Smokers!

Article taken from www.thestar.com.my.

Hmmph, looks like women smokers are on the rise these days. I guess they're onto the "Hey, we're smoking, therefore we're cool" thinking nowadays. Wait, perhaps it's the government themselves who are promoting cigarettes in an indirect way.

Imagine 20 years ago, ads on cigarettes are less common compared to now. Thru its Tak Nak campaign, the authorities hope to persuade smokers to give up smoking. However, I noticed a slightly funny trend when I read this article.

While the authorities try to promote its Tak Nak campaign since the last few years, the Health Ministry came up with a statistic that female smokers have doubled up. Well, so much for your time and effort on the Tak Nak campaign, but it Tak Boleh work la.

Imho, I think that the authorities are moving in a wrong way. The idea of increasing cigg packs by just 10% to stop smokers from buying them are just embarassing. Just try to imagine how a rise of 40cents per pack would discourage smokers to stop buying them. Even with toll prices increasing every year, motorists still pay to use them. Dun argue with me that roads are a neccessity while ciggarettes are not. Ask a smoker and you'll know the answer.

Well, this is different in other countries. For example, a pack of 20's in Australia costs about Aud10 per pack. That is expensive and worth considering about. Being a casual smoker myself, a rise of a mere 40cents per pack wouldn't even stop me from buying it. Prolly it will make me and some other smokers bitch about for a short while but I can guarentee you that it wouldn't stop us from smoking.

Therefore, I would declare that the efforts by specific authorities in campaign Tak Nak is not going well. Statistics tell for themselves. Perhaps you guys should try a different approach this time around.

Sports + Me = Injuries

Haha. What a topic to start with. As you guys probably know, my weekend was filled with sports, sports and sports. Yea, a whole weekend of sports.

First of all, I would like to congratulate the Masa(UTS Malaysian Association) soccer team for coming in 1st. You guys rox! Against all odds and pressure, we were able to come in first for the very first time in UTS history. Lol.

Back to topic. Sports and me have never gone well over the years. Whenever I sport, there's a high chance that I will end up injured. Just as my brother said when I tried to explain to him what is my latest injury about, "It's easier if you name those parts that you did not injured rather than those that you have". Yeah, I practically almost injure my whole body although they're not at the same time.

It all started since I was in primary school. Being a sporty person (sports is in my blood since last time) in primary school, I alwiz play during recess time. Well, who doesn't actually? Haha. I fractured my left wrist while trying to swing like Tarzan. Haha, serve me right. Lesson learnt, It is not as easy as you tought to swing from a tree to another. I had a cast on for about two months. Injuring your arm is never easy. There's many thing you can't do easily, for instance, eating by yourself.

The injuries followed me to secondary school. In my secondary years, I had two major injuries to my head and thigh. I had a collision while playing in a soccer tournament and ended up bleeding pretty badly due to a gash above my eyebrow. Apparently my teammate was going after the same ball as me and collided MOUTH first with my head. Wtf. I think his teeth gashed my eyebrow which then leads to blood flowing out. Thanks to those that offered me a ride to the hospital. I still remember you guys.

The next incident was during sports day in school. I had a muscle tear in my thigh area in a 100m dash race. Well, I guess I should blame the school for this. The sports carnival was held in our very own padang. Yes, and it's a lousy padang coz it's uneven. To make matters worse, it was raining heavily and the padang's condition is getting worse. The only positive thing I got out from this is a gold medal with the win :) and a chance to talk so someone special to me. The bad thing is, I was unable to walk properly for nearly a month.

Yea, those were the injuries that I had in my primary and secondary years. Not to mention the countless times I had sprained both my ankles.

Therefore I declare my motto for sports is "If you wanna play to win, play hard!"

As of now, I'm actually blogging with my elbow bandaged. Yup, my list of injuries just kept growing. I sprained my elbow while playing basketball for MASA. To make things worse, I missed the final game against UNSW which we lost by a mere 2 points. Btw, Good Fridays weren't suppose to be like this afterall. Grrr...

P.S > Photos on sports carnival and dance party will be up soon.

Coogee

Peeps... What's better than just going to the beach and lay down under the sun?
Lemme guess?

Emmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

Emmmmmmmmmmm....

Emmmmmm....

Emmm....

Em....

Nutin I guess?

Presenting........ Coogee Beach!Yup, this beach is just 10 mins bus ride from the place I'm living now.


Breathtaking view of Coogee Beach. Don't you just feel like stripping and dash straight into the waters?

The many beach goers on a Saturday afternoon.

Angmohs enjoy the sun so much. They like to sunbath under the sun. I wonder how many of them eventually gets skin cancer.












Pool-side beach. Beware of incoming sharks during high tide. Haha.

Damn cool pool btw.











Coincidently, there was an Ironman Challenge on that weekend as well. The guys are just so fit and tan. Sorry no pics thou.













When there's well hung guys, there'z babes as well.














Uh, uh, boobies! It's normal over here. How I wish it's the same in Malaysia. Ohhyah, they're Asians btw. Notice the airport? Haha.

What a Week.

Hmmph, what a week this turns out to be. There's many ups and downs that I'm experiencing at the moment.

First of all, it's the lazy to clean attitude. As you all know, we(yong, fats and killeryit) have just shifted into our new home. Haha. Yes, it's a H.O.U.S.E you know. It's kinda big and it has 4 bedrooms. The rent is pretty reasonable considering the prices of Sydney's property are going at the moment. For the same amount, we are only able to get an unfurnished 2 bedroom unit apartment in the city. Yeah, so that's a pretty good bargain. Okay, this post is not about the house btw. I shall not talk more about the house at the moment. I was never fond of moving into a new house. Well, it's actually the thought of having to clean up and unpacked my luggage kills the excitement of moving into a new place. Argh. Anway, thank god it's clean now. However, my luggage is still there. 50% done at least.

Next up is my class timetable. I only have classes two times a day. Wooohoo. However, it's from morning to night. And that's because I have a freakin 5 hour break in between both classes. Bah, I shudn't have complain much. At least my classes are only 2 days in a week.

The Masa(UTS Malaysian Society) sports carnival is coming up. That means lots of practise and sports throughout the week. Well, this is one of the events I'm looking forward to because it's pretty boring over here. So yeah, the sports event will be held this coming weekend. 4 major unis are going to participate. They are, Macquarie Uni, UNSW and Uni of Syd. After the sports event, there will be a dance party organized by these 4 unis. Ohyah, the events are for Malaysians. However, the dance party is open to all. Haha, tat means another drinking session with the guys again. Drunk we are becoming again.

The EPL season is coming to and end soon. I'm a Red Devil fan. Yes. Man Utd will win the title this season. Byebye Chelsea. The weekend matches were pretty exciting. Liverpool thrashed Arsenal 4-1 and Man Utd beat Blackburn with the same scoreline as well. To those Man U fans out there, Glory glory man utd! It's gonna be our season considering how well they fought back in the second half. If it wasn't for Brad Friedel, it would have been at least 5/6 goals. However, boring boring Chelsea stole a win at Watford. So the title race is still on. Damn u lucky bastards.

Fats kana "bah kua". It means saman ler. Haha. We went for this basketball tournament held in Auburn Basketball Centre. Fats being the typical Malaysian, decided to go for a cheaper ride by purchasing a concession ticket. Fyi, we International Students do not get concession rates despite paying a hugh amount of fees compared to the citizens here. Unfortunately, they were caught by the attendents. Despite trying their best to impersonate a "I'm new and I juz arrived in Sydney" look, the attendent gave them a "Ya rite, yr student id shows that yr here for over a year" reply. Nah, they were actually quite friendly and explained to them the rules about concession tickets. Ohyah, it's April Fool's day as well. Too bad, the attendent weren't in the April Fool mood. And Fats ended up with a $200 dollar fine.

There. That's my week. Oh yah, I forgot to include the $200 dollar i lost in Star City as well. Damn the devils there. Will be back for revenge!

Mardi Gras 2007

The Sydney Mardi Gras is an annual gay pride parade and festival for the gay and lesbian community in Sydney, Australia. According to the official website, there are around 350,000 people who came to watch this years parade. And I happen to be one of them, but that does not proove that I am gay okay!

Okay, without further delay, here's the pics. Beware, there are some disturbing pics. Definitely not for the cannot tahan gayness/lesbians ppl. Haha.



On the way to Oxford St, where the Mardi Gras event is held I came across quite a number of uniquely dressed ppl. Haha, okay, I dun know what to call them. Notice the 1st guy on the right? He's wearing super tight shorts and makeup.






No, this store is just an ordinary Chemist. It's the few individuals in front of the store that captured my attention. If you guessed that the spiky hair guy is weird, watch properly to the short hair guy with black tee on the right. He is actually holding a dog chain, chained to his partner, the lady behind him. Woof Woof.

The Chemist is actually selling stools for $5 per stool. It's actually a good business coz after the parade ends, people will leave their new bought stools back there for the chemist to collect again. Mayb i shud do that next year.














The event started with Mr. John Doe and Mrs. Jane Doe riding this cool motor thingy. I think it is called a segway. They look cool riding it thou. Err, I meant the electronic scooters la duh, not Mr. John and Mrs. Jane Doe! Anyway, the evening got started with them riding the segway along the street a few times.














They were then followed by this hot nurses. If only nurses in hospitals are these hot, I would have been a frequent visitor :) No, You did not see wrong. They are bodyfit males in a nurse uniform. Haha, I know u wanna touch them so badly MQ. No doubt they do look sexy in the outfit thou.

Next up is the Karma Kleaners. Em, I had no idea what are they and what do they do. So, go figure it out yrself :)

This group supports making the planet green. Nah, it's actually their excuse to run around just in body paint. Not a bad sight. At least they are good looking. You'll understand why i say so later.

Tadaa. Take that. Tat is a freakin monster boobs. Haha. The worse thing is, I dun know if that is a man or lady. It's just a scary sight. Thank god "it" remains on the other side of the road.

The event is so fun that even ATM machines wanna join the parade too. Em peeps, just becareful when you are withdrawing money from ANZ atm machines next time.

This handsome dude is gay. Wat a pity.

Presenting, Thai pussycats. They seriously do have the body. However, some or maybe all of them are not straight. Haha, they're Thai afterall.

The best float of the night. Roman chicks. Yes, pretty they all are. And sexy too!

Muscular blokes draggin the Trojan horse.

Top: A group of random guys. The tattoo guy looks sad. Mayb he lost his partner to some other gay.

Left: Group of guys in leather undies. Sweet.

BEWARE. The following contents are not for the faint-hearted. Please click on the "X" button on the top right of your screen if you are not a gay or lesbian. However, in clicking "X", you are certified a pussy for "chickening" out. Haha, JK lar.. Can anot?

Miss Ugly Pageant. Haha. What better name to describe them. Ohyah, they are all guys btw. See, I'm not a sexist.

Top Left: Another wtf moment in the parade.

Top Right: A passionate volunteer posing with her sharp boobs.

Yah, this is pretty much what I have. To those that are interested in more pics, visit this dude's flickr. Guarenteed more funny pics in there.

P/S: Sry for the bad arrangement of pics. Gettin fed up with blogspot. I shall post small pics only next time. :(

Homeless no more!

People, after nearly 3 weeks of house hunting, I am finally not homeless anymore. Screw you leryee and MQ. No more HOMELESS okay. Haha

Anyway, let's join in the journey of house hunting in Sydney.

Generally, Sydney has an average vacancy rate of 15% over the years. Unfortunately, the rate fell to nearly 1.7% this year. I forgot which dude told me this. :P

Yes, that's a dramatic drop. Uh.. Wonder why eh?

Well, according to my uncle, who is a PR and works in a real estate field, he claims that the Oz govt. has stopped building new apartments in the city at the moment. Therefore, the chances of you being able to find a vacant apartments is like finding a $1 dollar coin in the beach. Haha.

But yeah, that's just how hard it is to find a place in the city.

Most of you must be sayin, " Eh, why you alwiz on9 only? I tot u homeless? Go around and find house lar." Haha. Unfortunately, that's not the case over here. First of all, we did go around the agents looking for apartments to rent. However, due to the stupid rules here, they couldn't simply let us inspect the apartments. According to the agents, we have to set a date with the agent. And apparently, most inspections are done on Saturdays, which leave us with nothing much to do on weekdays.

Come Saturdays, we have to freakin rush from this apartment to that apartment, then to another apartment and so on for inspection. Hmmph, what if we found a nice apartment and decided to rent it? Juz pay deposit and bond then settle la, can sign contract ady. Ya rite man. It's not like this. Apparently due to the freakin low vacancy rate in the city, we have to rebut with nearly 20 other applicants. Yes, it's 20 other applicants, not people!

Okay, how bad can it be? 20 applicants only mar. NO once again. According to the agent, most landlord prefer to rent their apartments(in most preferred order) to working people, married couples, family, and lastly students. Oh wait, students are divided into two parts, Female and Male. Okay, seeing that Me, Fats, Yy and Cy are guys, we're last among the last. Damnit.

As weeks past by and our frustrations gradually increasing, we finally found a place. However it is in the suburb. There were 3 other groups inspecting the apartment at the same time. Haha, it must have been our lucky day. Apparently the agent is a Malaysian and it seems that the apartment belongs to his friend. He even chatted with us in Cantonese( the other groups are Indons) and mentioned that he would rather rent it to us. We handed in the documents and filled in the application forms as normal.

A few days later, we got a call from this agent again. He told us that the landlord decided to rent to us the apartment but we have to wait 2 weeks before we could move in as the landlord needs to find a new place to stay. Wat the hell, 2 weeks aint nothing, might as well wait as long as we get the apartment. Therefore we agreed with the agent and decided to sign the contract the next day. Wat happen the next day surprised us to hell. The freakin agent called us in the morning and said that the landlord decided to rent his apartment to the other group. Fuck you no tomorrow buddy! Knn Ccb. There, another home got rob.

Ohyah, I did not mention that we had an apartment got stolen right under our nose. Haha, stupid of us eh. We got conned by that agent. Here's how the story goes. We went for an inspection in Summit(the building I lived in last year) and decided to rent it. The agent told us that we could hand in the application forms by tomorrow morning. Partly confident that we could get this apartment, we came back the next morning to find out that the agent had ady rented this apartment to 2 Thai chicks. Damn u hamsaplou.

Yea, after all the frustrations and so we finally got a house in Kingsford. It's near UNSW and there are alot of Asian restaurants around there, notably the famous Ayam Bakar 99 and Sinma. We're paying 650 p/w for this house( at 650, you could only get an unfurnished 2br apartment in the city). It has 4 small bedrooms and a large bedroom. I decided not to upload any pics yet as the house is very empty indeed. Haha, the fact is, I'm lazy thou :P

That's pretty much about it. Sums up why I am homeless in Sydney for nearly 3 weeks. Thanks very much to SP for letting us stay over in his place all this while. Thanks dude.

Fly me to Sydney!

Bye Bye Klang!

Hi to Sydney again~....

It's sad when you have to leave your parents, siblings, buddies, friends and good foods all back in mainland and travel to another country to freakin stay for one year(min) and study. Well, it's much funner if you are on holidays. Well, complains aside, I'm actually looking forward to fly back. Why? Coz the chicks here are just so HOT. Haha.. It's true guys, dun get jealous gals, you have to see for yourself to believe it.

Okay, back to my journey. I took Austrian Air a.k.a Lauda Air. Having change to this flight from the original MAS one that i booked, I managed to save RM900. Yes, it's that much. However, there are sidebacks to it. Dad have to fetch me to the airport at 3am in the mornin cause my flight was at 6am. Thanks Dad. Overall, I feel satisfied with Austrian Air. Although the food sucks, they make up with the service they provide. And also.... Thanks to Fats we have extra space to stretch our legs, not that Yong needs much thou.

Anyway, Fats could not join us due to his visa thingy. See lar.. Do things last minute again. Padan muka. Now u travel alone.. Wahaha. Once again, thank you very good Fats for the added space.

This is the breakfast that they served us. It looks decent enough. But then, do not judge till you have actually tried them. I swear the bread is f*ken hard. Hard till if you hit a dog with it, the dog will faint. Haha. Try it and you'll believe it.



After 8 hours of flight, we finally reached Sydney International Airport. Having seated on row 11A and 11C, we managed to get ourselves out of the airplane before the rest. I swear this is the closest I've get to actually have a seat in business class. Will work hard for it thou! Minus the queue, we managed to get our luggage out and away asap before the other passengers. Tadaa... Fresh Oz Air. Seriously, the air over here is less polluted compared to Msia.

We took a cab to city. Here's when the trouble starts. We're actually homeless people. Haha. At 1st thought, it would have been fun. Wandering around aimlessly trying to find for a bed to sleep in with your luggage is not easy. Thanks to CY, we got two beds in YHA Travel Backpackers. Seriously, if any of you guys decided to go backpacking, you should consider YHA. Their dorms are clean. And if you're lucky, you might score backpacking babes there too!

The hallway leading to our room. Notice how clean the walls are.

This is how our dorm looks like. It's a 6 bedroom dorm. We're sharing them with 4 other guys. Most backpackers have the 'mou tiu' attitude. You can actually do anything you want in the dorm and they wouldn't mind a bit. *Imagine couples making out* There's a poolside BBQ party organized by YHA that night itself.

p/s : This post was suppose to come up a week ago. However, due to the stupid computer in Uni's lab, bloggin is a hassle. And, I'm still homeless after 2 weeks of home searching. It Sux. Will update later again.

Ciaoz peeps.