<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927</id><updated>2010-01-04T22:01:58.656+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Up There Down Under</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>147</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-2978188479728297159</id><published>2010-01-04T22:01:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-04T22:01:58.664+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian'/><title type='text'>Psalm 120</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I called to the Lord in my distress,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and he answered me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and from deceitful tongues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How shall he pay you back,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;O deceitful and lying tongue?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;He will punish you with arrows&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;hardened over the glowing coals!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Woe is me who live with barbarians,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and dwell amid plunders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;My soul is sick of dwelling among those who hate peace;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I want peace,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;but they think only of quarrels.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Today my head is in throbbing pain. Hence I can only pick this Bible verse to share with you all (and maybe to soothe my headache).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-2978188479728297159?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/2978188479728297159/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=2978188479728297159&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/2978188479728297159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/2978188479728297159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2010/01/psalm-120.html' title='Psalm 120'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-5446100208552028701</id><published>2010-01-03T09:11:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T18:36:34.936+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lovely pictures'/><title type='text'>My Project 365</title><content type='html'>I've converted my old blog into my Project 365. Do pay a visit at &lt;a href="http://lovethycat.blogspot.com/"&gt;Paw Scribbles&lt;/a&gt;. TQ!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/S0By96mAUFI/AAAAAAAABMg/DBNCBzaI4R8/s1600-h/IMG_4858b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/S0By96mAUFI/AAAAAAAABMg/DBNCBzaI4R8/s400/IMG_4858b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Yes, I'm going to use my loyal Canon Ixus 60.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-5446100208552028701?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/5446100208552028701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=5446100208552028701&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/5446100208552028701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/5446100208552028701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-project-365.html' title='My Project 365'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/S0By96mAUFI/AAAAAAAABMg/DBNCBzaI4R8/s72-c/IMG_4858b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-4850278415229550679</id><published>2010-01-02T21:57:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-02T22:14:55.452+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holiday'/><title type='text'>Kionsom, Inanam</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Today is a historical day for me. Finally stepped into Kionsom for the first 24 years of my life. It's one of the nearest waterfall in Kota Kinabalu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;However, the waters today is very murky. I was told that usually the waters are clear but because it has been raining for the past few day, hence the Teh-C waterfall. Don't get thirsty, k ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Entrance fee is RM1.50 per person. 15 minutes drive from Bukit Padang via the hills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sz9DmOyCMlI/AAAAAAAABLs/X5AadcJQRoc/s1600-h/IMG_4824b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sz9DmOyCMlI/AAAAAAAABLs/X5AadcJQRoc/s400/IMG_4824b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;With Sarah, Serena and Arlene&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sz9E5f-01UI/AAAAAAAABL0/SAsWeAkeQk8/s1600-h/IMG_4822b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sz9E5f-01UI/AAAAAAAABL0/SAsWeAkeQk8/s400/IMG_4822b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Many staircases leading to different parts of the waterfall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Teh-C buffet today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sz9FTw0a0TI/AAAAAAAABL8/bz9A-q5s17E/s1600-h/IMG_4832b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sz9FTw0a0TI/AAAAAAAABL8/bz9A-q5s17E/s400/IMG_4832b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I'm at the 3rd floor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;None of us girls feel tempted to take a dip today. We shall save it for another time when the water is clearer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-4850278415229550679?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/4850278415229550679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=4850278415229550679&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/4850278415229550679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/4850278415229550679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2010/01/kionsom-inanam.html' title='Kionsom, Inanam'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sz9DmOyCMlI/AAAAAAAABLs/X5AadcJQRoc/s72-c/IMG_4824b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-1594820524855856401</id><published>2010-01-01T08:00:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T14:14:34.992+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Reflections'/><title type='text'>Should I have New Year Resolutions?</title><content type='html'>I only remember my New Year Resolution for as long as the first 2 weeks of January.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After that, it'll be like, "&lt;i&gt;Huh?&lt;/i&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;But because New Year is so festive and I'll have a day off, I think a New Year Resolution will add some cheer before the workload comes in like huge tsunami. ARGH!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;What I may want to achieve in 2010 is.......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;1. Going holiday and take terrific pictures with my loyal Canon Ixus 650&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;2. Find what I'm going to do in life (I'm still very lost!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;3. Get DSLR (seriously)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;4. Read more novels, watch more movies/dramas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;5. Expand friends&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;6. Decorate my house&lt;br /&gt;7. Enter and complete Project 365&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;8. Look prettier&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-1594820524855856401?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/1594820524855856401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=1594820524855856401&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/1594820524855856401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/1594820524855856401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2010/01/do-i-really-believe-in-new-year.html' title='Should I have New Year Resolutions?'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-1786947511854342280</id><published>2009-12-31T16:30:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T09:30:49.589+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lovely pictures'/><title type='text'>Would you take a photo a day - Project 365</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Stumbled across TheBackpackr.com at PPS and found that few (and maybe a LOT MORE) is embarking on this project - A photo a day for 365 days to document your life in a year. Sounds exciting isn't it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Will give it a try starting tomorrow! Damn excited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzxLlPmrsjI/AAAAAAAABKY/MkL4QDmNNKU/s1600-h/photojojo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzxLlPmrsjI/AAAAAAAABKY/MkL4QDmNNKU/s320/photojojo.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;As a cheer to my upcoming project - Mr pre-Project 365 photo:-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzxSE3ST9XI/AAAAAAAABKg/88U9Cr1WGyQ/s1600-h/DSC00551.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzxSE3ST9XI/AAAAAAAABKg/88U9Cr1WGyQ/s320/DSC00551.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This photo means that I'm stuck at work on New Year Eve. I remember last year I was having holiday. Well, at least I have Ferrero Rocher as my friend. The missing one is already the stomach. Yum!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-1786947511854342280?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/1786947511854342280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=1786947511854342280&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/1786947511854342280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/1786947511854342280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/12/would-you-take-photo-day-project-365.html' title='Would you take a photo a day - Project 365'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzxLlPmrsjI/AAAAAAAABKY/MkL4QDmNNKU/s72-c/photojojo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-8847711181116687970</id><published>2009-12-31T12:59:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-31T18:03:49.860+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Some Thoughts'/><title type='text'>Phone policy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Office Phone&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;There was once I spoke to a partner of a firm and he asked, &lt;i&gt;"Karen are you sick? You sound very weak".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;People at the other side would always bellow, "&lt;i&gt;Hello! I can't hear you!"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;For this, I think it must be the office phone's fault. If only I can make it louder.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;I feel like a total idiot speaking to an answering machine. Let alone when other people is looking, and waiting for a reply from me. "&lt;i&gt;Sorry, it was the answering machine"&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Handphone&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;I will spend half of my conversation saying for the 50th time&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;"Hello?Hello? Can you hear me because I can't hear you".&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;I will spend another half saying, &lt;i&gt;"Sorry can you repeat that? The line is breaking"&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;It must be "B"okia's fault.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;House Phone&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;An antique at my house. Rarely use. As rare as a piece of rare steak.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;All calls will be directed to my mom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Skype&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;No interruptions for the first 5 minutes. Subsequently the same as handphone, sometimes worse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gtalk&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;The best so far. But if only I can change the ringtone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;This mode of communication depends on internet connection. Oh well, we all know about Streamyx. 50% of my online time is 'well-spent' reconnecting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Voice communication is not easy, is it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-8847711181116687970?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/8847711181116687970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=8847711181116687970&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/8847711181116687970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/8847711181116687970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/12/phone-policy.html' title='Phone policy'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-6773830511142151736</id><published>2009-12-30T21:00:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T14:26:57.560+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Movie'/><title type='text'>My Top 5 Likeable Male Characters in Movies - year 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I've always wanted to do this in year end ever since I started blogging but always 'missed the dateline'. Finally I've got the time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hereby announce my Top 5 Likeable Male Characters in Movies for the year 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like these actors because they made me drool. HAHA! Ok, aside from that, perhaps there's one or two particular parts in the movie/drama that I like about them, eg: how they express their disappointment. I enjoy watching good movies. I will always watch out for good storylines and good actor/actress. Even if the movie is full of hotties but the storyline or acting sucks, I wouldn't waste my time drooling over it. Yes, trust me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The top goes to................................&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;1. &lt;b&gt;Leonardo DiCaprio&lt;/b&gt; in Revolutionary Road - He's awesome, awesome and awesome. Aside from me drooling over his good looks (and the pair of blue eyes), I think his acting is even better. What more it's together with Kate Winslet, his onscreen lover. It's interesting to see Leo in a non-macho character but at the same time oozing all his sex appeal when he tries to take control. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I bet that the movie will just be plain boring without the Kate and Leo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq0drYCwQI/AAAAAAAABJQ/1kCTH2DBM9U/s1600-h/revolutionaryroadpic6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq0drYCwQI/AAAAAAAABJQ/1kCTH2DBM9U/s320/revolutionaryroadpic6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;b&gt;Lee Jun Ki&lt;/b&gt; in Iljimae and Time Between Dog and Wolf&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;When I first saw Lee Jun Ki in Iljimae at 8tv, I thought he was Jaycee Chan. After finishing the whole series, I again searched his other series and found Time Between Dog and Wolf. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I like him at Iljimae simply because I like him. He acted as this boy (guy) who saw with his own eyes of his father's murder You can read the synopsis here. Later, he and his family went into separate hidings. Government officials were looking all over to kill his family. When he found out where his sister was, the government officials hanged his sister in order to bait him. And his sister died before his very own eyes. SAD RIGHT??! Throughout the series, he appears to be goofy but deep deep down, he's very sorrowful. And Lee Jun Ki has shown us his abilities to display these mixtures of emotions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And in Time Between Dog and Wolf, needless to say he looked even more handsome (except the last haircut in the final episode! damn sissy wei). Lee Jun Ki suddenly became very tall in this series. His face has not much expression and his eyes did most of the talking. I like it when he transformed into a 'bad guy'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lee Jun Ki, he's very pretty but at the same time, he won't make you feel that he's just a mere pretty boy. Well, all these is true provided that he doesn't lose any weight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq2CTlz6UI/AAAAAAAABJY/l4uLU3qwvGA/s1600-h/iljimae4_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq2CTlz6UI/AAAAAAAABJY/l4uLU3qwvGA/s320/iljimae4_3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq3IxmvuoI/AAAAAAAABJg/zYrjIkmTJr0/s1600-h/lee-jun-ki-news-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq3IxmvuoI/AAAAAAAABJg/zYrjIkmTJr0/s320/lee-jun-ki-news-0001.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;3.&lt;b&gt; Qi Yuwu &lt;/b&gt;- Little Nyonya&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;When I first watched The Little Nyonya, I was asking myself, "Where are all the lengzai(s)??". I was probably watching the wrong episodes because I started at episode 23 when NTV7 was showing it. During that time, Chen Xi (by Qi Yuwu) have only frowning scenes. Of course &lt;i&gt;lah&lt;/i&gt;, he couldn't be with Yueniang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;But then when I watched back the episodes from beginning, and then starting from episode 11, I thought.."Eh, not bad wor". I like him when he teased Yueniang over the chicken soup. I also like the moments when he and Yueniang were kidnapped by some local thugs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Actually his character is quite sad. Spent most of the time being sick at the hospital and feeling anguish because he can't be with Yueniang. Kesian, kesian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq4YF0SIBI/AAAAAAAABJo/covjD-O-TLg/s1600-h/3_qi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq4YF0SIBI/AAAAAAAABJo/covjD-O-TLg/s320/3_qi.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;b&gt;Zzen Zhang&lt;/b&gt; - Little Nyonya&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I couldn't believe that this actor is not a bad guy in real life. In this drama, he is very evil! Always plotting to &amp;nbsp;create troubles. Not only did he rape Yuzhu, he also drive her into madness. His expression is very believable. Of course, of course...he's quite good looking. That is why even though he is the most cunning villain, I still find him quite watchable. &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through;"&gt;Too bad&lt;/span&gt; he has to die in the end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq4dIk-G6I/AAAAAAAABJw/Lx4qImGTt-8/s1600-h/18_zzen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq4dIk-G6I/AAAAAAAABJw/Lx4qImGTt-8/s320/18_zzen.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;b&gt;Show Luo&lt;/b&gt; in Hi My Sweetheart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Owhhhhhh who can forget that mushroom head Da Lang. But that's not because why I like Show Luo. In fact, I cannot even stand to look at the unnaturally thick mushroom hair. It is his facial expressions as Da Lang acting with the infamous hair that caught my attention and the small 'Da Lang' moments after he transformed back into Hsueh Hai.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The series is still airing.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq6QgeigSI/AAAAAAAABJ4/qxIAHvHcF0E/s1600-h/sweetheart1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq6QgeigSI/AAAAAAAABJ4/qxIAHvHcF0E/s320/sweetheart1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq6VpdEK5I/AAAAAAAABKA/yIV50VgVJDc/s1600-h/showbie7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq6VpdEK5I/AAAAAAAABKA/yIV50VgVJDc/s320/showbie7.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 'idiot box' is never more enjoyable without good &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through;"&gt;faces&lt;/span&gt; acting.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-6773830511142151736?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/6773830511142151736/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=6773830511142151736&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/6773830511142151736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/6773830511142151736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-top-5-likeable-male-characters-in.html' title='My Top 5 Likeable Male Characters in Movies - year 2009'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szq0drYCwQI/AAAAAAAABJQ/1kCTH2DBM9U/s72-c/revolutionaryroadpic6.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-8315884541198844778</id><published>2009-12-29T22:49:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-31T09:10:18.375+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Reflections'/><title type='text'>My world in 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;2009, aside from my holidays, was a great challenge to me. So I thought life after the horrible CLP will be blissfull. Whoa! Life as a chambering student is worse - like taking 10 subjects for CLP. All I remember about 2009 is that I was constantly tired. I see tired, eat tired, sleep tired. The only word&amp;nbsp; I could only mutter is t-i-r-e-d. That explains the massive drop in blog posts for this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Now that I'm back at Kota Kinabalu, I have more personal time for myself. I can finally breathe peacefully [unless I'm required to rush last minute work beyond midnight!].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Let me recall what I've achieved in the year 2009:-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;1. Called to the Bar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;2. Chambering for the 2nd time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;3. Travelled to Cambodia and totally loved it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;4. Found a good hairstylist&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;5. Helped a foreigner to be released from jail&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;6.&amp;nbsp; Learn sign language&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;7. Watched movie with Deaf friends&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;8. Pack and move house/room 3 times - ENOUGH OF MOVING ALREADY!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;9. Took an exam and failed terribly...hahahahah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;10. Growing more and more grey hair. OMG! Too shy to let my hairstylist see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;11. Fell really sick on my birthday, for 2 weeks. Somemore during H1N1 season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;12. Watched the greatest sunset from airplane before touching down at KKIA. God's best gift for me this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szn9z9Cv6MI/AAAAAAAABIg/gLZnKpBHyZM/s1600-h/art2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szn9z9Cv6MI/AAAAAAAABIg/gLZnKpBHyZM/s400/art2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Serenity at Siem Reap, Cambodia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzoMAcDMewI/AAAAAAAABI4/P4vlL7meeKk/s1600-h/IMG_2969b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzoMAcDMewI/AAAAAAAABI4/P4vlL7meeKk/s400/IMG_2969b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Yummy strawberry yoghurt at Cameron Highlands&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzoMtepM-8I/AAAAAAAABJA/FDxf002_-jk/s1600-h/IMG_3582b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzoMtepM-8I/AAAAAAAABJA/FDxf002_-jk/s400/IMG_3582b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The sun and the fisherman at a hazy sunrise- Kuantan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzoNsGfxfPI/AAAAAAAABJI/SvwedyRsEBU/s1600-h/DSC00144bc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzoNsGfxfPI/AAAAAAAABJI/SvwedyRsEBU/s400/DSC00144bc.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Reaching up to the high sky - Pangkor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzoLReQb0xI/AAAAAAAABIo/At-gkvzYXHc/s1600-h/art3b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzoLReQb0xI/AAAAAAAABIo/At-gkvzYXHc/s400/art3b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;And I still haven't own a DSLR. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;For last year's compilation - [&lt;a href="http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2008/12/year-that-was2008.html"&gt;see here&lt;/a&gt;].&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-8315884541198844778?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/8315884541198844778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=8315884541198844778&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/8315884541198844778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/8315884541198844778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-world-in-2009.html' title='My world in 2009'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szn9z9Cv6MI/AAAAAAAABIg/gLZnKpBHyZM/s72-c/art2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-308905130410662609</id><published>2009-12-28T21:55:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-29T14:42:09.660+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sabah'/><title type='text'>Gaya Street</title><content type='html'>Kota Kinabalu most famous Sunday market - Gaya Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;You can find everything there from newspapers, vege, exotic plants, rattan canes, handicrafts,&amp;nbsp;memorabilia, tidbits, clothes, pillows to pets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The traffic jam is even worse than normal weekdays when most folks will visit the area for banks, errants and food. Some cars when they are waiting for parking, they don't consider the long line of cars waiting behind. Then some car owners will take their own very sweet time before reversing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Some scenes at Gaya Street:-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi0CZKCSuI/AAAAAAAABHI/djgMG2c6tEc/s1600-h/IMG_4797b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi0CZKCSuI/AAAAAAAABHI/djgMG2c6tEc/s400/IMG_4797b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Cute Persian Tabby!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cat: Hm..my tail is very beautiful and long&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi0CZKCSuI/AAAAAAAABHI/djgMG2c6tEc/s1600-h/IMG_4797b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi0GmvyJKI/AAAAAAAABHQ/S5St7d2ukTI/s1600-h/IMG_4798b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi0GmvyJKI/AAAAAAAABHQ/S5St7d2ukTI/s400/IMG_4798b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A playful grey one&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Only these 2 cats are still active by 11am. The weather was damn hot! Pity those cats. I want to bring them home!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi1Ae5Mg4I/AAAAAAAABHY/H56wEJW06b8/s1600-h/IMG_4799b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi1Ae5Mg4I/AAAAAAAABHY/H56wEJW06b8/s400/IMG_4799b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Handicraft stall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi1Ae5Mg4I/AAAAAAAABHY/H56wEJW06b8/s1600-h/IMG_4799b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi1aqqfu2I/AAAAAAAABHg/GqiUUMxeQTg/s1600-h/IMG_4800b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi1aqqfu2I/AAAAAAAABHg/GqiUUMxeQTg/s320/IMG_4800b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The crowd&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi4hdWkSNI/AAAAAAAABH4/RYPo9unRQOs/s1600-h/IMG_4801b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi4hdWkSNI/AAAAAAAABH4/RYPo9unRQOs/s320/IMG_4801b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The plants stall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi1_hznfRI/AAAAAAAABHo/xmJsh8MBcnM/s1600-h/IMG_4802b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi1_hznfRI/AAAAAAAABHo/xmJsh8MBcnM/s320/IMG_4802b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The 'gong' stall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi2ZqQVHVI/AAAAAAAABHw/6NeB0Eel3nE/s1600-h/IMG_4805b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi2ZqQVHVI/AAAAAAAABHw/6NeB0Eel3nE/s400/IMG_4805b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And our new Suria Sabah, facing the sparkling blue sea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-308905130410662609?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/308905130410662609/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=308905130410662609&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/308905130410662609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/308905130410662609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/12/gaya-street.html' title='Gaya Street'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Szi0CZKCSuI/AAAAAAAABHI/djgMG2c6tEc/s72-c/IMG_4797b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-3500361004692953226</id><published>2009-12-23T18:47:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-25T16:27:14.347+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holiday'/><title type='text'>Merry Christmas all~!</title><content type='html'>Merry Christmas everybody!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I'm also having a Christmas theme for my 'original' blog at &lt;a href="http://lovethycat.blogspot.com/"&gt;Paw Scribbles&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for a festive cheer (I still keep the blog address).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Holidays!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzRxZvzs4ZI/AAAAAAAABG0/CfPh_P-IQjc/s1600-h/DSC00532.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzRxZvzs4ZI/AAAAAAAABG0/CfPh_P-IQjc/s400/DSC00532.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The scene at Sacred Heart, Kota Kinabalu after midnight mass. My first try on my Sony Ericsson's C905 panorama feature. Everything looks perfect &lt;i&gt;except for one part&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The proton Iswara looked as though it whizzed too fast. But actually I din't connect the pictures properly..hehehehe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;1st try &lt;i&gt;lah&lt;/i&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;25.12.2009&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally changed my blog's theme!&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm so not used to not being able to post my pictures extra large. Have to resize one of my &lt;a href="http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/11/pangkor.html"&gt;Pangkor &lt;/a&gt;pictures.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-3500361004692953226?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/3500361004692953226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=3500361004692953226&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/3500361004692953226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/3500361004692953226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-all.html' title='Merry Christmas all~!'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SzRxZvzs4ZI/AAAAAAAABG0/CfPh_P-IQjc/s72-c/DSC00532.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-6517169729394606193</id><published>2009-12-21T12:23:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-21T12:31:13.971+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Some Thoughts'/><title type='text'>Hot Lookalikes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;When I watched Inglourious Basterds last month, I thought the guy who acted as Private Frederick Zoller was the same guy from American Pie 2. Just as I thought August Diehl was Macaulay Culkin!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;This is &lt;b&gt;Daniel Bruh&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;l&lt;/b&gt; of Inglourious Basterds. Quite handsome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Because he's good looking, his character in the movie, Private Zoller, is forgiven for irritatingly pursuing Shosanna Dreyfus. His insistence came too strong towards the end when he became frustrated that Shosanna wasn't returning the same feelings. He even shot Shosanna and both died in the theater room. Why did you shoot her??!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;But never mind. Because he's handsome, I will forgive. And I like the way he speaks his French &lt;i&gt;(was French, right?)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sy7s2e2yhmI/AAAAAAAABFk/FyTOOC6IjnA/s1600-h/bruhl.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sy7s2e2yhmI/AAAAAAAABFk/FyTOOC6IjnA/s320/bruhl.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;And here we have a TVB Hong Kong version of Bruhl - &lt;b&gt;Leo Lee Wai Kay&lt;/b&gt;. It's extremely difficult to get pictures of Leo in websites simply because he hasn't been in any lead roles, or the least any supporting roles in drama series. I got this nerdy photo of him from the promotional advertisement of At the Threshold of an Era where he acted as Jason Yip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;When I watched Legal Entanglement which is airing at TVB XingHe now, I thought, "&lt;i&gt;Hey he looks somewhat like Daniel Bruhl&lt;/i&gt;". Don't you think so?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sy7s4-YldnI/AAAAAAAABFs/CFm05gBzBK0/s1600-h/leo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sy7s4-YldnI/AAAAAAAABFs/CFm05gBzBK0/s320/leo.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;And of course, how can I forget &lt;b&gt;Seann William Scott&lt;/b&gt;, the goofy guy at American Pie 2 and Evolution. He looked surprisingly gorgeous in recent photos, with stunning smiles. How can you not like him. How can you simply not????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sy7s8TfTp-I/AAAAAAAABF0/5Oo8t0e-eLQ/s1600-h/Seann.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sy7s8TfTp-I/AAAAAAAABF0/5Oo8t0e-eLQ/s320/Seann.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-6517169729394606193?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/6517169729394606193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=6517169729394606193&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/6517169729394606193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/6517169729394606193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/12/celeb-lookalikes.html' title='Hot Lookalikes'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/Sy7s2e2yhmI/AAAAAAAABFk/FyTOOC6IjnA/s72-c/bruhl.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-4210642348612908850</id><published>2009-12-14T20:34:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-25T15:54:25.951+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sabah'/><title type='text'>Say "NO" to coal-fired power plant in Sabah</title><content type='html'>Please help&amp;nbsp;us fellow Sabahans to say &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"&gt;"NO"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; to coal-fired power plant in Sabah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://nocoalsabah.blogspot.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/12/14/nation/5297665&amp;amp;sec=nation"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more information and&lt;a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/nocoal1/petition.html"&gt;&amp;nbsp;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to sign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;the process of a coal-fired power plant&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SyYmwzYsLWI/AAAAAAAABE0/FHM-TM2EnqA/s1600-h/CoalPowerPlantNEU.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rs="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SyYmwzYsLWI/AAAAAAAABE0/FHM-TM2EnqA/s400/CoalPowerPlantNEU.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know&amp;nbsp;how this diagram works. But I know the result of this diagram is something like this:-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SyYohe_H5DI/AAAAAAAABE8/mRkx5Rq1ZzM/s1600-h/299545533_d44a4e8007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rs="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SyYohe_H5DI/AAAAAAAABE8/mRkx5Rq1ZzM/s400/299545533_d44a4e8007.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/davipt/299545533/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/davipt/" rel="cc:attributionURL"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/davipt/&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/" rel="license"&gt;CC BY-NC-SA 2.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SyYo9W05L7I/AAAAAAAABFE/YTH74cbxzbQ/s1600-h/3154669752_6fa30b517b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rs="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SyYo9W05L7I/AAAAAAAABFE/YTH74cbxzbQ/s400/3154669752_6fa30b517b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SyYpTi-JApI/AAAAAAAABFU/acr9aziA1zM/s1600-h/2963093770_a3c01c041d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rs="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SyYpTi-JApI/AAAAAAAABFU/acr9aziA1zM/s320/2963093770_a3c01c041d.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SyYpc9fGNOI/AAAAAAAABFc/CQl5nEBcsiY/s1600-h/3178266540_268aecc960.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rs="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SyYpc9fGNOI/AAAAAAAABFc/CQl5nEBcsiY/s640/3178266540_268aecc960.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Jerada coal power plant: The stacks pump black smoke into the atmosphere. There is coal dust everywhere. This pool of water is black from soot and the soil around it is too. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/colin_n/3178266540/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/colin_n/" rel="cc:attributionURL"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/colin_n/&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/" rel="license"&gt;CC BY-NC-ND 2.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/C004471/tep/en/traditional_energy/coal_power.html#3"&gt;Read also here:&lt;/a&gt; Coal energy is rather efficient, and was cost effective, but is no longer used in many places for two main reasons: the first one being supply and the second being pollution. Coal is a non-renewable resource, and therefore, we will inevitably run out of it. We must be conservative with our coal use now so that we will have some left for later use. The major reason that coal power plants are not used though is the fact that they were huge producers of pollution. Coal is a fuel that burns with a thick black smoke that is released into the atmosphere. The smoke causes problems ranging from emphysema to discoloration of paint to even acid rain. These polluting effects of coal are caused by impurities within the coal itself. Because it is nearly impossible to strictly control a perfect ratio of fuel and oxygen, impurities such as sulfur and phosphorus will inevitably lead to the release of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and other such pollutants into the atmosphere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we look towards the future of energy, we can see that coal energy is not an environmentally sound source for many reasons. The sulfur dioxide and nitrogen can bind with water in the atmosphere and create sulfuric and nitric acid, or acid rain. Acid rain can erode marble statues, kill wildlife, and pollute bodies of water. The large amounts of carbon dioxide released from the burning of coal increase the thickness of the atmosphere, leading the reality of a global warming disaster. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;..............................................................&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If SESB and TNB still insists on coal-fired power plant, then perhaps Malaysia should just pull out from the climate conference at Copenhagen.&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Just pull out &lt;i&gt;lah&lt;/i&gt;...&lt;strike&gt;don't embarass us&lt;/strike&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-4210642348612908850?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/4210642348612908850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=4210642348612908850&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/4210642348612908850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/4210642348612908850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/12/say-no-to-coal-fired-power-plant-in.html' title='Say &quot;NO&quot; to coal-fired power plant in Sabah'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SyYmwzYsLWI/AAAAAAAABE0/FHM-TM2EnqA/s72-c/CoalPowerPlantNEU.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-7609025093904545651</id><published>2009-12-13T22:06:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-13T22:06:26.742+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lyrics'/><title type='text'>My all time favourite duet</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/apfawbvULM8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/apfawbvULM8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Lucky" by Alyssa Bernal and Kris Mark&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-7609025093904545651?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/7609025093904545651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=7609025093904545651&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/7609025093904545651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/7609025093904545651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-all-time-favourite-duet.html' title='My all time favourite duet'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-6544613726744416605</id><published>2009-12-13T11:55:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-13T11:55:50.685+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sabah'/><title type='text'>Higher price of goods</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The price of goods in Sabah is high. A piece of Padini office wear here cost RM119.00, whereas in KL may cost RM109.00. We pay RM10 extra here. In Cosway, you can see the price different between East Malaysia and West Malaysia. A bottle of Loreal PureZone here may cost RM23.90 while in KL is around RM21.90 (Watson's price). A copy of Cleo magazine here may cost up to RM10.50!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Why? Why are the prices here higher?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-6544613726744416605?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/6544613726744416605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=6544613726744416605&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/6544613726744416605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/6544613726744416605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/12/higher-price-of-goods.html' title='Higher price of goods'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-7906567718798396763</id><published>2009-12-10T20:39:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T20:41:24.631+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unreasonable news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sabah'/><title type='text'>Wake up call to Sabah lawmakers who are also lawyers</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I was at the Long Call at High Court 2, KK yesterday because I was applying for a Part Exemption. And I had the opportunity to witness this event which made to our local &lt;a href="http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=69372"&gt;Daily Express's headlines today&lt;/a&gt;. (I'm quoting from Daily Express directly as its website loads slower than the snail). Read on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvitica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;Legal profession precedent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #b30000; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvitica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Kota Kinabalu:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The definition of who can practise law in Sabah &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;saw a historic precedent&lt;/span&gt; being set Wednesday when the High Court here granted an application for admission by a 27-year-old Sabah-born as an advocate of the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #b30000; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvitica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #b30000; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvitica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #b30000; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvitica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Judge Datuk Clement Skinner said the applicant, Wendy Chan Poh Lu, whose father is a Bruneian and mother a West Malaysian, is qualified to practise in the State because of her birth in Sabah, thus dismissing objections from a senior lawyer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"I therefore dismiss the objection because &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;by virtue of her birth in Sabah, she is deemed to have Sabah connections which is the sole criteria for admission as an advocate to the High Court in Sabah and Sarawak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ffd966;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;" he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Counsel Puan Sri Marina Tiu, in proceeding with the objection from counsel Christina Liew, who was not robed and therefore could not appear before the court, contested that the applicant although born in Sabah is not entitled to a Malaysian citizenship and, therefore, not a Sabahan in particular.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"The petitioner's father is a Bruneian and not a Malaysian while the mother is a West Malaysian. Therefore, under the immigration law, the petitioner is in fact not entitled to a Malaysian citizenship, in general, and she is not a Sabahan in particular," said Tiu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;She argued that under the Advocates Ordinance, a person must have Sabah connection in order to qualify for admission to the Bar in the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;She also said the constitution provides as to who can stay and work in Sabah, and the fact of the person being born in the State alone should not qualify the person under sub-section (2)(a) of the Advocates Ordinance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Tiu submitted that the objection is to protect the integrity of the Bar and to prevent fly-by-night lawyers from coming in to practise in Sabah but residing outside Sabah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"If this petition were allowed, it would create a dangerous precedent which would allow non-citizens to apply and to be admitted to the Bar. In theory, even the children of the holders of the IMM13 document (which gives the holder a refugee status and gives the holder the right to stay and work) to apply and be admitted to the Bar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"It's a matter of public concern because even an illegal immigrant who is born here and we have millions of immigrants here who can qualify under paragraph (2)(a) provided he also satisfies the other requirement in the Ordinance," said Tiu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Meanwhile, Sabah Law Association President Datuk John Sikayun stated that they did not object to the application because on paper the applicant had complied with the requirements under the Advocates Ordinance that she was born in Sabah. Sikayun acknowledged the applicant is a holder of a Sabah identity card. But he expressed concern that the Advocates Ordinance is outdated and that it needs to be amended.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;................................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Under Section 2 of the Ordinance, a person can only have Sabah connections if the person is born in Sabah, has been ordinarily resident in Sabah for a continuous period of five years or satisfies the Chief Judge that here or she is at the time of the application domiciled in Sabah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In responding to Sikayun's submission, Skinner said the Sabah Advocates Ordinance was enacted in 1953 when it could not have been foreseen the problems which have been highlighted during the hearing of the present objection.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;However, Skinner said: "It is my view that the remedy does not lie in this court but in the legislative process."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;He earlier said that it is expressly stated in Section 2(2) of the Ordinance that a person "shall be deemed" to have Sabah connections if that person satisfies any of the three conditions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"With this deeming provision, as the law stands at the moment, once a person is born in Sabah, he or she is deemed to have Sabah connections.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;That is a statutory deeming and I see no further requirement that the person must go on further to prove that he or she is entitled to Malaysian citizenship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"As far as being admitted to the Sabah Bar is concerned, once it is deemed that a person has Sabah connections, the requirement of Section 2 (2) have been satisfied," said Skinner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;-end of quote-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;oooHHH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; wowow.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Now it seems like becoming a lawyer in Sabah is not so difficult afterall.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;There's actually 3 different criteria to established a Sabah Connection; you either have to be born in Sabah, stayed in Sabah for continuous period of 5 years OR domiciled in Sabah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The decision above does have great impacts. You see, we had LOADS of illegal immigrants in Sabah since 1970s. The lucky ones managed to somehow obtain a blue IC. The not so lucky one continued to stay illegally and gave births in Sabah. So these children of the illegal immigrants are indeed Sabah born. So what if they are not Malaysians. There's no requirement in the Advocates Ordinance to say that lawyers in Sabah must be a Malaysian. Section 2(a) of the Advocate Ordinance provides that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;"A person shall be deemed to have Sabah connections for the purposes of this Ordinance if, and only if, he - "has been born in Sabah". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Satisfying the remaining to criteria is even easier for them, although its not necessary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Perhaps lawyers in Sabah who are also politicians can do something in the August House.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Otherwise, when this profession which most senior lawyers of Sabah is trying to protect is being 'diluted', you have no one to blame except:-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;1. The judge who has set this precedent;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;2. Sabah politicians;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;3. Member of the Bar; and/or&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;4. Yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;With the Federal Government pressuring the Sabah Bar to open up their legal profession, this task is not easy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-7906567718798396763?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=69372' title='Wake up call to Sabah lawmakers who are also lawyers'/><link rel='enclosure' type='' href='http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=69372' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/7906567718798396763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=7906567718798396763&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/7906567718798396763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/7906567718798396763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/12/wake-up-call-to-sabah-lawmakers-who-are.html' title='Wake up call to Sabah lawmakers who are also lawyers'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-7570375916154092935</id><published>2009-12-03T14:20:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-03T14:22:15.869+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Some Thoughts'/><title type='text'>When I read the newspaper everyday</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;At one point, I quit reading newspaper (except the cinema showtime part and probably the entertainment section) to &amp;nbsp;prevent the increase of stress level. I know, I just happen to know every single day and without a miss, there will be some silly news provoking some weak nerves. Those are news on what the politicians have to say on a certain subject matter. They appeared as though they are very smart. And they sound like they have a lot of time talking and doing nonsense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Number 1 : The PKFZ saga. It's never ending. The moment I saw "PKFZ", I just skip to a more interesting headline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Number 2 : What the PM said and how the DPM and following Ministers subsequently contradicts each other. Can't they decide what statements to issue before publishing it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Number 3: The May 13. Is it going to happen again? I don't know. As far as I am concern, I am living harmoniously with other people. If we have 1Malaysia, then why is Utusan Malaysia always think that certain race is under attack? Hello, everybody is busy trying to earn a living....I suggest Utusan to publish more meaningful news if they want to earn more sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Number 4 : Politicians never ending, never tired attacking each other verbally, physically and emotionally and maybe financially (maybe sexually too!). Oh please! Bring your spat out from the newspapers and newsportal. &amp;nbsp;Such an embarassment to the country. Shouldn't their time be spent on thinking ways to improve our economy and our paycheck to correspond with the escalating cost of living?????!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;All talk only, no action. Smart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;'Very wise' of the politicians to tear, and now step on some so-called glamorous posters. Sigh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-7570375916154092935?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/7570375916154092935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=7570375916154092935&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/7570375916154092935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/7570375916154092935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/12/when-i-read-newspaper-everyday.html' title='When I read the newspaper everyday'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-1576858069665987712</id><published>2009-11-27T10:33:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-27T10:43:22.432+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unreasonable news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Some Thoughts'/><title type='text'>Power cut more frequent in Sabah</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Actually Namewee's infamous TNB video was posted some time ago. Only now the government has discovered it. Slow, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hAHQGvFqcSE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hAHQGvFqcSE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/25/nation/5176281&amp;amp;sec=nation"&gt;Read also TheStar here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Oh well, I must add one more thing. I believe West Malaysia's power supply is a lot better than Sabah's counterpart. But really, power cut is damn irritating when you are in the midst of something urgent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This was what happened on a fine Monday afternoon when I was to finish a submission with my boss due the next day. To everyone's dismay, there was a power cut at Jalan Pantai, Kota Kinabalu for 2 1/2 hours! We finally finished our work in the office at only around 2 am. If there wasn't a power cut, all of us (including the support staffs) could have gone back by 11 pm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Would you still be complaining politely then?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Perhaps SESB and it's independent power suppliers should also apologize to us Sabahans? In the month of October and November, I've endured 5 power cuts; 3 at the office and 2 at home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/27/nation/5191297&amp;amp;sec=nation"&gt;Read further here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Make sure this Gas-powered plant is not second hand!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-1576858069665987712?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/1576858069665987712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=1576858069665987712&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/1576858069665987712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/1576858069665987712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/11/electricity-woes.html' title='Power cut more frequent in Sabah'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-7002067435424125707</id><published>2009-11-16T22:28:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-25T15:55:46.140+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>Pangkor</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I think I owe my blog some nice holiday pictures. The last holiday I blogged about was my trip to &lt;a href="http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-love-siemreap.html"&gt;Cambodia &lt;/a&gt;. Worse still, I only had time to blog about my first day at Siem Reap. I owe Angkor Wat the beautiful pictures I took. Soon, soon!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ok back to Pangkor, I had the chance to go with Phang, Dom and Serena during my 'career break' after finishing chambering on 12.9.2009-15.9.2009 ( a night at Sitiawan).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFNbHKi6FI/AAAAAAAABBU/gVUvPhiPTfY/s1600/IMG_4273bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFNbHKi6FI/AAAAAAAABBU/gVUvPhiPTfY/s400/IMG_4273bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;No, no..we are not at Pangkor yet...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Look at the beautiful emerald green waters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The hotel we stayed - Anjungan Resort&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;We checked in to a family suite. It's a 2 floored room. The lower floor house has a Queen sized bed while the upper floor has 2 single beds. I love the ambience.&lt;b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFN431vzzI/AAAAAAAABBc/li3D7SQfEA4/s1600/IMG_4294bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFN431vzzI/AAAAAAAABBc/li3D7SQfEA4/s400/IMG_4294bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFN8HePDyI/AAAAAAAABBk/YrrllH4jBXQ/s1600/IMG_4296bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFN8HePDyI/AAAAAAAABBk/YrrllH4jBXQ/s400/IMG_4296bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;this is the upperfloor. One would think they can have a good nap or sleep overlooking the outside window. Aside from aircond, they will have a stand fan to boost. HAHA..No...as you can see, the upperfloor is the zinc roof directly. So instead of enjoying the perfect panoramic view of the room while sleeping, those unlucky fellas to sleep upstairs will have to battle with the heat from the zinc roof and moths flying around. The aircond unit is only enough to keep downstairs cool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But the the upperfloor still looks nice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFN--x1I7I/AAAAAAAABBs/TtVOBLEKlTA/s1600/IMG_4298bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFN--x1I7I/AAAAAAAABBs/TtVOBLEKlTA/s400/IMG_4298bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Overview of the hotel. Very clean.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Pangkor Experience&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ok, when we were there it was still Ramadhan month. So the whole island (aside from its residence) basically belongs only few tourists like us. Even the hawker stalls along the beach did not open, not even in the evening. We stayed opposite Teluk Nipah and 5 minutes walk from Coral Bay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our food source came from the town.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Food in Pangkor is very cheap - RM2.50 for a bowl of noodles! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFTFsMo76I/AAAAAAAABB0/rd4r8yqLJro/s1600/IMG_4301bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFTFsMo76I/AAAAAAAABB0/rd4r8yqLJro/s400/IMG_4301bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFTWmDAHaI/AAAAAAAABB8/VARV0Jt6JUk/s1600/IMG_4307bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFTWmDAHaI/AAAAAAAABB8/VARV0Jt6JUk/s400/IMG_4307bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFYFxkgjDI/AAAAAAAABCk/WSQDpJPbGTM/s1600/IMG_4415bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFYFxkgjDI/AAAAAAAABCk/WSQDpJPbGTM/s400/IMG_4415bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFYQPzn8MI/AAAAAAAABCs/TB2i7xLHQ8A/s1600/IMG_4453bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFYQPzn8MI/AAAAAAAABCs/TB2i7xLHQ8A/s400/IMG_4453bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Teluk Nipah...nice beach free for us, anytime anyday - night time also can&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As we rented a car, we conquered the whole island within 30 minutes drive. Cool eh?! No traffic jam but need to watch out for 'Initial-D' like bends and motorbikes. The road only cater for 1 car per way and only 1 way. Some sites even recommended that you can even cycle around the island. Unless you are training for some cycling marathon, don't even think about it! There was when we drove past a very exhausted cyclist, he can't help but looked totally envious that we're comfortably in a car wheezing past him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFXCDZdRBI/AAAAAAAABCE/BXlGEUgxv7Q/s1600/b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFXCDZdRBI/AAAAAAAABCE/BXlGEUgxv7Q/s400/b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFXckAoNSI/AAAAAAAABCM/Q6YfntQtRt0/s1600/IMG_4353b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFXckAoNSI/AAAAAAAABCM/Q6YfntQtRt0/s400/IMG_4353b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Dutch Fort&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFXvvknciI/AAAAAAAABCU/SiE9uo89XtM/s1600/IMG_4392bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFXvvknciI/AAAAAAAABCU/SiE9uo89XtM/s400/IMG_4392bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pangkor Town&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFX5XWmjGI/AAAAAAAABCc/iCib_N0w8Sk/s1600/IMG_4398bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFX5XWmjGI/AAAAAAAABCc/iCib_N0w8Sk/s400/IMG_4398bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sunset at Teluk Nipah&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFYzS7I9-I/AAAAAAAABC8/SXELprtKYPM/s1600/IMG_4508bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFYzS7I9-I/AAAAAAAABC8/SXELprtKYPM/s400/IMG_4508bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFY7wxi6zI/AAAAAAAABDE/pD_LKKGGY8k/s1600/IMG_4480bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFY7wxi6zI/AAAAAAAABDE/pD_LKKGGY8k/s400/IMG_4480bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Coral Bay&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFZOPn1JTI/AAAAAAAABDM/hunI1487Dic/s1600/IMG_4529bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFZOPn1JTI/AAAAAAAABDM/hunI1487Dic/s400/IMG_4529bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Snorkelling near one of the smaller islands...look at the fishes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFaKH43P_I/AAAAAAAABDU/OQe4cNFeedc/s1600/IMG_4540bb.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFaKH43P_I/AAAAAAAABDU/OQe4cNFeedc/s320/IMG_4540bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Inedible black sea cucumber&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFbgodinKI/AAAAAAAABDc/LZhZJgakJyU/s1600/IMG_4578bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFbgodinKI/AAAAAAAABDc/LZhZJgakJyU/s400/IMG_4578bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Corals&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A glimpse of Pangkor Laut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;As we're not rich (and no sponsors) all we can do is to catch a glimpse of the famous top resort - Pangkor Laut Beach Resort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFcc2SJ-tI/AAAAAAAABDk/udw7-N-OUs0/s1600/IMG_4599bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFcc2SJ-tI/AAAAAAAABDk/udw7-N-OUs0/s400/IMG_4599bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Must take group photo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFckZdiXbI/AAAAAAAABDs/Wxv1ChfXpR4/s1600/IMG_4600bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFckZdiXbI/AAAAAAAABDs/Wxv1ChfXpR4/s400/IMG_4600bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFcmXKVTWI/AAAAAAAABD0/flrYBoWsYG4/s1600/bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFcmXKVTWI/AAAAAAAABD0/flrYBoWsYG4/s400/bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Emerald green seawater. If only there's emeralds buried under.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Fishing Village&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFdkSh33-I/AAAAAAAABD8/gcV1wnahC7M/s1600/IMG_4629bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFdkSh33-I/AAAAAAAABD8/gcV1wnahC7M/s400/IMG_4629bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFdn4Z5IWI/AAAAAAAABEE/_CQ1aeEhEp8/s1600/IMG_4631bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFdn4Z5IWI/AAAAAAAABEE/_CQ1aeEhEp8/s400/IMG_4631bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFd9K7HLxI/AAAAAAAABEM/dHlcoZ2fNEo/s1600/IMG_4640bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFd9K7HLxI/AAAAAAAABEM/dHlcoZ2fNEo/s400/IMG_4640bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Fishing dock belonging to a friend of Serena&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFkUfszvvI/AAAAAAAABEk/-Vfbz-udTmI/s1600/DSC01666b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFkUfszvvI/AAAAAAAABEk/-Vfbz-udTmI/s400/DSC01666b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFkYw101uI/AAAAAAAABEs/6Kw0mFk6-bw/s1600/DSC01678b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFkYw101uI/AAAAAAAABEs/6Kw0mFk6-bw/s400/DSC01678b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFeArqTiCI/AAAAAAAABEU/jkY4UtouIro/s1600/IMG_4647bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFeArqTiCI/AAAAAAAABEU/jkY4UtouIro/s400/IMG_4647bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Jetty carpark and the famous pink vans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Oh and also one thing about Pangkor is that aside from Pasir Bogak and the residential and town area, the rest of the island is pitch dark at night. Fret not, I did not encounter any supernatural experience while being there. Only sounds of waves will fill your ears at night (and maybe your friends' noises).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In fact, I couldn't forget the moments when me and my friends visited Coral Bay on our final night stay to search for for the blue simmering don't-know-what-is-that on the beach. It's so pitch dark and yet peaceful. And only the sound of waves to keep us company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would I want to visit Pangkor again? YES.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;p/s: Special thanks to Foo Woei and Serena's friend for the company spoiling us with food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFhB9DIUXI/AAAAAAAABEc/91a--MKnrt4/s1600/DSC00031bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFhB9DIUXI/AAAAAAAABEc/91a--MKnrt4/s400/DSC00031bb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;YUM!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-7002067435424125707?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/7002067435424125707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=7002067435424125707&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/7002067435424125707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/7002067435424125707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/11/pangkor.html' title='Pangkor'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwFNbHKi6FI/AAAAAAAABBU/gVUvPhiPTfY/s72-c/IMG_4273bb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-7700890464435584405</id><published>2009-11-16T16:23:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T22:43:28.398+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cat Time'/><title type='text'>Cats</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Now everybody loves cats, don't we? I enjoy having throngs of cats following me everywhere I go. This including a new set of cats young and old where I'm staying now temporarily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Remember the &lt;a href="http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2007/09/5th-september.html"&gt;gold cats&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In this temporary house I'm staying at...we've got more varieties. Let's see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwEKTkC7ylI/AAAAAAAABBM/ecNa3c8xpTw/s1600/DSC00337.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwEKTkC7ylI/AAAAAAAABBM/ecNa3c8xpTw/s400/DSC00337.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Orange patches and black stripes (with hidden orange hues).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And they love to hunt pigeons together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-7700890464435584405?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/7700890464435584405/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=7700890464435584405&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/7700890464435584405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/7700890464435584405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/11/cats.html' title='Cats'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SwEKTkC7ylI/AAAAAAAABBM/ecNa3c8xpTw/s72-c/DSC00337.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-5082077703488670071</id><published>2009-11-12T18:28:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T17:34:21.065+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unreasonable news'/><title type='text'>Convenience fee</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;I wonder, what is the purpose of Airasia's convenience fee charged on credit cards and debit cards when purchasing its air tickets online. I believe this fee was not being charged previously and only implemented recently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;I wonder, I wonder!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;It's RM5 per way per person. For a round trip, you'll need to pay another RM10 just because you used your credit card.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;If 4 person is booking at the same time for a round trip, then expect to pay a total of RM40 for its so-called convenience fee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;As a consumer, I don't find this convenient at all!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-5082077703488670071?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/5082077703488670071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=5082077703488670071&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/5082077703488670071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/5082077703488670071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/11/convenience-fee.html' title='Convenience fee'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-123896791350558694</id><published>2009-11-12T09:53:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T22:34:40.746+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Normal days'/><title type='text'>Office</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A peek at my room in the office. Today I had the opportunity to open the window shutter, means more sunlight! Hooray!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SvtqhT62X5I/AAAAAAAABAU/aqs0Ct76eic/s1600-h/DSC00319.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SvtqhT62X5I/AAAAAAAABAU/aqs0Ct76eic/s400/DSC00319.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-123896791350558694?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/123896791350558694/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=123896791350558694&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/123896791350558694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/123896791350558694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/11/office.html' title='Office'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_giH3Ju8gvE4/SvtqhT62X5I/AAAAAAAABAU/aqs0Ct76eic/s72-c/DSC00319.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-5368867376585111875</id><published>2009-11-11T16:32:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-11T16:32:12.174+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Normal days'/><title type='text'>Archiving</title><content type='html'>Moving all my current posts to my old blog address -&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://lovethycat.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://lovethycat.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Major revamps once i figure out what I want to do. Haha!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-5368867376585111875?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://lovethycat.blogspot.com/' title='Archiving'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/5368867376585111875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=5368867376585111875&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/5368867376585111875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/5368867376585111875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/11/archiving.html' title='Archiving'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-2078514983563157521</id><published>2009-11-10T20:24:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T20:50:14.763+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Normal days'/><title type='text'>Behold</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hello there! After a long major haul in blogging due to tight working schedules, I'll be back soon with some revamp to this blog. Initially I thought of either deleting it or just keep it as it is (idle), but whatever I've blogged here are sort of my own journal. It's for me and for me to share with the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I've always tried to write only positive and happy thoughts. Afterall, why do we want to be burdened with melancholies and toxic thoughts after a day of dealing with nonsense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As my corelDraw CD is deep in one of the many boxes (my house at home is undergoing major renovation work, hence most personal belongings is being kept in boxes), I am not able to change some of the layout in this blog. Mind you, I'm terribly ashamed that the header is still bearing the year '2008'!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Don't worry, don't worry......it will be replaced soon. Hopefully very soon..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-2078514983563157521?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/2078514983563157521/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=2078514983563157521&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/2078514983563157521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/2078514983563157521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/11/behold.html' title='Behold'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-1663108935292855805</id><published>2009-07-05T00:45:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-07-05T00:51:47.360+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Normal days'/><title type='text'>Dress Fever</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I think it must be the season for dress now. Everywhere, ladies are wearing their pretty dresses! It's so flattering and enchanting. I love those nice printed maxi dresses. They're just sooooooo nice. Aside from ball gowns, they're the next best thing to make someone feel like a princess again (princess wears long dresses).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; BUT, on what occassion do I wear them to?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Come ladies, let's buy them and make it a fashion statement! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(so that I have a reason to buy and wear them...hehehe)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-1663108935292855805?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/1663108935292855805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=1663108935292855805&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/1663108935292855805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/1663108935292855805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/07/dress-fever.html' title='Dress Fever'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691544373189303927.post-4860480522581353593</id><published>2009-06-09T21:00:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-09T21:06:17.956+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Normal days'/><title type='text'>Places I hate</title><content type='html'>I hate Shah Alam and I hate the places that I have to go in Shah Alam for my work purposes.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Why??!!! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For example; in an enquiry counter, I had to ask "&lt;i&gt;Who is who in here.."&lt;/i&gt; and the reply given to me was, "&lt;i&gt;this one you have to go enquire".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;???!!!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What the heck that person thought I was doing there at the enquiry counter? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hopeless, hopeless!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8691544373189303927-4860480522581353593?l=uptheredownunder.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/feeds/4860480522581353593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8691544373189303927&amp;postID=4860480522581353593&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/4860480522581353593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8691544373189303927/posts/default/4860480522581353593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uptheredownunder.blogspot.com/2009/06/places-i-hate.html' title='Places I hate'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05520414217939189427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15393577680131446095'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>