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First there were snatch thieves, loan sharks, abductions and now gang rapes. It is very depressing to wake up to news of girls being gang raped everyday. It is sick. There are simply no more good news that you can read in the paper anymore.

2 weeks ago, a 18 year old factory girl waiting for her boyfriend to fetch her in Megamall (or better known as Pacific to us) at 11pm was pulled into a car by 4 men. She was driven to Cheruk Tokun, dragged into the jungle, where another 4-5 men were waiting. After that they left the poor girl alone and only to return a while later to repeat their beastly acts..

Yesterday, while 2 girls were double dating with their boyfriends on a beach at 2.15am. They were approached by 2 men posing as policemen demanding their ICs and taken to a secluded area where another 7 accomplices were waiting. In order for them to get their ICs back, they had to have sex with the men. One of the girls, 17 years old told them she was underaged and the men turned themselves upon the other poor girl.. This happened in Malacca.

Today in TheStar, a couple was waylaid by 4 motorists in Pasir Gudang 9.15pm yesterday at knife-point. The girl was gang raped in front of the boyfriend, who was beaten up when he gave a fight.

Sigh. Imagine the impact upon the lives of the victims, and their boyfriends. Scarred for life. Guilty and regretfull for being unable to protect their own girlfriends.. Now I feel that living in Malaysia is no longer safe, except when I am in the office or at home. Guys and girls out there, take care of yourself ok. Some measurements that I think everyone should have:

• DO NOT date in any secluded areas at night eg. beach, parks
• DO NOT believe anyone saying they are the police unless they show their IDs
• EVEN if they are police, DO NOT let them take your female friends away
• try NOT to be alone at anytime, choose to wait at a crowdy area

I hope there are no more such news tomorrow..

Recently traffic jam is getting worse along the Penang Bridge. The lanes before the bridge’s toll are being reduced by 2 to accomodate the upgrading work being done. I think it is a part of the bridge widening project being carried on right now. The project is more than welcomed but unfortunately for the time being it created a bottleneck. That made those SMARTAG users’ life difficult (my brother is one of them) because it is located on the most right lane. Imagine cutting through those massive number of cars. Worse still, they are Penang drivers -_-


Today I forgot to bring my badge and my desk’s key to work. I only realized it when I was in front of my office! (too busy sleeping in the car, the jam lah :P) Without the badge is still ok, but without the key I cannot do my work today. Why? Because Dell’s employees are responsible to keep and lock up their laptops in their desks. You are allowed to bring the laptop home but who would do that? Allowing employees to bring laptop home = Supervisor’s expectation of you will work at home = No no for me. So what to do? I had to ask my brother to fetch me back home and get the key. Because of my carelessness my brother had to apply for emergency leave, sigh. Sorry man, will treat you a movie sometime later this weekend





I miss those days, when the traffic is smooth


So there we were at the bridge again, it was 8.20am. The jam is so bad that it has became a standstill, moving a few metres and then stop.. It took us almost 1.5 hours to reach home, thanks to the jam very much -_-” I hope the 2nd link/bridge widening can complete faster, the jam is starting to drive me nuts.. Driving to work in KL also not so bad lah!



Only if ferries go to Bayan Lepas too..


Anyway one of my buddy went to download San XI after reading my post but only to find out it was a Japanese version with Chinese patch, he was quite upset lol. Actually those selling in *ahem cough* stores are also this version. The patch did convert most of the characters except some in-game dialogues. It is still playable lah, I don’t have any problems with it so far. If the patch works perfectly it would certainly add a lot of fun in the game. See what the officers talk also quite nice, especially in meetings.


The game so far has been good, I find it the most challenging version of San series. The AI is good and strong, a nuisance at times. Their attacks are non-stop, led by only the best officers. My campaign has been on going for 70 years now, there are only 3 rulers left: Yuan Shao, Liu Bei and Lu Bu (me) Liu Bei is the strongest now, sien. I have to ally with Yuan Shao to stop him -_- I have executed Guan Yu and Zhao Yun *sob* but he still doesn’t want to give up in attacking me.. Maybe tonight I will start another campaign fresh, playing as both Cao Cao and Lu Bu
Oh ya, did anyone catch the news about Malaysia bringing Disneyland to Johore? Read it here. Well well, now I may have a reason to visit Johore already if the plan does commence

Today while I was browsing some Google tools for my blog, I noticed this photo organizing software Picasa. It offers a wide range of nifty features such as creating slide shows, collage pictures and photo editing abilities.

I like the collage feature the most, as it lets you create some pretty impressive photos. Your pictures will appear as real photos that pile up, giving a real photo album like feel. Before this I have seen some bloggers who had this type of pictures showing in their photo blogs. Initially I thought they were creating these images using Photoshop, only to find out they are actually done using Picasa.

A collage made using KLCC park pictures, the whole process takes no longer than 2 seconds!
Collage of Bak Kut Teh. Instead of using a picture itself as the background, it can be white/gray/black color. The photos can be arranged to grid, contact sheet or multi-exposure, according to your liking and creativity!

As you can see from the photos above, they are very nicely done, got that random feel Imagine you have a whole bunch of gathering photos and don’t know which ones to publish, Picasa comes in handy

The photo editing tools can be categorized into Basic Fixes (Crop, Straighten, Redeye etc) Tuning (Fill Light, Shadows etc) and Effects (Glow, Sepia, Tint etc) It even has this “I’m feeling lucky” feature that automatically fixes your photos with.. luck? Those who constantly use Google will know this is some sort of their trademark thing

The user interface design is beautiful and sleek. Nice and worthy program to have if you constantly take and store photos. Picasa is certainly not a tool for bloggers only. Best of all, it’s free and provides almost all your photo editing needs. No need to use Photoshop (which is a resource hog anyway) anymore for basic fix