Why I LOVE my hostel's internet connection

Being in one of the local public universities in Malaysia, the internet connection is provided for us. And being as 'local' as they are, they need to filter certain materials amidst their inability to comprehend technology. Thus, they proceed to filter everything by keywords in the URL, search engine or perhaps even in content. Sorry for certain bloggers, because I was barred from my internet connection to read your blogs.

Of many webs being blocked, the main one was YouTube. Of course, it just means that we can no longer enjoy free videos, even when our doctors uploaded or recommended some medical videos to us. We just feel that it is just being stupid. Well, not really. There's always proxy server or port forwarding. There's many ways to bypass it, but it just feels stupid having to see this kind of things here.

So I explored further, and found that the admin had blocked anything to do with the word Playboy. Whether it is in the search engine or url, they block it for no apparent reason.

The trademark cute bunny

No, I don't read Playboy. Serious, I don't. You got to trust me! It's a paid website, so why would I go there? Oops.. Haha.. The problem is, they only block playboy. Try typing in sex, gay, nude or whatever sexually explicit words in, it went on smoothly. Why wouldn't they just put in a something like parental filter if they really need to filter something?!!

Perhaps, they really do want to promote sex education. They just want to do it discreetly. They do understand that the key to adulthood is sex education. Just that Playboy does not fit into the bill, perhaps there's too much "play" going on, even from the word itself. (So much of me and my lame joke)

But that's besides the point. Even Rapidshare had been blocked by them. No more downloading from the famous website for manga lovers. Lucky me for being able to do it at home. Or perhaps there are few smart ones who host the downloads at other servers such as senspace, mediafire, 4shared, megaupload, or whatsoever. I don't care which server, as long as I could lay my hands on my weekly dose of manga. And torrents too. No movies, no games, no music.

I'm almost addicted. Yes, I'm not yet..

So much for my rant, though it's actually free, and it's via LAN network. Free stuff may not be good, but we can't complain of free stuff? That's pure rubbish. I fight for the cause of freedom in internet. Why subject ourselves to such conventional thoughts which abide us from being a liberal and developed nation?

So, free the filters and give me my Bunny!!

*Disclaimer: The author does not read Playboy, or ever had his hands on any Playboy magazine. However, the author does not seem to mind if there are any readers who would like to donate their used or new Playboy magazines to him. Any issue will do. And Penthouse, or whatever you can get for him. Well, his birthday is coming soon anyway. :P

Wanna get Physical with Me? :P

Not this "physical", my friend..

Being in med school, physical examination is a must. I have yet to do a proper one after 6 weeks. What could be the problem? Lack of patients? Yes. Laziness? Yes. No "interesting" findings? Yes. Hmmph.. perhaps it's time to get "physical".

With time running short, slacking is not an option. I've done both of my case write ups, so all that matters now is the long case. All I need to do is to clerk a patient, get 'physical', and present to my supervisor. Of course, we'll have to make do with the investigations, diagnosis and treatment, in short. 2 more weeks to end my 1st posting of the year. By the time the 1st years finish their orientation week, we'll be having holidays, so I guess it's time to visit the old campus.

Being in the hospital is not always a pleasant experience. With thousands of potentially harmful microorganism flying in the air, waiting to infect someone at each single opportunity. I sometimes rather trade my place with the US army in Iraq. At least, they die of something larger than the minute organism. And the threat is much lesser.

Every morning, the hospital would be filled with the stink of shit and urine, especially when the janitor is cleaning up the organic waste for disposal. What a day to start fresh. That is when we start scourging for patients to clerk, and believe you me, any patients staying more than 2 days in the ward would be sleeping all day long. Reasons? They've enough of medical students. You can never wake them up, as the saying goes, "You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." Sometimes, you might catch a glance of some patients who scamper to their bed in an attempt to snuggle under the bed when they hear the approaching footsteps of the medical students. To them, life must have been hard like a refugee.

Don't be fooled.. they are not asleep!

Well, not all ends up like that. There are certain few who were willing to be clerked.

"Must let you all clerk, so you all can learn mah, next time you can be doctor and treat other patients."

I tried hard to hide my grin.

Because they are those that had just been admitted for a day or two.

They haven't seen REALITY.

In 2 days time, they'll have to scamper just like the rest, being afraid of the students. VERY AFRAID. Or perhaps VERY ANNOYED.

We can ask you the same questions thousands of time. Different people, same question, every 10 or 20 minutes. We can even train you to be a medical student in the process.

Plus if you don't mind the agony of stripping over and over again for physical examination.

The wrath of interogation will prove too much, unless for "some".

Well, I forgot to mention that those "some" who survive the wrath are those who are depending life-support. Severe cases. We wouldn't want to send them afterlife any faster.

In the end, no one would really like to come here. I don't blame them.

By the way, I'm not one of those who did the above cruelty. Maybe that's the reason I do at most 15 patients in 6 weeks. Not 50-60 of them. So, the next time you're here, don't worry. Call me to attend to you fellow readers/bloggers. I'm more than willing to help.

Don't worry, I'm NEW. I'm TRYING TOO.
I have done no harm to anyone, YET..

KLue Urbanscape 2008

Fine arts, fine music. Everything seems fine under a sunny day. That's how I would describe the recent(and still on at the time of writing this post) KLue Urbanscape 2008 organised in Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre(KLPac) from 12 in the afternoon all the way till 12 midnight.


Most would be wondering what is this all about. It's all about arts, of course. Arts is not extinct in KL, mind you, they are just blooming after staying in the shadows all these while. With the rise of Urbanscape events in 2002(Grappa Soho) and 2004(KL Sentral), similar events have since appeared on the arts events radar, among them were the Rantai Arts Festival and Arts For Grabs. This would do our country proud by dwelling in the cultural development, since we are lacking in civilization from the cultural aspect.

Firstly, KLPac is no longer a foreign place for KLites. Being a golf course initially, the area was developed by YTL Corporation in tandem of their property development of the Sentul Area which includes Sentul East (Tamarind) and Sentul West (Maple). Yes, they are the same ones who were responsible for the Bintang Walk project. So, this area's ain't no little feat from them again.

The view on the road to KLPac (backview) is already a symbolic of art by itself. Colorful banners were placed along the roadside.



The 2 colononial buildings left unharmed but refurbished in KLPac, a concept of preservation of history. The top bulding was used as a golf club before this. Now, I'm not really sure.

Full Car Park

One thing to note is that KLPac is meanth to cater for a not-so-large event, as the carparks could cater for around 100 cars. With half of it going to event organizers, the other half would only be for the art lovers visitors. It should be commended that there weren't any commotion or problems in parking at the time when I came at around 1pm.

At the entrance where you can see the ticket booth.

A view of the Marketplace

Before entering the KLPac builing.

The Majestic KLPac Building (Photo courtesy of Shaolin Tiger)

One of the lump art which could be an eyesore if ever put in wrong place.

Urbanscape 2008 was well done actually. They in fact divided the area according to interests, so one have to travel from one place to another and could feel the transition of atmosphere. There were the Gallery, X Box, Accoustic Livehouse and Cinetheatre in the building, while the X Lawn Stage, Marketplace and Lakeside were outside the building, cashing on the natural scenery around the KLPac building.

At home, we call them junk stone slabs and broken wood. Here, we call them art. Well, with a bit of decoration of course. Everything is possible with art.

The green environment message, perhaps? The paper birds were nicely done, and this would be one of the few pieces that I wouldn't mind having in my home.

The creation of a Tapau(Bungkus) nation. Polystrene lunch boxes are dirt cheap and pollute the environment, and this could be a good way to recycle and make it less of an eyesore. Note that all 4 limbs could be controlled by the strings, which I am pulling one. This is definitely the coolest and cheapest (in term of material costs) that I would ever seen. Kudos!!

A view of art from above

Another view of a Saturday, it seems.

Art on wall does not need to be conventional.

A piece of art symbolizing cheerfulness and joy, and a little pinch of noisiness. n_n

Art can be very cheap, as these cardboxes were decorated to fit a TV inside. Even those cardboxes were sturdy enough to sit on and enjoy the show. There were many short art films and trailers played, which unfortunately, I could watch with a fast forward manner since they were too slow.

The Wall of Fame in KLPac.

1st floor of KLPac building

There were music performance for music lovers, as there were alloted time for new talents as well as local artistes, such as Joe Flizzow, Altimet, Enstraged, One Buck Short, The Times, Auburn, Moonshine KL, KL Stompers and many more . Basically, the events were going to last through the 12 hours. The events are shown as below:

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My dear on the wired chair in the park.

Of course, we did explore outside the building to check out this place. It's pretty nice, if you ask me. The landscaping does show signs of green everywhere, in the midst of the KL City. Perhaps it could be the next most happening place in KL.

Oops... Help!!

Anyway, the lake had deteriorate compared to it was a few years back. It was total green now with rubbish floating on the water. Fishes could hardly be seen anymore as the water was green (well, KLPac support greenery anyway), although you would still be able to see the ducks or swans.

Posing by the hill mound by the marketplace.

Model's pose eh? Anyone wanna hire this model? :P

WWF at Urbanscape, creating awareness of extinct wildlife?

Basically, I think it is an event worth going for to enjoy art. However, the ticket pricing may be a little bit pricey. Pre-sales tickets are sold at RM25 while Door sales tickets are sold at RM35. There may be a variety of events, but the interests were too spread out such that no one is willing to stay there to stay for long, especially when the food there were really expensive and double or triple the price of food you get outside. This would make an impression that Art is ONLY FOR THE RICH. I would rather support the cause of "Art should NOT discriminate and Art is for ALL." I got invitations from Nuffnang, the blog media partner of this event, so I would say it is a worthwhile experience and an eye opener of the current state of art in Malaysia. It's really impressive, actually, although I would prefer a no-smoking theme for art. Go green, after all. If and only if there would be further improvements, I'm sure Urbanscape events would be even grander to promote Art and Music. Buy Malaysia. :P

P.S. Btw, met fellow Nuffnangers there. David(Royal Shortness), Frankie, Kenny Choo, Kevin Tan and a few more I'd forgot their name. Sorry ya! n_n Nice to meet you all there! Of course, not to forget Robb and Nuffnang who without them, I wouldn't be there!

A Day to Grow Old

Sometimes, we take life for granted. We forgot how much our family had done for us. We tend to neglect people who are willing to lend their ears or shoulders for us when we need them. We stood by our dreams and fantasies, never wanting to grow old. We wish that it would remain just like that forever, although we know that it would never be the same.

How many of us had really imagined if our parents are truly gone from this world? Who do we turn to when we're in need of counsel? How many of us could really imagine that someone really close to us had just vanish from this world for good, never ever to come back again.

I'm sure almost everyone did. Everyone did. At least once.

But picturing it, is different from facing the cold reality when it really strikes you.

A middle aged man was admitted to the hospital 3 weeks ago. An unusually healthy patient for his illness, perhaps due to the fact that it was still in early stage. It was an incidental finding. He was single, lonely, but never dull. He was rather cheerful despite having to stay in the ward for 3 weeks prior to his surgery. The doctor was not there till then. So, the hospital had decided to build up his nutritional status to be fit for surgery. He was only 49kg compared to 70kg 3 months ago. Other than the vague pain in his abdomen, he looks healthy otherwise.

I spoke to him, and he was kind and helpful. A really willing and co-operative patient. Looking at his condition, everything should be fine with surgery. All we had need to do was to wait for the doctor to be back.

He was due for surgery 2 days before. He was back in ward yesterday. The surgery was not a success. It was inoperable. The cancer had spread to surrounding vital blood vessels. There was no hope for him. The best chance was 6 months time usually.

It did give me a shock. Shock that a patient that look so well could succumb to look so sickly today. He was swollen and lied helplessly on the bed. He's just 49. If and only if God had not been cruel to him. He had not even married yet. No children, no success in career yet and he was forced to leave.

Many who had read this would feel that we should be professional. For those other professions out there, you had not seen it yet. Saying it was really easy. I know I wouldn't cry over such life and death, but I never expect that I would be in such a shock. Disturbed perhaps. There were a few deaths recently, and none affected me other than this. That was because I knew that patient. I knew him in the ward, healthy, before he got into such a sickly condition.

I read over his case files. There were nothing much. I knew nothing to console the patient. Perhaps he need no console. He seemed stronger than I thought. It must have required a strong determination to stay cool in the face of death. His courage was exemplary. Dying suddenly will not allow you to have time to think, and you;re just gone. And going away slowly gives you the mental torture, because you know that you'll be gone, but you just can't stop it.

And the last words on his case notes was:

The patient requested for the organ donor option.

He was still thinking of helping the others to live on.

Sneaking My Way Into the Urban Jungle Party

Nightfalls, and the animals had gone to slumber. Or, had they really found a resting place for the night?

Behold the King and Queen of the Jungle!

(Picture courtesy of Cheeserland)

Just kidding. They are Cheesie from Malaysian Dreamgirls and Timothy Tiah, co-founder of Nuffnang. Party animals just as we all are being at the rumble party at Modesto in Desa Sri Hartamas. What party again, you ask.

It's the Nuffnang Wild "Live" Blogging Party!

This is a gathering of all party animals, be it social butterflies or wild party animals! And who shall be the king who shall rule them all?

The Monkey King eh?

Alright, I know it's kinda pretty lame, but I had decided to go at the last minute, since I got an extra invitation! So, having to come out with extra costumes in half a day's time is no easy thing ok? But anyway, me no king. The king of the jungle(best dressed) is no longer the lion. It goes to:


HOLY COWW!!! MOOOOOOOOO!!!! Lucky fella won a laptop for that. Everyone's dying to know if there's any milk there. :P

And the queen of the jungle who got the other laptop. RAWWRR!!!

Well, people said that we party till the cows come back. But we Nuffnangers did something extra. When the cows come back, we party again with them!

Poor old McDonald must had been wondering where his cows had gone missing to.

And I tell you, the crowd is not your mere ordinary crowd. They are:

Spidey Peter Parker? I thought I killed him with Baygon last week.

The Animal Nuffies. No French Maid this time though.

3 blind mice, 3 blind mice, see how they pose, see how they pose..:P
Kevin Tan on the right is joining my course as a junior this July.

Adeline(also from MDG), Skyler and Michelle


Which completes the Malaysian Dream Girls top few finalists (apart from the winner Cindy who's with Advertlets) Simon isn't a MDG finalist, by the way. From left: Adeline, Simon, Cheesie/Ringo, Hanis

Frankie, the self proclaimed slutty bunny and also the only male bunny there.

The terrorist elephant?

With the caveman MC Liang

Caveman and monkey are primates, so they should be brothers. XP

Who says monkey can't be with the bee? :P

From left: YM (me), Chubbipenguin, Ching Yeen, and Caryn

With Jinglebell

The "UPM" Gang with the sotong that some mistaken for crab!

YM with Simon D' Horse

Johnny D' Cow and YM D' Monkey

And here's Porcupiney Robb joining the gang!!


Oh ya, did someone asked what did Caryn dressed as?
She's the modern "Buaya Darat" :P

Nah, she was one of the 2 zebras that night, posing with her "cow of shining armor" :P

And this is her with Dominic, the real "Buaya Darat". Fellow ladies beware of him when you see him. Hehe.. just kidding..

Caryn hugging a big Pooh no other than Kenny Sia!

And being a fan of Pink Pau's blog, she just couldn't resist snapping a photo with her before she leaves for US.

People would have to do whatever it takes to get prizes. Whether it's a pair of movie tickets to plushies and to the largest laptops.

My dear was a bee who got a pair of GSC tickets. Lucky me, for my queen bee would be inviting me for a movie. n_n

And Caryn was the zebra who had became a bird.

Acting as if she won the "lottery", which was the MC. She got quite some interesting freebies which includes a T-shirt with funny captions, movie tickets and a few more stuff.

And Ohkulala had to scratch Pink Pau's butt. :P

Perhaps this was how a Sotong does a mating ritual, on a Nuffie. XP

Compared to the bunny mating ritual who rocks them all!!

Of course, in the end, we just gotta show you some pervertic side of certain bloggers. Who else but our Malaysia blog king, Kenny Sia!!

Please be reminded that Pooh is a male, and males had lots and lots of pubic hair.

And as medical students, harassing or groping breasts aren't serious offences. We just call them breast examination.

See? No problem, and they escape with it. :P

And me, being the happy man I am, will cheer for a party that rocks so much, more than 150 party animals were there. Birds, bees, butterflies, lions, tigers, ladybirds, ostrich, gorillas, cows, you name it, they have it.

And soon, the party animals retreat to their own den, or somewhere else to continue their fun and joy in a saturday night fever. The night is still young!! :P


*Some pictures are not from the author, which comes from Cheesie, Kidchan Studio, Shaolinphoto, Simon Seow, Kenny Choo, etc.

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Something Just Never Change Before and After Marriage:
It's Just the Sequence.

I believe that marriage could be and should be something sacred. But what I found while surfing online did give me a laugh. Would any couples behave in such a manner? Read on:

Before Marriage
Ah Beng: Ah... Alas, I can hardly wait!
Ah Lian: Do you want me to leave?
Ah Beng: NO! Don't even think about it.
Ah Lian: Do you love me?
Ah Beng: Of course! Always have and always will!
Ah Lian: Have you ever cheated on me?
Ah Beng: NO! Why are you even asking?
Ah Lian: Will you kiss me?
Ah Beng: Every chance I get, baby!
Ah Lian: Will you hit me?
Ah Beng: Heck no! Are you crazy?!
Ah Lian: Can I trust you?
Ah Beng: Yes!!
Ah Lian: Darling!!!!~

So what's next after marriage? The conversation had never change. Perhaps' it's just the sequence. Try reading from bottom back to the top.

Pretty ironic isn't it? :P

Life doesn't really change after marriage didn't it? Bottoms up!!!

Hope no one will ever get this in their life! n_n

Disclaimer: The author shall not be responsible for any damages incurred by readers due to reading this. This is just a work of fiction and not meant to depict the life of anyone. It should be taken with a pinch of sugar as this is intneded to be of light humor.

Remember 'bout me saying that I'm in a secret project? So, the full plan is revealed ahead!


Tactical Operation: Stealth Potato – Episode 2

I believe that most bloggers would die for to be in Old Trafford.
To be in the Theatre of Dreams, the home of Man U FC.
But to enter, first, we need TICKETS.

And Mister Potato HAVE them.
Who else shall be the victim of our dying acts if not Mister Potato.

We’ll sincerely apologize, but the act had to be carried out.
THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS
AND I HAVE A GAMEPLAN FOR US!!

Our group F of Project Trafford have finally come out with the gameplans to conquer all. For a
prologue, head on to our leader, Shaolin Tiger.

48 HOURS: 5 PLANS, 1 GOAL à THE TICKETS!!!

This is just a continuation from episode 1, Queer Ranter.