Hujan emas di negeri orang...

Kata kau! Hujan emas sangat lah. Hujan lumpur gak!

Matilah!

Today, Orchard Road became Orchard River! Merasalah ko kan selama ni, everywhere about kalao ujan je banjir kilat bagai - Singapore kan begitu vast tak penah naik air. Katanya...

Today, Orchard yang begitu terkenal pun naik air. Merasalah ko!

Tuh dia! Teringat story Singapura dilanggar todak gituh!

These pics are from STOMP. CLICK HERE for the gallery and read up on the flash flood. Merasalah terbayang camna kalao Singapura ditenggelami air. Da la pulau...

Merasalah lari topik lak, sebenarnya selama ni Malaysia asik banjir kilat bagai - Singapore kiasu nak gak. Ampun! Gurau jerk!

Eh jap... ni some pics from Atilia's album launch of Indah, semalam kat Celebrities Club.

Alahai.. comeinya Atilia!!!!!

Tukau topik agik (ari ni random stuff posting gituh). For those yang main Foursquare - today is world meet-up day for Foursquare.

If you are in the Klang Valley, the meet-up is today - Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 7pm at Tune Hotels.com - Kota Damansara. It's at the Main Tower, Sunsuria Avenue, Seksyen 4, Kota Damansara, Petaling Jaya. They're trying to get a Swarm badge. Just like the one we all got during the FourSquare Day on last April 16.

Penangites can go to TuneHotels.com there as there's another gathering there too.

And if there are any Foursquare freaks out there, no, I don't know if they will be offering a special badge for the meet-up like the 4/42 badge we all got the last time.

I hope they won't as the exclusivity of one day a year will be diminished. Maybe a new badge. Of course there is a possibility takde pon badge offered.

Friends have asked me to pop by, but may or may not depending on schedule. Apapon, if no special badge is offered, I'd doubt I'd haul ass all the way there in the traffic. For a special badge maybe - as I already got my Swarm.

Er... and that's it. Berapa hari ni hectic sebab tetiba layan bola lak (walaopon tak minat sangat, tapi sebab dasar setiakawan gituh nak layan member-member yang minat).

Got a whole bunch of meetings coming up. Government tie-ups coming! Yeay! Sibuk ya amat but going to be so worth it.

PS - Thanks yo everyone who wished happy anniversary! klubbkidd.com is OFFICIALLY six! (like a woman, it's the age where it decided to begin, even though it's older than that). I love you guys, keep supporting me.

Thank you to the 821 already in my Facebook page, 329 members on Google Connect and 57 members on Networked Blogs and of course the 1,305 followers on Twitter.

And of course, all of you who keep coming everyday - which I sometimes wonder why too. Heh... love you guys! Gotta run, now... have a good day, guys and gals!

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Dear Malaysia

Dear Malaysia,

I first knew about you just over 33 years ago when I was born.

When I was seven or so, I learned to woo you with my pledge of allegiance, and singing beautiful songs - in a not so beautiful voice. Through the years, thanks to the friends I had, I learned about the beauty of how unique our country is not because it was a melting pot of race, religion and culture as it's constantly advertised in those tourism ads - but because I knew deep down inside that nowhere in the world would there be a country that had the best of everything - from food to friends, despite the differences from everything I knew about my life, culture and religion was fascinating and intriguing nonetheless.

When I first stepped out of the country at 15, and got a taste of what it was like outside our country - and through the years when I had the opportunity to travel more, to Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Brunei, Mauritius or even England - each time I returned home with a prayer of thanks for that bond we have.

You are the only one for me.

Of course there were doubts every time those fatcat politicians screwed up, or when some crappy incidents took place - the recession in the late 80s, Kampung Medan, the continuous elections that revealed results that never promised a check and balance with the governing party still ruling without any competition. And so much more trying episodes that I have tried to erase from my memories.

But I stood faithful to you, knowing that you have been the best for me - and for anyone for that matter. Indeed, to know Malaysia is to love Malaysia.

My love for you grows stronger by the day.

But sadly, I have to admit of late, I have been concerned over our relationship.

Stomping and spitting on cow's heads, the whole Teoh Beng Hock and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission incident, my Muslim friends not getting to see the Black Eyed Peas soon, the dragging out of the whole Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim case a decade later, Kampung Buah Pala, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu STILL being around despite everyone from his time already cashing in their retirement benefits....

Dare I remind you of how Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno and RON have come between us?

I don't know where we're headed together.

All I know is, I still love you beyond more than what my mere words can describe.

Nevermind some tempe-eating politician is still yapping away senselessly.

Dare I mention Rais even attempting to flirt with his offer of Internet censorship?

Still, these are trying times for our relationship and I hope we can weather the storm together.

Happy birthday sayang. Sorry we can't really celebrate it this year, because they won't allow it apparently due to the whole H1N1 situation and Ramadhan. What's important is the significance of it - not some speech telling us to celebrate our differences while the cow head stompers and spitters still roam free.

I still love you more than words can say. Happy birthday. I promise to keep trying to keep us together if you do too. Hugs.

Love,
Joe

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