Yesterday night, I ordered a jug of cold water (Free one, other juices very expensive bah!) while I was having a buffet meal in a reputable casino in Melbourne.

It was served within a couple of minutes, very prompt service indeed. At this point, I’m a satisfied customer and was enjoying the food happily – until I saw something in the jug.

You bloody waitress, I did not order a jug of tissue-paper-flavored cold water!!

Nabeh, at that time my appetite took a 180 degree turn. Feeling really beh-song, I called a waitress over to my table and pointed at the tissue paper in the jug, then ask her manager to come and see me.

The manager came over and apologize to us for their carelessness. I know she know, we all know, “Sorry” no cure, what to do? She offered to refund us a meal. I go on and Ask For More and see if I can get a jug of Pepsi, she added a jug of Sprite on top of the refund as a compensation. Okay, I don’t really wanna argue much and waste more time on this shit, I just wanna finish my meal go, so I took the “cheap” offer. I know I can get more off this case, but nah, I’m a good guy okay.

It could have been worse for the restaurant if that particular jug of tissue paper cold water was served to some senior citizens here. Most of them are willing to spend their much abundant resources of time and cash to sue people. I think if it had happened on them and not me, this post would’ve been on the newspaper and not on my blog.

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Well, almost. Following up to Rojaks’ outcry of price increase in spamming, I think I know why the price had increased almost 30 times! Over the last couple of years, the Spammers Inc. had spent “millions” of dollars into human psychology research, discovering how Internet users act towards their spam mails, as well as CTR (Click-trough-rate) and conversion rate of their mails. After millions of trial-and-error experiments, we’re seeing their end product today – right in your “Junk Mail” folder!

This particular mail really caught my attention.

MICRO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
WAGENAAR 10,2297 LL,DEN HAAG
NETHERLANDS
(Customer Services)
Ref: HO/9420X/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
02-11-2005

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We
happily announce to you the draw (#953) of the MICRO LOTTERY,onlin
Sweepstakes International program held on 1st nov 2005
Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number:5647560054 with Serial number
5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 50-18-22-24-32-33(bonus no.), which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.ematch 5 plus
bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of EU500,
000 (five hundred thousand euros) in cash credited to file
KTU/902318308/03. This is from a total cash prize of EU2,000,000
shared amongst the first four (4) lucky winners in this category i.e
Match 5 plus bonus. All participants for the online version were
selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw
system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and
corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place
weekly.

bla bla bla bla bla….

To file for your claim,
please contact our fiduciary agent:

Mr. Paul Royer
microlotto@tangana.
com
TELE 00-31-649218251

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the
MICRO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL

Yours faithfully,

Richard K. Lloyd
Online coordinator for MICRO LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

Don’t play play okay? I almost got a heart-attack when I read this shit. Fact is, I had a holiday last June in Den Haag of the Netherlands! Somemore, I also DID buy a lottery there! Man, it’s as real as it gets. I’ve lost the ticket and then you guys tell me I’ve won?

But hor, look at that message, if it’s really from a lottery company, usually they’re big corporates, do you think they’ll make typo mistakes like, onlin (highlighted) instead of online? And then, the message displays characteristics of a spam mail, notice the paragraphing? unusual breaks in paragraphs, especially the .com (highlighted) in the e-mail address at the footer. They do that to escape being caught by spam mail bots. But this lucky shit managed to bypass the bot and eventually got into my Inbox! Well, maybe Yahoo! Mail’s spambot doesn’t wanna take the risk of me suing them for losing a lottery winning notification.

In the end, I think it’s a conincident more than anything else. That’s how spam mail works right? By coincidence, by chance. Spammers send out thousands of spam mails everyday with different topics that might relate to your recent activities, say, an online payment by PayPal, bought an online lottery, entered some lucky draws, etc. Then, you would think that the spam mail is actually legit and conforms to your expectations, and thus, resulting in a click/lead/conversion, but that ends there. The worst is to get your PC infected with virus/trojans.

So, be smart about spam mails like these and don’t get yourself fooled.

This is the Logitech x-530 speakers system. It has 4 pieces of satellite speakers, a center speaker, and a sub-woofer, the surround sound effect – divine! Hey wait a minute! Damn, I’m not trying to introduce you to my newly acquired speakers. My puppy dog had just bitten off the speakers wirings!

Never, Ever! put your puppies where your speaker wires are. They’ll probably take them as their chewy, munchy toys.

Anyways, I’m gonna try to cut off the broken part, then manually join/twist the wires back together and then apply insulation to them again. Any loss of audio quality is yet to be known. Will try that out tomorrow. Any suggestions from electricians out there who knows how to fix these sort of problems? Let me know you guys.

Do kids nowadays have anything to worry about other than study hard and score Aces? I mean, everything is prepared and ready for them from the minute they were borned, and all they have to do it follow the path their parents had set for them. Kids nowadays are so in a different league of their own, man!

We kids from the 90′s used to have our nearest parks as our playground. Nowadays, the kids are having the world as their playground. From cellphones to cars, to International branded merchandises – Do I need to mention Armani Prada Gucci Fendi cK and Guess what I’m gonna say next? Guess okay, Guess.

Talk about going to school, even if the school is just 2 blocks away, they’ll also need a dedicated driver to fetch them, and somemore must use the best car in the house! Preferably, Mercedes Benz, if not, Lexus also can. Nabeh, last time the best “car” we had are the BMX and China’s Dragonfly brand bicycles, and we had to be our own driver, too!

Old-school bicycles. I had both of them before!

And then somemore, kids nowadays demanded that their breakfast be from McD, lunch from KFC and dinner from Burger King. No wonder kids nowadays are having obesity problems.

Last but not least, kids nowadays are showered with jackpots and grand prizes.

Mama: “Loi loi, if you get 7As ah, daddy will take you see the Miki mao in Hong Kong Disneyland”

Loi Loi: “Wahhh, I wan I wan. Somemore, can I have the RM2,000 XXX brand camera phone oso? Can lah mama!”

Mama: “Aiya, go back and study, later I talk to daddy about it.”

Then, the D-day comes as the jackpot results (UPSR result) is released. This lucky girl hit jackpot with all 7 numbers kena straight!

So, she won the grand prize of a RM2,000 handphone, a trip to Hong Kong to see the Miki mao in Disneyland, and an ang pow of undisclosed amount. Nabeh, during my time hor, if I score 7As and got rewarded a trip to Kuching from Sibu plus an angpow, I’ll be the happiest kid in the world already!

Kids nowadays…

Have you ever been to a casino? Have you ever noticed that their ATM machines are always easier to find and shinier than any other ATMs outside of the casino?

This is the Crown Casino in Melbourne. The sign board clearly shows where the ATMs are. See the difference in sizes there? The ATMs stands out among all others. Even the elderly, who frequents the place, can see without their glasses on!!

Look at these babies. They’re fully armored with shiny, reflective metal plates. So robbers can’t break them? No. So people can take money out be happy about it. Cause they’re looking at something new and different from other ATMs out there. Thus, making them coming back again for more money.

No wonder gamblers feels like coming back even if they’re always losing. Because nothing beats withdrawing money from a shiny ATM machine, and even though they’ll lose them in the end, it is worth every penny of it!

Update: Total Signatures Collected: 32

A handful of Malaysian bloggers have unanimously, either directly or indirectly, declared war on the “smartest educated” plagiarist in the Malaysian blogosphere.

Chow Kahsoon, before you file the lawsuit(s), under no specific grounds whatsoever, in your local law firm against anyone, we Rojaks customers would like to counter-sue you first. Because everyday, hundreds of customers come and go to eat rojaks there. We feel that the premise is being threatened by you, and for no reason at all, you’re stepping into the wrong shop and shout, “You’re all idiots! and I will sue you all!”

On the other hand, we’ve found evidence of your plagiarized posts/works. Just ask the rojak customers and they’ll show you one by one. Obviously, you have a bad record of good-will, that’s why they’re keeping the evidence in case something happens. I guess this is it.

Take a look at Kahsoon being threatened by lawsuits for the illegal use of a personal photo on his hottestblogger website. The lady blogger, Nicole Hu, had demanded him to take down her photo or she’ll take legal actions against him.

I’m calling all female bloggers whom your pictures are featured on his website without your rightful permission, to come together and file a joint lawsuit against him. Stop him from illegally using of your personal photos on his website to generate revenues.

Girls, don’t you think you should be paid for image rights?

I’ve started a petition to take down his plagiarising websites. Go on and sign the petition against Kahsoon.com. Below are a few buttons you can display on your website. Just copy and paste the codings right onto your website and start spreading the word.

<a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/Anti-Kahsoon"><img src="http://www.alexallied.com/wp-content/uploads/antiks/sueks.gif" /></a>

<a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/Anti-Kahsoon"><img src="http://www.alexallied.com/wp-content/uploads/antiks/signpetition.gif" /></a>

<a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/Anti-Kahsoon"><img src="http://www.alexallied.com/wp-content/uploads/antiks/cuincourt.gif" /></a>

<a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/Anti-Kahsoon"><img src="http://www.alexallied.com/wp-content/uploads/antiks/antiks.gif" /></a>

<a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/Anti-Kahsoon"><img src="http://www.alexallied.com/wp-content/uploads/antiks/minisueks.gif" /></a>

<a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/Anti-Kahsoon"><img src="http://www.alexallied.com/wp-content/uploads/antiks/miniantiks.gif" /></a>

Update: Kahsoon had left PPS – for good.

Sign on the petition. I’ll publish the signatures right here once the petition ends on 31/12/2005, or once it had totalled 100 signatures, whichever comes first.

The petition will then be used to lodge complaints to his webhost/ISP on grounds of illegal use of copyright materials. Maybe we can even file a lawsuit against him if there’s a need. But looks like he has got HottestBlogger cleared of pretty girl’s pics. Nice move Kahsoon.