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Lady burns puppy with cigarette and twists off leg

whoba — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 13:00:57 +0800

A video has been going around of a cruel lady torturing a dog; casually smoking and burning a puppy multiple times on its face and then directly in the eye, and lastly snapping off the puppies legs.

Unfortunately, this cruel human has not been identified yet but has been rumoured to be working in Malaysia. Please spread the news and if you know who she is, please report her to authorities and also release her info to the public (name, age, address etc.) as she deserves to be named and shamed in public.

Video link is on SPCA facebook, but be warned, you might not be able to sleep for next few nights:

[VIDEO LINK] WARNING GRAPHIC/VOILET CONTENT

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Update:

This video made my Animal Malaysia TV shows more footage and cruelty done to another puppy. She steps and kicks another puppy multiple times!!

(need to sign in Youtube to view because of graphic content)

https://youtu.be/WAs7EUUxI8s
[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/WAs7EUUxI8s[/YOUTUBE]

Problem with my Unifi modem

whoba — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 21:41:14 +0800

Need some help with my Unifi modem.

So I thought I be good and turn off my modem and router off and give it a rest after being continuously on 24/7 for probably for a year plus.
Turned off both by directly turning off from the power point and left it off for 5 hours.

Now I turn it back on and there's something wrong with the tmnet modem. The lights keeps blinking on and off. The 'power' light first red, then turns green for about 10 seconds, then 'LAN' and 'DSL' flash green, then suddenly all lights go of, and then back to 'power' red light. This keeps repeating.
Is my modem broken?

bowties

whoba — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:03:26 +0800

anyone know any decent shop/boutiques around KL that sell decent bowties?

I know H&M sells them, but limited in colour and styles; and I've seen few of them in those super-asian clothing shops but colour and quality looks horrible. Anyone know any other brands that sell them in more interesting colours and styles?

Turkish game show host breaks self-censorship

whoba — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:19:16 +0800

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/0...kish-game-show/

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Civil Disobedience on a Turkish Game Show
While most of Turkey’s journalists were carefully avoiding mention of the tens of thousands of protesters who poured into the streets this week, in a show of deference to the government that enraged supporters of the demonstrations, the host of one Turkish game show found a way to raise the issue not once but 70 times during a broadcast on Monday night.

As dozens of flabbergasted viewers reported on Twitter, Ali Ihsan Varol, the star of the Bloomberg TV quiz show “Kelime Oyunu,” or “The Word Game,” crafted the questions so that all of the answers — phrases like “Taksim,” “gas mask,” “Twitter” and “dictator” — were thinly veiled references to the government’s failed crackdown on dissent and the way the news media blackout had been undermined by social networking.

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Translation of all 70 questions:
1- A journey undertaken to see, to have fun: GEZI –name of the park that is at the center of the protests.
2- A large garden with trees and flowers in the center of a place of residence that allows people to breathe: PARK
3- In international law, someone who is not a member of armed forces or other armed groups in a country: CIVILIAN
4- An activity geared towards trying to change or improve a situation: A PROTEST [EYLEM]
5- A coming together around a set of ideas without being divided: UNITY
6- The metaphor for understanding what the facts are: TO WAKE UP
7- The people Mustafa Kemal Ataturk said should be “the most important representatives of human dignity and qualities, defense of nation and freedom of speeech”:YOUTH
8- The ability to make decisions according to correct, meaningful interpretation: COMMON SENSE
9- Property that should never be vandalized or damaged, that belong to all the people: PUBLIC PROPERTY
10-Ideology that depends on non-violence to carry out protests: PACIFISM
11-To damage public property on purpose: VANDALISM
12-Democratic solution box: THE BALLOT BOX
13-A voting method to ask the people what they think about political and social problems: REFERENDUM
14-The person that turns the right into not right and the protester into terrorist: PROVOCATEUR
15-People who live in the same country, share a culture: PEOPLE
16-A long-lived plant that is the symbol of being free: TREE
17-An area covered by treas considered symbol of fraternal unity: FOREST
18-The kids from Beşiktaş with the soul of Don Quixote (or chevalier): ÇARŞI
19-The neighborhood whose name means “to divide” but also unites: TAKSIM (Turkish word play here)
20-A word that means a large area: SQUARE
21-To take steps together to protest an event or an happening: PROTEST MARCH
22-To resist, to not give up: RESISTANCE
23-To find an event or an application as unfair, and not accept it and resist it: PROTEST
24-To be able to decide without undue pressure from outside: FREEDOM
25-The act of supporting each other for shared thoughts and goals: SOLIDARITY
26-What happens when all workers stop working: GENERAL STRIKE
27-To come together for a common goal: ORGANIZE
28-A word that means to rise up, to march: INSURRECTION
29-The best name for a TV station: HALK (PEOPLE — the name of the TV station that covered the protests)
30-The totality of qualities that one should abide by or avoid in occupations like media: ETHICS
31-The thing that is referred to in Article 28th of the Turkish Constitution as “Free and Cannot be Censored”:PRESS
32-The communication medium defined by Nezihe Meriç as “A dragon with a thousand heads”: MEDIA
33-An action that means the same thing as approval: SILENCE
34-Limiting the freedom of press, communication, film or books by government: CENSORSHIP
35-The person who is supposed to learn about an event and write about in various outlets: JOURNALIST
36-The microblog and social network site that has been described as a “curse”: TWITTER
37-The person Mustafa Kemal Ataturk said should “write his/her thoughts freely:” JOURNALIST
38-Person who tries to kiss up to power: BROWN NOSER
39-The state of being able to resist power or injustice but being quiet: COWARDICE
40-The branch that is held on to by people after being abandoned by mainstream media: SOCIAL MEDIA
41-A piece of news that gets published by media outlets but that is not true: FALSE NEWS
42-To make things worse by one’s statements or behavior: CANAK TUTMA (metaphor for enabling)
43-The vehicle for interjecting in protests: TOMA (APC)
44-A word that means “Just Don’t:” AMAN. (Turkish word)
45-A public employee whose name comes from Greek for city, state, civics: POLICE
46-The totality of social laws that means rights: LAW
47-The guide to laws: LAWYER
48-Naked power: VIOLENCE
49-To be held by police forces: DETENTION
50-An obstacle created to block a road or a path: BLOCKADE
51-Something that needs to be done sometimes to lessen tensions: TAKE A STEP BACK
52-The feeling of mercy that should be shared by everyone in all occupations: COMPASSION
53-Word for use of violence without any common sense: DISPROPORTIONATE
54-A weapon that attacks eyes, nose, mouth and lung tissue, a weapon oleosresin capsicum: PEPPER SPRAY
55-What APC’s excrete: PRESSURIZED WATER
56-Democracy breather: GAS MASK
57-The main institution whose principle is “the power belongs unconditionally to the people”: TURKEY’S PARLIAMENT
58-The word that means the same as “Cumhur”: PEOPLE (which is how the president is referred to in Turkey: the
head of the people, Cumhurbaşkanı)
59-To limit rights and freedoms: REPRESSION
60-The word that means to see oneself as better than other people: HUBRIS
61-The person who does not allow freedoms to people they rule: DESPOT
62-The internal court which is what propels people to judge their own actions: CONSCIENCE
63-The arabic-root word which means to “go away from the correct path”: DEVIATE
64-The person who is trying to actualize his/her ideas, thoughts: CAPULCU (LOOTER which is what the Prime Minister called the protesters)
65-A town in Hatay that is famous for its baths: REYHANLI (where a bombing was followed by press censorship)
66-A person that concentrates all political power: DICTATOR
67-A person who serves for money: SERVANT
68-A ruling system in which executive power can act independent of judiciary: PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM (internal Turkish political transition discussion)
69-To voluntarily give up a position: RESIGN
70-The act that makes a person bigger by asking to be forgiven for wrong actions: APOLOGIZE

This guy gots balls and brains to work around media censorship of the current Turkey protests. and now he has been suspended.
Wonder if anyone in Malaysia tv dare to do this?

Guacamelee

whoba — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:10:51 +0800

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Anyone played this downloadable game before?

Office abuse

whoba — Sat, 18 May 2013 23:52:08 +0800

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POK!

Singaporean doesnt know how to stand up to abuse of boss. In other countries like US, the boss would probably be fired, or the guy would sue him; instead he doesn't do anything.
Would this happen in Malaysia?

Michael Jackson again called a paedophile

whoba — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:23:48 +0800

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The king of pop just can't rest in peace, now an ex-dancer of MJ is saying he sexually abused him; whereas in his old trials, he was the no.1 witness to defend him. I would believe he was telling the truth if he didn't include a lawsuit in it. Seriously, why need to ask money if he wanted to get the word out?

Unable to use Google Search

whoba — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:18:09 +0800

I been unable to use the lowyat Google search thats on the forum main page top center; it gives me a page saying 'loading' but never loads.
I always prefer to use over the other forum search function as it searches inside threads too.
Using google chrome, windows 8.

how hansem is our PM?

whoba — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:09 +0800

Putting politics aside and just looking at looks only, does anyone else think Najib is the most awkward looking PM we have?
Compared to last 2, Mahatir and AAB, both have the 'look' of a leader of a country, looking smart and serious type person.
but Najib...eh, his half grown patchy grey moustache, bushy eyebrow, combined with his forced smile gives off the 'pervy guy look'

BN's marketing propaganda is much better than PR. They got better party symbol, nice modern graphic design in their 'better nation' slogan and nice minimalist t-shirts compared to PR's ugly bird.
But one thing that put me off during this election is seeing his pervy face so much driving around. Next time, BN shouldn't put his face so big and center of banners too much to promote themselves.
if BN change their leader, hope there's a more pleasant face to represent our country.

Work/Office chairs

whoba — Sat, 04 May 2013 23:42:03 +0800

Can anyone recommend or give advice about good brands for work/office mesh chairs available in Malaysia.
Ones that are similar to the iconic Herman Miller Aeron Chairs but affordable?

Anyone have any experience with these local brands or Ikea ones;
Apexof
Mikato (saw at Homedec)
U-Case

Where to get windows 8 now?

whoba — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:45:34 +0800

So I missed out on the promotion deal few months back for the cheap windows 8 for rm120, and now its RRP rm600.
Just got a new desktop and considering if I should switch to 8 or not. However, not willing to pay that much, and would rather just stick with windows 7 if I really need to fork out rm600.

Is there any where I can get a cheaper deal for a genuine copy? I notice on ebay/lelong, you can get now as same price as the promo. was thinking they probably bought a whole lot during the promo and now selling. Are these legit?/recomendable?
For those who have windows 8 now, do you really recommend to upgrade?

malaysian social/dating culture

whoba — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:15:54 +0800

I just moved back to KL from UK for after studying and growing up there and realized theres quite a culture shock I didn't expect even though my family is Malaysian.
Some of the things I've notice since moving back;
Even though i hear that most Malaysians can speak English, I feel that its still quite hard to communicate around, and I feel that most ppl prefer to speak mainly Chinese or Malay for daily use.
People here love hanging out in Shopping malls. I find that ppl will usually spend one whole day in a mall, and the next day in another mall. Personally, I despise malls as I hate how consumerized society has become, but I understand perhaps its because of the 365 days of hot weather and lack nice outdoor streets like in UK.
Young adults still live at home (with parents/family) rather than move out and find own accomodation.

These things somehow make it hard to meet new people or make friends other than from colleagues at work. Where do people go or do to make friends? Are there other activities out there Malaysians like to do in the outdoors?

edit:
Anway, i think the thread is going off-topic to what I intended; I was mainly hoping to get some local perspective on what the range of lifestyle is like here, what do YOU people do on a typical weekend day out/spare times; where are the more hip/interesting places to chill?
and to relate more to this thread; what is a typical date scenario like here?