“… when you get a girlfriend, she’ll be really lucky…”

I was sitting down on the floor of the studio today with a couple of girls in between rehearsals. They were painting their nails while chatting with me and as one of them was applying a layer of enamel, I started fanning her nails gently with a post card I had in hand.

I didn’t really think about what I was doing, I just figured from observing girls painting nails in the past that fanning nails to dry was next.

That’s when she looked up and said that to me. A bit surprised, I asked why…

“… because no guy would ever think to do that…”

That was very sweet of her to say… but I guess the part that breaks my heart is that I may never get to make a girl feel lucky.

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Yes, I realise it’s not as if the picture I took got committed to newsprint, nor is this the NGS, but hey! It’s such a nice feeling knowing that your little creation has grown up and found a purpose aside from looking pretty. XD

It is an act people in some parts of the world walk countless miles over uneven and unforgiving terrain to perform. It is a right denied to many all across the world, a right for which countless have given their very lives in hopes their kin may one day gain.

We may not live in the best of democracies, but the least we can do to make things better is to drive to the nearest post office and sign a form, so that we may be heard on Election Day.

All you need to do is visit a ‘Pejabat Pos’ with your myKad, tell the person behind the counter you would like to register as a voter, hand over your myKad for inspection, read and sign the form you will be handed and that is it. No forms to fill, no payment to be made and it should take all of 5 minutes.

From Reuters:

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Global drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline faces a court case on Tuesday for misleading advertising after two 14-year-olds found its popular blackcurrant drink Ribena contained almost no vitamin C.

High school students Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo tested the children’s drink against advertising claims that “the blackcurrants in Ribena have four times the vitamin C of oranges” in 2004.

Instead, the two found the syrup-based drink contained almost no trace of vitamin C, and one commercial orange juice brand contained almost four times more than Ribena.

“We thought we were doing it wrong, we thought we must have made a mistake,” Devathasan, now aged 17, told New Zealand newspapers of the school experiment.

A GSK spokeswoman in New Zealand refused to comment ahead of the case on the grounds that it could affect the legal process.

A GSK spokeswoman in Britain, which is the lead market for Ribena, said the company had been in discussion with the New Zealand Commerce Commission regarding Vitamin C levels and the way these levels had been communicated in New Zealand.

“GSK has conducted thorough laboratory testing of Vitamin C levels in Ribena in all other markets,” the spokeswoman said.

“This testing has confirmed that Ribena drinks in all other markets, including the UK, contain the stated levels of Vitamin C, as described on product labels.”

Ribena, first made in the 1930s and distributed to British children during World War Two, is now sold in 22 countries.

GSK paid little attention to the claims of Devathasan and Suo until their complaints reached the Commerce Commission.

But it now faces 15 charges related to misleading advertising in an Auckland court, risking potential fines of up to NZ$3 million

Makes me wonder if the Ribena here is just as defective…

Yesterday I was on the road, not in a very good mood, heading towards PJ. Just as I turned out of the Jalan Loke Yew – Jalan Tun Razak round about, I was flagged by a cop on a kapchai.

So as I pulled over, put the transmission into park and pulled the hand break, along comes this really young looking traffic policeman in the usual white uniform asking to see my IC and driving license.

So I reached for my wallet and while searching for the documents, I asked what I was being pulled over for. There was silence. So I stopped, looked up and asked again.

Finally he said that he saw me talking on my phone while I was driving, which I had not been. So I flatly denied being on the phone while driving and to prove it, I picked up my phone, reasoned with him that phones kept logs of calls recently made and received and asked that he check the timestamps.

Again there was silence. So I slowly repeated my denial and offer to prove my innocence. Right then you could hear in his voice that he had dropped the ball when he very meekly blurted out that he didn’t know how to check a mobile phone.

So there I was, holding my mobile phone and staring at him in a mix of disbelief and gross indignation when he started muttering about how using phones while driving causes accidents, all the while escaping to his kapchai.

And here it is! A shameless plug for the project I’m doing the photography and lighting for. :D I apologise for the lack of updates, things have been really hectic lately and this weekend my Internet was down. But I’m back now and i promise i’ll get back to more regular updates :D