Echoing What’s Important To You

Honestly, I feel that our English is going down the drain!

I took a picture of one of those picture boards in the Plusliner/Nice office in the KL Railway Station

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If you find yourself staring at your tea label during your date, you know it’s time to panic.

Ahem. Girls, get the cocktail dresses ready. Guys, if you have to wear Armani suits, go ahead. But always remember, words can be well played upon and one faux pas from your lips spells disaster. So, when going out on a first date, beware, and remember not to say these: Read the rest of this entry »

Somewhere in 1999, in Readers’ Digest, we were ranked sixth out of twelve Asian nations when concerning safe driving. Yes, somewhere in the middle, I’d say. Now, nine years have passed and I don’t see any significant change in this trend (except for the fact that everyone has began to drive slowly due to the fuel price hike). Right now I have my learner’s licence and the test is somewhere in the middle of next month. I have already begun to hit the road, and I have made an assessment of the ten types of drivers we hate the most. On Malaysian roads, that is. And no, I am not a Puritan. I have my share of errors too.

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A few years ago, reality TV shows were a hit. I’m not talking about shows like American Idol and Akademi Fantasia (even though they were hot then too), I’m talking about reality shows about finding love. The Bachelor, Average Joe, The Bacholorette… ring any bells?

I wrote a piece of fiction inspired by these shows back then because I thought how funny it was that real life is hardly ever depicted in these shows, or rather how these shows was a bit too dreamy to be true. (Especially Average Joe - such a mean thing to do to us girls! - they should produce another show called Plain Jane, the opposite version of Average Joe)

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Fancy some tail soup?

Managing Editor Joanne and I were talking about the various channels on YouthEcho, when out of curiousity, I came across the Inspiration Section; it was introduced with the words “Sup ekor for the soul”. At that moment, I had no idea how things were supposed to be in that channel. I edit the Education channel, see - so I never gotten around asking her what other channels were about.

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You turn on your PC, and you log on to the Internet. Your MSN Messenger – or Windows Live Messenger (I reckon many people have upgraded to Windows Live by now) starts connecting. You want to go away and have your own time, but you feel bad for your friends – they may just pounce on you at any time, asking why you were offline on that day, that time. Or, suppose you just CAN’T go on MSN on that day, and you don’t want to hurt your friends who are online. How would you escape your daily MSN schedule once in a while ?

Here are ten reasons (frequently used by my friends – and me) as to why you deserve to get a day free of MSN, despite it being “our addiction” or something like that.

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Okay. Enough of all the sickening happenings which make me weep and say Malaysia is a boulevard of broken dreams. Sometimes, we forget to take delight in the little things which make us Malaysian. It’s an uncanny list which I gathered here, but there’s no better way to describe it!

So, here’s why Malaysia is unique :

#1 : We have the world’s tallest flagpole, the world’s largest roti canai, the world’s creamiest teh tarik, the world’s cheapest nasi lemak, the world’s tallest twin towers (at the time of writing), the world’s coolest radio DJs JJ and Rudy, etc., etc., etc.

Ready for more?

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The final bell, the monotonous “Masa sudahpun tamat, berhenti menulis…” and you know school’s permanently over for post-SPM junkies. But that’s not the end of it. For over 10 years of being tied down by academic chains, you’d like to know what “improvisations” of the school rules they’ve came up with. And trust me, you would never wanna follow these anti-rules.

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