UMNO Open House July 16th, 2017

[Awesome Lonesome: A Traveling Journal of A Loner]

I was late to the event (as always). At about 2:20pm, just 40 minutes before the supposedly end time of the event, people were still pouring in, but, of course the food were finishing. They were serving food stalls presented by different states.

So what did I eat? At the end of the event mutton were still abundant:

Other than that, I didn’t know what recipe I ate. I just found some plain rice, nasi dagang or nasi lemak from different stalls, fish or meat from others, then mixed them. I was making my own dish out of whatever left – just the others who were late.

But the consolation prize was, I was able to take selfie with cardboards of VVIPs. Unlike my last year visit to Sri Perdana. Hooo hoooo...

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I Really Need to do Something About My Writing

[Awesome Lonesome: A Traveling Journal of A Loner]

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I have abandoned this blog for so long. As an academic I should be writing but I’m not doing my job. So I should not blame others if I’m not so successful as an academic.

Recollecting the time when I was so into writing. It was early 2000s. I was writing a lot to counter argue those bughah people. But then I was not so successful either. Perhaps because I let my writing when everywhere scattering. So I could not make it a success.

I need to write – in both human and computer languages – and now I intend to make money from them. Pray I can fulfill this.

The PM Najib already blown his whistle for the government cyber troopers to start offensive fights. Where am I? At least if I cannot make money from my writings, I should write for a fight.

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Why Goods Price Keeps Going Up in Malaysia?

[Awesome Lonesome: A Travelling Journal of A Loner]

I'll answer the question in the title at the end of this posting.

Last weekend, Sunday March 1^st 2015, I went to IKEA Damansara to buy some furniture for my home. You know what, going into the parking space of IKEA was really hard. It was so much traffic.

And will you look at that, IKEA was really packed like pasar malam (night market in Malaysia). Many people complained that IKEA was costly, but this doesn't reflect in the kind of crowd it draws. Actually IKEA is quite cheap and if you consider the quality it is even cheaper. That explains why people are drawn here.

So why the goods price is always up? Answer: Because we can afford it. Those businessmen already made their calculations and they knew we can afford it. We may be annoyed first for the up pricing, but then we will just buy it. So why are we complaining?

And before going to IKEA I went to e-Curve that was just on the other side of the street. I stumbled upon this Korean professional pianist, Yang I-Deun, who’s performing every weekend at e-Curve. He has been doing this great live performing for so many years in e-Curve. He must has gotten a very good contract with the mall. Watch:


e-Curve has this view that really brought back my memory living in USA. The design is really US style. The look of the walk and the building resembles perhaps one of those places in California seaside like Laguna Beach or Santa Monica, or even one of those average shopping complex in California.

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