Browsing all posts from May, 2008.

The Bangsar Boy: Looking Cool For School

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Okay, so one thing I have never been associated with is the word “Cool”. Some people might disagree, considering the crowd that I hang around with, but back in my school days, I was anything but. So I’m not sure why the sub-editors chose this headline for my The Bangsar Boy article published today. So, [...]

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Martell VSOP Rising Personality of 2008

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So, I spent the night with some friends (left work early, will suffer tomorrow – or rather, today) at the Martell Personality of the Year event held at KLpac. Elaine, who was also there as JP‘s guest (and one of four celebrity models for the auction segment), texted me earlier and said that the organisers [...]

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Struggling to understand politicians

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So I was reading this article today about Former Parti Keadilan Rakyat Youth leader Ezam Mohd Nor rejoining UMNO when I came across this quote by Pak Lah: “He wants to come back to Umno and he will continue with the struggles of Umno according to the party’s goal and direction, and not Parti Keadilan.” [...]

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RIP Sydney Pollack

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Got an SMS Alert from The Star this morning: “Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack, of Tootsie and Out of Africa fame, dies of cancer at age 73.” Yahoo! headlined this AP story. I don’t know much about his work but I think I first heard about him when Tom Cruise starred in The Firm. Later, just [...]

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Election blues

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Running around today, I totally forgot that I hadn’t read the newspaper. I also forgot that the article on the BRATs programme which I am currently facilitating was out. So after I returned from an exciting trip on the Penang-Butterworth Ferry (the original subject I was going to blog about – later, perhaps), I took [...]

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