Juz another day in the business

Today marked the end of part one of the year-end exams. Hell yea thank god for tuition (yes I'm being proud of it) or else i would've failed this maths paper. Celebration? Not yet... Part two to come after deepvali holidays... Are we the only sixth formers to still be in the exams?

Today's news (not exactly today, but, anyway...)

Semi Value receives a... Doctor of Letters? WTF is a Doctor of Letters?

Wiki:

Doctor of Letters (Latin: Litterarum doctor; D.Litt.; or Litt. D.) is a university academic degree.

In the United Kingdom, Australia, India and certain other countries, the degree is a higher doctorate, above the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and is issued on the basis of a long record of research and publication. The degree D.Litt. is awarded to candidates whose record of published work and research shows conspicuous ability and originality and constitutes a distinguished and sustained achievement. University committee and board approval is required, and candidates must provide documented mastery of a particular area or field.

(As you can see it's copy and paste)

So... D.Litt? Higher than Ph.D? Long record of published work? Achievement? Even board approval required?

Whatever university that gave Semi Value this thing, muz be out of their mind... Unless SV does get it thru some research, which I think is highly impossible coz he's "busy protecting the rights of the Indians".

Next:

This is on page 3 of the national paper, which is juz one page flip after the headlines on the frontpage.

WTF? WHO THE HELL CARES? WHO THE HELL FCKIN CARES WHETHER MAWI IS GETTIN MARRIED OR NOT?? WHY IS THE PAPERS GIVING HIM THIS KIND OF PUBLICITY? IS THAT OF NATIONAL CONCERN? THE STOCK MARKETS IS OF LESS IMPORTANCE THAN THIS BULLSHIT?

DAMN I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS SAME GUY GOT A TIME SLOT ON TV ON HIS PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIP. SOME BULLSHIT KIND OF SHIT. "Three Wedding Receptions". WHO THE HELL FCKIN CARES????????????

AND YES, I LEFT IT ON CAPS ON PURPOSE.

On to other stuff:

So now 'tomboyism' is haram under Islamic law. Err... Are we the only country to make this kind of announcement? Girls, thou shoult wear skimpy clothes as thou are meant to look sexy in public. Oh no. That's revealing aurat it seems.

I tell you. Women rights groups will protest this strongly as they are being supressed under this law that practices discriminative restrictions. Why can't they wear like dudes? What now they are controlling what girls can and cannot wear now, huh? This is SEXISM!!! WOMEN WANT EQUAL RIGHTS!!!!

That being said, I think it's good that girls remain as girls so girls don't get to take girls away from guys. You noe like lesbian kind of taking girls away from guys. And also it kind of replenishes the eye candies to the streets. Sheesh can't differentiate b/w guys or girls nowadays in KL. I can show you 10 individuals that you cannot identify the gender of in KL, anytime on the streets of KL. Girls, dress (in)decently, please.

EDIT: Aiks, I forgot, it only applies to our muslim friends. Looks like lala-ism is to stay for a looonnngggg time....

Next:


So like, we're still in 132nd in terms of press freedom? Let me tell you what strawberry cheek thinks: WOW!!!! UP BY 10 PLACES!!! THAT'S BETTER THAN THE FOOTBALL TEAM!!! THAT"S A FCKIN ACHIEVEMENT!!! WHOEVER SAYS THAT THERE"S NO PRESS FREEDOM SHOULD BE SHOT DEAD!!! WOOOHOO!!

Yes, that's how our politicians feel when there's the slightest improvement in any aspect of the country globally. See they say the same thing when UM improved its rankings in this year's THES-QS survey. THEY ARE FCKIN HAPPY. Too bad it still impossible to spot the university in the frontpage of the official report.

Erm... There's 160 countries in the survey and we're 132? Like HW said, we're in the FORTH QUADRANT? That's like forth-world country, not even third-world.

The next time ppl say we have third-world press freedom, correct them. We have forth-world press freedom.

EDIT: I dun get it, from 1 to 160, how is the ranking arranged? 1 the best or 160 the best? Is up 1, or up 160? So up by 10 is better ranking by 10? or rank number increased by 10, therefore a worse ranking? Anyway, the press freedom is still bad.

EDIT 2: OMG even war-laden Timor Leste is better than us, at 65!

Think about this: when we started off, India, China and even Korea is behind us in terms of development. Now China hosted a briliant Summer Olympics and even sent a man to walk in space, in a suit MADE IN CHINA! India juz sent an unmanned spacecraft to the MOON. Korea, they are lightyears in front of us in terms of technology. They have the fastest and cheapest broadband, unlike what our Comm Minister used to claim that we had the cheapest. So, where were we? Still struggling wit an incompetent gov, that is.

On to happier stuff:


AirAsia is offering to pay you RM200 if your flight gets delayed more than 2 hours. Yes, when your flight gets delayed, they pay you to wait. Cool huh?


Except that, if it's due to an Act of God, yer out of luck.Better luck next time, pious devotee!

Last but not least:


The stock market. That's the numbers at 3.48pm this evening. Yup, red all the way. Red like it's chinese new year. Except it's Ang Pau kind of red, ie money going out kind of red.


The 10 most active stocks were all negatives. My mom was ranting about the recent 'mini-bailout' of our own announced by the DPM. Says wut's the use of the money poured into the market coz it's still negative.

I say, the announcement is actually a catalyst to the downward spiral of the stock market. Previously the market is based on global trend, and was goin up and down. See, the DPM said previously that our market is good and strong and not in recession. Then he announces a 'bailout plan' to rescue undervalued stocks. WTF? Why would you need to bailout stocks when the market is strong? Are you bullshitting? Or shitting bull? YOU ANNOUNCE A BAILOUT, MEANS THAT THE STOCKS ARE IN TROUBLE!!! WHAT WOULD INVESTORS THINK WHEN YOU SAY THAT? THEY THROW STOCKS AND FLEE!!! IDIOT!!!

Strike one.

Then the Eurocopter thingy. Who on earth would buy the most expensive version of the same thing? And it's not an easy choice, the difference from the cheapest to the most expensive is in the range of Billions (ok to be fair, JUST a few billion, maybe 1 or 2, in RM), yes wit a capital B. He has yet to give a suitable explanation. Until then, he's accused of bribery, along wit the submarine shit. Report here. Evidence letter.

EDIT 4: Oops, I think sleeping beauty is more involved in the bribery involved in the eurocopter case than DPM. Maybe they planned it together!!!

Strike 2.

Then the 2009 budget. Dude our profits are based on an oil price of $135. Now it's barely $70. Don't you think that an urgent review is needed? No the budget is well planned you say. BUT HELL! PROFIT DIFFERENCE IS 2X!!! WTF YER TALKIN ABOUT THAT'S WELL PLANNED?

Strike 3, YER OUT!!!!

That is easier than pitching in the World Series.
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