Josh Groban's Noel

This holiday album really did beat the hell out of celebrated A.I. 6 winner Jordin Sparks' debut album. It's a real winner. I downloaded the whole Noel album and the first song I heard from my iTunes: "Angels We Have Heard On High" was truly amazingly wondrous (give me another superlative!). His angelic voice is a gift from God. This song also feat. Brian McKnight who has a mellow voice corroborates well with Josh's, making the tune stuck in your mind whole night long. I can't sleep now. And it's 3am.

A must buy (or download :P) for everybody in this planet. Josh Groban himself have always impressed me even from his very first album 'Closer' and his hit single "You Raise Me Up". When I watch him acted in one of the episode of Ally McBeal, he sang "To Where You Are" and my eye got all teary just listening to that song.

"Noel" is a must buy album and a great gift for this Christmas season. I rate it 4 1/2 stars out of 5.

"Silent Night" really silence-off the other cool (and quite good, actually!) catchy song that keeps sticking in my mind - "Gimme More" by Britney Spears. With her life in such a mess, I think she did great with this song. It saved her face a little.

Seeing Red.

England cannot qualify for Euro cup! Yeerrrr...malu betul lah....never hear before soo 'charrrrr'. England's dismayal performance, to my honest opinion, was caused by Steve Mclaren's selection of players and no-show by any Manutd players. Well, anyway...I am not a soccer pundit, and not that I know anything about managing football. I think I will just stick to supporting ManchesterUtd alone instead of England as a whole.

My busy week continues with several good news along with some appalling ones too. I was pretty happy with the arrival of my research equipment called the 'granulator-extruder' directly from China. I've waited 10 months for that blooody thing that is now sitting at the back of my lab. It definitely eases half of my workload and time, where else before this, I had to resort to my mum's putu-mayam maker she bought from Mydin to extrude my chemicals. And earlier, the putu maker actually broke at its handle. So much for my 'innovation' :) Thanks mum, for giving me the putumayam maker, and though it broke, I wouldn't mine replacing a brand new one from you. It's 1000X cheaper than my new extruder from China. I'll go to Masjid India this week.

The appaling news, besides England's failure, was the work I had done on my research had one small-itsy-bitsy mistake on the calculation, which my supervisor fired me kau-kau after finding it out. It was a small-itsy-bitsy mathematical mistake, but according to Dr. Tan, makes a whole lot of difference in my final results. I couldn't understand my failure in detecting it, but damage was done. Nevertheless, we fixed the problem, but my reputation has gone down the drain.

This coming week, I had to present my work at a cool conference in Penang. Hope to gain back my reputation a little. Mum is tagging along and staying at the hotel. But mum, even if you insist, you cannot enter the conference hall!!! :P I am all by myself this time.

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Bersih and such

The opposition parties put on a brave front to go ahead with the permitless BERSIH protest. I wish I were there, but being a postgrad student in a pariah local university (just try finding my university in www.topuniversities.com), I had to refrain my physical self from rallying in what I support and believe in. Malaysia has rapidly fell in many ways with regards to democracy and in protecting its people's rights. It's getting worse year after year, even by the minutes! There's no freedom of religion. Government bringing down temples - and damn - for the first time I had to support SamyVellu :P There's no expressing your thoughts in anyway - not even in cool blogs or street protest. Then where else can we express the basics of all human rights which is the right to speak out. Did you say Dewan Rakyat?? Tell we why the Speaker always deny any motion that the opposition wants to debate about? When I was presented my scholarship in Kuok Foundation not long ago, I was glad to have met Azmi Sharom, the infamous handsome, long-hair, hippy, law lecturer in UM and his vocal presentation of the governments stupidity in handling almost every matter. He's my hero!! And now, where is he now?? UM's VC basically asked him to shut his mouth and no more writing sin the local newspapers...or else....!!

The local papers are dogs; they dare not put the BERSIH rally on the frontpage!!! Instead, they put the deputy PM's face or what not portraying the govenment's 'help' in formulation a better subsidy scheme to counter fuel price rise. Helping us....tak payah lah.....we have not been helped for a long long long time. Why do we need help now?! The UMNO also said that if we chinese do not support BN in the next general election, we are shooting ourselves on the foot. You have crippled us long before; we are aready standing in one leg. Shooting another foot/leg won't make much a difference. In fact, it make us much stronger.

Well, Kenny the Law - you've done well, and you are already my hero. Let me promote your blog here in my space for once: www.darnmalaysia.com

I love Malaysia, but why doesn't Malaysia love me back?! You may advocate that every country has it's discrimination. Yes. But let me tell you...This is our own GOVERNMENT discriminating us. I've never seen in any country where the government openly discriminates with their policies.