I’ll Shave for Money

Hello Inter­net, cer­tain people I know from the Inter­net, and friends. I will cut a deal with you. I will shave off my beard, mous­tache, and hair if through my efforts, you help raise RM 20,000 by the end of Feb­ru­ary 2012 for the Soci­ety for the Pre­ven­tion of Cruelty to Anim­als — Kota Kin­abalu. Before


Kill ACTA!

If you don’t want to live in a world where the shar­ing of know­ledge, cul­ture, arts, and Star­craft 2 videos which improve that Bieber song falls under the con­trol of cor­por­ate interests — sign this Avaaz peti­tion against ACTA now!


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


First Successful Meetup

After what seemed like a life­time of dis­ap­point­ments, I finally atten­ded a suc­cess­ful meet-up with a fel­low athe­ist I met on the Inter­net yes­ter­day. Obvi­ously, it could have been bet­ter than the two of us, but it was nev­er­the­less enjoy­able to freely chat about things that had pre­vi­ously been writ­ten online. Next meet-up to be


Make the Compassionate Choice

This year starts where I left off last year — at the newly built SPCA-KK shel­ter in Sabah. Work­ing with anim­als has been frus­trat­ing and reward­ing, but mostly frus­trat­ing. It is now clear to me, more than pre­vi­ous arm­chair reas­on­ing can provide, that people just don’t give a shit about animal cruelty until they are


Merry Christmas

There is a quiet joy to enjoy­ing a day most people asso­ci­ate with going out for din­ner parties, alone, at an animal shel­ter, with dogs for com­pany, sur­roun­ded by chirp­ing cica­das with the mel­an­choly of Sakamoto Ryui­chi with the snow­flakes turned on.


Help Make More LOLCATS this Christmas

As few of you are aware, I am cur­rently work­ing as a full time volun­teer for the Soci­ety for the Pre­ven­tion of Cruelty to Anim­als Kota Kin­abalu (SPCA-KK). Unlike other animal wel­fare groups I could have volun­teered with (includ­ing the one in my home state of Pen­ang), SPCA-KK is rel­at­ively new — so new in