what. Go check with Singapore. Most likely they will consider your application. So, don’t say I didn’t give advice ok?

Oh, don’t bother waiting for things to change even if you have raised your grouses to that party. Most likely, the other party will retain status quo.

Huh? Still not satisfied? Still want change? Wah, so demanding ah? Ok, ok. I’ll give another advice. Take a page from Obama. Election time, make sure change comes. Tell your brother, your sister, your lover, your neighbor, your colleagues, your pimp, or whoever to vote for change. Not small change or it becomes like Perak mess. Go for big big change. Think big.

Boleh?