Pre-merdeka + post-merdeka

Hah so Merdeka finally dropped by. So what did we boys and girls of Monash do? Sad to say, nothing related to Merdeka… No ‘Keranamu Malaysia’ and ‘Tanggal tiga puluh satu’ but we did sing ‘It’s my life’, ‘Hotel California’ and ‘Hey Jude’. We all had our hair dyed – blonde, very lala-ish blonde because according to Jinn Tan’s mum, you patronize at Red Box and you’ll come out with blonde hair and Jinn generously added that you’ll also have techno music that goes ~dum dum dum~ surrounding you and blue neon lights in your pants. Not forgetting the spiked hair, earrings/rings, cigarette tucked on top of the ear and a good command of Mandarin/Cantonese. Anyway, the point is, we went to Red Box and Jinn is now a true Tarcian. Once a Tarcian always a Tarcian eh? But before all that Merdeka shit, let’s venture 1 week back into time. Aaron came up with the idea of paintball. And so we went.

from left: Joe, Choong Khin, Fai, Ghee June, Aaron, Kwee and the two little ones in the front row, Jessie and Kimber. And so that's all for paintball. You must be thinking, wtf?! Yea... Wtf?! But don't wtf me, for the lack of pictures before, during and after the game, I blame Jessie, again for not bringing her camera. A camwhore without a camera?? WTF??!!

And so the next day, I travelled back to Ipoh and after 1h 15m of driving, we came to a halting stop. Unexpected as it is, we are experiencing traffic congestion on the north-south highway and it's not Chinese New Year yet. WTF?! Ok man chill, let's be patient and be like everybody else and wait in line. After 45mins of jam, I saw this:WTF?!! But in the end I still made it back. Of course I made it back.
Good ol' Ipoh.

And I'm back in the big city once again. It was Tuesday and after our grueling marketing test, we adjourned to Sunway Pyramid for a movie and a meal. Guess where did we go for that meal?
- pain in the as... I mean wallet -
Grilled boneless chicken.

Then the next day, Merdeka's eve, Jinn Tan decided to bring us all to dim sum for lunch in Puchong.
And er... about the lack of pictures before the meal, I blame Jinn cos he made me drive. However during the meal, I blame myself cos I was too busy eating... hehe

After our finger-lickin'-good meal, we went back to uni to attend macro lecture and whoever said 2 hours of Dr. Wan would not be ear-straining, was lying. Phoof, after lecture it was finally time to visit our beloved and long talked about Red Box. [Jinn: "I'm coming home!!"]
Mil (left) our superstar. Jinn shying away from the Red Box sign. You can run you can hide but sooner or later, "we will caught you!" (GanCincang, 2006)
Hah, gotcha!
Picture taken under duress. Forced to take a lala-shot, we call this.
Stop pretending to be a lala... You already are one.
Mil the superstar gives up and a new superstar - Kimberly steps up and takes the stage by storm

After experiencing an explosive session of karaoke, we went over to Ikano power centre to join in the Merdeka eve fun.
Then we went makan. Minced chicken something something lasagna and Aussie burger.
Then came 12am. Time for Cinderella to go home. =.=" More like fireworks time!! This is just a glimpse of the 7-9mins extravaganza. Recorded 3mins of it before my hand and neck started to tire.
After fireworks, we concluded that the few exits available are so jammed up and it would be almost impossible to get out of there without going through one of those jams so what did we do? Went to Nasi Kandar Kayu - full. McDonald's, bitchy full. What to do? It's merdeka mah... So we ended up buying soya bean drinks and sitting by the roadside, chilling... until 1.30am before chowing
Kirsty and Choong Khin
Debbie and Ghee June
Hah, guess who?


FAI

Retards!!! no, FUKTARDS!!! yea FUKTARDS

found this in the news,
retards can't even find a better way to do it, they even offer the dog owners money to kill their own dogs. offer me money to kill my dogs and i'll use the stick to whack them. urghhhh pisses me off


Chinese county clubs to death 50,000 dogs
Campaign against rabies prompts mass slaughter in southwestern China

SHANGHAI, China - China slaughtered 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered crackdown after three people died of rabies, sparking unusually pointed criticism in state media Tuesday and an outcry from animal rights activists.

Health experts said the brutal policy pointed to deep weaknesses in the health care infrastructure in China, where only 3 percent of dogs are vaccinated against rabies and more than 2,000 people die of the disease each year.

The five-day slaughter in Mouding county in Yunnan province in southwestern China ended Sunday and spared only military guard dogs and police canine units, state media reported.
Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported. Led by the county police chief, killing teams entered villages at night creating noise to get dogs barking, then beat the animals to death, the reports said.
Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs before the teams were sent in, they said.

The killings were widely discussed on the Internet, with both legal scholars and animal rights activists criticizing them as crude and cold-blooded. The World Health Organization said more emphasis needed to be placed on rabies prevention.

Mass killings condemnedThe official newspaper Legal Daily blasted the killings as an “extraordinarily crude, cold-blooded and lazy way for the government to deal with epidemic disease.”

“Wiping out the dogs shows these government officials didn’t do their jobs right in protecting people from rabies in the first place,” the newspaper, published by the central government’s Politics and Law Committee, said in an editorial in its online edition.

In an editorial, the official Xinhua News Agency said the killings wouldn’t have been necessary if the local government had been more attentive, but called the slaughter “the only way out of a bad situation.”

“If they’d discovered this earlier, they could have vaccinated the dogs and ... controlled the outbreak,” the editorial said.

Pet activists call for boycottThe killings prompted calls for a boycott of Chinese products from the activist group People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

“We are urging everyone to actively boycott — not a word we use lightly — anything from China given the bludgeoning killing of thousands of dogs,” PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said.
She said the group had canceled all orders of merchandise it sells that are made in China. Will Wright, at PETA’s European office in London, said the orders were worth about $300,000.
“We believe other groups will join us in expressing outrage over the blatant cruelty to animals the world is witnessing,” Wright said.

Mouding County officials defended the slaughter in a region where about 360 of the 200,000 residents suffered dog bites this year, with three people reportedly dying of rabies, including a 4-year-old girl.

“With the aim to keep this horrible disease from people, we decided to kill the dogs,” Li Haibo, a spokesman for the county government, was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

Calls to county government offices went unanswered Tuesday. Located in mountains about 1,240 miles southwest of Shanghai, Mouding is famed for its Buddhist shrines.
(sources: MSNBC : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14139027/ )

Jinn

Celebrity look-a-like

Well well well...look who's here...
It's Kenny...not Kenny from South Park,neither Kenny Roger's...I'm Kenny Liew...erm...Tan...hmm...Whatever...hehe...

Well...I'm here to post something stupid...one question...look at the photos i've uploaded below...ok...you're right...hot chicks...that's not my point la...haha...looking at them...do you guys think someone looks like them??
(CLUE: We all know both of them...well...most of us then...hehe...)

Pretty??She's an HK artiste in TVB...people who watch HK series should know her well...

I'm not so familiar with her background...but I guess some of you should've seen her somewhere...Kristy Yang...

So...let's start guessing...hehe...

randomly Jinn

Was browsing around my comp found lotsa pics!!!!! soooooooooooOOOOoo, Jinn will share them with u!!! yippie!!!

First stop: Penang once again!!!


<-see how happy she was torturing ppl!!! <- the melissa pose(head sideways) cute things in the TanMobil

Fai TANNNNNN

Jinn was sad cos Mel chose sleep over picking us up :( poor us.....

MOnkey tan again

Next stop: Jinn's alarm clock

this baby here can ring for an hour but I won't hear it

i found a heart-shape potato lolx

Next: Rides
saw this baby with fai the other day *Drools* the owner is sum tan sri who the monash guards were saluting at.... lesson to be learned, drive this baby and get salutes :D

this is another sweet ride! Constipation problems? no worries, step into this baby and floor the pedal and you'll be cured.

the number plate is also 350 sobs

I found a photoshopped satria Neo made into a sedan actually looks nicer than the original one

(image thanks to paultan.org)

and lets look at Marketing!!! ok the story here is, BMW congratulated Audi in their advertisement and Audi retaliated.

now, that's Marketing

Final Stop: Jinn's Past

HIgh skool

Well Jinn isn't all fat lolx. I broke my scanner bulb the last time when i was trying to fix it, so i had to improvise to get these picts digital. Smart Jinn! kekeke

thats me um b4 my accident, so i guess <10

cute leh....

I have more pict of me being painfully thin lolx but still gotta dig out.

so, feast on it...i'm done

MUSA tourney

2 whole hours of crappy marketing lecture. Even MarkeTing Ding Hooi himself didn't know what kind of shit was coming out of his mouth. I doubt any right-minded person would have listened to him talk cock attentively. It's shit anyway so why bother? At least I know I wasn't the only person doing something rather productive. I listened to some songs in my mp3 phone, Kenny Tan and Jinn Tan were playing Sudoku, Praevin and gang were happily chatting away… The list goes on. When Kenny and Jinn were done with Sudoku (which I don’t really know how to go around) and I was bored with my songs, we played a little cross-puzzle where Jinn coincidentally figured out the final answer… Cheap shot… After 2 hours of living hell, I deserted Jinn and gang and went to the café with our bitchy team captain (Richard) who insisted that we discussed some strategies before the game along with a few fellow teammates. Praevin was determined to win the very first match at all costs and Richard was talking about effective football. Kimberly was with us. Pity the girl la… Whole bunch of guys talking shit and she sat there speechless, probably not understanding what we were discussing. Anyway, let’s fast-forward to the match part.

Jessie helped us with the group photo.

Nothing much happened in the first half so let's fast forward that also. =.="

Then came half-time. Mysteriously the ref was at our corner. XD

Then Fai won a free kick. He wanted to take it but Praevin said: "turst me trust me..."

Ok fine I trust you... Then what happened? Noob... hahaha

Then the second half was over and it was still a stalemate. Went to penalties.

Praevin converts with a cool head.

Opponent team's shot stopped by Marc. Fai steps up. Ready to pounce on the opportunity to take the lead.

Powers a low drive to the left corner. Blasts it home.

Opponent's shot yet again saved by a heroic Marc. Richard powers one into the net (well there wasn't actually a net but just pretend there is la). Match point.

Opponent's shot yet again saved by an agile Marc who made damn sure that today is just not their day. We're through!! Ahead of us are a bitchy team and we'll see who's bitchier tomorrow la... We have a super-shitmaster on our team --> [FAI] so no worries... hahaha

And about the lack of pictures of Richard taking his penalty and Marc making all the saves, I blame Jessie. hahaha.

FAI

ME IS HERE ME IS HERE ME IS POST ME IS POST

10 years ago I was:
In and out of hospitals, haemorrhagic dengue in April, hit and run in September. Muahaha

5x365 days ago I was:
um good boy in class? Form 3 mah! PMR PMR!!! Lolx

52 weeks = 1 year ago I was:
work work work work in a law firm….all clerical work *shivers*……

Yesterday I was:
doin my stupid msian studies assignment

5 most recent songs I listened to/recommended songs:
Ben Folds Five – still fighting it
Damien Rice – cold water
Eagles – Hotel California
Jack Johnson – all songs
The Temptations - My Girl (I've got sunshineeeeee, on a cloudy dayyyyyy......)

5 ideal runaway places:
Room
Room
Room
ROom
Bed?

5 Items I really want:
W810i
Volvo S40 or a Mini Cooper or HOnda Civic
I wanna be tall3r can ah?
I wanna go red box (tarcians must go to red box wan)
A starting capital for a business venture…..

5 things I really should be doing right now:
study lo....assignments lo… study again lo….. then assignments again lo…… then still study lo…..

5 biggest joys in life:
God ( we lost without him, most prob me dead without him oso-refer to question 1-)
frens?
Durians
Fo00o0OOO0oD
I dunno oso la lolx. Always happy

5 people I tag:
Kenny, Hiresh, Millicent, Irene and YC

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Part 2

- Grab the book nearest to u, turn to page 18 and find line 4:
...fields and converge on the station’s packed platforms are part of…..-

Stretch your left arm out as far as you can:
Air!!! yay

- What is the last thing you watched on TV?
CsI:NY

- Without looking, guess what time it is?
11.39pm

- Now look at the clock. What is the actual time?
12.04am ~~T.T

- With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
Air condddd

- When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
evening—ate durian!!! yay

- Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
Sam’s blog, farted there and “cuz I need to copy all these questions -.-“ (Sam, 2006)

- What are you wearing?
my underwear on my head!!! Lolx t-shirt and shorts lo

- Did you dream last night?
yes kua

- When did you last laugh?
um..2 hours ago

- What is on the walls of the room you are in?
a big Christmas sock…

- Seen anything weird lately?
Yeap saw fai earlier

- What is the last film you saw?
Pirates of the carrb

- If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
me buy mutual funds and bonds and wait me graduate

- Tell me something about you that I don't know
I can move one eyes without moving the other?
Pour water into me nose and squirt water outta me eye,
me shy,
I dun take jellies (pearl tea without pearl, cendol without cendol, barley without barley, etc)

- If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
make it square!!! yippie

- Do you like to dance?
dunno how …..sobs

- George Bush:
Chimpanzeeeeeeee

- Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
ah girl, Rotibakar......

- Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
ah boy

- Would you ever consider living abroad?
I “loveee” my country

tadaaa, will find time to put a real post... im also voluntarily doing this, no need for kisses from Daniel, Bing or patrick

Bored~~~

Holy crap Hiresh you're actually posting something. I see a post in construction here, good job there Christina! Thumbs up to you babe! Anyway, I logged-in with the sole purpose of keeping this blog alive cos nobody really fed it and paid attention to it lately... And I was thinking, why don't we, the Tans, be gay enough to treat this blog as a pet so once in a while people would stop by and come around to give it a pat on the head?? A little gayness won't kill, it'll just make you become one-of-the-Tans. And since I'm the one who came up with this superb idea, I think I shall enjoy the privilege to give this pet a name. Why don’t we call it Nike? It’s simple cos my favorite pet dog was named Nike. Has been 5 years now since he died. Poor thing. Strangled himself. Refuse to elaborate but anyway, it shall be Nike from now on. Let the guilt haunt you whenever you don’t blog cos a pet (we shall decide what animal it is later) is being kept hungry, lonely and desolated cos of your laziness and all that procrastination. *Looks at someone who said he wanted to post something about cars around 2 weeks ago* Ok, done with the pet thing. Up next, something many would call, an act of impulse or “you-really-have-nothing-to-do-meh?” act of selfishness, I present to you, the oh so classical friendster questionnaires/surveys!! Ta-da!!

- Grab the book nearest to u, turn to page 18 and find line 4:
But he said to them, “Do not detain me, …(Hiresh don't start checking, it's the Bible alright)

- Stretch your left arm out as far as you can:
I touched the cabinet we bought from Ikea

- What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Some HK series la

- Without looking, guess what time it is?
1.40am

- Now look at the clock. What is the actual time?
Hah missed by 3mins 1.43am

- With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
Sound of water dripping from kitchen tap

- When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
6.45pm. Picked up my bro from school

- Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
Sam's “blog cuz I need to copy all these questions -.-” (Sam, 2006)

- What are you wearing?
Nothing. With the exception of a pair of shorts la

- Did you dream last night?
If I did, I forgot what I dreamt of

- When did you last laugh?
Don’t remember when exactly but it was in the car, was listening to JJ and Rudy, the 2 hitz.fm sluts doing the hitz.fm community reach – motorbikes are meant for 2

- What is on the walls of the room you are in?
A picture of me when I was 1 and the aircon

- Seen anything weird lately?
I see a fat guy stalking me all the time

- What is the last film you saw?
Pirates of the Caribbean 2

- If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
Holy crap I’ll buy all the soccer boots in the world and put them in a room and kiss them every night before I go to sleep… ok that’s a little too much… then I’ll buy myself a nice phone and a nice laptop and the rest I’ll put em’ into a bank and wait for the government to implement the budget deficit policy. Hah! Economics…

- Tell me something about you that I don't know
I’m actually a Tan. Tan Zheng Fai

- If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
Governments around the world would start building football stadiums in Malaysia using the money of their beloved citizens and give it a native name AND (here’s the good part) let us Malaysians enjoy all the facilities. Economic boost ma… But they probably won’t cos they’re not as stupid as some government u find up north of Singapore…

- Do you like to dance?
If you call jumping and running around the field (with a football on it) dancing, yes, very much

- George Bush:
”Sucks” (Sam, 2006) “Big time” (Tan, 2006)

- Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Chelsea. And you wonder why

- Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Something Fai la

- Would you ever consider living abroad?
Of cos I would… Just that I don’t know where… Singapore or Aus probably

The above is adopted from Sam’s blog.

FAI

Service in the post office.

Hello.

I've come out of retirement for this short period to please Fai and Jinn, my fellow Tans who have been running the show without me.

Today, I went to Subang Square with Shaneil to get our electricity bill rectified. The simpleton who took the reading from our meter screwed up by overstating our electricity usage by 1000KWh ( Kilo-Watt hour for those who have you have never been exposed to terms in physics). An additional RM250 would have been forced out of our pockets if we had not expressed our displeasure.

Anyway, Kudos to Tenaga Nasional Berhad for their exceptionally prompt service (by Malaysian standards) which really left pleasant smiles on our faces. We only had to wait for a few minutes before being attended to by a nice lady who addressed our concerns superbly by responding very positively and presenting us with the new, correct bill quickly. I was really impressed and was hoping that my satisfaction would follow me to the post office. It was our destination because Shaneil needed to send a SIM card ( which he has SUCCESSFULLY sold by the way, Jinn) to a lass in Kedah.

Sadly, as my new-found satisfaction followed me to the service counter, it was impertinently stomped on by the apathetic staff who deemed good service to be the least important thing to them at that point in time. Firstly, they looked extremely reluctant to talk to me as they knew they would need to then converse in English. Never mind about that. Then, I asked them for an envelope so Shaneil could enclose the SIM card in it before sticking the 'Pos-Laju' label. Guess what?

They said that they didn't have envelopes.

Can you imagine? A POST office without envelopes?

I was actually expecting them to provide us with a complimentary envelope; heck, I would have even purchased one but they didn't have any! Envision a HUGE post office where HUNDREDS of letters and packages get distributed out almost daily and the staff claims that there is not a SINGLE envelope available. If that is not absurdity, you tell me what is.

We managed to find an envelope. Well, not a new one of course but the one which Tenaga Nasional had enclosed our outrageously high (wrong) electricity bill in. So, a round of applause to them for they saved us the effort of walking to the stationery shop to get the much yearned for envelope.

Anyway, more poor service plagued the rest of my time there but I shall not elaborate.

What I'd like to share is that many of us would be so quick to complain about all the poor service we get but sometimes we fail to recognise and appreciate the good service that we do enjoy once in a blue moon; like my experience today at TNB. Complaints always steal the show at the comments and opinions section of the Star but how often do we see commendations for sterling performances in the arena of service? It is true that perhaps, the instances of poor service offset the exemplary and decent by a fair amount but we should always be mindful of the positive input we receive and let our satisfaction emanate by praising them. By such acts, there will be spillover effects on those who have yet to buck up their attitude towards serving their customers. Effects that tend to rub off in other words.

Readers, always remember to praise any acts of good service for it is in giving that we receive.

Better late than nothing

Same old quote, better late than nothing at all. The FIFA World Cup 2006 Germany is already in the history books for about 3 weeks already. In fact it's starting to rot and stink. The stench is everywhere. Blatant dives, intentionally hurting a fellow opponent, unsporting play, flying elbows, poor refereeing, etc etc... The list goes on and so as the arguing and blaming.

Ok the golden globe disputably/undisputedly (up2u to decide) went to Italy and here we have some REALLY talented nominees to contend for the golden elbow award.

In reverse order

10 Helder Postiga (Portugal)















Only used as a substitute in Portugal's games but still managed to light up Germany with an impressive range of blatant dives in the penalty box (and I wonder why). Has loads of potential to be a future golden elbow winner surely.

9 Peter Crouch (England)















Well the pictures say it all... Known as the football circus to Jinn Tan and chopstick legs to my mum, this freakshow fails not to entertain. Heading the ball to no-man's-land is his specialty but most of all, when he has the ball, he prefers stumbling over his craney legs and anticipate a foul-call from the referee than to actually have a shot at goal. Funny eh?

8 Fabio Grosso (Italy)




















Yea he's the sissy who ran and cried when he scored that goal against Germany. The lanky left-back stumbled bravely into Lucas Neill's prostrate body. What's a guy to do? Win the World Cup, that's what.

7 Thierry Henry (France)















When struck in the chest by a pube-headed Spaniard, best to fall down and clutch your face. Chest, face, it's all the same these days. Thanks must go to Rivaldo for his sterling work in this field. Henry is a great player indeed (arguably the best striker of his time) but sometimes it's really an eyesore to see the world's best act like they do.

6 Florent Malouda (France)













He was all over the place in the match against Italy and Spain. Mysteriously falling over on numerous occasions despite the faintest of touches from opponents. Now I comprehend the frustration felt by the Spaniards after the match. Bunch of professional footballers beaten by a diver. Can't blame them.

5 Zinedine Zidane (France)











He's the genius. He'd score spectacular goals from any position on the field. He is the essence of football. Class oozes out of him even though its just a short pass but let's face it, he got mad and he let anger take control of him. Like a friend currently in Hong Kong said, "if you can't control your anger, how can you control the ball?" (Dai Wai, 2004)

4 Luis Figo (Portugal)
















Q. When is a headbutt not a headbutt?
A. When it's a headbutt by The Great Master Luis Figo, swarthy master of illusions.

3 Daniele De Rossi (Italy)














Used an elbow in "self-defence" against American Brian McBride's dangerously square head. FIFA applauds you Daniele - you can have a winners' medal too.

2 Marco Materazzi

















Scored in the World Cup final but will always be rightly remembered for his diplomatic dialogue with that French genius. "This Materazzi guy is so big, but I tell you what, I bet even Michael Owen or Jermaine Defoe could have sent him flying." (Shebby, 2006) Well, that explains it all. Aww~ you're sad because you got the runners-up spot... Poor thing...

1 Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

Congratulations to Cristiano "Sissy" Ronaldo!! He plays like a sissy and he certainly cries like one and he has won the inaugural Golden Elbow award – quite a feat huh? His father who named him after the former U.S president Ronald Reagan must be very proud of him. I didn't know Mr. Reagan liked diving.... There you have it, Ronaldo with the international hand signal. No...who said it meant "Fuck"? "My students once told me, that hand signal actually represents Pepsi!" (MarkeTingDingHooi, 2006)

So there you have it, the nominees and the ultimate winner. If you think the way I arranged them is bullshit, please by all means, comment on it. That's just my opinion and we, the Tans want to know what you readers think.

FAI