The other day I was at KLCC waiting in line (I am a member of the International Waiting in Line Association rite?) to buy tickets.  Behind me was an elderly couple from Singapore.  So wait, wait, wait, then I noticed a young lady in front passing out small booklets and asking people to sign something. 

When she reach the person in front of me was when I found out she was telling people about Earth_Hour, explaining what it was and asking for their details and signature.  For statistics rite? 

So when my turn came, I told her she didn’t have to explain EH all over again to me since she so kesian have to go one by one.  I knew what it was and that I had already signed up via the website.  She said ok but asked me to sign anyway.  I didn’t because I shouldn’t sign again when I had already done so on the website.  At the end of the day, we need to know the actual number of Msians who are really in support of EH.  Ok, there’s no way of knowing the exact number but at least a good estimate.  By knowing the number, we can know how much energy use was reduced during that hour.  Ok lah, I’m just bullshitting. :P

But here’s the figures from the first EH in Sydney.  10.2% in reduction of energy use was achieved during that hour according to Energy Australia. (Is TNB going to monitor the usage ah?)  That 10.2% reduction is equivalent to taking 48,613 cars off the roads for an hour, or switching off 200,000 TV sets for an hour, representing a collective reduction of carbon emissions by a whooping 25 tonnes!  Walaueh!!!  In just one hour! 

Oklah, I don’t really know what that means and I found it on some website but still… reduction in carbon emissions is fighting global warming.  And in this generation, we are already sweating and complaining like hell about how hot it is.  Mind you, beautiful fair skinned ladies out there, heat causes your skin to grow darker!  Growing darker means you have to spend more money on SKII products!  Jeng! Jeng! Jeng! 

But seriously, if this continues, our kids will not go outdoors in the next 10-20 years or so.  Remember how it was when we were younger?  Do you remember that it was this hot in those days?  When I was a kid, I went out to play at 4 in the evenings.  Nowadays 4pm is hot like hell, you would have to be mad to go out.  Most families come out for a walk in the park at what time these days? 6pm? Late in the evenings rite?  So global warming reduces family walk in the part time.  Jeng! Jeng! Jeng! 

Even when you eat your ice-cream outdoors, you can’t really enjoy it by slowly lick, lick, lick.  You’d have to lick, lick, bite of a huge chunk, lick, bite, lick, bite, bite, habis liao.  I know, I know, really you’ve got no choice nowadays because if not, it’ll just melt away.  But eating ice-cream in a rush doesn’t justify the existence of ice-cream.  Jeng! Jeng! Jeng!

But really EH is not only about reducing energy use.  It’s also an awareness campaign.  There are many who are not practising small little things that could have an effect on the environment or simply they are unaware. 

I’m not an environment warrior but I try to do my part, as long as it doesn’t require me to lift heavy objects, and we try to encourage everyone in our company to do the same.  Oklar, not me but my partner.  Simple things like printing on both sides of the paper or switching off lights when not in the room.  Things like setting our laptops to standby instead of the screen saver.  We don’t buy desktop pcs but laptops bcoz it uses 6 times less electricity.  We have a green signature in our emails that says, ‘Please consider the environment before printing this email‘.  We fart into recycled paper-bag so the gas doesn’t get emitted into the atmosphere and we inhale it back into our lungs so that it gets recycled.  Like I said, small things everyone can do.

But you’d expect the local organization who are responsible for EH to do more rite?  You would expect these people to be more gung-ho about the environment.  I did anyway.  Not so long ago I visited them at their office.  I went to use the men’s room and it was those small ‘one person at a time’ type and I noticed that the lights were on, even though there was no one inside.  Hmmm….

Then there was no urinal so you had to shoot into the throne.  Don’t worry, my aim very good one. Won’t spill everywhere. :P  After I was done, I noticed that it was one of those single flush ones so even if you just took a leak, you still have to flush as if you just unloaded 2 kilo load of shit.  What a waste of water!  You would think that an organization who champions the conservation of the environment would have gotten jiggy with it.

Having said that maybe these are just simple things that people like us should do while they are concerned with bigger issues like creating awareness.  No seriously.  We are not going to go around telling people to save the environment.  Are you?  So we need them and I know they are doing a decent job at that, especially in educating the young at national school level and coming out with partnerships and running campaigns.  Come to think of it, I should have told them about coming up with a ‘fart recycle paper-bag’.  They could brand it.  Put their logo on it and pass it out.

Back to waiting in line.  The girl thanked me and moved along to the elderly couple behind.  I eavesdropped overheard their conversation.  Even before the girl could explain in detail, they already told her "No, no. Dun wan."  The girl told them she was not selling anything and the uncle gave her his ears while the auntie attended to their grandchild.  The girl explained that on the 28th people were going to switch off their lights and electricity for an hour.  The uncle said, "Oh no, we are from Singapore. 28th we go back oledi."

The girl explained that it was not just Malaysia who were involved with EH but Singapore as well.  The uncle was headstrong that he didn’t want to take part and good for him.  If he doesn’t want, he shouldn’t be forced to do so.  She tried hard to get his signature which to me shouldn’t have been the case.  What’s the point if that uncle gave his signature when he wasn’t going to support it.  So the girl lost in her quest and went on to the next in line.

Then I heard the auntie ask the uncle what the fuss was all about.  The uncle spoke in Chinese, "Dunno what lah! Ask people to switch off light at nite. Mou wai yeh (Pointless thing). For what? One hour no light how to see ah? See TV also kenot."

Auntie replied, "This things only those mou wai people only do."

:P

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The wife has spoken.  She didn’t leave the kids with him, she took them with her.  The most shocking thing is that he punched her when she was pregnant!?  Shit now I know why he’s unforgiveable.

I copy from theStar below for all the sampat people here.

A young wife whose estranged husband had recently gone public in seeking her forgiveness just wanted to be left alone, Sin Chew Daily reported.

Crystal Lee, 24, said she was forced to resign from her job only after two weeks because he had constantly disturbed her at work and also at her house.

“I left because I did not want to affect the company. Now, I am facing financial difficulty as I have to take care of my children.

“He chose to use such an extreme tactic so that my income will be affected and I will have no choice but to go back to him,” she said.

The newspapers had recently reported how Kelvin Ng made his first attempt in SS2 to publicly plead for Lee’s forgiveness.

A week later, he knelt in front of the Amcorp Mall for the same reason.

Ng admitted he had thrice cheated on his wife but vowed never to play around again.

The daily also reported Lee as saying that Ng had punched her even though she was pregnant.

“I just hope to find a job, and be able to settle our divorce proceeding so that I can start a new life with my children,” she said.

Sometimes I login feeling quite sampat and the product is a sampat post.  I then log off and readers login and read that sampat post.  Somehow they also get caught up with the sampat-ness and make a sampat comment.  Of course there are those that are oledi sampat by nature. :P

I then login again later and read that sampat comment.  And I think to myself, ‘Hahaha… what a sampat comment. He/she also so sampat wan.’  I then go over to that person’s blog, still reeling from all the sampat-ness and read their latest post.  With an overflow of sampat-ness dripping from my nose, ears and belly button, I make a sampat comment on that post.  A stupid thing to do sometimes I admit.

That person then logins and read my sampat comment but by that time, he/she has already gotten over all the sampat-ness.  That person doesn’t realize the sampat state that I am in.  So the person reacts as any normal sane non-sampat person would.  They get pissed off.  "What the fark! How could he say dat! Dun fren him!"

It could be a comment on a post about something they baked, something they just bought, about their kids, about their bf or gf, about their spouse, about their house or about their parking skills.  What ever.

That person blogs about getting a bargain on a new handbag and I make a comment like "Walaueh! So ekpensif arh!? Petaling Street balu RM50 nia! :P"  That person gets pissed with me, "KNN that hensem-hensem man! He think wat! I so low klas until use Cap Palang thing wan meh! I dun fren him liao!"

Or maybe they blogged about their anniversary dinner and their spouse bought them a 20K diamond ring.  I sampatly comment "What? No flowers? He should have bought you a 19K diamond ring and used the money saved to add in some roses. :P"  Again another gets pissed, "Niamah! Does he buy his wife roses on their anniversary or not!? OR NOT! Dun say people when he himself never do you know!"

Or it’s a post about how their kid eats with their hands causing a mess every time and I comment something like, "Well that’s the best way to eat cereal according to The Dummies’s How To Eat Your Cereal manual. Besides maybe he follows after you. :P"  Oh this one is the MUTHER OF ALL PISSES.  "#%%$&! I know lah my kid not as smart as his kids! Besides how I know got such a manual. I go MPH also kenot find."

They then tell other readers about what I said, "You know ah… dat hensem-hensem man ah… say this about my kid you know. How farking rude is he! I hope one day he wakes up and finds his hensem-ness has increased and when he looks in the mirror, it cracks! Oh I so hope that happens! And I hope the wife never let him see his kids again!"  Well so sorry to disappoint you but my mirror hasn’t cracked. :P

And then it gets passed on until some reader emails me and asked "Why did you say dat ah? And where did you buy dat manual ah?"

And not so long ago, that person told me how wifey shouldn’t treat dotter like that, that I should do something, that I should just leave my wife, teach her a lesson, yada yada yada.  Of course getting a divorce is my own decision and not influenced by anyone here.  And it’s not only because of dotter but because my marriage is empty liao and there’s no point in holding on to something that’s lost.  No point being together and continue to fight it out.  Continue with the hate.  Not a very good environment for the kids.  Instead of spreading love, we’re spreading animosity.  Where is the love…..  Eh? Apasal out of topic pulak? :P

Anyway, there are people like that.  A reader once told me that a few bloggers started to stay away from her when they found out that she was a single parent, a person without integrity konon.  I found that to be so sad.  Not sad for the one who’s a single parent but sad for those that would think of others that way.

It’s the same with me I know.  A person without integrity, no moral values, don’t know how to appreciate marriage, a bastard of a husband, an asshole dan lain-lain yang sewaktu dengan nya.  Everyone’s entitled to their opinions right? :P

Oh don’t get me wrong.  I’m not offended.  Slightly disappointed maybe.  Buthen who go and ask me to blog about it. :P  But anyway…

 

Now if I ever made a comment on your blog that offended you, what ever it was about, if it was about that stupid looking sofa that you bought or especially about your kid, I apologize.  I’m very certain it was most probably done in the moment of sampat-ness or under the influence of some highly intoxicating substance.  :P

 

Now pergi main jauh-jauh dan berhati-hati di jalan raya.

Not my wife lah of course. :P

Desperate hubby pleading for wife to come home.  Did you guys read this piece of news yesterday?  In a nutshell, this dude (a salesman) cheats on his wife and gets caught.  The wife claims he did it six times.  He however claims he only did it three times. :P

The wife has since left him, taking the kids with her.  He now regrets what he has done and to win her back, he decides to seek for her forgiveness by kneeling down in public, hanging banners expressing his regret (with photos of his lovely wife and kids summore!)  He says hor, he wants his wife to be the most admired woman out there.  I don’t really know what he meant by ‘most admired’ because he doesn’t converse well in English so it could have been lost in translation.

I mai sampat and go searching around and found his blog, gui7nan.blogspot.com.  Mostly in Chinese so I don’t really know what’s the deal.  He posted up videos of his ‘kneelathon’ and photos of his wife on his blog.  He has removed her photos as of today.  He even posted her hp number on friendster.

In one of the videos, a passerby took pity on him and helped call his wife up, informing her of what the husband was trying to do.  The wife’s response was "Ask him to eat shit la! Pity him!? Who pity me ah!?" :P

This morning when I turned on the radio, he was on one of the English stations.  Male listeners would call up and ask him to accept his fate.  Time to move on.  Get a life dude!  Check into a mental hospital.  One or two callers would encourage him to continue what he was doing.  I support you, they proudly claimed.

Female listeners would call up and tell the wife over the radio to not forgive him.  Cheating on the wife six times is just unforgivable.  He felt threatened and quickly defended himself.  He stressed that he did not cheat on his wife six times.  It was his wife who only ‘claimed’ he cheated six times.  He said it was only three times. :P  

He went on to clarify that in actual fact, all those three times, he did not engage in any intimacy with the other women.  He was just going out with them.  Nothing more.  He has friends whose wives had no problem with them going out with other women.  So it was his wife who couldn’t accept it.  The lady caller was not convinced.

He then went on the offensive and attacked his wife saying that she also went out until 2-3am in the morning.  Once he confronted her and she was with another man.  The man told him to fark off because they were lovers now.

Another lady called and blasted him for abandoning the wife when she went into labour.  The lady said that it was unforgivable for a husband to leave the wife and not be there for her when she brings his child into the world.  This earlier part I missed cause I only tuned in halfway.  I don’t know the story but he defended himself saying that it was in the past.  He has paid for his sins with the misery he felt the past year that he was separated from his wife.

The bottom line is that he is willing to forget everything and accept his wife back if she would forgive him.  Until then he will continue to kneel in public and hope that she will forgive him.  He doesn’t want a divorce.  He wants his wife and kids back.

What does this have to do with me?  Nothing lah.  Sampat mah!  Not judging him but I think this dude is doing more damage than good to his marriage.  Telling the wife on video for everyone to see that he’ll buy her a Vios and he’ll use motor is not a good public relations move. :P

Now who says my life is filled with drama?

Monday is another public holiday.  Another day for non-productivity rite?  I’m sure like me, you wish that Monday is not a public holiday.  We are all hard working individuals who want to work hard so that our economy becomes stronger rite?

Besides we already have Saturday and Sunday off from work, why would we want another extra day off.  We don’t want another holiday to come kacau our routine.  Monday is the day we are all rested up and eager to go right back to work.  So eager.

Wouldn’t it be good if instead of predetermined holidays, the govt actually gave us public holiday coupons instead.  There are 14 Federal public holidays in 2009.  Wouldn’t it be good if the govt gave us 14 coupons that we could present to our employers whenever we wanted to take leave.  This is different from the entitled annual leave days your employer gives you of course.

So say you are entitled to 18 days annual leave, plus the 14 coupons, you get to ponteng kerja for a total of 32 days.  Fatt Tatt man!  14 of those, on any days you want.  Because it is required by law that your employer MUST comply with your leave request whenever you present the govt issued coupons.  No questions asked.  Just like Ikea’s return policy. 

If you’re a student, present the coupon and you’re excused from school.  Again no questions asked!  As a matter of fact, govt schools and universities are REQUIRED to thank you for using the coupons.  "Terima kasih kerana sudi menggunakan kupon cuti umum negara Malaysia. Jauhi dari dadah."

If you’re a housewife, you could sell off those coupons and make some decent money.  Or use it on your children so that they get extra days off to stay home and help you with the chores.  Or better yet, transfer to your husband’s name so that he gets 46 days off!

If your husband is divorcing you, tell your lawyer you want his coupons for the next 10 years.  Sure die wan.

Have a good weekend.  Jauhi dari dadah.

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Say you’re at the cinema waiting in line to get tickets when the person waiting in front of you turns around and says to you "Hi you hensem-hensem man. I have to step away for just awhile (I need to go berak) but do you mind keeping my spot for me?" *wink wink*  

Basically the person is informing you that she wants to step away from the line for a moment and when she comes back she hopes that you would let her cut back in front of you.

Now unless you’re a complete asshole, chances are you’ll smile and say "Sure thang, honey bun."

She’ll thank you, walk away, wink and blow you a kiss.

A few minutes later, she returns and you let her slide in front of you.  "Thanks hensem-hensem man."

"Sure thang, honey bun."  And that’s the end of conversation.  Now that she’s back in line, the communication channel closes.  She malas nak layan you liao.  Even when you try to start it up again, "Honey bun? Oh, honey bun?"  She’ll detest you, "Diam! Pigi main jauh-jauh!"

But it’s ok.  You can live with yourself that what you did was the right thing.  It’s the correct thing to do, allowing her to slide in front of you back into the line again, simply because she had informed you earlier.  Are you with me on this?

Now here’s a different scenario.  Say you’re waiting in line at the cash deposit machine at the bank.  There’s only five customers waiting in line.  You’re fourth in line and behind you is another, an old lady.

Suddenly you hear someone frantically sounding his car horn and you noticed that someone can’t get out because his car is blocked.  The guy in front of you walks away without saying anything (but you get a hunch it’s his car that’s blocking the way).  You’ve been automatically upgraded into third spot.  Of course you walk up the line.  The old lady behind you follows suit.

But at the back of your mind, you’re thinking what’s the protocol here?  If the guy who walked away returns, he should start again at the back of the line, right?  If he didn’t want to be interrupted while waiting in line, he should have found a proper parking spot instead of double parking behind a parked car.  Oh… there are no shortcuts in life my friend!

Or is it ok if he slides back in front of you?  Shouldn’t he have had the courtesy to excuse himself and perhaps ask for a few minutes from the person behind.  A "Sorry, I’ll be right back. You hensem-hensem man" would have been a very simple indication that would have been easily acknowledged with a "Sure thang, honey bun."

Well of course it’s not really that big a deal but then again, we need to have rules and protocols to help keep things in order.  If not, there would be total chaos on this planet we so lovingly call Earth.

Besides you’ve already walked up and taken his spot.  Taking a step back down the line would imply that you were wrong to move up in the first place.  Not only were you in the wrong, you had also given false hope to that old lady behind you that she was one step closer to her goal of paying her housing loan.  Because you moved up, she moved up.  Now she had to take a step back again.  All because you didn’t think things through.  Yes, letting the guy slide in front of you would imply all that and beyond.

This is one of those times when you wish you had listened to your mom and finished your vegetables (because vegetables help you grow into a strong and healthy man), or had brought along your International Waiting in Line Guidebook.  Because I’m pretty darn sure the protocol is that you should start at the back of the line unless you’ve informed the hensem-hensem man behind you of your intentions to slide right back in.  No?

What would you have done?  Would you start at the back of the line again or just slide in as if nothing happened?  Isn’t it the correct protocol to indicate your intentions to the hensem-hensem man?

Your comments are most welcomed.  Please start with ‘Dear hensem-hensem man….’  because if a lot of people say it, my hensem-ness will increase, my mirror will crack and then I got excuse to change mirror.

Lalalala lala la la….. :P