UPDATED:  see below
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Bank Bumiputra 3.2 Billion
Maminco attempt to corner the world tin market in 1980’s 1.6 Billion
Betting in Foreign Exchange cost Bank Negara in 1990’s 30 Billion
Perwaja Steel resulted in losses 2.56 Billion
Valuecap Sdn Bhd – operation to shore up stock market with public funds 10 Billion
Bank Islam banking scandal – losses 700 Million
Sale of [...]

… so it was reported in the daily chilli.
apparently a group of young indonesians calling themselves ‘benteng demokrasi indonesia’ or ‘bendera’ in short planned to attack malaysia on oct. 8. they had started amassing weapons already!
oh gee, do the indonesians hate us that much?  maybe yes.   on the popular social networking community site, facebook,  i [...]

look! how cute the girl is! oh i meant the one on the right of course. . i’m the one on the left… an aunty already so cannot be cute. she’s desirae danya.
desirae danya. what a nice unique name eh. well desirae is the daughter of my colleague, anuja. she had her 1st birthday celebrated [...]

UPDATED ON 27 SEPT. – video where LGE talked about TI’s recognition of penang (towards the end).
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actually i had wanted to blog this yesterday when i blog on ‘negative penang – penang hill breakdown’. it’s to show the contrast – one negative and one positive but no time to blog on it after watching ‘fantastic [...]

last monday, 21 sept, which was the 2nd day of hari raya, a public holiday, my sister’s ex-classmate, who also knows our family, came for a visit in the afternoon about 4.00pm. we were talking something about penang sight-seeing places, when the friend remarked “we have our penang hill”.  i responded with “the train always [...]

what else is new. *sigh*
ok for the uninitiated, by ‘the nile river’ i meant ‘denial’. ‘the nile’ = ‘denial’, see? the nile is a river in egypt (picture left). our ministers are forever denying this and that, thus the metaphor to use is ‘the nile river runs deep’. (actually me good old friend, wits0 was [...]

yummy yummy! sambal belacan (pounded chili with fried shrimp paste) is the one thing that i must have with my rice. if there is no curry to go along with my rice, then i must have sambal belacan mix with the rice until the whole rice is red! well sometimes if some of the dishes [...]

how often do you shop for clothes? once in a long while or quite often? or only when a festive occasion comes up? yep… that’s me, i only shop for clothes come every christmas and chinese new year. i already have so many clothes in my wardrobe!! also in my office, i don’t have [...]