Just a few photos from Kepong.

 At Jusco Kepong, taken with a really bad phone camera. the center court is set up for Chinese New Year goods fair.

This is corned-beef? It is really labelled to contained 30% horse meat; (I missed read it before, the label did not say specifically the percentage of the horse meat content); from Japan, in non-halal section in Jusco Kepong, Japanese corned-beef, where else can you get it but from a chain from Japan?

This way to 1Malaysia clinic, it is everywhere now, like 7-11.

 Street lamps not working, just outside Jusco Kepong.

 Is that really Movenpick?

 Just called BOTTEGA DEL GELATO, according to the label, this is an Australian product. The label looks authentic, but is this a new brand? Because I had not seen this brand while I was in Australia 20 years ago.

Taken late last year(2012), just before I read it on newspaper that we will only have 4G connection in Malaysia in 2013.











From Taiwan, available in Jusco. China is not the only place known for Shan-Zai(山寨, which means imitate or counterfeit industry in contemporary Mandarin), Taiwan is a good place too. This one is intimating a kind of Japanese chocolate, the original is available in Hokkaido only, for marketing purposes. And the manufacturer of the original was involved in food scandal a few years back, like they bought the expired Japanese red bean paste and repackaged them into new pastry, and sell as newly baked goods, something like that; anyway, I am not buying either the original, or the counterfeit, or the imitator, or the Snow brand line of products anymore.

Jan 23, 2013 at Kepong

Jaya Jusco (last month had finally changed the name on all the outlets to Aeon, but people are just used to call it Jusco), Metro Prima, Kepong branch has its Jusco Card day today. Like usual, doors open at 9am. I just noticied it as I go for grocery shopping, anyone can walk in, security do not check for member card to admit the customers. A few years back, only members who can show their Jusco member cards can take friend and families to go in. Since when they stopped checking the member card? Haven't been to the Jusco member day for about 2 years, no way to tell. And since Jusco had opened quite a few new stores in the past 2 years, the number of Jusco member days had increased to almost one every month of the year. And Jusco does not have any branch in Sabah and Sarawak yet.

The only word she can say clearly is 'LISTEN'

I had no idea what the fuss is about until I downloaded the 'LISTEN! LSITEN! LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!' video from youtube.com.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CflYB49Z6fo

Actually about the only words I can hear clearly are a series of LISTEN's. And then that whoever-she-was woman who took the microphone from uni-girl and went on talking about kucings have problems too. That was all I could distingiush from the entire video, as it was full of echoes, and her accent is so, well, so in the style of local elites, that I have problem knowing what she was saying.

I had to read the comments posted under this video, and reports and comments on other websites, to understand what this video is all about. The only thing I am sure is, this is the standard of the local elites, all they can do in delivering their ideas is to force it down the people's throats, instead of convincing people with reasons. She got nothing, so she never answer anything the uni-girl had said or asked. She is a typical Malaysian elite.

Say, anyone out there can actually understand clearly the dialogue/monologue in this video? Someone made a transcript of it and put that online?

Jan 21, 2013:
I finally found the right video,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV2-IrTKt3o
and this one has better audio, and forced myself to listen through the 'speech' of the president of SW1M, Sharifah Zohra Jabeen , an excruciating experience as her Malanglish is spoken with a terrible accent. But then again, a lot of YB's and Cabinet ministers are on par with her when making public speakings. But that's kind of off topic here.

Back to this president of SW1M, it is so weird that she had no idea how to answer a single thing Miss Bawani had said and posed, all she ever did was multiple LISTEN's, and then telling people who are not happy with the government, i.e. how things are in Malaysia, to move to another country, at last she moved on to say everyone got problems, even cats got problems, fish got problems. Did she ever give any logical reasoning to whatever she said? None. And she is one of the social elites in Malaysia.

Checked Malaysiakini.com today, after hiding for a number of days after the 'forum' in UUM, she finally come out to tell her side of the story, "Was Bawani planted at UUM forum?"

Huh? That is it? Miss Bawani is a student of UUM, so she, like all who attended, was "encouraged" to attend this forum. So now you are saying this is some kind of plot against you? Or a plot to sabotage the forum? Then make sure you only let the 'right people' attend you forum, why did you not screen the attendant before hand? By the way, what is you idea of 'right people' for you forum?

It was a forum, in countries like UK, US, yes, English speaking countries, when you say a forum, people expect the attendants to have chance to ask questions, speak their opinions. But since the president of SW1M was speaking in Malanglish, I guess the word 'forum' has a totally different meaning in Malanglish.

Miss Bawani was only speaking her mind, and ask the very same questions a lot of her fellow Malaysians want to ask too. What was there to be afraid off? That the only thing to do is to leave Malaysia? You actually told her to do just that. And said that the chance to ask question is a privilege granted by you, as in Miss Bawani can only ask the questions to your liking, not what she wanted to ask. Wow! I have no idea you have so much power. Just what is SW1M anyway?

And the attendants must take oaths before the forum starts? What was that? Testifying in a court of law? Or some kind of pledging the allegiance ceremony? Allegiant to whom?

And why did you went into hiding after the forum? According to you, you received a lot of threats after the forum. I googled, and found a few facebook pages making fun of you, but did not get any result about threatening you. Maybe in your Malanglish, people making fun of you, ridiculing you for being rude, and compare all the problems in Malaysia to the problems of non-human lifeforms on Earth, you call those actions 'threats'.

楊城藍井提醒我們

楊城藍井，這東方日報的專欄昨天提醒我們，馬來西亞人民需要的是真的會兌現對人民的承諾的政府，不是換湯不換藥的反對黨上台。

沒錯，如果民聯的陣營在來届大選中上台了，在理想國中他們是會馬上把山埃採金，萊納斯稀土廠，大水霸這些傷害人民的項目都趕出馬來西亞或取消的。

但他們有作出甚麽來保證會做到嗎？就如楊艾琳在星期天看到的標語：
＂NOT A CHOICE BETWEEN COKE AND PEPSI＂
我們有甚麽辦法可以令那些政治人物兌現競選支票？在星期天，楊艾琳所處的陣營本來是要民聯簽署由楊的陣營所提出的綠色宣言的。但民聯的人不簽。而且民聯的口號在星期日也改了，不再是十大訴求，而只剩下八大訴求。

所以我們有其麽辦法令那些政治人物真的改革馬來西亞的政治？真的會給我們新聞自由？真的關注到砂朥越沙巴人民的生計人身安全？真的會叫那稀土離開？不再有山埃採金？

沒錯，國陣是怎樣都要讓萊納斯在馬來西亞營運了；而山埃採金已經採了這麽多年，人民的健康有問題都是人民自己不照顧自己的健康。換人上台後，這些能改變嗎？

OKAY, DEEPAK definitely penned the BLACK ROSE himself(OOPS, SHOULD HAVE CHECKED B4 I POST, HE HAD ANOTHER PC SAYING THE REAL DEAL IS YET TO COME)

Downloaded the BLACK ROSE, Deepak's book from Lulu.com, skimmed through it. Okay, I see why those news people are commenting online that Deepak should stick to his real job as a carpet merchant.

The content of the book is well, just badly written. It looks like Deepak needs to learn how to express himself in English properly, so his readers can actually read what he wanted to write, without pausing like at every single sentence, to rearrange the words, fixing the grammar, just to understand what he was writing about. And despite everything he already said publicly, the content of the book reads like some kind of poorly written fiction, without actually stating any hard, irrevocable facts. Yes, he showed us all those invoices, and money transfer receipts, and they are about the only readable pages of his book, the rest are just what-was-he-writing-about. I mean, after all those publicity he had put on for his book, the public really expected him to tell it all, instead of like he said this, but then he did not say this kind of story.

And just who did Deepak get to turn his book into pdf anyway? It was arranged in such a bizarre way, was it meant for reading on iPad? And why the handwritten page numbers? Deepak, you are a true blue Pakistani, should be able to get some Pakistani brain to help you with this particular job.

For those of you who wanted to read Deepak's BLACK ROSE for yourself,
1.) go to Lulu.com
2.) sign up as a member
3.) search for BLACK ROSE(free download) and add it to shopping cart
4.) then check out, if you do not buy anything else, the grand total will be zero, so no credit card number or PayPal number will be required, and no shipping or delivery will be needed, you can see this on the screen
5.) after checked out, look at the screen carefully, there is a DOWNLOAD button, click it, and the download will begin.

20:00 08 JAN, 2013, I should have checked Malaysiakini before I post this.
Just checked Malaysiakini.com, it turns out Deepak just had another press conference today, claiming that the BLACK ROSE available online is a counterfeit, released to discredit him. Deepak says he will hold 9 more press conferences in the 2 coming weeks, and he will be giving out his real BLACK ROSE to the news media in one of the coming press conferences.

It happened in real life too

Just got this from tv news, today, 7th Jan, 2013, a number of detainees escaped while they were being taken to court to face various charges. Injured 3 policemen escorting them in the process.

Thought this is something that can only happen in movie, now it happened in real life in Malaysia. To be honest, I am a little shocked.

The One Najib gave an audience to a Buddhism celebrity from Taiwan last year, but ....

It was old news already, that in November last year, a Buddhism celebrity from Taiwan visited Malaysia, and the One Najib gave him an audience, it was all over the news.

OK, so the GE13 is inevitably around the corner, and the One Najib needed a publicity stunt. So this celebrity from Taiwan serves the purpose of attracting the Malaysian Chinese voters. But there are other Buddhism celebrities out there, why not invite them all? Like Dalai Lama?

You think Dalai Lama can ever come to Malaysia? Like Malaysia would ever give him entry permit? or visa? Just think, the news of Dalai Lama visits Malaysia, that will put Malaysia in the spotlight of international news media. And suffer the wrath of China? To go into a rescue the diplomatic ties mood afterward? Get real.

Actually, Dalai Lama had been to Malaysia, just quietly. I got eyewitness saw him at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in March, 2011, a few days after the tusnami that hit Japan. He was sitting in a chair, with 2 male attendants and a female attendant, outside the Old Town just after the domestic check-in counters, on the corridors that lead to the transit area, so offically, Dalai Lama had passed through Malaysian custom, and set foot on Malaysian soil. But we never see anything like this in the news. And bizarrely, like no one in Malaysia got winds of this, no one at the airport showed any special interest or paid him any attention. So few people know who he is in Malaysia? or the news blockage is so good that even the fact that Dalai Lama was in Malaysia can be blocked? I prefer the second explaination.

This is Malaysia. But then again, can he openly visit Singapore, Thailand? Indonesia is out of question? What about Bali island? Chances are, he may have been to a few countries in South East Asia, just that the condition of his trips were never to publicize  his trips, so all the news about the trips never made it to the news.

To think China has no influence over Malaysia. This is Malaysia.