Some things look better in 2-D

So i found this website, Pixeloo and the author does really great illustrations and Photoshop manipulation! She decided to bring some of our fave characters to (real) life and honestly, the results are a bit disconcerting. Check it out:

Real Mario - really looks like an Italian plumber

Jessica Rabbit - *wolf whistles!*
Real Stewie - is creepy! Plus imagine giving birth to that child. Ouch!

Real Homer - i think he's staring... Do'h!

Malaysian Masculinity Moderately Mighty

Okay, i read this and thought, SO GOING ON THE BLOG.

The article in it's entirety: Malaysians Not So Hot in Bedroom


The highlights:

• Two out of three Malaysian men and three out of four women are not satisfied with their sex lives
• Malaysians are ranked sixth among 13 countries but, if it’s any consolation, Singaporeans fared worse. They are in eighth spot.
• India topped the list with 70% of the respondents saying they were satisfied with their sex lives while Japan reported the lowest sexual satisfaction rate at 10%
  

“The survey links the level of erection hardness to sexual satisfaction for men.” said Dr King during a roundtable discussion at a hotel here yesterday.
The level of erection hardness is measured in a scale of one to four using the Erection Hardness Score (EHS) developed by the European Association of Urology.
“Level one is like tofu where the male organ is large but not hard, level two is similar to a peeled banana where it’s not hard enough for penetration, level three is like an unpeeled banana where it’s hard enough for penetration but not completely, and level four is similar to a cucumber where it’s completely hard and fully rigid,” explained Dr King.

• 40% of Malaysian men reported that they experienced erection below grade four
• “We found that greater sexual satisfaction is strongly associated with greater satisfaction with life overall. Generally, men and women who are highly satisfied with their sex life have a more positive outlook on their relationships and life.

Points to Ponder:

What? India has better sex than we do? Well, Aaron's justification was that there are more people and less things to do. So, do the people? The great sex and crap sex will eventually average out.

Japan seems a sexually dissatisfied bunch. Maybe they set their standards too high. All that kinky hentai gotta leave you wanting...

Ha ha. Take that, Singapore!

There is an ERECTION HARDNESS SCORE!?!?! Okay, i find that hilarious. Especially in the use of foodstuff for descriptions. "Oh, darn. Today's a tofu day... Worse than yesterday's Peeled Banana. When can i get a CUCUMBER? I guess i should work past Unpeeled Banana first."

Also, why is there no Lubrication Score? Discriminatory!! Sexist!!

40% of Malaysian men are below grade 4. Malaysian male readers, take comfort in knowing you're not alone.

And finally, happy person = great sex! So be happy and you shall reap your reward.

But what if good sex makes you happy, and you can't have good sex til you're happy.. and you can't be happy until you have good sex.. and... Argh! Chicken and egg!!

Gah! Not the Museum Too!!!!

Oh wow..
So it's not just the National Planetarium that has a problem..
Curious to see what the National Museum is like (about 10 years after i last visited), i thought i'd check out their website first. The place as i remember it was dark, dank and pretty lousy and, giving them the benefit of the doubt, i thought they might have improved!
Well, their website is currently being upgraded but the Department of Museums website has the following entry:

Pending (I think this refers to a Malay word)

Pending is belt head which weared by Malay society together with official cloth in a official council. Man category wearing together with sarung or sampin. It also weared by women category in a official council.

Cik Siti Wan Kembang is Malay women which wearing Pending around 15th century. Collection most Pending around 15th century. Collection most pending gold which have found from Malay royal family. Art results which delicate on Pending gold which enough impress is results from gold craftsman hand job on that time. Have also belt head which closely same function had be made by Chinese gold craftsman for Society
Peranakan Chinese at Melaka, Penang Island and Singapore.

Oh dear lord it's atrocious!

By the way, can you see the school teacher in me coming out? I'd shatter the government's self-esteem if they were in my class...

Befuddlement

I couldn't help but bring attention to this news article in which the culprit seems to be affected by split personality disorder.

The founder and CEO of a Muslim TV station based in New York, one with the mission to 'show Muslims in a more positive light' was arrested and charged for beheading his wife.

Apparently she had filed for divorce and was forcing him out of their home, which in some part of his brain he took to mean BEHEAD HER.

I think there's probably more to the story, but i think it's a sad kind of irony that a man trying to cure people of their misconceptions goes and commits such a heinous crime. Beheading somehow sounds so much more vindictive and violent than murder.

But let that be a lesson to you, noone's a saint.

I'll pause this game so our love never ends... <3

As a belated tribute to Valentine's Day, I think this is a really really sweet song!

For those many 401 nights stuck to the controllers and for those of us who can't really express ourselves outside of video games...

The Mario Kart Love Song

His voice is actually really good! So Sweeeet....

Alternate Dating Ideas - The National Planetarium

Following on from the previous post, you may have guessed I was researching the Planetarium because i actually intended to go there. So i did, and without further ado, i present to you the Planetarium Report.

The Planetarium would have been disappointing if i had any expectations of it (fortunately no) but it was particularly disappointing because:

a) the English was actually WORSE than the website

Hi, this the awful translation to keep Malaysia look crap

On Earth, we goes school to get knowledge to keep us in job

b) it took 20 minutes to slowly walk around as most of the place was under renovation

Well, i should at least get some photos out of it...

There's a cool anti-grav machine! Too bad noone was manning it so i don't know if it's still working

c) our astronomical pride *shakes head* Malaysia's contribution to the space age:

A batik shirt with Saturn on it! *gasp*
Freezer packed rendang tok and chicken satay! Incredible!

Vacuum sealed Malaysian made cookies, preserved ginger sweets, dehydrated mango and fried tempeh! Amazing!

By the way, can you note the disdain I feel about what i think is a really costly waste of resources? We spent billions of ringgit and committed goodness knows how much more in defence deals just so we could send a space tourist up. Fortunately, he shared his food with his fellow astronauts, just so they could sample our fare and realise what generous people we are.

Well, the upside being the Planetarium has free admission so I guess if nothing more, at least it was cold and indoors, away from the scorching hot sun. With that, we went outside to look for the 'Ancient Astrology garden'

The stairway leading to the main entrance is actually quite pretty... Note the Islamic architecture

Okay, i'm allowed one mushy pic, right? And yes, i realise this is the baju that makes me look naked

I think this was in the aforementioned garden. Regardless, it is a beautiful scuplture of space and time (with Arabic numerals) A pity noone really knows it's here!

This freaky little creature was around the fountain probably as an example of what alien life could look like. Personally, I was scared. And i can only imagine what nightmares children will get from it

Do i want to be an angkasawan? Lots of government money that could be spent on welfare and education poured on me under the pretense that I will help science and technology in Malaysia? Hell yeah!

That's the Dilly-o, yo. At least you feel me, Galileo (i think). Yeah.

Grammar Nazi - Yaaaaaah!!

This is on the NATIONAL PLANETARIUM MALAYSIA website.
Under Fun Learning.
Because at some point in time, all of us have asked:

Mummy, why does the sky blue?

And you still wonder why I am frustrated with the education system of this country?

p.s: i could've written a better answer than that in secondary school. It is easier to be scattered?!?!

What to do when you meet a Faulty Traffic Light

Isn't it appalling that you can trawl the internet and not find a single thing that tells you where to complain when you have a faulty traffic light?
When you aren't looking, you will notice some lights with little signs beneath them giving you a toll-free number to call in case 'traffic light rosak'.

Well, you can't find it online.

Obviously I plagiarised this from This is Broken who stole it off some guy's Flickr. But it's of a traffic light sculpture somewhere in Canary Wharf. Confusingawesomeness!

Normally, I don't think i'm such a concerned and conscientious citizen but the faulty traffic light in question was right outside my house which is right next to a school, and while flashing yellow lights would be alright, lights that were permanently stuck at either green or red posed quite a hazard when crossing a particular road would always entail running red lights.


In any case, WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU MEET A FAULTY TRAFFIC LIGHT IN KL:


You could, like me, trudge the internet to find that it is neither under the jurisdiction of the PDRM (Polis Diraja Malaysia/Police) or JKR (Jabatan Kerja Raya/Public Works)... and to have a complaint lodged with JKR passed on to DBKL (Dewan Bandaraya/City Hall). Or you could call the Mix.fm traffic people (which was, by the way, answered by a very polite and kinda sexy-voiced guy) and ask them WHAT DO I DO?


Or you could read this blog post and I can give you the number that I got off the helpful Mix.fm dude, which is for:


ITIS (Integrated Transport Information System) although I have no idea why, seeing as they seem to be a traffic report type of setup


Main number: 03-8947 4002 (didn't pick up)
Second number: 03-8947 4342 (picked up this one)


So I don't know whether it was my call that did the trick and I don't know if it was because I wrote to DBKL or I called into ITIS (which is part of DBKL) but lo and behold, the lights were fixed by the time I got home. Joy!

The only problem was, it was raining so heavily that part of my neighbourhood was flooded and cars were stalled on the road. Boo!


Rain 1 - KL Urban Planners 0

Now be good and report any faulty traffic lights you see! You could be preventing a nasty accident! (or at least reducing the number of irritated drivers who are angry you aren't running red lights)