Find, some might say, it’s your home, you can do whatever you like. This is public and we do not allow people below 18 to watch. It’s just plain dooohhhh to me. I mean, why the hell do you censor the movie in the first place? Since you clasify a movie is good for persons above 18, then don’t censor it la since no kids will watch it anyway.

The way I look at it, the guidance is only for parental discretion and if the parents consent to it, I do not see what the problem is. Something is seriously wrong with our censorship in Malaysia.

Overseas, inappropriate contents are censored when broadcasted in public. When the content is aired from a DVD, it does state parental discretion but does not censor the content. It is the parents’ responsibility to limit the content to their kids. I can only understand censorship of nudity but not censorship of kissing and hugging? Common, people don’t know how to kiss and hug mer?

Now, preventing kids below 18 from watching Fast and Furious 4? All I can say is, REDICULOUS!

Anyhow, that was how the advertisement went. As much as it does make sense, I beg to differ and I just think this isn’t the way to solve the problem. We must get to the root of why people aren’t giving way and being courteous when they are, in other circumstances.

Let’s see, people do not squeeze in front of you when they are queuing. If they did, you would have been pissed as well, no? Yet, on many occasions, you still give way willingly, why? Simply because we are doing it willingly and out of courtesy. I don’t know about you guys but I can’t seem to find it in me to be courteous, be it on the road or in a queue, when some ignorant idiots just cut in front of you. Somehow or rather, I feel they are not doing it unintentionally, but they just feel it’s alright to do what they are doing. They don’t seem to think it’s at all wrong.

At least queue cutting isn’t too bad in our country, but don’t even get me started on idiot drivers or cyclists. All I can say is they assume too much. Dude, as much as I want to anticipate all your possible idiotic actions on the road, it’s just impossible for me to anticipate all of them. One day, I am bound to hit into you, or rather, YOU hitting into ME! Now, that is the last thing I want happening, not so much because I care about your life, but rather, I care about mine and my families.

Then, we have idiotic motorcyclists who zig zag through the traffic, squeezing through any small space they can find in between and beside cars. Perhaps they do not know the danger associated with their riding attitude or perhaps they just can’t be bothered about their safety.

The next thing you know, when you get into an accident, people start screaming at you when in the first place, it was them who caused all these. When you honk these idiots, they will stare at you, probably will also give you the finger, and will make you feel like as if you did the utmost stupid thing. So much so that sometimes, you just feel like slapping them silly, or maybe next time just bloody knock them down, since it’s such a sin to honk at them.

Perhaps our driving school have not taught our drivers the proper way of driving. I shall leave teaching you guys some basic rule of thumb when you drive, at a later date. Let’s save that for another post.

Thank god, a few weeks later, I heard the advertisement to advise drivers and motorcyclists  not to cut queues. Otherwise, I am sure we have some stupendous people who just do not know what the main cause of all these courtesy going down the drain is. Anyway, I shall stop ranting now and you guys have a great weekend ahead.

Anyway, I am not doing any of those tonight and instead I have some work to complete. Being away in Labuan doesn’t help much either. Oh well, although I am not celebrating it, I wish you all out there a Happy Chap Goh Mei. Enjoy it, this is the last day of the Chinese New Year celebration and enjoy all you can. Gamble and light up the fireworks all you want because after today, you have to wait another year!

There is of course cheap wine, cheap smoke and cheap flesh, if you get what I mean. Literally everywhere you go, you can see people drinking. Read this, Jaz beer is only RM10 for 7 cans. That’s freaking cheaper than Coke! A carton of Carlsberg is only RM40. 1 litre of Absolut Vodka is only Rm28! A carton of Dunhill cigarettes is only RM52! Winstons are even cheaper at Rm40.

Now, going to flesh, I wouldn’t know how much they cost, since I haven’t really bothered asking, otherwise, I might have to take up their services. I can see caucasians or even locals with girls curling their arms around their arms being nice and all. Forgive me but I don’t think those girls are their other half.

Anyway, for me it’s boring because there is technically nothing much to do here. So all I do everyday is work, eat, sleep and the routine starts all over again the next day. We technically toured the whole of Labuan in 2 days. By that, I mean, we went from East to North, then to the West and the South.

That’s all Labuan has to offer but their beaches are not too shabby. It’s nicer than the ones we get in Kuching. I mean, the beaches are so near that you can literally go to the beach side anytime you feel like just chilling out after  a long day of work, unlike in Kuching.

Anyway, it’s getting late now and it’s time for me to hit the bed. Till then, take care.

Picture courtesy of Wikimedia.org

Personally, I am looking forward to this new year to bring drastic changes into my life. Good changes, that is. Good luck ye all and have a good new year. Enjoy your long breaks!

Anyway, I would like to wish all my readers a Happy New Year 2009. May all good things come and all bad things go. I am hoping 2009 will bring dramatic changes to my life, in a good way of course.

As I am writing this, people are letting off chai leis every minute or so. It’s a bit irritating but wad the heck right? It’s the new year after all. I am looking forward to Chinese New Year now. Good luck and have a happy year ahead, peeps. Cheers and see ya all.

Home Made Black Marinated Duck (Sweet)

It’s yummy but I didn’t even touch a piece of it. I just don’t have that kinda passion for duck meat.

Home Cooked Salt Prawn

Now, what do you do on a Sunday afternoon when you have no plans, whatsoever? You stay home and…

cook instant Mee Goreng. This version is by Maggi and it’s the Asli Pedas favour that I like. Anyway, this was cooked by my dear with love, though the hot dogs were prepared by me.

Don’t you all just agree that dSLR just makes food look that much nicer? Hmmm… more food to come in the next post. Cheers guys and happy December!

It hurts and pains me to see this happening. I have long suspected our drivers to be so inefficient that I was sure one day, they were going to kill someone. It happened for real this time. I tried many times, to view it from the perspective of the young driver. I tried giving him all the benefits of the doubt but there just aren’t any benefits I can find. Many times, I tried driving a constant 80km/h and slammed on the brakes approximately 100m from the junction, and I could still stop in time without the ABS kicking in.

This led me to the fact that he was definitely driving very much faster to not be able to stop in time and cause such a damage. I reckon he was driving at least 120km/h but it could be more or less, I don’t know. Being a probationary driver and killing 2 people in an accident will definitely haunt him for the rest of his life.

I have many things to say about him but I shall refrain as I do not wanna speculate. He knows best about what happened that night. This leads me to the question, is it too young for our drivers here to be driving at the age of 17? Honestly, I don’t think it’s too young, but the problem is with the mentality of the people here. How our system operates here is to blame as well.

Because of the mentality of the people here, I honestly think an age of 21 years old would be more suitable. Putting up the “P” sticker does not mean anything anymore. It is meant as an indication to other drivers that we are noobs and are still learning. Nowadays, it is more an indication of professional driving. You see drivers with P stickers driving at crazy speeds, zig zagging through busy roads.

They are so professional that a 850cc car can be driven as fast and as aggressively as a 5000cc Ferrari! I can list down many types of road idiots right now, but I think that itself deserves an entire post to itself. I’ll make it a note to blog about it in the near future.

Youngsters nowadays seriously have to consider undergoing crash course safe driving. Driving schools should buckle up and get serious about what they are doing. Do not pass students for the sake of passing them. The end product will end up harming other road users. You’d be surprised how many actually do not know what certain road signs mean!