Strike Out

Incidentally.....

I just came back from lunch. While I passed Maybank, I saw Maybank employees going on strike. They were all lined up carrying signs that read :

'Pekerja Maybank ditindas'

'Sila Bunyikan Hon kalau anda setuju'

I was rather amazed at this exubarent display of displeasure. But then at 2pm after lunch on the way back, they weren't there anymore.


....They were all back at work.

I heard from someone that they've been doing this everyday for the past month now. I guess they're part time on strike, part time working....

What the ... ? .... Kanasai

Angkasa-lapok

Does Michael Schumacher promote a tennis racquet?

Does David Beckham promote a Zildjan drum set?

Does Tiger Woods endorse ping pong balls?

Does any celebrity actually promote or endorse any product that is of the utmost irrelevance to their careers or status?

Then ar.... why the bloody hell are those 2 Malaysian angkasawan endorsing a bloody guitar for crying out loud? The more I think about it the more kanasai I feel, and the more I feel like inflicting pain on myself and those around me.

I suppose pride and integrity isn't of any importance at all, especially where money is concerned. Oh... just ask Mawi. He's endorsing everything but the kitchen sink in our country.

Kana Kanasai ......

Musical Musings

I turn on the radio nowadays and get pretty pissed off. Kanasai I tell you..

Notice how music nowadays is all about sampling tracks from old classic hits? You take a sample of a riff that used to be a classic, put in new lyrics and songs (preferabbly gibberish rapping and tunes that don't even fit into the song) and turn it into a new classic .... a classic mess.

Take a listen to Jojo's new hit 'Anything' at this URL


Jojo - Anything (ugh)

Or you've probably heard it on radio. Like a few hundred times a day on Hitz.fm, along with all the other songs that are also played a few hundred times because the people at Hitz.fm are afraid that we might forget how all these hits sound like

Now take a listen to the classic hit by Toto called 'Africa'


Toto - Africa

Okaylar please overlook the geek factor ... it was the 80s man.But notice how classically beautiful that piece of music is. I personally believe that the chorus for that song transcends time. Everything blends into the music, vocals, musical instruments and all.

The thing about what Jojo did was that she sampled the most interesting part of the song (the jingle at the beginning) but not the most musical. The result is a melody that doesn't sound resolved throughout, with equally mismatching vocals on top. While I do like her earlier hits like Too Little Too Late .... I must say kanasai to this one.

Jojo ar .... whylar did you murder that song?

To say that the direction in which music is going is disturbing is an understatement ...

How about that song a few years back? Mario Winans's 'I Don't Wanna Know'


Mario Winans - I Don't Wanna Know (eeww)

Notice the background humming? Take a listen to Enya's 'Boadecia'


Enya - Boadecia

Erhmmmm...... Anyone smell 'rip off' in the air?

I must point out to you that if you remove Enya's humming in the background, the song would be tuneless.

There are other countless examples of artistes nowadays lifting samples from old hits and practically destroying them ...

Listen to Jessica Simpson's 'I think I'm in love with you'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHMpaZ90ptQ (can't embed this one sorry, but trust me, you want to click on this link)

And compare this to John Mellencamp's 'Jack and Diane'


John Mellencamp -Jack and Diane

Arrghhh. I knowlar Jessica Simpson's one got chicks prancing around lar. But then ... Sigh .... okaylar no argument there.

And who can forget the classic Police's 'Every Breath You Take'


The Police - Every Breath You Take

And then Sean Puffy Combs aka Puff Daddy aka P.Diddy aka Diddy aka 'the due who changes his name like he changes his underpants comes along and messes it up with 'I'll Be Missing You'


Sean P. Puffy Diddy Daddy Combs Whatever - I'll Be Missing You

There're actually tonnes of others out there but I can't think of them at the moment .....

Maybe there'll be a part 2 ...

Kanasai~!

Huh ? Liddat wan ar ?

It's been really some time back since I've taken these photos. But I was just browsing through my old pictures and saw some that just really made me go like ....' Wah kanasai niah'

I walked past this car and had this sudden omen of death .... that death CAN occur anytime. It was so bad, I had visions of the 44444444444 in my sleep that night. *blink*blink*


And this one .... I tell you kanasai, luckily this really huge sign was there man, I was just about to rip the clothes off my (male) housemate who was next to me in the car and bermaksiat right out there in the open. Phew talk about a close call.



Here's an interesting one. Notice how the car's backside is jutting out of the parking box. It looks like a dog who put his head into a bottle and got stuck halfway through.....

... And take a look at this one along the next street ..... This is my car. Noleh kanasai, you can't say it's a Kelisa and it's not the same. I think even if it was a freaking truck, there would still be extra space for an elephant to walk through.

Perhaps those parking box drawers over here have never used measurement tapes in their lives. Kanasai

And this is Chinatown. Yup .... All of Chinatown. What you see is what you get. Stretching from the white building on the left to the blue one down there. Chinatown is really 'huge' here I tell you. But wait till you see this .....



I think small children and quite possibly even small animals may get terrified by this painting. And can it get any blacker? Kanasai

Ooh, this one's my personal favourite. They give you directions to food man. It's like walking past Petaling Street and seeing a signboard with words like 'Jalan Cheng Lock', 'Jalan Tun H.S Lee', 'Jalan Petaling' and then 'Fatty Uncle's Famous Wantan Mee'.

Kanasai man ~!

Burgers in a faraway place

Okay so take a look at this.

Nolah I'm not asking you to look at the Mercedeslah .... kanasai.

Yes it's McD. In KT~! Yup it's opening soon.

Would you believe me if I told you there has never been a McD in KT before this?

I do believe in time to come, history in KT will be divided into 2 eras ....The time BEFORE there was McD.... and the time AFTER it opened ......

I'm glad I'll be there to witness this historic transition

24 Jam meh ?

Eh kanasai, can somebody answer me this …

You, hey you, Yup you. Can you please tell me why it is that you stick up that big bloody ‘DIBUKA 24 JAM’ sign up on your premise, but you open only at 3pm everyday?




Yes you … KFC in KT…. I’m talking to you ……


Kanasai