I need to take an exam to prove my proficiency in the English language tomorrow. My preparation time can be summarised with the words: “at least I read the directions.” I shall report the result of the lack of preparation in a fortnight when I get back my results.
Category Archives: Administration
Death in the Family
The most ancient of excuses, death in the family. Often used to elicit sympathy or grudging agreement to unfinished projects and substandard results. I am invoking this clause because my grandfather did die. Officially, it was of old age. I would have preferred a more detailed report of the death certificate, like heart failure as …
Backend Server Upgraded
If you were trying to visit this site today, you may have encountered some errors in connection. That is because I was upgrading the backend server from Lenny to Squeeze. There will be some problems over the next few days, but I will try to resolve them as quickly as possible.
A Related Chinese New Year Message
It’s nice to be back in a life where I can once again enjoy the arts and culture, plot world liberation, and enjoy the company of tea while pontificating the reasons why I still choose to reject all forms of romantic relationships despite that nagging feeling brought about by biological compulsions. I have much to …
Wikileaks/Mastercard
Couldn’t get down to blogging for the past few days as the mobile broadband connection at my current medium-term abode is somehow at the very edge of the DiGi border of Internet-land. When I do find myself in such a land, I also find myself separated from the nearest source of electricity, thus limiting my …
Traffic Spike.
When I wrote about the arrival of Makcik Hajjah Sitt Al-Wuzara to the blogosphere, I had no idea my visitors would increase by 10 times the number of visitors at its most busiest. It appears her site is making the rounds at the Malaysian Insider, malaysiakini, free malaysia today, and Utusan. Its amazing that nearly …





Changes in Comment Format
Due to the overwhelming number of testing of the comment threading feature in the past few days, I have decided to change the threaded comment settings which were previously unlimited, to just one. Disqus handles the threaded comments in a manner that steadily reduces the display size of the comment box and the published comments the …