year in review 2007... part one

Short Note: Happy belated birthday to wen on 29th of Dec. Cheers!


Year 2007 has only few hours left before year 2008 is ushered in. Yet, I still find it hard to believe that it's already another year. Time really flies, doesn't it?

It's a norm for us to look back at the year, and see what our achievements are. Here is how my year 2007 was.


January 2007.
I completed my first month of my 12-month-contract with my new employment since I relocated back from the West.

February 2007.
My cousin had his holy matrimony held on 6 February 2007. That was when I got my first wedding assignment. Martin Scorsese's The Departed won the best film in the 79th Oscar. I got my Sony Ericsson W810i.

March 2007.
Pretty quiet March, unlike the usual March Madness. Dropped by a bridal fair held at the old court house. But the craziness only comes at the end of March.

April 2007.
This is a crazy month, since end of March. I have a lot of "back but away again" in this month. This month alone. I made 5 trips within a month. The five trips were to Miri, Bintulu, Sarikei, Bintulu, and Sibu. Half of the month I spent away from Kuching. Worse still, I spent most of the time working in a server room, talking to servers. -_-"

May 2007.
Mother's Day's in May. It was quite a quiet one. Not much happened, except for work, and work. Those traveling in the previous months are taking the toll now. I was rather tired, exhausted. I was struggling to recover from there, and I had 2 more trips to make, to Sibu and to Miri.

June 2007.
I turned 25 this month. A quarter century old. It was also a Happy Father's Day month. I was there to see Power Station (from Taiwan) rocked Kuching. I snapped the phenomenal ring surrounding the sun in the sky. Sheer Unique officially opens for business at DUBS Commercial Complex.

... to be continued.

I must post this before the year ends, just to show my kiasuness -- our national spirit, Malaysia Boreh! Part 2 will come tomorrow! Hahaha.. no photograph is included in this post. Not until I amend it later after tonight's photo shoot.

I hope to catch some firework.


HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!

picture of the day

Shot this outside St. Joseph's Cathedral during midnight mass on Christmas Day. Shot this hand-held.

Evan Rachel Wood is a Mormon

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Priscilla Ceballos and her daughter Alexis Ceballos lied

Priscilla Ceballos, and her daughter Alexis Ceballos, lied to the world to get free Hannah Montana tickets. Find out more about the story, and publically available information on this liar that she probably doesn't want you to know. Filth must be exposed.

Bank Business Continuity Software

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Tab Thacker died

Tab Thacker, the former NCAA wrestling champion who went on to use his size to earn roles in several Hollywood films, died on Thursday at the age of 45

Andrea Elmer Faustino Photos

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Opera star Nathan Gunn

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Jeanne Carmen profile

B-movie queen and legendary blonde bombshell pinup Jeanne Carmen died on Thursday after a battle with lymphoma. A 1950's Hollywood party girl and model, Carmen was known for claiming to be a close confidant of Marilynn Monroelong rumored to have had lesbian affairsand a lover of such famous celebrities as Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.

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A church in my neighborhood burns down - suspicious

Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Woodside (Queens, New York) has burned down.

This church was the oldest in Woodside, built in 1874.

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I kept waking up last night hearing strange noises. It turns out to have been from this fire a few blocks away. Some neighbors tell me the church is a total loss. I will see how it looks tomorrow as I go to work. At 6 AM, any picture I take will be quite dark.

Nativity Rubber Ducks

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No blogging over Christmas. I have some more free time now.

I should be at the Nativity scene in St. Patrick's Cathedral at 50th Street and Fifth Avenue later today. I will give you a report from there.

US Presidential Candidate Matchmaker Quiz

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Jay Thomas is an Emmy Award-winning actor

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Francesca Lewis

A California hedge fund manager, Michael Klein, his daughter, 13 year old Talia Klein and her 12 year old friend, Francesca Lewis  were among four people aboard the Cessna 172 plane that went missing in Panama. The plane disappeared after taking off Sunday from Islas Secas off Panama's Pacific coast, heading for the Chiriqui volcano, about 285 miles west of the capital. See also:
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Reliance Digital opens up in Bangalore

Reliance Digital opens up in Bangalore. Reliance Retail has now opened their Reliance Digital mega store in the Bangalore city. This is its third consumer electronics mega store in the country. See also: reliance digital bangalore, ezone, aditya birla, bharti, bharti airtel

Guitar Hero 3 Cheats

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Trojan.Win32.CP4000

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Deal of the Day: Furniture Sale at Z Gallerie

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happy boxing day

It's Boxing Day today.

Angel said she has something for me. Annna too, leaving a message on her forward text message on the phone, but I have to collect it from zuzuPa.

I made arrangement with both Angel and zuzuPa to collect the gifts at RH Plaza last night.

I opened the present when the clock shows 12:00 am.

Taaa Daa... I got these..... (see below)


From Annna...


It's a cookie in the box!


It's cookies made by Annna. She includes recommended usage direction too.


The ingredients. Look, Annna's spreading love!!


Sweet.


From Angel...


I got this box. View from top.


The box looks quite big.


... And it's a cup!


Many thanks to Angel and Annna. Thanks to Pazuzu for delivering the cookies to me.

Happy holidays!

Who is dating Brittany Murphy

Brittany Murphy is dating Simon Monjack, director of The White Hotel

Sweet Home Alabama Lyrics

Now I like my song named: Sweet Home Alabama Lyrics

Big wheels keep on turning
Carry me home to see my kin
Singing songs about the Southland
I miss Alabamy once again
And I think its a sin, yes

Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you

In Birmingham they love the governor
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Here I come Alabama

Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
And they've been known to pick a song or two
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I'm feeling blue
Now how about you?

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you

Sweet home Alabama
Oh sweet home baby
Where the skies are so blue
And the governor's true
Sweet Home Alabama
Lordy
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Yea, yea Montgomery's got the answer

Teri Garr

Lakewood native Teri Garr played an aspiring soap actress in the 1982 film "Tootsie." Garr also starred with Burnett in "Fresno," a 1986 miniseries that spoofed the prime-time soap opera.

Rick Astley

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Bugaboo stroller

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army Blasts Into Theaters July 11, 2008

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Google/DoubleClick Investigation

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it will not seek to block Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of Internet advertising server DoubleClick Inc. In a 4-1 vote to close its eight-month investigation of the transaction, the Commission wrote in its majority statement that "after carefully reviewing the evidence, we have concluded that Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick is unlikely to substantially lessen competition."

Where pop culture and sports collide

Roger Clemens is not having a good month. Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling used his blog, 38pitches.com, to blast Clemens over his alleged involvement in the performance-enhancing drug scandal that is attached to baseball like a zit to a teenager's forehead.

David Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach resolved their post-divorce

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Merry Christmas!

© Allen 2007 (Recycled this design from the one I did for Sheer Unique)


Merry Christmas, everyone!

Have blessed Christmas & a Happy New Year!

Happy Holidays! =)

Russian tennis star Anna Chakvetadze tied up, robbed by thieves at home

Russian tennis star Anna Chakvetadze was tied up by masked robbers who broke into her home Tuesday and stole money and goods worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, her father said. Chakvetadze, ranked No. 6 and a U.S. Open semifinalist in 2007, was bound for 30 minutes in her home outside Moscow but not seriously hurt, NTV television reported. "Anna is holding up quite well," Russia tennis coach Shamil Tarpishchev told.

Huffman named breast cancer ambassador

Actress Felicity Huffman has been named an ambassador for a new breast cancer awareness campaign. The Desperate Housewives star will appear in a U.S. TV advertisement called If You Were My Sister which aims to increase awareness among breast cancer survivors about reducing the risk of recurrence.

Eva Longoria's Husband Sues Over Affair Claim

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Samsung F700 phone

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Teri Byrne

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Pamela Smart

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Kenya Moore

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Teri Copley

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They cried out -- Give us Frosty

Man protests commercialized Christmas by crucifying Santa - literally : New York Daily News

If you've stood in one line too many at the mall as you watched your bank account dwindle and your credit debt rise this holiday season, you might find a kindred spirit in Art Conrad.

The Bremerton, Wash., resident is fed up with the commercial aspects of Christmas, and he's voicing his protest in the form of some unorthodox holiday decorating: Santa on the cross.

Conrad has nailed jolly old St. Nick to a 15-foot crucifix in front of his home.

"Santa has been perverted from who he started out to be," Conrad said. "Now he's the person being used by corporations to get us to buy more stuff."

For his far flung friends who may not be able to see the holiday decor up close, Conrad used a photo of his crucified Santa for his Christmas cards, along with the message "Santa died for your MasterCard."...

Could Art not have predicted that this would be a national story and even bigger, a Drudge headline?

It is shocking on its own. The great problem I have is that it denigrates the real symbol of the passion of Jesus Christ to make a point with which I have some sympathy.

For some, Santa is a sacred symbol. For others, the cross is a sacred symbol. Art Conrad offends us all.

Where have they taken My Lord?

Baby Jesus statue gets GPS for Christmas: AP

BAL HARBOUR, Fla. - A baby Jesus statue here is getting a Global Positioning System for Christmas. The statue, part of a nativity scene, will be equipped with the device after the previous statue went missing, even though it had been bolted down.

"I don't anticipate this will ever happen again," said Dina Cellini, who oversees the display, "but we may need to rely on technology to save our savior."

Stories about stolen baby Jesus statutes are about as common as Salvation Army bell ringers in Manhattan now.

People who have been caught stealing these statues or destroying these Nativity scenes offer bizarre explanations. The worst of them was "someone each year does it, I just figured it was my turn to do so." I will try to find a citation for it.

What sign would Jesus hang around a giant inflatable rat?

	The inflatable rat is ever present as the visible sign that there are scab workers. The last time I saw them, it was a protest in front of a former union supermarket that had closed and re-opened as a non-union supermarket. The reason it had closed was because paying union wages made it non-competitive.
Who would Jesus deport?

An immigration policy that discriminates on a strictly racial or national origin basis would be immoral. But who is advocating that?

What immigration policy did the Jesus' own people have? They were very tough. Read Nehemiah 13 which condemned the presence of foreigners and intermarriage.

For that matter, look at the Holy Family, they fled to Egypt, but returned, rather than becoming immigrants to that land.

Who would Jesus deport? I think he'd leave it to the people to decide as a matter of collective prudential judgment.

What's my contribution to the collective prudential judgment? Enforce the law and reduce new illegal immigration. For people currently who entered illegally or overstayed visas, etc., they should return to the country where they are citizens and apply to enter legally.

Why I am not with Mike Huckabee: his campaign tactics

I think Huckabee realized that he didn't have to directly mention Romney's Mormon faith, he simply had to emphasize his own.

I think that Huckabee wanted to peel off evangelical voters and couldn't keep the genie in the bottle. Huckabee calculated that he could play the evangelical card, and the voters would follow. But he's not running for president of an evangelical convention but president of the United States. He thinks the Christian identity tactic is containable.

But the media is playing him -- acting as amplifier for every religious reference that comes up. Having mentioned religion, he can't escape it now in each interview. Even his denials are raw meat for the 24-hour news grinder cycle.

The media love characterizing this as religious war within the Republican party or the conservative movement. Everyone is talking about it.

So callers to talk radio have a new template:

Y'know the religious right is mucking up this campaign again -- making their number one issue who the better Christian is. We need to keep religion out of politics.

Intended or not, I blame Huckabee for giving callers like this plausibility and creating a big distraction, our political opposition is happy to exploit.

Iowa Voters

My copy of the Constitution doesn't say anything about Iowans getting the influence to pick the president which they currently have.

To the Iowa voters who have declared to pollsters: undecided

What is it going to take to get you to decide? Edwards started his campaign in Iowa in August 2005. That's 7 months after the second Bush inaugural, and that's 28 months ago.

Not only should you have decided by now. You should had petitioned to have held the caucuses months ago, so you could have a Christmas season in peace.

Former PM Tony Blair becomes Catholic: Sky News

What will be interesting to see is if he has become Catholic on his own terms or on the Church's terms. Of all the available articles I picked this one because it has the pro-life angle:

The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) reacted with surprise to the news.

John Smeaton, SPUC's national director, said: "During his premiership Tony Blair became one of the world's most significant architects of the culture of death, promoting abortion, experimentation on unborn embryos, including cloned embryos, and euthanasia by neglect.

"SPUC is writing to Tony Blair to ask him whether he has repented of the anti-life positions he has so openly advocated throughout his political career."

Tory MP Ann Widdecombe, who converted to Catholicism in 1993, told Sky News it was possible in her opinion to be a practising Catholic and prime minister.

She said: "I think the crucial thing to remember is at the point you are received (into the Catholic church) you have to say individually and out loud 'I believe everything the church teaches to be revealed truth'.

"And that means if you previously had any problems with church teaching, as Tony Blair obviously did over abortion, as he did again over Sunday trading...you would have to say you changed your mind.

"And I think people will want to know that he did go through that process, because otherwise it will seem as if the church did make an exception for somebody just because of who he is."

It will be interesting to hear if and how his public policy position has changed on abortion. Of course, his wife has been widely accused of being in favor of abortion rights, artificial contraception, and same sex unions. I haven't seen any affirmations or denials attributed to her, just the imputation.

The consensus is that Tony Blair's political career is finished at age 54. This merely seals it.

mr. free agent

Short Note: I'm still alive, people! Despite the red bomb galore, I am still intact in one piece. I still have another wedding dinner to attend to this Friday. Congrats to Kim and Enoch!


I have not been updating as frequent as I wish to for almost one month. I was tied down with busy schedule, with office and off-office work. And I've been trying to prepare myself for this -- my contract expiration.



Yes. My one-year contract expired on 17/12/2007. I am now a free agent.

Anyone interested in signing me? If you're familiar with football or even NBA term, I sound like Micheal Ballack before signing with Chelsea, or Shaq signing for Miami Heat, or even David Beckham signing for L.A. Galaxy. Now that England has appointed Fabio Capello as the new England manager, I had my hope severely dashed. Can't apply for that vacant hot seat anymore. =(

I wished it could be as easy as their case. I had been thinking a lot, and am still thinking, pondering about my next plan.

As for now, I'm just trying, trying hard to feel how it is like to really enjoy the holiday season, for once in many, many months.



In any case, if you would like to snatch me from the free agency pool, please do drop me a comment here!

Thanks!

Pamela Anderson reconciles with Rick Salomon three days after filing for divorce

Former Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson has reunited with her third husband, Rick Salomon, three days after filing for divorce. Citing 'irreconcilable differences', the aging pin-up filed divorce papers in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday. But yesterday they seemed to have reconciled the irreconcilable with Anderson posting a message on her official website. "We're working things out" she wrote.

Bonnie Somerville

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Alizee Poulicek

The new Miss Belgium, Alizee Poulicek, 20, was booed after she failed to answer a question in Dutch and switched instead to French during the contest in Antwerp, a stronghold of Flemish nationalism. Poulicek, who also speaks English and Czech, told VRT television that she would try to learn more Dutch.

Actor John Berg death ruled a suicide

The shocking death of actor John Berg, 58, is now a suicide. According to the California authorities, Berg committed suicide in his Van Nuys home. "He died as a result of suicide from suffocation. A Hibachi grill was used inside his bedroom. It's a fairly common form of suicide where it's put inside an enclosed space and then lit up. The victim succumbed to carbon monoxide fumes,"

Claire Forlani

Claire Forlani was born in Twickenham in London to Pier Forlani, a music manager from Ferrara, Italy, and Barbara, who was English.[2] At the age of eleven, Forlani entered the Arts Educational School in London, where she began to study acting. During her six years at the school, she also studied dance, which led to performances on stage in The Nutcracker and Orpheus in the Underworld.