Say, if you’re fat and ugly, full of pimples and blackheads, what do you reckon that you could do to uplift your self confidence and have a place in the society?
A) Strive to be knowledgeable, and be smarter than everyone else to gain respect.
B) Work on the personality, because personality goes a long way.
C) Commit suicide, because all corpses are ugly and everyone’s at the level playing field.
D) Go to a religious medium and pay him 2000 bucks to magically transform yourself into a good looking person.

Well hell, as unbelievable as it may sound, somebody actually chose D and ended up being in the news today…

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Woman’s quest to look beautiful fails, cops nab medium
KUALA TERENGGANU: If something is too good to be true, it probably is.

A 33-year-old woman learnt it the hard way after a medium pro­mised to make her the prettiest woman in town in just one month through traditional treatment.

The woman from Seberang Takir, who was also on the plump side, paid a deposit of RM250 to the medium who promised her a slimmer figure.

“The victim was requested to attend several sessions of the treatment, and each time, she had to pay a fee.

“She had forked out a total of RM2,250 for his services since the beginning of last month,” said state Commercial Crime chief Superintendent Azmi Adam.

During the course of the treatment, she was not allowed to look at herself in the mirror for the “magic” formula to work.

The victim, who was self-employed, could not contain her curiosity after 31 days and decided to have a glimpse of herself in the mirror.

To her horror, she found that her face still had as many pimples and blackheads and her body had not lost any weight.

She decided to confront the medium at his house, also in Seberang Takir, to get a refund of her money and was told by neighbours that many other women had also fallen prey to him.

The victim lodged a police report the same day.

Police picked up the 34-year-old man yesterday.

She was horrified to even look at her own self, after not seeing herself in the mirror for a month – That actually had me cracked up bad. *wipes tears*

In all seriousness, if the woman really got conned and the religious medium got away with her money, I’d say she deserves it. She should be more worried about her stupidity than her looks.

She was very lucky in a way that the medium was not smart enough to be a conman, for staying around waiting to be caught. But what’s unfortunate for us is, this dumbass of a woman has 1 vote on her for the next GE, and her stupidity isn’t going to do a lot of good with that vote.

Is it just me or what… that I think this Nazri guy is AWESOME? Here’s a snippet of the Last Samurai dicing some cab drivers with his katana…

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Nazri slams cab association
PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz has hit out at a taxi association which is demanding that he apologises for his remarks about errant taxi drivers.

The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department said he was merely stating facts when he said that tourists listed errant taxi drivers as their worst complaint in a recent survey.

“Previously, tourists listed dirty toilets. But now, their number one complaint is errant taxi drivers.

“Even the public cannot stand errant taxi drivers,” he said when contacted yesterday.

On Friday, Executive Taxi Owners Association of Malaysia chairman Azmi Md Yatin demanded that Nazri apologise for stating that the attitude of bad taxi drivers was worse than filthy toilets.

“They should check their facts first. They did not even attend my meeting.

“Why should they be angry? I was talking about errant taxi drivers. Good taxi drivers will not be affected by what I said,” he said.

Nazri said they would not compromise with errant taxi drivers who were becoming a bane.

“Refusing to use the meter, charging exorbitant prices and declining to take passengers are some of the bad behaviours irking both tourists and public alike.

“We will not tolerate their attitude and urge the public to report such cases to us so that we can take immediate action,” he added.

As for Azmi’s action in sending a memorandum of protest to the Prime Minister, Nazri joked:

“Why don’t they suggest in the memorandum that the Prime Minister drops me as a minister?”

“Whatever they do, we will not back down against errant taxi drivers,” he said.

Earlier in Kuala Kangsar, after launching a new bus by General Omnibus Sdn Bhd, Nazri described the protest memorandum as “a stupid move.”

I’m surprised that these lowlife taxi drivers didn’t suggest in the memorandum to demolish all the public toilets in Malaysia – so that they won’t be as wretched as ‘worse than filthy public toilets’ (because no more public toilet maa), but just whatever that is presently third on the list.

By the way, what the fuck’s with submitting memorandum nowadays? Our PM must be so busy reading memorandums, that he do not have enough time to appreciate Rosmah’s hair. Like candle light vigils, I think submitting memorandums is being grossly overused. So yesterday. Think of something new lah. Like burning their own taxi cab to attract attention, for example.

Jokes aside, being ‘worse than filthy public toilets’ is probably an understatement. An errant taxi driver is worse than whatever that’s being flushed down those toilets. Not only they piss off people, but sometimes they endanger the safety of the public as well. A good percentage of them drive recklessly, behave like thugs and even involved in vice trade (a friend was once asked by a KL taxi driver if he would like some foreign prostitutes for company). And this is as wretched as it can be, and it warrants for something to be done about them.

So, if they’ve been busy staging walk-outs and mooning asses, who’s working?

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Penang state assembly: Fourth walkout in four months
GEORGE TOWN: State Opposition leader Datuk Azhar Ibrahim (BN-Penaga) has been suspended till the end of the assembly sitting for refusing to apologise for showing his behind to a backbencher.

Azhar left the House with other 10 Barisan Nasional assemblymen after State Assembly Speaker Datuk Abdul Halim Hussain made the ruling at 9.50am on Thursday, just 20 minutes after the morning session started.

The assemblymen who walked out pledged their support for Azhar and said they, too, would not attend the remaining sitting.

Earlier, Sim Tze Tzin (PKR-Pantai Jerejak) complained to Abdul Halim under Order 51 (5) that Azhar had shown his behind at him before leaving the chamber on Wednesday.

“I and my colleagues feel insulted. This is unbecoming of a five-term assemblyman,” Sim said.

Azhar, interjected that he had bent over to collect his briefcase, when he was ordered out by Deputy Speaker Tan Hock Leong after an exchange of words with Sim on that day.

“I did not intend to show him my buttocks. I won’t apologise,” he said before demonstrating the act three times to loud jeers from the House.

Abdul Halim, who said he watched the incident on a video, directed Azhar to apologise to Sim.

When Azhar refused, he suspended him till the end of this session’s sitting which is expected to be on Friday.

During lunch break, the press watched a seven-minute footage of Wednesday’s proceedings, which showed Azhar bending before he was asked to leave.

When met outside the assembly, Azhar told reporters that the attacks on him were a conspiracy to keep him from raising points during the sitting.

“Yesterday (Wednesday), I was ordered to leave because the Deputy Speaker does not understand Bahasa Melayu but pretends he does.

“I said ‘dua, tiga kerat’ which, in layman’s slang, means ‘two or three people’. We are not talking about ‘kerat kemaluan’ (penis).

“And today, they claimed that I showed my buttocks,” he said.

Sim, who spoke to the press afterwards, said the video of the state assembly proceedings “clearly showed” that Azhar was not reaching for his bag.

“It is degrading that we have stooped so low. I think this has brought shame to the assembly,” he said.

Malaysian politicians are truly morons.

See? I told you guys before… Males are the most misunderstood people on Earth. Little does the world know that all along, we’ve been drooling at big tits not because we’re pervs, but because we appreciate the intelligence!

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Women with bigger breasts found to be smarter
A STUDY conducted in the United States showed that women with big breasts are not necessarily less intelligent than those who are less endowed.

Quoting a Singapore newspaper article, Sin Chew Daily said women with bigger breasts were found to be smarter instead.

It said the study was conducted in Chicago to find out whether the size of a woman’s bust affected her brain power.

The study, involving 1,200 women, was conducted by a female researcher. The subjects were divided into five groups, from extra small to extra big.

The report said it was possible such women were smarter due to the higher level of female hormones that could result in better development in the brain.

The Malaysian Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) posted this in their blog yesterday…

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Vehicle End-of-Life Policy (ELV) and the Phasing-out of Imported Used Parts and Components
The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) would like to refer to the issues raised by the public on the mandatory annual inspection as a requirement for road tax renewal for all vehicles aged 15 years or above and the gradual phase-out of imported used parts and components under the National Automotive Policy (NAP) Review announced on 28 October 2009.

2. On the mandatory annual inspection, the Government, through the Ministry of Transport (MOT), will formulate a roadmap for the implementation of Vehicle End-of-Life Policy (ELV) by taking into consideration the views of all parties through consultations with consumer associations and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs).

3. MITI’s Secretary General, Tan Sri Abdul Rahman Mamat reiterated that “the effective date for the implementation of the mandatory annual inspection is not on 1 January 2010 as reported in some media. The Government will announce the effective date of the mandatory annual inspection once the roadmap for the implementation of ELV is completed”. He added that “the main objective for the introduction of the mandatory annual inspection is to ensure that vehicles are safe and road-worthy”.

4. The implementation of the mandatory inspection is not meant to phase-out old vehicles that are more than 15 years. The vehicles are allowed to be on the road should they passed the inspection and road-worthy tests. Even now, the mandatory inspection is being implemented for the transfer of ownership of personal vehicles and road tax renewals for commercial vehicles.

5. At present, there are 2.7 million or 14.5 per cent passenger vehicles aged more than 10 years on the road. Compared with countries such as Australia, United States, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand and India, Malaysia has a very low vehicle scrap rate and relatively high average vehicle age.

6. The gradual phase-out of imported used parts and components will be effective in June 2011. This measure is only applicable for imported used parts and components. It is in line with the long term objective of the Government to prohibit the importation of used automotive products which are sub-standard and unsafe.

–Media Statement by MITI, released on 30th October 2009

I could see that there was no comment in the blog entry when I was reading it, so I felt compelled to put some of my thoughts in there. Here’s what I wrote (it was being moderated at the time of posting of this entry):

In case some of you in the government still couldn’t figure this out, allow me to enlighten you guys – “Malaysia has a very low vehicle scrap rate and relatively high average vehicle age” because –
a) vehicles are very expensive here, in our country, for reasons the government knows best (proof: we have 9 year hire-purchase plans available here. Malaysia Boleh.).
b) our public transport system is not well established. The government can’t even make those samseng taxi drivers to pakai meter (go to Johor or Penang, you’ll be enlightened).
c) our average per capita income is waaaaaayyyy lower than most of the countries listed in the article above.

There.

And if the government is so dead serious about the road-worthiness of our old cars, why don’t you guys provide free inspections solely for that purpose? I’m sure some plans can be worked out… since the government is encompassed of sooooo many talented and intelligent individuals….

If you guys have anything to say about this, you can do it there.