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What purpose is kopitiam?

garytong — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:28:07 +0800

If all kopitiam talk gets deleted all the time?

Complain thread deletion

garytong — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:25:58 +0800

My recent thread kena delete. It's posted in kopitiam talk and just because it's reported it gets deleted all the time even though it did not break any rules.

WHy bother with a kopitiam section if you cannot open kopitiam threads?

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1472643

[addedon]June 28, 2010, 4:28 pm[/addedon]

QUOTE(garytong @ Jun 28 2010, 04:25 PM)

My recent thread kena delete. It's posted in kopitiam talk and just because it's reported it gets deleted all the time even though it did not break any rules.
WHy bother with a kopitiam section if you cannot open kopitiam threads?

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1472643
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So many other racist thread never delete, but always delete my non-racist thread.

Wtf... biased mods, I protest!

Steven Seagal marah liao about BP oil spill.

garytong — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:45:52 +0800

How prophetic!

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RC copter IR.

garytong — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:06:34 +0800

First timer noob with IR RC mini copter. Fly indoor ok lah but take outside tak boleh kontrol. Helicopter pecut max up to the sky then crash down, luckily no damage just scratches.

Apasal ni? Any outdoor RF based copter with 3 or more channels ?

This mini rc ir play inside house can lah, if the inside of your house is big enough.. duh..

Celebrate someone's death today.

garytong — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:26:16 +0800

More please.. I hope their family die painfully.

Hope it is assassination.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/us/politics/25bush.html

Prescott Bush Jr., Scion of a Political Family, Dies
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR
Published: June 24, 2010

Prescott S. Bush Jr., the brother of one president and uncle of another, and a retired insurance executive who tried but never made it far in the family business — politics — died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 87.

Mr. Bush’s death was confirmed by Tracey Bergonzi, a spokeswoman at Keohane Funeral Home in Hingham, Mass., a town where Mr. Bush had lived for several years. The cause of death was unclear.

Besides being the uncle of one president, George W. Bush, and elder brother of another, George Bush, he was the son of a wealthy senator, Prescott S. Bush. Mr. Bush spent much of his career as a businessman, but dabbled in local politics in his home state, Connecticut, for many years, at one point serving as a Republican committee chairman in Greenwich.

And yet in many ways, Mr. Bush, who was born with the use of only one eye, lived in the shadow of his younger brother. Mr. Bush preceded his brother by two years at the prestigious Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., then at Yale, where George Bush became president of his class, captain of the baseball team, and a member of the secret society Skull and Bones.

Prescott Bush Jr. dropped out of college in 1943 to move to South America, where he worked for Pan American Airways, before returning to work on Wall Street. Mr. Bush joined an insurance brokerage firm, Johnson & Higgins, in 1952, and later became a partner, making the daily commute to New York from his home in Greenwich.

But in 1982, with his brother serving as vice president under Ronald Reagan, Mr. Bush sought to take advantage of the family name and enter politics on a grand stage, challenging Lowell P. Weicker, a veteran Connecticut senator who had won nine elections in a row and had never been defeated. Mr. Bush fumbled initially, occasionally forgetting lines on the campaign trail and causing a stir when he joked about illegal immigrants being needed in Greenwich to clean houses.

But he soon won a large following, and rather than hide from his wealthy upbringing or play it down, he spoke of being lucky to come from such circumstances and told audiences he had been taught by his father that he should give back to society through public service. During the race, he repeatedly made the point that he understood the problems of poor Americans because he had worked with charities in tough neighborhoods.

Mr. Bush stunned many across the state when he won resoundingly in a Republican caucus in Fairfield in March 1982. But by the end of July, just five weeks before the Republican primary, Mr. Bush issued another stunner when he abruptly dropped out of the race.

“Accusations had been slowly building that he was too much like his father, in the sense that he hadn’t had a lengthy interest in public service but simply seemed to have seized a political opening now that he was in the financial position to mount a well-funded campaign,” Bill Minutaglio wrote in his biography of George W. Bush, “First Son.”

“It was of course the same nettlesome criticism leveled against his brother and his nephew in Texas — that the Bushes were running because it was what the Bushes did, that the Bushes were craving public office not because they were driven by a burning ideology but because it was their situation in life,” Mr. Minutaglio wrote.

Years later, Mr. Bush would go on to found a nonprofit organization that encourages trade and investment in China.

“Above all else, he was a devoted family man whose philanthropy started at home,” the Bush family said in a statement obtained by The Associated Press. He “loved life, family and friends and lived with a spirit of abundance.”

According to The A.P., he is survived by his wife of 66 years, Elizabeth; his son, James Bush; a daughter, Kelsey Bush-Nadeau; and six grandchildren.

Here boy, fetch!

garytong — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:33:19 +0800

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This guitar girl is kute.

garytong — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:35:46 +0800

Open wide wide baybeeeee!

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Boy, 5, 'slaughtered like a goat'

garytong — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:59:50 +0800

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/boy-5...0-1225883026987

Boy, 5, 'slaughtered like a goat'

A FIVE-YEAR-OLD Ukrainian boy was slaughtered by an alleged religious fanatic as he played in a sandpit with his friends, it was reported.

The stranger strolled up to little Viktor Shemyakin before pointing to a tree and saying: "Look, there is a bird up there", Pravda reported today.

When the boy glanced upward the man plunged a knife into his throat, Pravda said.

The June 18 killing has threatened to ignite tension in the town of Dneprovka, in Ukraine's Crimea region, after it emerged that the 27-year-old knifeman was a suspected Muslim fanatic, the Russian online newspaper reported.

The victim's three-year-old sister Lena Shemyakina and her five-year-old friend were among a group of young children who witnessed the attack.

Viktor's mother, named only as Angelina, heard their screams and ran out of the house to find her child lying in a pool of blood.

Police arrested the prime suspect, named by Pravda as Server Ibragimov, three hours later at his parents' house, where he was reportedly hiding in the loft.

He allegedly confessed to the crime, telling police that he was ordered to kill the boy by spirits.

"The man screamed Allahu Akbar (Arabic for 'God is great') when killing the boy," said a shocked local. "The kid was slaughtered like a goat."

Other residents of the town said that the man had serious mental health issues.

Ipod is stewpid

garytong — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:46:10 +0800

1. Lousy audio quality, no proper EQ.
2. No menu for small shuffle version.
3. Some model is locked to earbud (shuffle)
4. Costs too much.
5. Itunes only.

I don't understand how people can let Apple rape their savings with such inferior product.

I think Apple is using hypnotism/subliminals in their ads to manipulate weak people to buy their rubbish.

Expandable baton legal or not ?

garytong — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:46:12 +0800

Considering arming myself with weapons.

Current weapon in possession.

1. Baseball bat in room.

2. Butterfly knife bought from pasar malam. Not sharpen yet but can be used to stab and kill. A bit overkill so I dowan carry this one with me all the time

Considering 2 more defensive alternatives.

1. Pepper spray. Ala DAP katak Hee.

2. Expandable baton, ala Jedi light sabre

Any other weapon suggestions ?

May consider DIY gun. Plenty of instructions to make own gun on internet to fire 1 or 2 kill shot rounds.

Nearly got robbed.

garytong — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:32:43 +0800

I walking back to house carrying my notebook bag.

1 kapcai pair of lowlives tried to snatch my notebook bag but luckily I elak cepat and they missed....

Careful.... don't carry notebook and walk. Sure someone will mark you.

Money or Forever living ?

garytong — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:39:20 +0800

Which would you choose?

Make millions or billions but live like everyone else's life span. You can still get disease, cancer, etc. These people are everywhere.

Or

Live normal, not poor, but you have looonng lifetime to save up because you can live forever. You won't get sick or old, but you can still die from injuries.
You also must deal with how to explain your age because if you get caught, you become lab rat for mad scientists, or people jeles of u wanna get you.
So saving up money in bank or getting job might be problem due to IC may be considered phoney/fake because your age number will show.

Can *ahem* as many girls you want because you live so long, even little mei mei also will be old enough for you to eat.

So people... take your pick.

BP spill leads to carbon tax agenda.

garytong — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:24:34 +0800

Plenty of proof.

Calling for criminal investigations to charge BP and Barak Hussein Obama for engineering carbon tax by force.

http://www.infowars.com/criminal-investiga...-gulf-recovery/

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Spirits now will roam Jalan Pudu..

garytong — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:41:13 +0800

They're going to need to search for new homes and those who live nearby, Good Luck!

My spiritual contact teased me again.

garytong — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:12:57 +0800

1212 eh ?

Looks like there's a pattern on numbers from 012 in my mind.

Make any 4D numbers from the 012 pool...

The first prize has gone by.. 1111

Now the next one which I told someone else to buy, but i didn't, 1212.

Want to know what I think the next 1st prize number would be ?

Chewing on firecrackers

garytong — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:55:10 +0800

Wooo sakitnya gigi pecah.

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Pepper spray himself

garytong — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:45:12 +0800

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She's so sentimental. You all should know by now.

garytong — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:44:56 +0800

So don't speak bad about her anymore. She is a good person.

cheeserland-dot.com/2010/06/uncle/

Uncle
June 21, 2010

At about 6pm, mom called to tell me that my uncle is very sick. He’s in the hospital now and in a coma. He probably doesn’t have much time left.

The first thing that was registered in my mind was, finally, it happened. I haven’t been in contact with this uncle for the longest time since i left home for studies. And he hasn’t been most healthy since ten years ago. But throughout these 10 years, i was secretly fearful of the thing that’s gonna happen one day, which is happening right now.

I thought of the times when my friends told me that their relative passed away, or when my friends told me that some other friend’s relative passed away, and how i felt nothing. Like, i know that human passes away, because they get old, get sick, etc. It is only life.

So after i hung up the phone, i broke down. Tears flowed down non-stop and my heart was filled with horror. Because the next thing that came through my mind, was all the memories i had of him. None of my friends has heard of him, because i never mentioned about him. But let’s just say that he was the only man who treated me nice before the word “boyfriend” existed in my life. He was the only male figure i looked up to when i was a child. He took care of me like he was my father, because i didn’t have one. Now i should stop going on about how much he has done for me because the more i type the wetter the keyboard becomes.

Then i had this thought. I realized that i was the most selfish person i have ever known. Because i thought i should visit him before he……, then i thought, no, that’s the last thing i wanted to do right now. I don’t think i can handle it, i really don’t.

Then i wanted to shut the phone off. And maybe throw it away. And maybe just buy a ticket and leave for somewhere and never come back so i never have to deal with it.

Then i found myself analyzing the pattern of the flowers on my bedroom’s wallpaper. There are chunks of flowers all over, and when you look at it from far, it looks like it is arranged diagonally. And most of the bouquets consist of four pink roses, and one purple rose. And the one next to it has more purple, and some orange.

Then i wondered why i was analyzing my wallpaper.

Then i regretted realizing that i was conscious about me analyzing the wallpaper. because, honestly, counting flowers on a wallpaper has never felt so good in my entire life. Not like i do it often. But still. It blocked my mind.

I blocked my mind. But it is like putting a stopper in the sink while letting the tap run non-stop.

In just a bit, the whole room will be flooded. Mine was flooded.

That is what death do to you. It f***s your mind up. I don’t mean it in the way that when you die, your brain stops functioning or whatever. I’m talking about thinking about death itself. It f***s your mind up.

Like what it is doing to me now. I don’t think anything about me is coherent right now. After staring at the wall for one whole hour (which i stopped doing after i realized i was doing it), i briefly considered about playing some Wii Sports Resort, which was what i intended to do before the phone call came. It might do me some good. Like take my mind off things or whatever.

Then i thought, what the f*** am i thinking? Have i lost my f***ing mind? (Which was really ironic because i think i just did.) SOMEONE RELATED TO ME IS DYING AND I AM GONNA PLAY WII? What kind of horrible human am i?

Then i started to think of something else. And then realized that there wasn’t anything else that i could think of without me sounding like a horrible person. What am i gonna think about? Dolly Wink? Mentaiko? It all sounds insignificant and absurd to me right now, in my mind. Because the word DEATH is sitting massively next to all those other pleasant words i like. For example, christmas tree. If christmas tree is written in font size 4, then death is size 400,000,000,000,000. When something is so huge, you may want to agree that it’s hard to see anything else.

Then i started to think about stupid things like, why do human die? I don’t want the scientific answer like, because people get old, and old people get sick and weak, and then their body can’t take it and they die. I mean like, why do we HAVE TO die. Why did (whatever mysterious and powerful source) create human, give them life, then make them die? I mean, dying is like the worst part of a life. Humans work hard, deal with shit that happens in their life, get dumped by lovers, get broke, maybe even get STD, etc etc etc, and endure all of it.
AND THE ONE THING THEY GET AT THE END OF THEIR LIFE IS DEATH????? WTF? HOW DOES THAT WORK?

Why does something called life end so tragically? because most people suffer when they die. I don’t think there are many people who die while they are shopping on Liz Lisa’s website.

I MEAN, WHY DON”T ALL f***ING HUMANS JUST STOP EXISTING ALTOGETHER FROM THE BEGINNING? I mean, what’s the f***ing point? Whatever created all these thing, seriously, what’s the f***ing point are you trying to proof? Actually, everything should just stop existing in the first place. EVERYTHING. And the galaxy is just this… this… huge, black void that is… nothing. Yeap, nothing.

And then i thought about more nonsense like this. A series of infinite questions that leads me nowhere except a more f***ed up mind.

I wonder if it is possible for someone to stop caring for another person because the someone cares too much about the other person. I mean, for the longest time, i have been avoiding the thoughts of my uncle—-in fact, anyone, leaving me. And i think in the process i started to detach myself from them just so that i feel… i dunno, safe? Is that even possible? Because in the end you still have to deal with it. At a later time. I mean, it is not like Facebook, where you can just press a delete button and the person is gone from your life. Or at least your Facebook.

I desperately needed someone to tell me something good. I needed some reassurance. Not about telling me that my uncle will get better, because that is like telling me the impossible, but to tell me that i will be OK.

So it is all about me isn’t it. I am doing all these because i don’t want myself to feel sad. Everything is about me. Everything all everything. I am amazed at my own selfishness.

How do people cope with death? They always say, time heals. But what time? when? how long? Can you like, give me a time frame? One week? One month? One year? I have dealt with death before, when my grandma passed away. It wasn’t that hard because i was younger and i wasn’t that attached to her. But the more i think the more i freak out. How many deaths do we have to deal with in our lives? 5? 10? 15? How do we get ourselves prepared for it? Is it possible to get used to death? Like, when you get older and people around you started dying and you just go, oh, another gone, oh well. How does it work? What if you have a HUGE ASS FAMILY????? Like, 40 relatives who are older than you or something. So you attend like 40 funerals? I dunno. Does that not sound scary to you?

And then now i don’t know what to type anymore because not knowing what to type anymore means that i will have to go back to thinking about what i was thinking just now. Which scares me. Which is why this entry is so long BECAUSE I DON’T WANT TO STOP AND THINK.

Can someone tell me something nice? Anything.

Zidane hates the vuvuzela too.

garytong — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:23:07 +0800

*ROTFLMAO*

http://www.gifbin.com/984315

Sony Malaysia = f***ing stupid marketing.

garytong — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:10:46 +0800

Just got a NWZ-E443 player and it's LCD screen has this f***ing stupid band WHITE TIE AFFAIR sticker stuck to it.

I dare not remove the sticker because it's stuck tight on the screen and chances of scratching the screen is high trying to remove it.

What a f***ing stupid company this Sony is. Can I lodge a complaint against this f***ing stupid company ?

f***ing stupid Sony Malaysia.. truly a f***ing stupid company.

Bodoh marketing. Look at the whole screen, kena stuck.. I tried peeling but cannot, finger nail keep hitting screen and the sticker split in half revealing white layer inside.