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June 2010

Malaysia 101: When Taxpayers’ Money Hits The Palace’s Fan

Istana Negara Palace Malaysia

(The old is already looking majestic and we have already spent millions on it but we went ahead to construct a new palace. We end up looking like dungus but what the heck, we been in that situation before. The new palace looks good on paper but the volume of abuse and of funds to build it makes the whole affair end up looking too ugly. Image source: Tok Ey Ai)

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Attitude 101: Being Polite Part 2

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(Polite customer – does it sounds familiar? Cartoon source: http://www.whalecottage.com)

I still recall stand-up comedian Kumar’s joke – when he walked into a high-class boutique, the salesgirl looked at him from head to toe with a puzzled face that asked: “do you have to buy things?”

He, of course, got annoyed with the treatment that he got from the salesgirl that he proceeded to buy something very expensive and paid for it with coins.

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Attitude 101: Being Polite Part 1

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(How often you have impatient & impolite people behind the counter treating you like you owe them something?)

Just the other day, I watched the “Invictus” and noticed that (excellently acted by Morgan Freeman) was a very man. He was courteous and well mannered even to his “ex-enemies”.

In case you missed , the movie was about a leader who was trying to get his country united – bringing people from various background, culture and race as one nation (this movie should be watched by some so-called leaders in Malaysia – they can learn a thing or two if their ego is not bigger than their brain) through the game of rugby (played by a majority white).

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Tamil Movie Review: Usual Confusing Mani Ratnam’s Raavanan 2010

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(The poster looks impressive and the trailer somehow entices us to go to the and get the whole “picture” but that is about it. Poster source: Wikipedia)

This has to be one of the most anticipated for the year 2010 but there is a big problem.

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Governance 101: Forming A Powerful Pakatan Rakyat’s Shadow Cabinet

Superheroes Shadow Cabinet Comic

(Think of the wonders that will happen if the shadow cabinet is made of superheroes and they can do better to keep the current government on their toes? Image source: http://wikimedia.org)

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Movie Review: Funny, Joyful Toy Story 3 (2010)

Toy Story Movie Children Animation

(Can you identify the new toys in this latest sequel of the ? There are evil ones in the bunch now. Poster source: Wikipedia)

When Toy Story 3 was first mentioned on TV, one of the very first people to take note of it was my son.

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Trip to Amazing Chennai 2010: Part 7 – Visit To A Historical Temple

(One of the things to do in Chennai is to visit an ancient temple and we indeed managed to get this done. The main entrance to the 300 plus years old temple – Click for higher resolution photo here)

A trip to will not be complete without a trip to the majestic and historical , right?

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