ALBA'S BIKINI-ED BOTTOM SANK INTO THE BLUE

Anyone who had watched the movie "Into the Blue" should have realised that its just an ordinary underwater flick with the exception of some great bums and abs here and there.

Saw this movie some two weeks ago and decided to do a short note on it. In short, all I can is that there is nothing to shout about as the storyline was lame.

Can't really get connected with the movie....as for the other audiences out there, I can't really say much though.

Perhaps those who enjoy watching all the frolicking in the sun and Jessica Alba's bikini-ed bottom in the blue sea would appreciate the movie.

As a matter of fact, I did not have much expectation in such a movie and it was true indeed as not only was the acting bad, the show was choppy and draggy. The only memorable thing apart from Ashely Scott's partial breast-baring scene was its spectacular underwater cinematography.

Anyway, since I got to watch it for free [courtesy of the Star], I shouldn't have any complaints.

Sadly to say, but no amount of breast baring and bum showing can save this movie from John Stockwell take this cue and does better in his next film.

MY SINCERE CONDOLENCES

Was told by a little bird that PAK LAH's wife, Endon Mahmood, has returned to Rahmatullah at 07:55hr this morning.

My sincere condolences to Pak Lah and his family.

Bernama has the story here.

AFRICAN MONEY LAUNDERING SCAM

In case any of you are wandering or want to know further on how the African money laundering scam goes about, then read on the sample of the mail below which I just received from this person claimed as Dr Tanjumah Ahmed in my blog's email account, who wished to give me USD3.5 million:

Dr.Tanjumah Ahmed.
Accountant/Auditor
EcoBank BeninRue du Gouverneur Bayol,
01 BP 1280 - CotonouSwift: ECOCBJJ
Télex : 539 ECOBNK

Dear Sir/Madam.
RE: TRANSFER OF (USD 3.5 MILLION)

Your contact information has been extracted from the Benin Information Exchange (BAIE)by a helpful friend of the family. Trusting the efficiency of the Benin Information Exchange (BAIE)I deduce you are capable and reliable to handle this international transaction. Allow me to shed some light on my reason for writing you.

I am Dr. Tanjumah Ahmed the accountant/auditor in ECO BANK ,Benin and personal confidant to Dr. Ravindra F. Shah,unfortunately died together with his wife Dr.Mrs. Manjula Parikh-Shah in the tragic plane crash of Union Transport Africaines Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou,Benin republic on the December 25, 2003. You will read more stories about thecrash on visiting the below website:

www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/.

I want to transfer to overseas ($3,500.000.00 USD) Three million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from ECO Bank PLC, Benin. I have the courage to ask for your assistance to handle this important and confidential business to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve toreceive thisfunds quitely.

Mr. Ravindra F. Shah, is an American, a physician and industrialist, he died December 25, 2003 without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in BENIN which he opened in a Eco Bank-Benin in the year 2000 as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and developement of his company before his untimely death in 2003.The amount involved is (USD 3,500.000.00 USD) Three million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars and no other person knows about this account.I am contacting you to enable transfer of this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c.a/c.

However, I am revealing this to you with belief that you will never let me down in this business.You are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. I need your full co-operation to make this work because the management of the Bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon yourpositive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet upwith instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me inthis business.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total amount,60% will be for me. I look forward to your earliest reply through my Email:

Yours' faithfully,

Dr. Tanjumah Ahmed

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What a big joke indeed.....USD3.5 million!!!

I'd be rich if I can get my hands rvrn on fraction of that sum of money. But there is not such things as easy money as nothing comes free in this world. "One has to work for everything".

Feel free to copy and spread the sample of the email above and let all your friends and relatives know about it as not to get cheated by these lousy African scumbags.

REMINDER: Do give acknowledgement to the person who you got the original message from.

OUR VERY OWN DRAGON LADY

Well, not only China has dragons you know...as a matter of fact, Malaysia too has a dragon in its backyard in the form of Rafidah Aziz, as according to a particular reader in a letter to a Malaysian alternative news agency.

Below is an excerpt written by Sri Arjuna Dewata to the Malaysiakini:

....lately seem to suggest that International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz is a fearsome dragon that has thus far defied and outsmarted her detractors and handlers alike.

For full details of letter, see here.

May God save Malaysia from the dragon's wrath, or should we call St George to help us slay the dragon?

RAFIDAH GRILLED OVER APs

BREAKING NEWS. International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz finally made her long-awaited appearance in the Dewan Rakyat this morning only to be grilled to a Q&A session which lasted for 46 minutes.

Some other members of Parliament showed support by thumping the tables.

According to Malaysiakini today, she strongly defended her integrity, claiming she had no ties with any of the holders of Approved Permits (APs) and described all such allegations as defamatory.

[A Full story to follow soon]

Hmm...with all those thumping of tables accompanied by the usual shouting and screaming during Parliament sessions, one can only imagine what was going on this morning.

Any thoughts?

DISAPPOINTING ACA GETS A GOOD GRILLING

The country's Anti-Corruption Agency [ACA] was finally asked to "talk less and listen more" besides acting quickly on complaints.

At a seminar in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, participants and one speaker grilled ACA Director-general Zulkipli Mat Noor on the extent of action taken to date, but were left to mull responses that were less than satisfactory, according to Malaysiakini.

Among those not impresssed with Zulkipli's presentation was - The Sun Executive Editor R Nadeswaran.

Nadeswaran said he was not happy with the way the agency had dealt with a complaint he had lodged via email, to which a reply was only sent six weeks later.

Whew!! Finally someone had taken heed in my advice to voice out their dissatisfaction in the open.

Wish there were more of such people out there in the public.

Salute to Citizen Nades and the gang for showing us the way!

IS AMERICA A TECHNICALLY BANKRUPT COUNTRY?

Well, if according to former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the United States is technically a bankrupt country as its budget and trade are in deficit forms currently.

The former prime minister, however, said due to its superpower status, the United States was not declared a bankrupt.

BERNAMA on Sunday quoted him telling reporters at the World Islamic Economic Forum [WIEF]:

"If countries like Malaysia is put in the same situation, surely it will be declared bankrupt."

More!

I trust there are many more countries sufferring budget and trade deficit but so far have not heard any of those countries being categorised as a bankrupt nation.

Does that mean that we can now label a country as "bankrupt" just because its budget and trade are in deficit forms?

So, is it true that US is a bankrupt country as was claimed by Dr M?

ITS LACHAU, NOT "LANCHAU"

While names sometimes can make or break a person, certain people sometimes goes to great length in ensuring their names or names of certain places sounded good.

And that was exactly the case when Santubong MP Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar suggested in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday that the name of a SMALL TOWN in Sarawak called LACHAU be changed.

This was because according to him, the name LACHAU sounded like the Chinese word for the male genitalia, which is known as "LANCHAU" or "LANCHIAU".

Perhaps he had not visited China or heard of the name of the capital city of northwest Gansu Province in China which is known as LANZHOU [in Mandarin] or LANCHOW [in Cantonese], which sounded even more similar to the calling of male genitalia in Chinese.

And yet the Chinese government maintained the usage of the name.

Afterall, as was reported by the Star today, the name LACHAU meant chameleon in the native language and that the town had many of them at one time.

What gives us the right to change our names or names of places if it don't sound good?

I've known people with far worst sounding names like Moh Nan Yoong [which means "useless"], See Hang ["toilet bowl"] and etc......yet those people stick by their names.

Well, what's in a name anyway?

40-YEAR OLD AND SITLL A VIRGIN

NO, I'm not talking about the film "The 40-year old virgin" but instead have something interesting to share with you people on virginity [Well, only if you're interested of course].

I came across a very interesting piece of article on trying to remain a virgin at 40- years old while browsing through some magazines on movies at MPH yesterday.

If my memory serves me right, here are some of the tips [only for guys] from the magazine to remain a virgin at 40-years old. It goes something like this:

1. Instead of getting a car, get yourself a bike to avoid any attention from the girls. But its not just any bike, but rather a bicycle. And do wear a helmet for safety purposes.

2. Don't put on any deodorants, sprays or perfumes as it would enhance the chances of attracting the opposite sex.

3. Instead of going out partying at night where there's a high chances of getting to know women, get a SONY PLAYSTATION and play HALO instead.

VERDICT: You'll not only remain a virgin at 40 but also an expert assasin at killing video-games
creatures.

WELL, pretty good ideas to remain a virgin indeed, but only provided that you intend in becoming one.

As to whether it's workable or not, I can't really tell. But I've known some male friends of mine who are still a virgin at 40-years old. Err....rather 40++ by now as it's been quite some time now since we last meet up.

Anyway, that's a different story altogether. If you're interested in knowing further, then watch this space for "THE STORY OF A 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN..PT 2".

In the meantime, would you want to remain a virgin at 40?

TYPICAL MALAYSIAN

Something typically Malaysia, picked up from Utusan's "Senyum Pagi" cartoon section, recently: