ok ok, me included. yes i am fat. i feel i am fat though my BMI (body mass index) says i am not overweight. well i suppose ‘fat’ and ‘overweight’ is different. i can be fat but not overweight but i cannot be overweight and thin - so it is correct to say i am fat though i am not overweight.

have you heard that malaysia has the most number of fat people in the asean region? a survey by malaysian shape of the nation found that out.

update to my earlier post about emit asia, i had contacted the consumers association of penang (CAP) and what the lady staff advised me is to write directly to readers’ digest (RD) main office. she said write a letter of complain to the main office then cc to emit asia in malaysia. one big problem is that i had thrown away the wrapper that came together with the august issue of RD - because she said i need the wrapper for my subscription reference number. anyway i was thinking since emit asia said that august copy was suppose to be a complimentary copy and they will start the subscription only in september, there might not be any subscription reference number on the wrapper!

… the foreign minister, syed hamid said that singapore should apologise for lee kuan yew’s ‘racist’ remarks. earlier, if you remember, he also opened his big mouth to say the pope should made a full apology.

“They should (apologise) for the sake of the two supposedly good neighbouring countries, they should do that.

“That statement went beyond fair comment, describing something that is not true in our country, an instigation. So I think with all honesty, it should be polite for them to say they were sorry,” he told reporters after a meeting of the Umno Supreme Council, here.

careful how you blog. if you belongs to a company or an association or a party, you might just be sacked/expelled from your company/party. well UMNO member, zaharin yassin (picture left - taken from his blog) found that out yesterday when he was expelled from UMNO “for criticising the party leadership”.

zaharin is an UMNO member for bandar tun razak and his blog is at sang kelembai, which is also his pen name.

excerpt from the bernama report:

Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Radzi Sheikh Ahmad told reporters later that the MT viewed Zaharin’s offence seriously and decided to impose a heavier penalty than recommended by the Disciplinary Board and Management Committee.

remember my post about emit asia (m) sdn bhd on 22 august? i complained about not receiving my readers digest subscription and how i had to chase after them many times. finally the boss said they will start to send me a copy in august… and will treat the august copy as a complimentary copy - sort of their apology for delaying my subscription. (sic). all those i wrote in that post and i ended with this para:

wow! can’t believe it that today mark the 3rd anniversary of my blog. i had been blogging for 3 years? that long? a year of 365 days x 3 = 1095 days of blogging. 1095 posts? nah, of course not since i don’t post everyday… but sometimes one day i did post more than 1 posts. well, let’s see… at my blog at blogger.com shows i have 1004 post and here in wordpress, it shows 181 posts. thus altogether right from 23 sept. 2003 until today, 23 sept. 2006, i have 1185 posts. not bad. 1095 days with 1185 posts.

ta… daaamm….!!…. introducing the never ending policy! guess what it is? why, NEP of course. silly girl, you whispered to me. NEP is the new economic policy lah… the policy for bumiputera. huh? yes yes i know but since the NEP never seems to end, it is right to label it as never ending policy too - courtesy of former UKM political science professor dr p. ramasamy. that’s right. it was he who coined that phrase, not me… but of course i agree with him.

FYI, under my post ‘what the pope said‘, i have updated with 3 articles from the herald, a catholic weekly.

1. Was Pope’s speech read before criticising?
2. Pope quotes one verse from Quran
3. Pope Benedict’s faith, reason and university

ok it’s sunday, so i’ll let go serious stuff, i.e. all those pope talk, UMNO talk, racial talk, curry talk… er… khairy talk. something light today.

i spy this in boringest blog - 10 things all drivers should know about motorcycles - and since i am a motorcyclist, i can relate to it very well. i am going to copy the 10 points and make some comments here and there. before that though, some insight into my ‘unique’ mode of transport.

i get around penang island via 3 modes of transport - car, bike and bus!