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Lucia Lai

the ‘winds of penang’

most people in penang must have heard of the japanese sculptor, katsumi mukai, who was working on a huge tree at the pedestrian mall of prangin mall. cmos, the blur sotong had blog on it once, where he managed to take a photo with the man himself. there was also …

gathering for bloggers and anyone interested

ok, a few of us penang bloggers had decided on the date and venue of the bloggers and friends gathering. first of all, we decided not to name the gathering as ‘bloggers gathering’ since the gathering is open to non bloggers as well, especially readers of blog who do not …

PDD 6876

stupid idiot bl**dy jerk of a driver!! parking right in front of motorbikes’ parking bay again!! grrr!!! PDD 6876!! remember sometime back in august i had grumbled so much about how some cars like to block the motorbikes’ parking bays in king street? (very often!). and also in citibank (not …

tudung – a must for convocation in IIU

well the report stated that non muslim are not forced to wear tudung to lectures but they still have to wear it (not a full covered tudung though but a scarf) during convocation. =============== my tudung post refers. so now it’s official. higher education minister, shafie mohd. salleh said that …

eye talk

ok people, today i’m gong to indulge you with some eye talk. yep, today i talk eye talk, ok, as the picture above (of something) says so. how many of you have perfect vision? oh well, let’s not say perfect but simply that you don’t need glasses/contact lens. i am …

29 death in a day – highest so far

regarding my blog on the 8 golden rules to observe on the road, i was mentioning about speed trap cameras, that now the government had decided not to hide these cameras anymore but to reveal to everyone where these cameras are, and a website was mentioned. however when i went …

suicide intervention

sometime ago, i informed about a talk on suicide intervention here. i had written a report of the talk. wanted to put up the report earlier but i was waiting for it to be publish in the herald first. it was a staff from the herald itself who requested me …

the ten commandments of email

hear ye! hear ye! heed the ten commandments of email thou who sent out emails often, ought to know these commandments.! 1 *Thou shalt include a clear and specific subject line. 2*Thou shalt edit any quoted text down to the minimum thou needest. 3*Thou shalt read thine own message thrice …

bad businessmen = triad members

“If someone betrays me personally… I will get a few gang members together and beat him up until he’s paralysed or he’s a vegetable, but if the matter is really big then they’ll be brought before my tai ko for a trial,” he said. “If my tai ko asks us …

to all who celebrate the raya…

AND TO THE OTHERS…. WISHING YOU A BRIGHT AND SUNNY HAPPY HOLIDAYS! so where will you guys be off to during this long break? makan angin somewhere like off to genting highlands, taiping zoo, sunway lagoon, penang!!? (i’m talking about domestic holiday not overseas). for me, i’ll not be going …