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Layman review on Nasi Lemak 2.0.

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I was expecting something as good as his video clip uploaded on Youtube. Apparently, his piece will be good when only he shows his anger over something. Kudos on his first-movie done under RM1million and its good the local artists were giving him full support here. I am sure he can come out with better production in future  ************************************** Personal view- The plot was not concentrate on certain issues, that it went to east, west, central, south and North.Its messy Retrospective method was used so much that it disturbed the flow of the story. I don't think the thick-brow plot, massaging the husband dick's, dick chopping or Reshmonu appearance were necessary. Sitting in a cinema and took out my 'Political' hat, I would never know the significance of three judges who had no stance during the competition between hero and the antagonist. In the end of the show, I blamed myself for believing the movie is totally unrelated to politic that I came

Malaysian Corridor- Volume 10/11:Exclusive interview with Datuk Masidi

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People said all Politicians were dirty and corrupted, yet for me, this minister overwork to ensure his state is not exploited and bring good to the people of Sabah. Kudos. (Extracted from Malaysian Corridor Volume 10/11) His aspiration and defining moment: To make Sabah a vibrant, economically successful and the most livable place in Asia. Most defining moment ws building rapport with Australia, Malaysia Airlines has chose Sabah as the Eastern hub He manages his ministry (time and attention) by delegating the culture and all developments at islands/water to Datuk Bolkiah; environment and all development on land to Datuk Ellron Sabah Tourism Board, MATTA, Malaysia Hotel Association Sabah, airlines, Sabah Tourism Tour Guides Association, Dive, islands, Golf, birds- have helped bring in tourists to the state. Despite of suggesting nuclear energy once, he always opted for renewable energy- biomass, biomass, geothermal, solar, wind and hydropower t

Malaysian Corridor- Volume 10/11: Sabah needs help

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Sabah makes the cover story of Volume 10/11 Malaysian Corridor:Sabah prepares new attractions for tourists. State Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment   Datuk Masidi Manjun who was hailed from Ranau mentioned this in an interview with Editor of Malaysian Corridor, Zainal Epi. 1.        He has to juggle between conserving the greens and accommodating the needs of tourists with its infra. 2.        Now, he has added bird watching which pulled in some USD2 billion in United Kingdom 3.        At present, most Chinese tourists are from South China , Hong Kong and Taiwan 4.        The Arabs…prefer Kuala Lumpur and do not like forest but Sabah offers them rain, which they would love to get soaked with. 5.        “Japanese loves to follow Americans, whenever   Americans go, Japanese would be there too,”

Culture Shock in Kuala Lumpur

Borneons who come to Kuala Lumpur for the first time will have to endure the ridiculous pressure from the local people. Sometime, they tend to give a confuse look on us for not able to tell what kind of race we are. Well, judging their intelligent and open-mindedness, they will either presumed the natives from east peninsular are either Malay, Chinese or Indian. The stereotyping game is sometimes applied as well to the peninsular people who happened to have interracial marriage parents- there's a case where a boy was forced to put his race as Malay in identity card for the sake that he has an Arabic name, followed by his father from Arab who married his chinese mom but the whole family is not muslim. Abiding the rule in Malaysia, he had to do so. Pardon those people for their ignorance (even after the Borneo joined Malaya for 48 years). People here are also materialistic, they are slaving for those who appeared to have loads of money. I know that I should blame myself for not c

Tips to get a taxi in Kuala Lumpur

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*To date, the rate will be counted RM3.00 (once you sit in the cab), followed by RM0.10 for the next 100m. Also, *Bear in mind to insist receipt from the driver as sometime they will overcharge you as they wish. *By insisting the receipt, he/she will need to use taxi meter, which is good. *Sometime, taxi driver will take two or more passengers of different destinations,and the latter passenger will get charged more as the meter showed the rate of two-journeys. Take a taxi separately if different destination. *The general line for taxi are 0390575757, 0362592020. Provide your name and mobile number to the operator, indicate your destination, from A to B? The center will try to connect any taxis which are nearby, if there is available cab, the center will send an SMS indicating the car registration number. * Avoid long-waiting cab at bus stop, as some of them will charge extra. *There are three types of cab here, the black, red and blue. All tips above are applied to red taxi .The

Agony of Sabahans

Coming to this strange island- I mean Kuala Lumpur, the capital  of Malaysia inbaitat of about 1.4 million people include locals as well as foreigners from different countries- Despite I was born in Malaysia (as Sabah is one of the country's state), I was treated differently by the people here. My point is, they thought that I might be Malay, Chinese, Vietnamese or Philipinos. I am so sick of explaining that I am a Sabahan!!! I know that I could not blame their ignorance for not able to detect their own people. Everytime I get board on a LRT or bus, the Arabians or Nigers would have very glad to talk to each other eventhough they hardly just know each other. Hey, that scenario only happen to me when I met other Sabahans. Yeah, I guess its the South China Sea that create the gap between east and west Malaysians. or maybe the people itself. It is going to be Malaysia Day on September 16, but is the spirit is there?Or is it only matter to the Borneons?

The heartbreak kid

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It is a true story that life could turn pretty ugly when our partner shows their real behavior, especially the not-so- nice-one.  The heartbreak kid story was about Ben Stiller stars as Eddie, the 40-year-old confirmed bachelor who finally says "I do" to the beautiful and sexy Lila (Malin Akerman). But during their honeymoon in Mexico, the woman of his dreams turn out to be a total nightmare- Lila loves to sing all the time, she farted loudly, was vain and ridiculous and other weirdos- it freaking Eddie's out that he increased the chance to fall in love with another sweet girl named 'Miranda' which drove him into a divorce to Lila. Eddie became a hard-core refugee to come back to Mississippi from Mexicoas his ex-wife burned his wallet and passport. I was touched to see his determination to get Miranda back but unfortunately, his love life was recently married to her cousin, Cla. After two years, Eddie moved to Mexioc and was married to Mexican girl. There he m

Multilevel Marketing

It is undeniable there is a temptation for someone who earn less in a fast-paced city to join the multi-level- marketing, (MLM) to cope with the financial burden, or I should say, a desire? Until now, I saw a lot of people here in Kuala Lumpur is doing more than a job to support their life, which the common one for guys will be taxi-driving, direct sales, online buisness, and also MLM. The vice things about MLM had been published in the media, that it was a cheating system, which often people were attracted to the lucrative promised income in a short time. I had the experience where I was brought into an MLM company which claimed that it has been established for 11 years with verified certificate and licence and blah blah blah... Of course, beside of the stability that the company has, the members sort of trying to tell how much the system changed their life, they told their sad tale and showed their monthly pay slip to even convince the vulnerable customers. Despi

dream on, nurse...

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Obviously, a nurse woman would not be perceived as more than a slut when she did not perform her job well for the sake of making herself look pretty. A medical doctor agreed with me that some nurses were negligible on their works. He said," I think those kind of staff nurses are the most stupid species in world, they thought they could get big fish by doing that, but eventually those specialists were just fooling them only,". Health professions should never  jeopardize patients' life for the sake of vice thought in hospital. P/s: but of course I met a nurse who swear not to have doctor as her husband for their bullying habit.

Thalassemia in Sabah

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just to make the blogpost attractive The association of the most prevalent of Thalassemia cases in the state was said due to intermarriage within close relatives who carried the mutant gene but it was denied by an expert  that the act was considered as an incest to the community. An expert from University Malaysia Sabah said that the possibility of the prevalence was due to endogamous, whereby it was practiced within natives since 70 years ago. Austronesian ancestors of our indigenous peoples in Sabah came here from 6000 to 20,000 years ago according to lingustics, archaeology and DNA studies.Mediterranean region which include Austronesian is the originating place of thalassemia disease affected by the disease since ancient. Until recently, Sabah is still accounting the highest number of Thalassemia cases of 1,300 in the country. A thalassemic patient has to depend on life-long blood transfusion unless they are fortunate to undergo bone marrow transplant. The

AMC- The school of business

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There;s always agenda behind government's project, but at least the project might help the Sabahans to improve themselves or even help them get a job- by learning the courses that are offered by the government. The renowned private college, AMC providing free training to any 18 and above adults to learn various vital courses include Languages- Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean ICT- all sorts of, you just have to have a look on the list. Oh yeah, it has also facebook and twitter course, which I had registered for my ICT illiterate mother. I wish there will be Skype too so that I could chat with family.  Accounting courses FYI, the courses are free, students will be provided with books and coupon for lunch and dinner. (T& C applied). This government project covered statewide, inclusive some of the interior areas,  again, have to check on the website. AMC School of business