Come Back Home

After so long... well, my last entry was last year in August.. Finally I had the time to get back to my blog. I had so much plan, so much ideas to pour into this blog. Making game reviews, book synopsis, and even some tutorials that I might know.
But I'm so occupied, with the day-to-day activities.. busy as a bee.. or something. And now, I'm back.
I does know where to begin at all.. What should I write now? What is happening is now? The current news? THE news?


So lets get back a little, take a deep breathe.. and let me start for the top..


First, Happy New Year. Yeah, I know its already in the middle of the second month, but Chinese New Year was not on 1st January either so.. screw you. Its still 2012 either way and no patch of ground is cracking in halves like in the  movie. So happy, and a new year for you.


Second, the world globalization have taken a new direction this year. Megaupload have been shut down by the FBI, making all the other file sharing sites to review back their affiliate programme and their term and conditions. Most of them have terminated their affiliate programme other than rigorously search and terminating accounts that suspected for sharing illegal contents. 


Well.. that's it for file sharing industry.. Instead of going for further enlightenment where knowledge are free to share and available everywhere at any time.. The world have digress where the poor remain ignorants and the rich reaps it all..


Have your heard about the incident? Where a KFC worker bitch-slap a customer. Sounds terrible huh? It sure does.. it happened in I-City KFC. There are videos about it all over the internet, uploaded in Youtube. First, the issue was that the worker shouted vulgar words and whack the customer where the customer demand that the KFC management to apologize for making him waited for over an hour only to find out that the chickens was not unavailable.. well not yet prepared, in the process of cooking, but the customer have to wait for a little bit more..


It turns out that the customer have actually provoked the worker with insults when he was told that he need to wait further. What even more sad is that the customer have no intention of.. you know, buying a whole bucket of chicken at all, nope.. he just wanted to exchange some vouchers that he got off the internet. I cannot believe that causes the customer to demand for apology and insulting the workers. I mean.. it just a stupid voucher, and there are more other KFC around the place that could have more fried chicken prepared in their inventories. Anyway it didn't end well, where the workers lost their tempers and start ganging up on the insolent customer..


You know what they say.. never mess up in the place where you're getting your snack, or you might get whacked! I disagree with the workers' action, but I'm totally blaming the customer. Way to go for ruining everyone's dinner. Now the next customer might get a spit or two on their chicken.. Stupid guy.. He should have gone home and his cook his own fried chicken.


Well, that is all for now. I haven't got the time to read any of my favourite sci-fi novels, I don't even have time to search and buy the new series. But it will come to that, eventually.


I did play some games, a lot of bad-ass games this year. Skyrim, Space Marines, Batman: Arkham City and more. I can't wait to get my hand on the most waited game of all time, well I think it is.. Diablo 3. Talk about waiting for almost 4 years. Yeah.. first announced in 2008. Then again Starcraft 2 also have a looooooong release date. Even when it was released it, it was only one part out of three. Hurmm...  

Controversial Commercial!

I got this from a friend in the Facebook. He posted a link of a Youtube video, a TV commercial that was recently pulled out from one of the local TV station in Malaysia, the 8TV. It caused a public outrage, because the commercial, although a Public Service Announcement (PSA) ads, seems to be racist.


For me, I think the ads was not only racist, but also offensive toward Muslims as well. Because the ads seems to portrays the Muslim community in Malaysia to be too conservative and too uptight. The content of the ads show a non-muslim chinese woman who act inappropriately in Ramadhan Bazaar. The ads then end with moral lessons, such as the do's and the don't. 


Although the ads have been pulled out, but many people believe that the damage have been done. If you look for the video in Youtube (assuming it have not been removed yet) you can see many people respond with racist and political remarks. You can see people blaming UMNO (because UMNO own Media Prima own 8TV), some blaming the Malay supremacist for concocting this ads, and others just simply said that 'This is Malaysia'.

WELL, THEY ALL WRONG!!  

This is not some kind of government conspiracy theory or racist attempt, this is what we called IGNORANCE. It is obvious the the media team (Media Prima CEO said it was multi-racial team) have little or none at all understanding regarding on Islamic belief and any other religious belief. Probably the whole team was made up from a bunch of Atheist. 

Ramadhan is a holy month to Muslims, period. What does it got to do with the non-muslims? Haven't we learned from the mistakes from the last Eid? Remember another ads that was made by a 'genius' who combine both Hari Raya and Gong Xi Fa Chai and turned it into Gong Xi Raya? What about the other time where Deepavali was crossed with Hari Raya and turned into DeepaRaya?  

Malaysia is a multicultural country, not a multi-combined-religion country.      

 Hello uncle, no sugar cane juice ah? 

 The team that made this Ads are obnoxious bunch.

 The team that made this Ads should be polite and discreet.

The woman on the right is going straight to Hell for not covering her hair during the holy month of Ramadhan!

HA HA HA

Water Shortages!!

Breaking news!

For me of course. It seems the area where I'm staying is going to face water shortage until 3rd of August! Urrgghh.. Though I'm not gonna use much water for drinking because of the fasting month, but I still need water to bath and do my laundry.

And this happened on Monday morning..

Just great... Reaaally great....

Happy Ramadhan Kareem

HAPPY RAMADHAN KAREEM

&

HAPPY FASTING

TO ALL

THE MUSLIM AND MUSLIMAH

AROUND

THE

!WORLD!

What? Too many restriction? Can't fast because you have gastric and whatnot??

Think again.

There are people fasting for a whole year out there..

Be grateful!

The Chaser's War on Everything

Have you watched an Australian satirical comedy broadcast called 'The Chasers'? Not the movie with same name, but a TV series broadcast by ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). If you like to watch black satirical comedy such as South Park cartoon series, then The Chasers is definitely will fit in your next to see in the list, you if haven't seen yet.

The series was starred by Chas Licciardello, Andrew Hansen, Julian Morrow, Chris Taylor, Craig Reucassel, and Charles Firth. The series was first aired on 17th Feb '06 and sadly ended on 29th July '09. They had a great run, created 58 episodes in 3 seasons. 


The content of the series was mainly on Australia current issues and of course most of its jokes was intended to the Australian audiences, but because Australia is one of the biggest multicultural country, so the jokes get to everyone. Yep, no one escapes from their satirical jokes. In fact, most of its segments concentrate on Australian political issues and government policies. They hassle not only politicians and cabinet ministers, but also their own Prime Minister. Which the segments itself was a joke, because The Chasers was broadcast by the ABC, in other word their show was funded by the Australian government.


Other segments also include about other TV channels' current affair programme such as Channel 9's A Current Affair and Channel 7's Today Tonight where the Chasers criticize and making fun on the programmes' sensationalism. This is one of my favourite. It was hilarious, its like a new level of trolling.       

From left: Chas Licciardello, Chris Taylor, Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen and Julian Morrow.

When the series was made they have a few names suggested. Some of it were too normal like 'The Chaser is Right' and 'Hey hey, its the Chaser', while some were pushing it abit far like 'The Age of Terror Variety Hour' and 'Thank Allah its Friday'. Finally they settle it with the name 'The Chaser's War on Everything'.

Believe it or not, this show was not without controversial issues such as going to far in their jokes and stunts. One of it was their APEC pranks where they tried to circumvent the APEC security (which they almost did) and commented on George Bush's treatment to APEC importance (this guy called APEC as 'OPEC' in his speech). They were caught, along with the TV crews, but later the charges were dropped because the fault on the police for giving them to enter restricted area in the first place. The Chaser's comment, it seems the police wouldn't bother to check your identity if you could produce something similar to the security card or clearance card.   

How could the police missed this, I have no idea..

There are more in this shows, but I don't think could write it all down. Enough to say that this show is really awesome and hilarious. Although the Chasers did alot of dangerous stunts and some even offensives to other people, but I think this comedy show actually covers more real current issue than other current issue programme out there. Well, mostly current issue in Australia.. but still! This show provide critical criticism towards the government and voicing out the real need of Australian people. I'm not saying always criticising is good, but that IS the reason why you have the opposition party in Democracy, right?   



Too bad the show ended in 29th July '09, and I have no idea if they ever continued the production ever again. You can watch their video online in:

ABC Channel for the Chasers

Enjoy!