Lucky Guy

In the UK, there are anti-discriminatory laws through legislation (perhaps those who have/do studied/study Discrimination Law would like to elaborate further on this point). Whether the people truly believe in such an anti-discrimanatory stance or not, the issue is that there is substantive law that LEGALLY prohibits discrimination.

It is ILLEGAL to subject someone to different standards by virtue of sex, race or sexual discrimination in the UK. In Malaysia, perhaps sexual orientation is getting more attention these days. The Government have introduced new measures to combat such discrimination though somehow falling short of the women rights group demands. The law in this area seem to be moving in the right direction.

Anti racial discrimination law though, I shall not discuss or elaborate to any detail, for it is as sensitive a matter for any one smart enough to know the consequences of doing so.

However, one form of discrimination came into my attention recently since I knew of some one who is a homosexual. She was very crossed when a guy brought up some offensive remarks about homosexuals. She clearly felt she had a right not to be discriminated against. And guess what? The other people who were nearby clearly agreed with her view. They had no problem at all, or so it seems, with her sexual orientation.

I'm very aware that sexual orientation is a taboo subject in an Asian Culture like ours in Malaysia. We probably may pay lip service and say we do not mind accepting homosexuals as they are. However, a very peculiar yet disturbing revelation seems to be common.

I have spoken to a few friends and they all seem to give me a similar response.

Q: Do you find problem accepting people who are homosexuals?

A: Nope. Why should I?

Q: So you won't mind your own son/daughter being a homosexual?

A: Of course I would. That's my son/daughter! (usually in a shocked and sometimes angry manner)

So, can we really claim to be impartial not not discriminate on this ground? Hmm....can we even legislate and make it law when it seems so contrary to our social norms?I have to admit even I may find it difficult to accept if someone as close to me like my child is a homosexual. I know it is clearly dogmatic but it is just a result of influence from our community. I may learn to accept it throught time but it could still be difficult!

So do you think that it is feasible for Malaysia to adopt strict laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation? (At this point, I'm NOT aware if Malaysia already has any such law. If there are such laws in Malaysia, I stand corrected!)

WHAT SAY YOU?

NOTE:Sometimes there are really cool advantages of being GAY! Don't believe me? Take a look at this video and let ur envy overwhelm you! LOL

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BazookaS

I always wondered why they were so big. Now I guess I know the answer. Basketball is truly the best game in the world!

A world of surprises!!

Henry scored the winning goal at Madrid. No English team has beaten Real Madrid in the Champions Leaque at home prior to this game. That fact will probably put into perspective the seismic victory that the Gunners achieved in Spain.

These days you can never bet on something safely anymore.

In the days of our grandfathers, you could probably bet that Malaysia is safe from Tsunamis.Well, you better don't bet on that now.

We could probably bet that Greece will never win a soccer tournament. Well, scratch that off the list as well.

How 'bout betting that Malaysia will never have a hail storm? You better ask the residents around Subang what they think 'bout that!

Hmm....On a week where the ailing Gunners beat the 'mighty' Real Madrid, the Special One's Chelski was not so special indeed when they were humbled at home by Barcelona.

(For more reports: http://home.skysports.com/list.asp?hlid=365839&CPID=5&CLID=&lid=15&title=Champions+League+round-up&channel=champions_league ). Not so long had passed since Robben's theatrics that we got a splendid opportunity to see 2 football players showcase their acting talents. Bravo to Mr. Messi and Del Horno.

Wait wait...there are more shockers....how bout this....a Sudanese man was forced to 'marry' a goat he had sexual intercourse with. Now that is a REAL world of surprise. You would have probably bet that no man would have found any sexual interest at all with a poor goat neither would any sane man be compelled to marry such a poor creature. Well, better don't bet on that now. (Reported by BBC : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm )

The next time you wanna wager on something, you better don't bet on it. You could lose a lot of money!!!

Well, perhaps betting that the Malaysian soccer team will win the World Cup one day will be a safe bet. What say you?

Chelsea v Colchester Utd (The Report)

Stamford Bridge,where all the Russian petrol money went.
The home of the 'Special One'. He surely had his feather ruffled that day by the courageous Colchester team.
I was trying to apply for a job as a ballboy. Sadly, they did not want me there.
Look at that. Visit Malaysia huh? I was truly proud. I told them all about our customs of making criminals do nude squats and shaving peoples head bald. The Brits there were very amazed. LOL.

As you all know, well at least those who have been following my blog, which probably isn’t many, I made my way to Stamford Bridge, enduring the cold bitter London rain to watch the epic David (Colchester Utd.) v Goliath (Chelsea).

Before the match I met up with an old friend from Melaka who was a great company throughout the day. We had a sumptuous lunch at Chinatown. I have to admit bashfully now, that I had to use all my strength to restrain myself from gorging down my roast duck as the waiter fearfully (Who blames him? I must have looked like I had not eaten in days) put down my plate on the table. Jun Wei even offered to bring me around London in that torrid weather. What a guy!! At first, I wanted to try out Fishtail’s recommendation. I remember him mentioning something ‘bout the infamous Wong Kei Restaurant. Sadly, Jun Wei has had enough of the ill treatment made so (in)famous by the restaurant’s waiters!

As for the match, Colchester in my books played their hearts out. Their fans were truly amazing. Colchester played with dignity and even took a lead through an own goal by Carvalho. They could have scored more had they been more clinical in their finishing. Alas, in the end Chelsea did win.

Many Chelsea fans were boisterous in their support but also very loud in their bragging. I just could not understand how they could brag when they were facing a team who were clearly such huge underdogs from the start. When Chelsea made a poor start to the first half, they actually attributed that poor performance to the fact that it was the ‘reserve team’ who was playing. The first eleven boasted of the likes of Drogba (African Cup 2006- Runner-up), Carvalho, Maniche and Ferreira (Champions League Winners) and yet the Chesea fans felt they had a ‘reserve team’. Who were they kidding?

Chelsea for a common fact is well known not to play the swashbuckling football that the ‘Invincibles’ Arsenal team played on their route to the Championship. The Blues pride on good tactics and score almost at will at set-pieces and again when the opponent is simply bored to death trying to probe their water tight defence.

However, it is just another win for Chelsea and another day at the stadium for me. Anyone care to propose a way to stop the Blue machine? Well, short of stopping petrol money from getting into Stamford Bridge of course.

Visiting the champions

Am I a football fan?
YES, perhaps a lil' more than that; but, a lil' short of a fanatic.

I've decided to scour the coffers again to fund a trip to a stadium to watch a football match in the UK. (My pay from my time at Debenhams is running empty soon)

I'm going to the home of the 'special one'.
I'm going to the home of the champions.
I'm going to the home where the Russian petrol money is spent.
I'm going to be blue for a day.

Yes...you guessed right...I'm going to Stamford Bridge for the FA CUP 5th Round Tie.
It is me and Chelsea against the rest of the world (Well for one day at least).

Happy St. Valentines Day

Always for the first time

Always for the first time
Hardly do I know you by sight
You return at some hour of the night to a house at an angle to my window
A wholly imaginary house
It is there that from one second to the next
In the inviolate darkness
I anticipate once more the fascinating rift occuring
The one and only rift
In the facade and in my heart
The closer I come to you
In reality
The more the key sings at the door of the unknown room
Where you appear alone before me
At first you coalesce entierly with the brightness
The elusive angle of a curtain
It's a field of jasmine I gazed upon at dawn on a road in the vicinity of Grasse
With the diagonal slant of its girls picking
Behind them the dark falling wing of the plants stripped bare
Before them a T-square of dazzling light
The curtain invisibly raised
In a frenzy all the flowers swarm back in
It is you at grips with that too long hour never dim enough until sleep
You as though you could be
The same except that I shall perhaps never meet you
You pretend not to know I am watching you
Marvelously I am no longer sure you know
You idleness brings tears to my eyes
A swarm of interpretations surrounds each of your gestures
It's a honeydew hunt
There are rocking chairs on a deck there are branches that may well scratch you in the forest
There are in a shop window in the rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
Two lovely crossed legs caught in long stockings
Flaring out in the center of a great white clover
There is a silken ladder rolled out over the ivy
There is
By my leaning over the precipice
Of your presence and your absense in hopeless fusion
My finding the secret
Of loving you
Always for the first time

(Andre Breton)

Happy Valentines Day to all those who are lucky enough to enjoy it with their loved ones. Appreciate the company of your loved ones when he/she is in your warm embrace for not all are as fortunate.

Happy Valentines Day to my GF whose absence has brought much heartache and has brought time to a standstill. Without knowing her, Valentines Day would have just passed like no other. It just shows how much life means to me after someone who has brought back dignity into a relationship and has taught me so much about what I have once forgotten. The joys of old, long extinguished is now rekindled. The hope long lost has been rediscovered. Finally, I'm home once more.

Thank you and more than most, Happy Valentines Day to you, Li Hong. Life has and will never be the same again the moment I fell for you. I just want you to know you had me from the moment you said 'Hello'. Gracias and may this day bring the utmost of joy! (sniff sniff)

Love Spoon

According to Welsh tradition, when a man is interested in a woman for marriage he has to go to the woman's house to meet her father. The woman's father will then give him a piece of wood and knife. Each time he visits her at her house he must bring both items and hold them so that the woman's father can be assured that his hands are where they are suppose to be (grins). By the time they get married, the man would have carved a spoon out of the piece of wood and present it to his new wife.

Wales (Cymru) Trip

National Museum of Cardiff (Caerdydd) Cardiff (Caerdydd) Town HallCardiff Law Courts 'Knight' protecting Cardiff Castle (Castell Caerdydd)Millenium Stadium, venue for the 2005 English FA Cup Final. Could be this year's venue too if Wembley is not completed in time.
University of Cardiff

Wow..this has been an eventful and tiring weekend for me. The trip to Wales right after the musical has left me mentally drained. The trip to Wales is really worth every penny spent. Since I'm so tired and can't well express my wonderful experience at this state, I'm going to post some pictures as a consolation. Pictures speak a thousand words anyway, don't they?

Note: Words in brackets are in the Welsh tongue.

Some lose their hair, some lose their clothes, bravo!

I live in a country (fictional) called Malaichia. Today, when I read the Bintang newspaper, one of the nation’s top news providers, I was a proud Malaichian.

The Royal Malaichian Police (RMP) again stood its ground to stamp out crime! The fiasco regarding the Chinese women who had been subjected to alleged nude squats by the RMP had hardly died down, and yet, here they are courageously thrusting their bold faces into the media limelight once again!

The RMP are a bold lot who are not afraid of the attention they are getting. As a matter of fact, they crave such an attention and will demand that they get their due time in the spotlight! Who cares about Civil Liberties and Human Rights? I just went to my first class of such and thought it was bullshit!

Why do we need to learn civil liberties OR human rights when in truth all we have to do is flex our muscles (if our muscles are backed by the power that be) to get what we want? The RMP is a clear example of illustrating my point.

Why can’t the RMP subject these law breaking Chinese women to such ‘degrading treatment’? Even if it is degrading, they certainly deserve it for breaking the law, don’t they? Why care about human rights when they are foreign citizens. Heck, the RMP can even forego human right even if they are Malaichians if they break the law. No one is above the law; well, perhaps except the RMP. But, that is different, because they are the RMP.

China is not really a superpower YET. It is merely a country which is rapidly growing to be one. So before it can bully us into submission when it achieves its full strength, the RMP is trying to head note that we are not a nation to be meddled with. Who cares whether the diplomatic relations between our countries are strained? It is even better if these Chinese people stop visiting our shores anyway. It is not as though tourism is our major source of income. We can survive without it.

On the issue where the senior citizens were shaven bald, the RMP Assistant Commisioner for Keyjang said that it was within their power to shave these fellas bald because they had broken the law when they played mahjong during the Chinese New Year. I agree with him wholeheartedly. There is NO need to apply any wise discretion. If they break the law, just do what you want with them. Since they are old and weak, they are probably defenceless anyway. So the RMP did the right thing. Shave their heads off and punish them for playing mahjong. Why can’t they just play chess or scrabble for Chinese New Year. Surely, next year, these fellas will be getting a monopoly set instead!

Anyway, I have ranted way too much.

Once again, bravo to the RMP and may they keep up their good work.
To all law breaking people in Malaichia, you better run and hide because the RMP is on your trail!

You could lose your clothes or your hair, or BETTER still, both.