Aggressive Biscuits

First there's Oreo. Then there's Cream-O. Now there's Bis-O.

I haven't tried Bis-O due to it's shabbiness though, obviously. The hilarity in this imitation wars is further enhanced by the latter's pronunciation which is close to bisul... what's next?

Tension With Indonesia Again

Indonesian extremists threatened to 'sweep' Malaysians off Indonesia, again.

While Malaysia Barat is tearing themselves apart from the recent case of the racist principal telling Chinese kids to go back China, trouble is brewing with our neighbor to the south. Barely a year ago the Benteng Demokrasi Rakyat (BENDERA) announced that they will invade Malaysia to cause havoc with its 40 well-trained, bamboo-armed and black-magic-protected men.

And a few days ago, the action of Malaysia capturing 3 Indonesian maritime officers triggered another proxy war, with Indonesia 'silently' retaliating by arresting Malaysian fishermen. The whole thing snow balled into a crisis as protesters threw shit at the Malaysian embassy in Jakarta. The nationalist group BENDERA then declared another 'sweep' to kick off Malaysians allegedly violating Indonesia's sovereignty out of their country. It's officially the season to 'ganyang Malaysia' again.

Now at this point I share your blurness on what really pissed them off to the point of throwing human faeces at the embassy. This simple but crucial disclosure may reveal a bit why the tension between the two countries are on high again:

"...according to Malaysian officials, they received satellite photos that the 15 fishermen in five boats were indeed in Malaysian territory – their GPS clearly showed this. An Indonesian maritime boat which encroached into Tanjung Punggai in Kota Tinggi confronted the boats and arrested seven fishermen.

Good sense prevailed as Malaysia released the Indonesian maritime officers while Indonesia sent the fishermen home to Malaysia on Aug 17.

...the Indonesian government sent a diplomatic note to protest the arrest, claiming that Malaysia had violated Indonesian integrity because the incident occurred in Indonesian waters.

Indonesia’s Maritime and Fisheries Minister Fadel Muhammad said Indonesia freed the seven fishermen due to lack of proof...because he needs to pacify his countrymen to show that Indonesia is standing up to Malaysia (Kiasu la).

Malaysia has since quietly responded to the note and made it clear that the Indonesians had encroached into Malaysian waters"

Source: The Star

To summarize, there's a water border dispute between Indonesia and Malaysia. This dispute caused the clash of jurisdiction between the two countries who claimed the incident occurred in THEIR territory. BENDERA just jumped in to light up the fuels of war and all these protests came to be. What started as a hate-war accusing Malaysia of 'curi budaya' or stealing the culture of Indonesia last year is now made bigger with this recent events.

It all started with this...


Then this 'sapu Malaysia', roadbloacks to spot-check for Malaysians and ask them to GTFO...

mmm... she's hot

And we're supposed to fight with these BENDERA elites...


The Indonesian government does not endorse nor support these extremists' actions. BENDERA's October 8th 2009 invasion is way overdue by almost a year. And this fresh ganyang Malaysia thing is predicted to pass away with time. Malaysians in Indonesia should take care of themselves. If BENDERA's willing to grab shit and throw it with rage at the embassy, who knows what else they're capable of while ignoring all the don'ts during this Ramadhan.

Don't join in the fray, just be rational and let us get a move on with work, assignments, life etc.

Sungai Merah is Dead

Sibuians surrounded bridges along Sungai Merah to fish in dead fishes. Fish market sales and stomach ache cases increment predicted tomorrow.

Today's weather is hot and sunny. And the flood have receded in most places, allowing simple Sibu-folks to go around their business normally again. However today I stumbled a large crowd in Sungai Merah.

People here only crowd around bridges for fishing, pakto or if someone just jumped off the bridge. Curious if it's the latter, I decided to join in.

Turns out they are netting fishes. Dead and dying fishes floating downstream along the Sungai Merah lit. Red River.

Another person kepoh like me told me there were more of the floaters in the morning and several opportunistic Sibuians grabbed as much fish as they can, leaving virtually nothing for me to take pictures of by then (3pm). However some persistent fishermen caught whatever leftovers the river yielded. And for leftovers, some of the fish are quite a pricey catch. Keli, sepat, buris, and some more fish of which I'm not sure what their native names are.

Although it's a free for all free fishing, or simply netting, I'm wondering what killed these fishes. The very same kepoh person told me there's been some logging upstream that killed them, however the logic escaped me. I'm assuming the recent flood unleashed something in the river and killed all the aquatic life, the same thing that happened in 2009's January near Kapit (read the news here).

It looked like this in Belaga and Kapit last year and it could've been like this this morning in Sg. Merah. (Image source)

I'm predicting a huge influx of random fish from buris to empurau in the market tomorrow. OR a huge influx of people with dire stomach pain checking in the hospitals. My advise is to not buy any fishes for the next few days.

Sibu Flood & Leptospirosis

Deadlier than Jaws, kencing manis and horny hamsters combined

The recent flood obviously caused overflow and mergers of canals, drains, lakes, rivers and other water bodies in Sibu. And for those who still remember the leptospirosis infections, deaths and detections in Sibu waters, you guys should be able to apply the logic of how the flood can unleash the kencing tikus disease upon the simple Sibu-folks.

Name: Leptospirosis aka Rat Fever aka Kencing Tikus

Transmission: Direct or indirect exposure to infected animal fluids or excreta (shit)

Early Symptoms: Severe body aches, frontal headaches, red eyes, flu-like symptoms (fever)

Complications: Meningitis, extreme fatigue, hearing loss, respiratory distress, azotemia, renal interstitial tubular necrosis, death.

Source: wiki, image from kagakribet.com

The virus has been detected in two places in Sibu; Junaco Park National Service Camp and Permai Road recreational park (source: nst.com.my).

Although quarantine efforts were made, I still strongly believe the Health Minister should warn kids or anyone else from playing in the water. Touch wood, the leptospirosis may have spread wide into the flooded residential areas and now we are waiting for the news headlines in Borneo Post, See Hua etc... but if no one is doing it yet, I'll do it.

SIBU, Aug 23 - The virus causing the deadly Leptospirosis disease that was been detected in Junaco Park and Jalan Permai may have spread to other areas via the recent flood. Every sane and health conscious individuals are advised to stay away from the flood as much as possible and drink clean boiled water. Flee to the high ground if it's necessary, barricade your homes and report any unusual behaviors. Wait for further instructions.

The teh-c peng special waters is now served with rat's piss.

Sibu Flood August 2010

I keep seeing the anti-BN related video of the Sibu flood being shared on Facebook, which I think and believe is baseless. Sometimes some things in life are not caused by politics. As for this year's flood, it's the King Tide and the near full moon. Here, enjoy a video I made on this lazy Sunday. It's a personal tour around the flooded Sibu.



Owh for those who are not familiar with this lil' Venice hometown of mine, these kind of floodings are usual annual events.

Pus- er Kitties!

My house's been a traffic for cats both pets and strays for years. But one peculiar stray cat's been walking in and out of the house like it owned the place. Closer habitual observation revealed it haunts the storeroom frequently. And this basket was found.

Further closer inspection revealed the reason for the haunting (ignore the bear, it's my sis'):

Haha so phucking cute! The cat gave birth to 3 healthy kittens. Although they bear the common Sibu street cat coloration of orange/white and gray stripes/white, they are effing cute nonetheless XD So guai-guai one some more haha

Will leave them be until the litter can walk. Maybe I should impose taxes for cats who use the house soon before more cats come in and turn it into a nursery.

Marvel Ramadhan Special

Thanks to Aummm for the link. This is the most epic thing this month hahahahhahahahhaha XD

Marvel superheroes conducting terawikh prayers...

Don't Change Sibu's Name

Lights off! Witch!

Apparently Sibu in Chinese is pronounced as "Shi Wu", lit. Witch. I'm not sure if it's the Left 4 Dead's witch variant, but it somehow caused a fuss lately.

Sibu's United Chinese Association (UCA) announced the intention to change the 'negative' name to something more 'positive' in nature to allow growth in Sibu.

Why now? After roughly decades the name has been fondly attached to this Leptospirosis-infected swamplands of gangsters and honest townspeople alike. And out of the sudden the name has to be changed now?

No, no, no dear sir. Shi wu is not as bad as the place called Lanchau (lit. penis) north of Sarawak's capital city Kuching. Now that needs some changing for the benefits of the Lanchau people. It's only mafan for everyone to change something that is unnecessary.

Why don't you guys focus on bigger things like sponsoring more mother-trucking parking spaces in the canned-sardine areas in town? Or quickly pull the strings to finish all the upgrading roads in time for the next state election? I don't like getting construction dusts in my cendol I dapao from the roadside Ramadhan stalls.

Very Normal Activity: KM 42 Bukit Tinggi Pontianak

Thanks to May for the heads-up for another pontianak video in her post. Pontianak, or female ghost of woman who died giving birth, is the staple of Malaysian mainstream horror stories and poor handphone 3gp format videos online.

Entity: Pontianak
Location: KM 42 Bukit Tinggi, Kuantan, Malaysia
Status: Fake
Reason: This one is a fake. A simple white cloth with a long black wig being pulled up and down by a crane. Drivers pass by normally without attempts to speed away or slow down to take picture. And malicious spirits do not cast shadows (common belief).

Want more fakes? Enjoy:

Happy Ramadhan Al-Mubarak 1431 H.

It's the time of the year again. Have a safe and hopefully perfect fasting month. My main threats here would be involuntary swearing at stressful moments and hot chics around town. Hopefully, God's willing, can get at least 'pass' grade this year. Gambateh!

Still Kampua 4 Life

I'm still one tough son of a gun to be brought down

Okay so I've not updated K4L for over a month, I apologise to no one. Well a lot of things been going on during that gap and only now I managed to find a time to sit down and blog again. Here's my chronology:

Chapter 1: Death of a Comrade
My 4520 died in the line of duty during my critical moments of last assignments and finals. It was one fatal shopping trip when I was stocking up for winter and finals. 4520 fell out of the fattened-up and consequentially-unzipped bag. But the case of Mothers that fell out as well broke its fall and 4520 survived the fall with some flesh plastic wound. However upon my return home I noticed my bag was leaking; one of the Mother got a puny crack that spurted some lethal taurine onto 4520. Mother's 987Kj of energy may cause numb nuts and stoned-like effects to an average Asian, but it sent 4520 to Motherland for good.

Chapter 2: Last Tango, Perth
A series of unfortunate events began to unfold ever since, reminiscent of Summer 2008. Like what Jackie Chan said in the movie Little Big Soldier "You have to step on shit first, then good things will happen". True that, and I persisted. God, comrades and trance helped me out during my tough times until the end of my final finals. Some zombie-killing in-between also helped vent out some stress and rage I accumulated (cheers to all fellow Survivors and Infected alike).

Chapter 3: Welcome Back to the Sea
Thanks to Bowie for coming up with the title above as the first supportive comment 5 minutes after I broke up that 4°C night. 1 minute later me and the rest of the slightly-finals-free peeps in Perth enjoyed a blardy good Germany vs England match. Yup I'm back in the sea again and this time will remain single till I remember how it felt to be authentically in-love again. I'm happy to see fellow brothers who share the same predicament have moved on. M and V et al., remember my phrases I uttered with epic coolness in the winter "Find a wife, not a girlfriend. Let your successes attract the right ones, not you working hard to appease the wrong ones."

Chapter 4: ¡Viva la Gloria!
After weeks sobering up and enjoying my last moments in Perth the results were out that 0°C midnight. I found Gloria, and dude is she hot. She's my official degree graduate acknowledgment. I celebrated with a $30 (RM90) haircut and hours of Ganjaguru till the batteries were out. I flew back to Malaysia early July, back to the familiar hot and humid Sibu.

Chapter 5: For the Empire
I got an accidental faux hawk going on. If you diss my elongated sideburns that will compliment the faux, STFU and go trim your bush. Apart from that I've been busy traveling around learning the art of business to better myself for the future, hence the lack of time to do much update or play Facebook. And yes, wo xianzai zai xue zhongwen :)

Well that's all I could remember and summarise for now. I'll try to be back with the regular programs soon. Cheer cheers.