Last week, a friend of mine from Johor Bahru asked me to sign a petition regarding the complain against the rape case that happened in Johor not too long ago. I told him that I am not from Johor, is is appropriate for me to sign? Is this a community or a national issue?

A couple of days ago, my friend sent me a forwarded email with the same link to the complaint site. It was forwarded to him by Ms. Fong Po Kuan, the Batu Gajah MP. Ms. Fong has already signed the petition even though she is from Perak. So I guess anybody can sign since it is a national issue.

The organizers are striving to collect a total of a hundred thousand signatures by 24th June 2007. Total signatures at the time of writing this stands at 68790.

The appeal is as follows:

Pihak kami serentak merasai keadaan keamanan dan keselamatan di Johor Bahru semakin tergugat dan rakyat hidup dalam situasi yang bimbang dan gelisah. Bersama ini kami menurunkan tandatangan sebagai satu penyampaian citarasa kami kepada pihak berkuasa, kami berharap pihak polis akan menfokus dan berusaha dengan sepenuhnya bagi membanteras jenayah untuk mengembalikan keyakinan kehidupan yang aman kepada rakyat semua.

If you too feel strongly about this issue, please do sign the petition. While one voice may go unheard, I am sure that a hundred thousand or even more voices will not go unnoticed.

The link to the website is HERE.

Since I spend so much time online, I have to admit that I do enjoy playing online games. Well, not so much as gambling but there are casino games that are free to play, you know?

Did you know that backgammon Masters is the leading online casino game software provider of on the internet? There are many types of casino games that one could play, like backgammon, Perudo and the new addition of Poker.

In conjunction with the addition of Poker, BackgammonMasters is offering Poker game play with no rake. Meaning, you do not have to pay any house commission to BackgammonMasters at all but please note that this offer is for a limited time only. I think that all serious Poker players should take advantage of this generous offer from BackgammonMasters.com because by not paying house commission, you could use that extra money to put into your game, you know what I mean?

However, for new players who are looking to try out the games and to practice so that they become more skillful before playing for money, then they can still play the games for free without putting their money at risk.

Playing at BackgammomMasters.com is an experience in itself. Apart from competing with each other, members are able to interact through real time chat and socialize. Come to think of it, this is like a real casino!

Did you read the newspaper yesterday about a lady who was convinced to get a boob job and somehow the “surgeon” failed in the procedure and then caused her to suffer from breast cancer? Well, I don’t know how that could happen at all but her self-esteem must have been rather low to be so easily convinced.

A friend of mine works closely with plastic surgeons. He told me that reliable centers like the Beverly Hills plastic surgery really evaluates a would-be patient to find out her real reason for having a plastic surgery performed, and not convince people to go for it like this quack doctor.

If this victim really wanted to have larger breasts, why did she not go for a Los Angeles breast augmentation instead? I am sure that if she did, none of these problems would have happened. Now she is suffering alone without recourse and the reason she came out in the open is to warn other gullible women. If someone wants to get a plastic surgery, go get it from the best surgery that has set a high standard with their service and cutting edge technology.

Like the Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery, they offer the latest techniques in breast augmentation, using saline or silicone implants. The fact that they are the pioneer plastic surgery and breast augmentation specialty center in Rodeo Drive tells a lot. In the fickle world of Beverly Hills, if they are not good, they would have been out of the business a long time ago.

I find it outrageous that MPs can pass off such sexist remarks, going over the line of politics. If I were one of the women MPs, I would have initiated a walk-out protest. This is not an issue of being pro-government or against it but this is like public verbal rape and I am aghast that it happened in Parliament of all places.

This shows the kind of mentality certain MPs have treating the Parliament worst than the marketplace.

For anyone who is able to make it, please do support the forum. In today’s age where women have equal footing in society, we do not need a bunch of low mentality people putting us down.

“Respect Women’s Dignity, Towards A 1st World Parliament!”

Date: 17 May 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: YMCA Hall (No.95, Jalan Padang Belia, Off Jalan Tun Sambanthan, 50470 Kuala Lumpur; Opposite KL SENTRAL Station)

The panel of distinguished speakers include:

1) Ambiga Sreenevasan – Bar Council President

2) Maria Chin Abdullah – Executive Director of Women Development Collective (WDC)

3) Zainah Anwar – Executive Director of Sisters in Islam

4) Azmin Ali – Vice President of PKR

5) Lim Guan Eng – Secretary-General of DAP

6) YB Lim Kit Siang – Parliamentary Opposition Leader

7) YB Teresa Kok Suh Sim – MP for Seputeh

8) YB Fong Po Kuan – MP for Batu Gajah

The forum will be chaired and moderated by Tony Pua, Economic Advisor to Secretary-General of DAP.

All are welcomed, admission is free!

Video 1 – Two Sexist BN MPs – “Batu Gajah MP tiap-tiap bulan pun bocor”

YouTube
URL – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnw-q93wyc

Google Video
URL – http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6997905878094867074&hl=en

Video 2 – “Tiap-tiap bulan pun bocor” – Two Sexist BN MPs let off

YouTube (Part 1 & 2)
Part 1
URL – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4j2_rCzMzs

Part 2
URL – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar7PZzqwenA

Google Video
URL – http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3748513550251467465&hl=en

More reports on:

Malaysiakini (English)
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/67081

Malaysiakini (Chinese)
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/67131

Sinchew Daily
http://www.sinchew.com.my/content.phtml?sec=1&sdate=2007-05-09&artid=200705091621
http://www.sinchew.com.my/content.phtml?sec=1&sdate=2007-05-10&artid=200705101535

I have good news for all backgammon players in Latin America. BackgammonMasters.com, the leading online casino game company is expanding its market to Latin America.

Did you know that BackgammonMasters.com is the first and only company that came out with the online version of the ever popular Spanish dice game called Perudo? Due to is popularity and the phenomenon that is Jean Claude the animated tiger, which garnered viewers from across the world, backgammon players or not, including viewers from Latin America, BackgammonMasters.com sees it fit to open an office in Latin America to better cater to the people there.

BackgammonMasters is in a class of it own thanks to their innovative all-in-one software game concept where backgammon game players only need to download it once. From there, players can enter a game lobby and select to play backgammon or any other game.

The good thing about games from BackgammonMasters is that there are all developed in multi player mode as part of their community concept. Moreover, to serve the Latin markets better, BackgammonMasters will be releasing the more popular games specifically for Latin America.

The backgammon software is exceptionally realistic and user-friendly in a fully supported playing environment. When you have experienced it first hand, you will appreciate the effort that BackgammonMasters have put into developing the software and games.

With this move, I wonder what is in store for the subscribers. I was a Time subscriber when Maxis took over the company. From a cheap mobile plan, I was forced to upgrade to an expensive prepaid plan. Those days, prepaid was very expensive. So I switched to Celcom. It is not that Celcom is cheap, but then I am a small user and I have no complains so far.

A friend of mine is a subscriber of both Maxis and Celcom mobile broadband packages and according to him, Celcom is faster. When he streams music through online radio stations, there is no buffering at all. He could switch from one station to another like tuning in to FM radio stations. The same could not be said for Maxis. Moreover, Celcom’s coverage is wider than Maxis. When he visited me, I used his Maxis line on his laptop and oh dear, it was worse than a 56K dial up connection.

I was just about ready to tear my hair out.

So without public funds to utilise by turning from a public listed company to a private entity, will the services of Maxis ever improve further or will it go stagnant, or worse, deteriorate. Time will tell, I guess.

I read with amusement on the Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey 2007/08 report that fewer than two in five (38%) Malaysians are satisfied with their sex life.

I know Durex conducts this survey, or a variation of it annually. However, doing a survey like this, I wonder how many respondents will actually answer the questionnaire truthfully. What is the margin of error that is factored in? How accurate can a survey be when data was only collected from 26,000 respondents across 26 countries, where only 1,026 were Malaysians?

I am not sure if any of my friends participated in this survey but if they did, I know they surely will 9394 and give replies far off from the truth, maybe they are too shy to tell the truth, maybe for fun or maybe just to stand a chance of winning a prize in the lucky draw.

Perhaps Durex should take a look at how they collect their data. I would suggest giving a survey a six-month period for people to respond and only conduct a survery every three years or so. I think this will better show the trend of people’s sex lives.

News source: The Star