Do I Look Like One?

Just noticed this on Air Asia's web site:




WTF? Do I look like a Special Needs person?

Funny Dialogbox

Just noticed that (in an application called Okular - it's a PDF reader by the way):

Obey DRM (Digital Rights Management) limitations is a FEATURE?  Ha, ha.  Personally I would suspect the feature is that it can bypass them :)

Best Carrot Cake - EVER!

I have been struggling for a while finding a recipe for a decent carrot cake.  Carrot cakes are tricky beasts and most recipes are too sweet.  But do try this one:

175 g Sugar
3 Eggs
175 ml Sunflower Oil
175 g Coarsely Grated Carrot
1 small tin of Pineapple
100 g Chopped Walnuts
280 g Plain Flour
1/2 tsp Salt
2 tsp Baking Powder

Frosting:
100 g Cream Cheese
80 g of Icing Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
25 g Chopped Walnuts

Making it couldn't be easier.  Cut the pineapple into chunks, chop the walnuts a bit and throw everything in a bowl and give it a good run with an electric mixer.  Fill into a greased tin and bake for 1 hour at 180 degrees.  After baking let it cool for a while.  Give the cheese/icing sugar a run in a blender and spread over the cake.  That's it - best one ever.

Beaten at Their Own Game (or: Not So Proud To Be Danish)

Carlsberg has got a huge brewery in Shah Alam here in Malaysia - just outside Kuala Lumpur. I've been told it is in fact the largest Carlsberg brewery anywhere in the world and it certainly look much bigger than the one in Denmark.

When I first came to Malaysia some 12 years back, Carlsberg was absolutely ruling the market. It was a rare treat to find any bar or restaurant serving any beer except Carlsberg. Surely occasionally you would find a dodgy bar serving the odd Tiger but it was definitely not common. I'm not sure if it's true, but I was told back then that Carlsberg was putting pressure on the bar owners. If they wanted to serve Carlsberg, they could have no other beer on tap. And that apparently was the reason one would never find Carlsberg and tiger at the same place. One noticable exception was Finnegans in Bangsar and later Finnegans in KL. That was the only bar for years to have both Carlsberg and Tiger on tap.

The last 3 - 4 years have however completely reversed the picture. The large brewery is still there, but I haven't got a clue what they do with all the beer, because it is next to impossible to find a single place serving Carlsberg. And I know positively that Tiger is showering the bar owners with freebies and promotions - including such far fetched items as video projectors for football matches.

The reason I write this now is that it would appear that Changkat Bukit Bintang just lost it's final watering hole serving Carlsberg - and that last one was indeed Finnegans. Just a few days ago their Carlsberg supply dried out and it is now, to the best of my knowledge, impossible to buy Carlsberg in what can only be described as one of the most happening places in KL.

The locally brewed Carlsberg is pretty shitty. The problem is however that Tiger is even worse so unless one buy bottled beer it is now almost impossible to buy a drinkable beer in KL.

The BIG question is. What on earth are Carlsberg thinking and why on earth do they not fight back. Guess they lost their spirit after they got seriously fucked in Thailand some years back. Sad sad sad.

Dudeism

Now, this is seriously funny :)  Go check:

http://dudeism.com/

Negative Postings

It has been brought to my attention, through a third party, that certain people have "stopped reading my blog" because the views I have posted here are too negative.  What the fuck!

Let's make a few things clear.  I don't write this blog for an audience or indeed for your entertainment.  I write this blog for one purpose and that is to vent MY frustrations and opinions.  The hint is in the title of the blog in case you wondered.

It is entirely up to YOU if you want to read it or not.  If you read it and you disagree you can stop reading it, you can post a comment (simple - just go here) or you can write your own blog with all the positive things that are missing from this one.  Hell - if you write a nice positive blog and you write it interesting enough - I might end up reading it myself (and leave a few negative comments obviously).

And if you think I am grumpy - check out this one: http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays.

Let me finish with a bit of Fawlty Towers:

O'Reilly: The problem with you, Mr. Fawlty, is that you worry too much. You keep it up like this, you'll have a stroke before fifty. Stone dead you'll be.
Basil Fawlty: Suits me.
O'Reilly: Oh! That's a dreadful thing to say.
Basil Fawlty: Not at all. Get a bit of peace.
O'Reilly: Don't be so morbid. The Good Lord made the world so that we could all enjoy ourselves.
Basil Fawlty: Look, my wife enjoys herself. I worry.
O'Reilly: Well, let me tell you, if the Lord had meant us to worry, he would have given us things to worry about.
Basil Fawlty: HE HAS! MY WIFE!! She will be back here in four hours and she can kill a man at ten paces with one blow of her tongue! How am I supposed not to worry?
O'Reilly: Just remember, Mr. Fawlty, there's always somebody worse off than yourself.
Basil Fawlty: Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a laugh.
O'Reilly: You'll have to worry for the both of us. I tell you, if the Good Lord---
Basil Fawlty: ---is mentioned ONCE more, I shall move you closer to him!

Car Chase the Malaysian Way

12 km in 6 hours. They must have been driving Protons.

Flying a Flag

Just noticed this while having breakfast:



What on earth makes whoever lives in that place fly a flag?  Isn't that a bit like saying: I live in a dump and I am damn proud of it.