The Daily Blog (2006-2007)

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noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:49:00 +0000

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My Last Entry

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:10:00 +0000

In the first of May

It came like an appalling wind, no one was expecting it, including myself.....

There is for a certain reason why Xiaxue is one of the best bloggers in Singapore. And to me she is indeed the best blogger, because she inspires me.........to stop blogging.

I've screwed up my life - Xiaxue

The link above was an entry written by Xiaxue 3 years ago in 2004. During then Xiaxue talked about her secondary school life. Of how she started very well, but ended lousily towards her upper secondary. And how one led to another.....

I told myself, during sec 3, that I will not follow the usual normal scholar's route for several reasons:

1) I will be learning useless things such as F maths which will not gain me any money in future. These useless information will be taking up extra brain space and not coming to any use at all. In contrast, Polytechnics provide useful skills and knowledge.

2) I will do so well in Poly that I will go into University just the same.

3) I no longer need to wear flat shoes so I will not be so ashamed of my height.

4) I will be armed with both a dip and a degree when I go out to work in future, which is better than just a degree.

Most unfortunately, I think the decision to go into SP was the worst mistake I made in my life.

In Poly no one cares if you do well or not, so we were left to survive on our own. I was lazy, undriven, and not motivated. My priorities went to other unimportant stuff, such as BLOGGING (but at least good things came out of it, thank god)! My results were only as good as the average student, and I cannot go into University with a scholarship as I thought I could have. - Xiaxue

Two things Xiaxue and I do share in common, she does well in English Literature and she dreamt to become a lawyer. In the SPM examination, I got 6As, 2 Bs and 3Cs. For the 3Cs, it was Physics, Biology and Chemistry. And a B4 in Additional Maths. I was more than surprise to receive a result like that. In Malaysia, when a Chinese gets such results, you can't really survive. What more to say getting your preferred subjects in your chosen Local Universities. I was a failure, but in the name of Jesus, I see not what I was but what I could be.

Blogging is really fun, but again, to be a good blogger, and to make people read your blog, to bookmark it and come again and again. It takes more than just a casual blogger. And it takes much more time, thoughts and energy too.

If I had studied hard then and went into JC, I might be taking a Law degree now. No one can say I am stupid except fellow Law students, but that's ok. The people at insipid forums are not even in the league to discuss my intellect. My starting pay will be $2,500, and I'll possibly set up a partnership with EK called Wong & Cheng partnership.

As Wong kindly informed me, my name would have sounded like this:

Cheng Yan Yan Wendy, NUS LLBS (Hons)

BUT ALAS! What was I thinking? What do I have now? -Xiaxue

People asked me since I got my As in subjects that is more related to Arts, why don't I just continue form 6 in the Arts stream and forfeit the Science. The reason is simple, I never believe in giving up. I won 2 trophies in public speaking by telling people one thing - never give up, pursue your dreams. Even though sometimes they may seem too far you fail to see the possibilities in fulfilling it. I do not brag, but I am a charismatic speaker when I speak of things I firmly believe in. I do it like I own the stage, the room, the audience, the world and all that's in it. I believe people do not lose out because they are lousy, people lose out because they choose to give up.

Yet there is something I need to know, I have to learn that in pursuing one's dream, you do not only have to talk the talk, but also walk the walk. For talk is cheap, but there has to be steps taken and works driven to achieve. God cannot multiply the works of your hands to a hundred fold if what you put in from the very beginning is zero. 100 x 0 = 0

I can easily spend time doing pointless things 2 years from now, but not now, not in such a time like this for me.

I shall end this bitter blog entry with a gentle reminder to myself that I should listen to my mother's advice in future. "Du shu hao," she used to tell me. "Girl, you got the talent to study, then make use of it, don't keep playing."

To all the young kids reading this, make sure you go into JC if you can.

Meanwhile, it is time for me to prove my worth. I shall be driven and motivated from now on. Procrasination? That word will not exist in my dictionary.

By tonight, I will set up a media center for my blog, and by next month, I promise some new exciting features.

If everything goes by plan, I will be driving a SLK in three years, unless I decide on a nicer car. You wait and see. =D - Xiaxue

That piece of letter up there came from Xiaxue 3 years ago. Xiaxue, the blogger who receives 30,000 unique hits or readers in her website per day. 3 years has come and gone, today, she is very much the same her, nothing has changed. She still sounds very average financially, no SLK or a car though, very popular but not exactly practical. That's how you go with a personal blog I guess. But one thing she taught me very well:

To all the young kids reading this, make sure you go into JC if you can. -Xiaxue

I am different, I don't know whether all of us think like that of ourselves or it's just me. But I see myself very special, very unique and I am above average thoughts, average minds and average performance. That doesn't necessarily has to make me a proud person. But I refuse to fail in what I want to see myself successful. Am I saying that Xiaxue's life sucks? Absolutely not, she is living great. But what I'm saying is, I know at this moment of time, it's just better for me to do what I should be doing.

I hate this. People used to ask me what stream I was when I was in secondary school, Express, Normal Academic, or Normal Tech?

I took pride in replying, "Special."

Because that's what I am.

Now when people ask me whether I am in Poly or Uni, I can merely say Poly - and they nod, like they totally expected me to be a Poly girl, because I do not seem like the JC type. Not that Poly is an embarrassment, but if people used it as a yardstick for my worth, then I wanna say I could have gone into Uni anytime I wanted.

But I cannot say that, because there is no proof. -Xiaxue

Just in case you're wondering all these fuss I created is at all necessary. This post alone took me 3 hours to write. 1/2 an hour to recheck my sentences and whether I'm making it too hard for you to read. You want to be a good blogger? You want to be the next Xiaxue? You gotta do 1000 times better than me. Because 1000 times of me should give you 100,000 readers per day.

So for the meanwhile, this will be my last entry in this blog. Throughout this journey, I earned myself Rm20 from Ejunction ads, Rm26 USD through paypal (which I spent to buy a shirt and they charge me 9.50USD for shipping fees!), Rm10.74 from Nuffnang which I think I'll probably not be able to cash it out as I haven reached the minimum earnings, 5 crappy USD from Google Adsense (useless thing) and a 3-6 month (Rm300 per month) blogging job which I recently talked over with a guy. I wonder if he stills wanna hire me after I stop blogging. And by far my greatest achievement in blogging is having Kenny Sia blog plug me and having Xiaxue replying my comment to her post. I know, they are totally useless in getting me a permanent job, to feed my wife and kids.

Whoever you are my readers, God bless you richly. I still have 83 members in my crappy friendster fans club! Live and let live, they are all my friends.

Goodbye guys. I love you all. *Smile warmly and wave my hand as I slowly fade away, just like the movie usually does.........*

Just right before you leave a comment, I hope you could for once play this song I have below. Please do it before you leave a possibly angry, contradicting and discouraging comment. Cheers.

First of May - Bee Gees

Monallisa Smile

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:59:00 +0000

Kuching has more crappy restaurants these days, this is one of them that I went. It's call best berry, Kuching don't even has berries....

And in the menu, I found something that was just..... plain amazing. It's a toast by the name Monalisa Smile. Now just in case you don't know what's a Monalisa Smile, it is a painting drawn by Leonardo Da Vinci. In my mind I thought the bread was something like this......

And in the end, THIS is the real MONNALISA SMILE TOAST.

AND IT LOOKS MORE LIKE HALLOWEEN FREAKY PUMPKIN FACE!

The white round thing is honeydew.

Monnalisa on Sunglasses

And I ordered a cup of coffee that looks.....

as small as.....

This!

When Bad Writing Becomes Funny

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:35:00 +0000

Worst analogies ever written in a high school essay:

* He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

Joseph Romm, Washington

* She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.

Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station

* The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

Russell Beland, Springfield

* McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.

Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring

* From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.

Roy Ashley, Washington

* Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

Chuck Smith, Woodbridge

* Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.

Russell Beland, Springfield

* Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake

Ken Krattenmaker, Landover Hills

* Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

Unknown

* He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

Jack Bross, Chevy Chase

* The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring

* Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."

Russell Beland, Springfield

* Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

Jennifer Hart, Arlington

* The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.

Wayne Goode, Madison, Ala.

* They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth

Paul Kocak, Syracuse, N.Y.

* John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

Russell Beland, Springfield

* The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.

Barbara Fetherolf, Alexandria

* His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free

Chuck Smith, Woodbridge

* The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.

Unknown

Based on an unoriginal article in the Washington Post.

Kaya & Toast again

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:35:00 +0000

Remember some time ago I put on this Kaya & Toast post and mentioned how bad it was. Well, it happened so that this shop didn't go bankrupt but instead, it opened another branch 3 minutes walk from my house.

As bad as I thought it is, I am an iron mouth tofu hearted person, so I gave it a second chance and visited it again.

3.15 p.m

This picture is taken by me, not the other guy(figure it out what I mean). The curry tasted better this time, but it still wasn't something worth worshiping.

Cai Kueh

And yeah, Kuching has got lots of these shops sprouting. Last time it was Kopitiam, now it's cafeterias and semi-restaurants. 'Secret Recipe' had just opened recently. But I heard the service was so bad someone stood up and shouted at them. There goes the 1 million ringgit franchise. It makes me wonder sometimes, we are opening 2 huge malls by the end of the year and constructing another Rm 270 million megamall all the while when we only have 600,000 citizens. Hmm......

Happy Manual Labours Day

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:55:00 +0000

To all the Slaves out there, Happy Labours Day! We shall pick 1 day to commemorate your effort in contributing to the workforce!

*Please be reminded you should continue working Mon to Fri, 8-5 after tomorrow!

My life begins in May

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:38:00 +0000

The last 5 months were unbelievable. I eat and sleep to wake up to sleep again. I told myself life must be more than this. However, this explains how I can update my blog so regularly you actually think I work in the press. It's not like I can't blog again when school starts but you have to agree with me when I say there are 24 hours only in a day, and much more things comes first. Mind you, I don't want to be a full time blogger. It's not a real job and it sounds stupid. Cool, but still stupid.

Anyway, May is coming and my holiday shall come to an end. let's just pay 1 minute of silence for that.

Well life moves on. And this time. It's bound to be a little different. For the past 5 years, I studied whereby every year I share class with the same faces and the same gang of friends. School policy- smart people should gang up together. And there were no surprise until SPM or 'O' level finished. Now since the time has come to make decisions and make path for ourselves, most of my close friends decided to leave for either this or that.

And me, unlike Robert Frost who said in his poetry 'two roads diverge in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both', I have one road and I am sorry I have to walk it...... Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia (STPM).
Or in direct translation - Certificate for highly educated people of Malaysia.

If I'm not mistaken, it is rated as the world's no.4 toughest and pointless examination. In Malaysia, every 18 year old would prefer not to take up this examination. Almost everyone who can afford to go to college flee to college, everyone who cannot afford college flee to cheaper colleges. And the Malays go to a special programme call the Matriculation (a much easier form of A level, but is not recognised by any other country) So the leftovers are people like me and perhaps some of you. Face it, Matriculation was formed to give chance to Malays and bumiputera. Chinese and Indians that came later were perceived to be much smarter and is of course cut off from many opportunities offered by the Government. Malays and bumiputera are not stupid, they never was but they are spoilt. The longer they are spoilt the weaker they become, if Meritocracy were to be applied to our system. In 2 years time, there will be lesser of them in our local universities, but in 10 years time, they will eventually pick up and proudly says 'Chinese also not so smart lah'.

When it comes to study and education in Malaysia, I was naive before, I am not now.

It all started when I was young and I didn't know any better. I actually believed that the purpose to study is to equip myself with knowledge, to enhance my mind and become a better and intellectual person.

Siao ahh, that is for Ang Mo Lang in Americas. In Malaysia, we study hard hard is to get STRAIGHT As!

Other than that, chiak sai!

I came thus far, and no, for public exams in our country, I do not see it anymore as education. I see it as a job. This job has a target, the target is to get As.

So I got my job and I'm making myself working for 10 hours a day in order to meet my target. It's not that bad after all. Most working adults got to work 10 hours a day. If they don't perform, they either remain where they are forever or get fired. The world is round.

We may lived without wars (I don't like to call it 'in harmony') but sure this is a complicated society.

My life begins in May.

Why Blogging? (written respectfully and boringly as prefered by good people)

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:57:00 +0000

5 years ago, if you were to hear the word 'blog' you'd go like 'Blog? Can I eat it?'

3 reasons to blog, for fame, for girls and for money!

As you know, I have sworn to be less superficial nowsaday and people just hate me more. Someone described my writing style as similar to a durian. Some people like it some people just don't. That's mainly because I tend to write 'irreverently' many at times and I find my sense of humour there. That is an amazing illustration and I really like it. Anyway I just want to remind you that the durian is still the king of all fruit.

It's like for some religious purposes, the Pope wears a red prada and some people just don't like it. Probably that's why they came up with the movie 'The Devil Wears Prada'.

Anyway, for this entry, I'm just going to write 'respectfully', bearing in mind that underage minors are reading my blog and I should protect them from vulgar languages and..... the truth.

I was just going to talk about why we should blog. And what does blogging benefits ourselves personally. As we all know, most bloggers are sensitive when you say things like 'nobody reads your blog', ' your blog is dead', '1 average reader per day, you are your only reader?' Well of course when it comes to these hard questions and insults, the usual and also the correct responses to these people are the stereotypical 'I don't blog to let people read, I blog for myself, it's my personal journal, an account for me to look upon, I am who I am and I don't care if people don't read'.

Now just because somethings are stereotypical does not mean that they are wrong. They can be true.

We have more than 57 million blogs worldwide, and if every blogs should have 1000 readers. We'll need 57,000 million readers. That's like 10 times the population on earth. So it's technically impossible.

And yeah, there are more reasons to blog and having more or lesser readers should not discourage anyone. Blogging is fun because no.1, I can call anyone a pig in my blog. Let's try it out:

I have a friend call Kok Wee and he is a pig. Yeah, I just said you are a pig Kok Wee, bite me.

Blogging helps people express themselves like never before. Nay, it promotes reading and writing, that's exactly what Malaysian need.

I have friends, many of them, some of them are not even living in the same city as I do. They go as far west Malaysia, out of this country, out of this continent and out of this earth. (They say women are from Venus). So the years will start rolling, like it or not, as time goes by we are bound to lose contact with some of them. But now, with blogging, it is not the same anymore.

A proud alternative for mobile phones

Who says blogging is a waste of time? We are building the culture and society. What more, when we don't get to shout in the real world, we can make all the noises in this virtue world. As loud as we want until we get sued.

............I'm suddenly out of ideas after I uploaded that picture =_="

But blogging surely has more meaning than getting yourself known or putting up some crappy advertisements like I do. Probably not for some but there will be a few that just enjoy doing what they do without further unnecessary thoughts. Being innocent is just the most beautiful gift one could possess =)

1 ringgit phone

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:05:00 +0000

You might have noticed an 'Ejuction' advertisement under my 'sponsors' tab. For all you know Ejunction is a Kuching based website that works like Ebay. Just that it caters for Malaysian only. It was funny because when I was browsing it myself today, I found a 1 ringgit phone for sale.

The seller was so honest he even labeled the 1 ringgit LG phone as a faulty one.

Now who says only celeb blogs get to promote LG phones? Mine got it too!

I support Malaysiakini

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:50:00 +0000

Sarawak CM to sue Malaysiakini

I'm so happy to read this news 3 days ago. At last someone decide to poke fun at our beloved Chief Minister and get sued for alleging him to be involved in a Rm32 million corruption. In Malaysia, we get sued for 2 things. No.1, telling the truth, No.2 eat pork.

But you don't play-play. Our Minister is very Keh Si (lihai, geng, power, tok kong, whichever suits your dialect I understand my readers are mainly monkeys from Malaysia) one, you say bad things about him, you get a letter and 48 hours to say you are very sorry and you will surely stop eating pork. If you fail to do so, they will see you in court. That's why I want to be a lawyer. I don't want to stop eating pork.

However, the coolest thing is Malaysiakini refuses to apologise and they are daring our 70 year old CM to put this case on court. Now let me tell you, before this no one had ever got the balls to pluck the tiger's (CM) whisker like that. Now they aren't just plucking, they are totally shaving it's pussy.

Malaysiakini says:

Advertorial purposes:

I'm accepting full scholarships from any party to do a law degree, if you see the diamond in me, and you want me to study at your college, kindly contact me. More to read today, keep scrolling down =)

love me or hate me

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:22:00 +0000

I tried to be spiderman, but most people think I am a lizard

I'm sorry, I'm just upset.

Thinking minds that reads my blog, they think that when I write I tend to take my sarcasm too far most of the times. See this...

At 8:07 AM, zewt said…

i find that andrew guy... a lil... young in his thinking. sarcasm is one thing, but i think he takes it too far most of the time. just look at the way he always describe himself as hot and smart and whatever not...

oh andrew... are you reading this? haha!

Now let me tell you something, I DO NOT take my sarcasm too far MOST of the times. I take my sarcasm too far ALL the time. You will never find me writing as if the world is not revolve around me. You will never find me writing with an 'average' sum of 'sarcasm' and a average sum of errrr maybe..... stereotypical passages. If you don't like my passages, get out of my blog. You want to talk about integrity, let me tell you integrity, I'd rather have nobody reading my blog, than to suppress my opinions, thoughts, the juices and the talkshow humour I show to the world.

Oh yes, do you seriously think that I am so naive to think that I am the hottest male on earth? Have you never watched Stephen Chow's Movies?

"Kai Tai, Lei Tai Lei Keh Yong Qi Mat Yeh Ah, Lei Yao Mou Lei Hui Yan Tei Ke Kam Sao Kah, Nah, Tong Ngo Pong Pong Lei, Bei Lei Pa Tou Lei Zi Gei Liu Tun Ba La"

Translation: NOT AVAILABLE!

It takes a literature guy to understand good stuff. Look what Kenny Mah from Kennymah.wordpress.com has to say about me

Kenny Mah:

But if I may be a bit KPC and interject, I believe Andrew Ho's entry was meant to be taken in a sarcastic, sometimes self-referencing manner. He could easily be talking about his own blog, after all. Which was why I found it funny, heh heh.

That is right, let me teach you a little about literature. The first law of reading literature is, when you read a passages by an author, do not judge that piece of article base on your perspective, your mindset, your history or your preferred writing style. You should but first check up the background, the history, the writing style, the circumstances which motivate this author to write first. Without a clear background and reasonings of why would the author write this way, you will never grasps the essence of it. Especially in poetries.

Most people tend to judge things by putting others into their own shoes, but not the other way round, which is putting themselves in others.

I tell you, I'm 'so special' (in a good way of the other) you can't find anyone else that write like me in Malaysia. And because I am so, people will like me people will hate me. People will understand people will despise. It doesn't matter to me, in real life, I hate nobody I love all. In the online world......love me or hate me, hmm............doesn't make a difference, it's just blogging!

But seriously, if you don't take every piece of my passages with a little humour. Your hair will finish dropping by the end of the year. Okay, fine, to give you your ego boost back. I seriously, really really seriously, very very seriously do not think that I am very very, I mean very very good looking. People don't realise my existence because of my looks, it's my personality that counts.

It's like what Simon Cowell told Top Gear Host Jeremy Clarkson in one of his show: "You don't appear on TV because of your looks, you appear on TV because of your personality"

I write pointless things, people say I am superficial, I write seriously people say I'm insane. I think the best thing to write is still "the fucking cibai ah pek cut my queue, fuck him, he think he's older than he can cut my queue? If he's younger I'd have spat on his cibai bin."

I'm obviously not made for blogging :( but instead, greater things...... = )

Just Follow Law

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:34:00 +0000

This is supposed to motivate me study 10 hours a day

For all you know I've decided to engage my brain more when I write these days. That's mainly because no.1, I am educated, no.2, I want to stop this culture in Malaysia where most blogger either 'talk cock about their daily lives and bitch so much they actually think that they will eventually become Xiaxue'. Let me tell you, it doesn't work this way. Xiaxue is one of a kind, any other imitations towards her will bring you right to 2 average readers per day.

The other one, is my dear and beloved Kenny Sia. Now I gotta love this guy because he made Kuching known as much as I do. Amen. But honestly, you got to have a highly creative brain and a gift to make jokes like JOKES. Or else, you'll be ending up making cold jokes and that is the most despise-able of all personality. You make cold jokes, people don't like you, you die, it's peer pressure you can't avoid.

And back to what I said in the first paragraph, I am inspired to write with my brain once again because of this new blogger call Zewt here. People introduced me to him and told me that this guy talks with his brain and people read it. Now, it is no secret that before him, the only bloggers that talks with a brain in Malaysia is mainly Jeff Oui and myself. Just at the verge when I was about to give up this Zewt shows up.

Now I've read his blog, and I don't know what's so special about it. He's obviously not as pretty as I am but when there are 50 comments in his comment box. I know there is something about him that others don't have. You see, I have more than 50 readers a day but most of them just read and go away. Obviously, my readers don't like to think or type.

But hey, the pursuit of fame should not lower ones integrity. Andrew Ho is a scholar and he will be a scholar. I can say that now because I'm 18. You gotta know, when you're 15, you talk politics, nobody gives two hoot. When you're enough age to vote (21 years old) You shout DAP on the street, you go to jail.

Baby I am so impressed by my intellect, you know what, the new trend in the blogging culture in Malaysia will be producing quality, thinking posts that inspires this society. And I'm pioneering it from today. Who cares to join?

I have a thinking brain and you know what........ if you like the STPM 'Just Follow Law' tag above, I have a better one for you. Put this on your blog. If you can't revolutionize everything, at least make the slightest difference.

Actual size when it appears on your blog

<img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m107/
hoyozu/JustFollowLaw-1.jpg" />

*And no, this tag does not come with a link back to my blog. I don't cheat people to link me like that. If you however fell in love with me and insist on linking me up, you are welcome.

For those who doesn't know what the chinese word means:

In English: During my days with blogging

In Cantonese: Ngo Zoi blogging Tek Yat Zi

In Hokkien: Wa Di blogging Ye Jit Chi

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Digi-game

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:15:00 +0000

When there are prizes to grab, there are insane people that would do insane things. Here, from the yellow prepaid, Digi, They proudly present you Crazy Cursor Catcher! It's a crazy and simple game everyone can play, weekly winners get a 1 GB shuffle ipod. Basically it's a game where you move your cursor (mouse) away from a monster which will chase it around. Avoid touching it and it's weapon.

The Highest level I went was level 4

Then the bomb came

And I died.

My highest score is 212, me who already think it's high spat on the monitor when I found out that high scores by other players goes as far as 1800.

What stupid things people do for an ipod.

Today I am a man...

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:36:00 +0000

Yesterday Kuching had a health seminar

Yesterday Nestle decided to make their yogurt expires

And yesterday, I chose to call 18 April my 18 birthday. So you can actually try buying the 4D number 1818. If you win, buy me a present.

Yes, yesterday was my birthday, I was born on the 18 of April 1989, the stars shone, the angels sang, lo and behold, I was born. Big deal, yeah, it kinda is for me, but you can always choose not to appreciate life, see yourself insignificant, live your life worthlessly not knowing how to give thanks to the fact that you are alive, breathing and you managed to live through year by year. Err, no, don't be angry towards me but I want to thank God for the truth that I'm alive and lol, I am a big boy now. I am responsible to take care of my own life, before that, nah, it was my parents job to keep me alive. So this was what I did....

I went out early at 9 a.m. to collect some certs and money from Segi, they apparently love my blog and decided to crown me King on such a good day.

Later I went out to have brunch (breakfast + lunch, early meal, yes this is a real word) with my friends and decided to hang out the rest of the day in my friend's huge house. (Yes, I do have a life out of this idiot blog, most bloggers don't, I do oh I do.)

Having utilised all the cool things in his house like the TV larger than my body, his fridge with all the soft drinks, his 3 computers with large LCD screen so much so my blog which is coded to align left stick at the corner 1/3 the size of the screen, his bathroom apparently with built in hot water, his father's Osim massage chair and his maid...... who had to wash my used towels. I am so glad he don't hate me.

By evening they brought me out for dinner and movies, just like what usual teens in Kuching would do on a birthday.

The food I had were...

Butter chicken cooked with some fish,weird stuff, it's not even on the menu, we just asked them to do it

And also....

Stew Lamb with Noodle, taste just fine, I rate it....normal.

I drank....

Teh Tarik Special, I don't know what's the special part but Kuching people sure love to make their drinks to many layers, they make tea as if they're mixing cocktail, I remember drinking tea with 5 layers. That's how obsess they are

And....

Sago Milk Tea

I ate with people like.....

And also faces like....

So I ended like.....

3 KG heavier, no I'm not FAT

Having that done, we went straight to the cinema to catch 'Just Follow Law', I have heard lots about the movie and how humorous it is. I have to say it is indeed really good.

I like how down to earth it is, since it is a movie from our region country friend Singapore, we Kuching lang should like it a lot. Especially when it comes with good values and hokkien jokes that is very much close to our culture. It is a great movie from Jack Neo, the best thus far, I totally love it. It's absolutely not from Hollywood and it doesn't tell me all the crappy lifestyle I should live to be wayyyyy cooooool and die so much younger from STD's.

Until next time, here is it your moment is in, go tell someone about my blog and make them love me. Have a great day. Student go do your studies, don't spend too much time on kennysia, don't learn anything from xiaxue, and blog only after you got your maths done. It's good advice from me, after all I'm 18.

local bloggers, their blogs, their superficialities, their intellect

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:24:00 +0000

Some people wonder why I do not write more intellectual posts rather than entries that are simply meaningless, pointless, personal and other times stupid. Quoting from a meaningful post from this place, it says

Andrew Ho is perhaps the greatest single example of this. He caters for Malaysian readers who don't want to think. I love his posts, I really do. I read them frequently.But...

You know this thing about intellectualism, it's Socrates and not Brad Pitt. Now that's a little intellectual phrase you have to grasp. I am not stupid, and I certainly have ideas and comments about the happenings in the society, and oh how I should write with depth and substances about them.

~~But it is no secret, that the only reason people visit my blog is because of my looks.~~ But it is no secret that not every person is intellectual. As a matter of fact most people aren't. Most Malaysian aren't. Statistic shows that you piglets read only 2 1/2 pages of book each year. With that kind of performance, what exactly are our expectations? You want them to read things that require them to engage their brains and think sensibly? You might as well kill them. They would prefer you kill them.

Most people don't give two hoot of what you think, what you say and the ideas you generate from your retarded mind. In addition, MOST people are not even able to generate intellectual blog postings. Xiaxue does not even has a degree and Kenny Sia is 'when routine isn't exactly normal'. Do we seriously expect them to talk about substantial topics like the democratization of media or why anal sex is prohibited in Malaysia? Ya, tell me why can't I have sex before 21.

'Intellect' is a beautiful gift that can't be learnt, it is bestowed from heaven above. 10 people can read Socrates, but probably 2 would love to read more. And only 1 can produce his own. But when Brad Pitt flashes his nipples, 3000 women get saved.

Superficiality is so much nearer to the human nature, it's like when you're horny and the two books you really have to choose from to read is No.1 Teenage Porn, and no.2 Spm History. Picking the first option is definitely sinful, but picking no.2 is impossible.

Our Malaysian culture and our brought up are built upon American ~~Pie~~ Media (stupid ones that teaches us fornication is good, big breast is good, big penis is also good, being cool is to be a pretty face and sleep with as many girls you can, write all their names down and count them before you go to bed, it just make you feel like Lion King, by all means, this things aren't mind building), special rights some of us don't have, why do we have to study so hard, why is their a moral subject at the first place, why do we have to study 10 subjects in high school and why is that the local blog with the most readers is Kennysia.

If you ever want your children to grow up an intellect, the first movie you have to show them is a documentary explaining why Hitler hate Jews. We, Malaysians, everyone, our brought up plays great role in shaping our society. If you feed them with other things THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, you'll have a whole generation of bloggers that goes like:

The fucking cibai ah pek cut my queue, you think you are ah pek then you can cut my queue, if you are younger I would have spit on your cibai bin.

Intellectualism anyone?

Lao Zha Bor

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:05:00 +0000

Having watch this MV, I wouldn't disregard the elderly anymore....

My apples

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:10:00 +0000

If you haven watch this tube, you should!

That's because my apple seeds sprouted last week!

I know they look like taugeh, but be fully convinced that they are apples.

I wished I could tell you just how apple it is.

They are really apples

powered by ODEO

I wonder how I wonder why
Yesterday you told me bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see
Is just another apple tree....... =D

Don't tell me it's lame, I know it myself.

Don't tell me it's stupid either, I know it.

Perodua Kambing

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:33:00 +0000

This is what they did to Perodua Kelisa. I know it happened sometime ago and it's not new but you know I don't say anything until I'm sure.

Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has come under attack in the Malaysian parliament last week for labelling one of the country's cars the worst in the world.

The BBC presenter has been filmed attacking the Perodua Kelisa with a sledgehammer before blowing it up.

And on the show, he described it as "unimaginative junk, with no soul, no flair and no passion".

I somewhat agree with him!

He also calls Perodua Kelisa a fridge. Wait till he sees Proton Juara, the coffin car.

But it is truth, that our Perodua Kelisa has never received a single complaint from the British.

And I think I know why........

Where on earth, can you spend only 5000 euro to buy something that look so alike to the MR BEAN CAR!

Beanmini!

The Kelisa Reflecto

And with a little bit of photoshop, Kelisa don't have to be an "unimaginative junk, with no soul, no flair and no passion". It can look kinda cool.

So why not drive a Kelisa. If you can't afford to buy the best car in the world, as least have the privilege to drive the worst.

But one thing uncreative about Perodua is how they name the cars. Seriously, they have Perodua Kelisa, Kenari, Kancil, Kembara and it makes you wonder sometimes what would the next name be if they insist on the 'K'.

Perodua Kambing - We've got the 'K'

One Liner

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:27:00 +0000

Sometimes when bloggers are kueh ka (hokkien), they blog a one liner and call it a post, this is one of the instances....

Bloggers are very human too.

Nuffnagees VS Advertletser (whichever rock your pants)

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:15:00 +0000

Malaysia is a high end competitive country, even when most of your would like to disagree with me, you can't say I'm wrong when I tell you....

When there is a Proton, a Perodua came along

And when there is a MAS, Airasia joined the club

And now, when everybody knows there is a NuffNang, the Asia's First Online Blog Advertising Community, we have a new copycat------ Advertlets! Launched almost at the same time, Advertlets serves as the second Malaysian based online advertising thing. You bet, I don't like it!

That's mainly because I being an attractive and artistic boy prefer authenticity more than ........ imitations. Watch this.....

Nuffnang- Asia's first Blog Advertising Community
(click to enlarge)

Advertlets- Asia's better blog advertising network, what the fuck?
(click to enlarge)

Seriously, you can be competing with each other, that's not a problem, but do you have to show it out in your slogan itself?

As if that's not enough, when Nuffnang has...

(clickable)

Advertlets also came up with...

(clickable)

=_=" kiasu

One thing for sure, not all bloggers in Malaysia or anywhere else can enjoy advertlets. I took my advertlets code off instantly after I found this comparison chart on the advertlets site itself.

I say this because Advertlets requires a minimum of 100 unique visitors per day per blog in order to count you in as part of their community. Honestly, I think I'm a good blogger but the average unique hits I have each day is only 50++ . So I am automatically disqualified for advertlets. Where else Nuffnang only requires 20 unique clicks per day per blog which is rather relevant. And the Minimum payout amount. Come on....

You double the required minimum payout and 5x the minimum unique visitors while still claiming to be the Better Blog Advertising Community...... Well not all bloggers can afford to join your network.

It's like me saying, I am overweight and ugly but I'm still far more attractive then Edison Chen. (am I, am I?)

One more thing, advertlets poll is ugly.

*Don't be fooled by the Rm15000 for 300 bloggers skim, the minimum cash out amount is when your account balance reaches RM200. So even if you are lucky to get that Rm50, you still have to add up the remaining Rm150 until they have to pay you. In that case, they don't have to pay you instantly and if you never add up to Rm200, you'll never get your money. They expect thousands of people to sign up and review them, get free publicity while only need to pay 300 of them Rm50 indefinitely depending to when their account balanced up to Rm200. What good marketing strategy, I'm gonna open up an internet business soon.

WHOEVER WANTS TO FEATURE IN MY BLOG, RM20 AND I'LL BLOG YOU, DEAL OR NO DEAL?

Yeah I'm cheap, don't remind me that.

*Advertlets supporters, please don't hate me, it's just blogging!

Much Ado About Nothing

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:33:00 +0000

I don’t like to talk about rich people, how rich they are, how much they earn per month, how many sports car they have and how good their lives is materially. That’s mainly because, no matter how much money Steve Job or Bill Gates has. It has nothing to do with me. I think it’s sometime rather irrelevant if not a total waste of time to count other’s property when that does not influence your lives in anyway nor add an inch to your stature. If it does, well bless you, go open a Microsoft.

I think it’s stupid also to say things like ‘Einstein didn’t need so many A(s) in his studies to become the smartest man in the world’. Well, Einstein didn’t get so many A(s) but neither did he spend so much time justifying his C(s). To add that up, Einstein figured out E=MC2, did anyone of us perform something like him?

‘Thomas Edison was a dropped out, and he was the greatest inventor!’ That comes to show that to be successful, you don’t really need to have the best education! Well, do you know that ‘Ali Bin Ahmad was a dropped out from school and he is now in jail?’ Does that ring any bell on your head?

We cannot generalize the entire society base on a unique case.

And we cannot generalize the entire society base on 2 unique cases too. No you can’t even if you can give me 2000 names of some high school dropped out that is making millions. Why, because there are a few hundred thousand high school graduates each year in Malaysia alone.

Do you know that the statistic shows that 2/3 of the millionaire in the USA are C(s) student?

If you are to tell me that, I’d tell you that 90% of population in India is illiterate, and they are so poor they can’t afford to buy bras to cover their breast.

There is no such thing as ‘one-formula-fits-all”. As much as there are these high school drops out that make it to the top of the world, there are other high school drop outs that burn in hell.

I like to see all of us (including myself) as an individual and unique case. And we are certainly not bound by statistics or the general views of the society. If we are willing to work it out to be the top, to be different or successful. We are able. It’s not about Einstein and his C(s), it’s not about how much that Timber Tycoon has by cutting trees. It’s about what we want and how we decide to make things happen.

If you are that person who always dream to ‘make a difference’, ‘be so unique’, ‘turn and shape the world’, let me encourage you, history makers does not have a person in whom he can refer to. He is first, and before him was none.

Good Friday & Kuan Yin

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:49:00 +0000

I try only to update my blog twice a week, but for this week I did more because tomorrow will be a good day for 2 main group of people. No.1, it's the Good Friday. No.2 it will also be a day for the Buddhists to celebrate the birthday of Kuan Yin.

News on the Star says that it is really rare for this two occasion to bump together, and it only happened twice in more than 200 years. Which is this year 2007 and the year 2027. In other words I'd be 38 years old when that happens again. I wonder if I'd have children then.

Now there is this part of the news which I think is rather funny, with all due respect to the Buddhist, I still think it's funny. A lecturer from USM expounded that....

Kuan Yin became woman after he helped many infertile women conceived............ =_="

That's like the first transsexual happening in religion myths.

Anyway to my fellow Christians, enjoy the Good long Friday tomorrow. Don't kill rabbits. And check out my apple tree post below!

Killing a mocking bird - Planting an apple tree

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0000

Creativity comes with a price, usually a stupid one.

I hear from a friend that if you do it the right way, it is possible for you to get an apple seed to sprout in Kuching (Malaysia Boleh!) It need not necessarily grow into a tree, but it can sprout. To separate truth from fiction, I've decided to put this into a test. So this is my attempt to plant an apple tree on Kuching soil. (if you are scratching your head thinking what's the big deal about this, well, we don't plant apples in Kuching because the climate doesn't suits, it's like someone trying to plant Durian in Antarctica, get it?)

I'll tell you exactly how I do it, and hopefully some of you crazy people might join me.

That's what we all started from, but not necessarily how we'd end

Firstly, you'll need an apple. It's non-compromising, you'll need an apple to plant an apple tree. Some people just don't get that. After that you'll need to take the seeds out from it. For those who does not know the right way to do it, I've put on a real live illustration on youtube. Note that you must adhere to the way I do it closely so that the seeds wont be spoiled. WATCH THIS TUBE!

The outcome.....

notice my phone

Having done that, the next thing you have to do is to peel off the outer layer (dark brown skin) of the seeds. You'll also find a light brown transparent skin that sticks to the seed, peel that off too until it's pure white.

Here we go.....

Pure white

And the leftover chaffs

Following, put the seeds in a cap and let it soak with water, make sure that there is minor sunlight to ray over it. Leave it like this for a few days. The nutrients for the seeds to sprout comes from the seed itself. That's why I said earlier on , it can sprout.... I never say it'll grow into a big tree. But you've read this long thus far you might as well finish it.

leave this thing out at your compound for a few days

After a few days, you'll have to soil it now.... you can choose to lay it on the ground it's really up to you. But I'm just doing it for the fun so I dug some soil with a spoon and put it on a cup. That's it.

And my seeds will live in that thing after they finish swimming in the cap. Whether they sprout or not, it will still be their burial ground.

Perhaps just someday, in one of their dreams, this may really come true.

Just like it happens to sometimes, some of us.......

Disclaim: This post has nothing to do with Apple Inc. They never reply my emails to discuss about sponsoring me with a new apple iphone. Screw Steve Job and his apples.

Short Talk - Abomination

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:47:00 +0000

I was very mad when I read these links on Uncyclopedia. This is what happens when you let those people write anything they want on the net. Ridiculous, ridiculous, ridiculous.

Uncyclopedia on Malaysia

Uncyclopedia on Malays

Uncyclopedia on Singapore

I couldn't give more, it's a total disgrace to this nation, this region and this world. Please read every word written and memorise them. Because when they are damn wrong, they are also damn funny.

On a total different matter, I found Xiaxue the Singaporean famous blogger removed Kenny Sia, our local blogger's link from her website.

And Kenny Sia checked in recently with a post refering to xiaxue.

It was fun when I play it, my generated blog post was:

I was in my room this morning, queuing up to use the ATM, when a FUCKING GIGANTIC LIZARD come by and GRAB MY ASS!!!!!!!!!

I tried to be reasonable so I asked politely why he did that. But you know what the fucker did? HE IGNORED ME AND CONTINUE TO GRAB MY ASS!!!! I was going to confront the FUCKING GIGANTIC LIZARD further, but I was scared he might punch my fragile new fake nose, deforming it permanently and leaving me ugly forever. :( So I walked away quietly.SO ANGRY! To that FUCKING GIGANTIC LIZARD, I HOPE YOUR TESTICLES DROP OFF!

I am so fucking irritated with that FUCKING GIGANTIC LIZARD! So what if he is a FUCKING GIGANTIC LIZARD? Doesn't mean he can just GRAB MY ASS like that. If every single FUCKING GIGANTIC LIZARD come and GRAB MY ASS, I still need to live meh?!!

Now everybody can be a celeb blogger..... :D

Imagini tells my visual DNA

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Ho) — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:38:00 +0000

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