I’m writing this just as Massa prematurely leaves the pitbox with the fuel hose still attached! This isn’t the first incident this year, there have been numerous other pitlane related errors, something that wouldn’t have happened when Todt, Brawn and Schumacher were around… and I suspect when a traditional lollipop was still in use.

Think of it logically, if you have one big carbon fibre board which has “STOP” and “1st GEAR”, along with the pre-requisite advertisers’ logos.. it’s quite impossible for the driver to miss it. Even if it were pulled up early by mistake, it is easy for the lollipop man to actually just drop it back down in front of the driver, thereby stopping the driver.

But if the LEDs have already indicated a go, is the driver still gonna be looking at the overhead lights? I doubt it… so Ferrari.. Suck it up.. bring back the lollipop!

related links: F1-Live: Ferrari denies need to ‘lollipop’ return

** Update: Looks like Ferrari reverted to a lollipop on Raikonnen’s second stop.. I didn’t catch the other stops though…

This country is going to the shit hole! Look at what is going on the past week, never mind the past month! Sigh… and people wonder why some of us don’t go and vote during the recent election. I mean WHO TO VOTE FOR???!! Both sides are practically as screwed up as the other….

One of the things I hate most is when I suddenly hear from friends or remote extended family members.

I don’t normally hear from them, they don’t really make the effort to keep in touch and I for the most part, like it that way. But every so often, they’ll call. Mostly it’s because their PC has gone out of whack because they don’t know how to Google.

I keep things civil, I understand that people do need help and I never know when I might need theirs. Although I reserve the “Can you help me?” question for my closest friends and family.

So I give people some help, I feel good about it, having done something to help someone. But sometimes, I get really peeved off… here’s why:

• They show a total lack of appreciation for the help I provided
• They take for granted that I will MAKE time for them
• They set up an appointment and then cancel WITHOUT informing me

WTF!?

Every morning.. I take the same route to work. And every morning.. I’m stuck in a jam. To while away the minutes.. I listen to the radio, waiting for the DJs to make fools of themselves again, thinking they’re funny..

Every so often, I’ll hear a siren coming from behind the jam. A quick glance in the mirror confirms that a VIP wants to get somewhere fast and has a police outrider to move the traffic aside. So, where does he have to be in such a hurry that he gets priority? I’m pretty sure it’s the same VIP.. cos it happens around the same time everytime I see him (it could be a ‘her’ for all I know… I can’t see through tinted glass).

The fact that this so called VIP has only one outrider leads me to assume that he isn’t all that important, hence VIP and not VVVIP or something. But still, where does he need to go in such a hurry? I bet the other people on that road are equally hurried to get to where THEY want to go. How come WE don’t get outriders? Oh wait.. if all of us had outriders, we’d just be jammed in the same place with our outriders cos everyone is in a rush to go somewhere.

So, to the ‘VIP’ who has to get the help of a police outrider to get to wherever he wants to, I don’t care what your reasons are: you woke up late, you have to travel a great distance, your other woman’s home is quite a distance from yours, whatever…  Either wake up earlier and leave earlier, or SUCK IT UP like the rest of us in the traffic! The police have more important things to do than to escort you to work.. or do they? Hmm…

Okay, I’ll start the ball rolling.

Whiskers
I wish I had the ability of Deflurevertodomuportation. It is defined as the “ability to teleport casually discarded rubbish into the homes or cars of those people who threw it. It is closely related to Deflurevertogastroportation, the ability to teleport faeces back into the intestines which originated it”.

It’s been revealed on Autosport that Sepang now too wants a night race and is reportedly working with the same team of people who are responsible for setting up Singapore’s lighting system.

Now, it’s known that Singapore has always tried to do a ‘one up’ on Malaysia. And generally, they’ve succeeded in outdoing Malaysia. Two most recent examples come to mind:

• The Eye on Malaysia (an obvious knockoff of the 135 metre high London Eye), a 60 metre ferris wheel has Singapore’s 150 metre Singapore Flyer to contend with.
• Then there’s the Singapore Grand Prix, which will be the first night race in Formula 1’s history.

The Singapore Grand Prix has already been dubbed as the Monaco of the East, and yet we have yet to even see F1 cars race in anger there. So, not wanting to be outdone, Sepang has also announced plans to run a night race, preferably in 2009. A case of too little, too late? Not only that… it just screams of “ME TOOO!! I WANT SOME ATTENTION!!!”

Doesn’t it remind you of something? “Ooo.. everyone has a sent a man into space, we can’t be left out! Let’s call ours an Angkasawan and let him hitch a ride with a Russian spacecraft!” Nevermind that we don’t have any program that deserves nor warrants the word ’space’ in front of it…

Sigh… When will there be some form of creative thought and initiative from our ‘higher ups’?

In reference to one of my earliest posts in this blog, I hereby declare myself a phone addict. Late last night, I noticed something strange with my darling phone. I couldn’t scroll up nor down, and the cancel button wasn’t cancelling. My eyes started welling up… would this be the end of a beautiful relationship?

NO!!!! I won’t let you go that easily!!! We won’t go down without a fight! You just hang on, baby!!!

“Boss, I have an emergency. I’ll be coming in late today… yes, it’s family related… no, not my wife… yes, the baby’s okay… I really gotta go… … … ok … ok …, okay, I’ll take time off, then… I understand… yes, yes, responsibility… yes… (^$*$%#&$%*(&)*%(&^_(!!!!!)”

*CLicK*

At the Samsung Service Centre

“Open up!!!!”

“(Bangla accent)… Surr, we yopen at 9 o clock only. Now is only 7″

“I don’t care!!! Open this dog damend door!!!”

“Surr, staip awey from da door, or I will shute you”

“Open uppppppp!!!”

BaNG

bleed bleed bleed

“(Chinese accent) Sir, are you okay?”

“Forget about me, save my darling… take herrrr… ughhhhhhhh…”

“(Electronic accent) whiskersssssssssss”

The fat cat sings

JPJ should start enforcing a mandatory installation of spittoons into cars, lorries, buses, motorcycles, etc. They can start with Proton. Maybe this will halt the problem of motorists spitting out of their vehicles…

Seeing a motorist spit is an almost a daily occurrence. A not so pleasant one at that. There’s all kinds too.. those that aim far, and sometimes either lands near your car, or on it. Then there are those that open their car doors and just let one drop on the road/pavement. Oh, about those that hold one nostril close and just exhale real hard?

On second thoughts.. will it really help? They’ll probably still be spitting all over the place. Excuses?

• AIYA! My spittoooooooon full laaa.. how?
• Lazy to dirty my brand new spittoon la…

I love chatting with old friends. One college friend rang me up out of the blue today to catch up. We have not seen each other or talked to each other for over a year now. And we used to be house mates in Sydney for god sakes! Sigh, way to keep in touch with friends tango…

Anyway, we got into reminiscing the good old university days. Talked about how much fun we had, not studying. Teheheh… The struggles being in a foreign country. Late nights in the city and so on and so forth. Then we realised we have left the university 8 years ago!!

Holy crap time flies! It felt like only a few years ago I was still in Sydney, studying, playing games, watching movies.. etc. Now I’m married with two kids. Two lovely kids by the way. I love them to bits.

I then got into chatting with another old friend of mine and it dawned to us that we are already 30. I have been on this world for THREE DECADES. That’s a long time. If I’m lucky that’s only 1/3 of my life gone. If I’m NOT lucky, then that’s 1/2 of my life gone! What have I achieved so far? Have I contributed much to the world? Have I made a name for myself? Have I made loads and loads of money?

Well it’s almost a definitive NO to all of the above. I began to panic but then I told myself to calm down and see the big picture. Do I have plans in place to be successful in life? Yes and I’m working very hard towards fulfilling it. I have two kids. So I have two kids to raise and educate. I read somewhere it costs half a million ringgit to raise a kid. Well, that means I need to make at least RM1 million soon and pronto.

Do I have the plans in place? Yes. Will it succeed? Well it all depends on myself. If I work smart and hard enough, I might make it and still be comfortable in life. Have I worked hard enough? Well right now only god knows how hard I’ve worked. I am on an 18-hour day. I require minimum of 6 hours of sleep for me to function well the next day. However, I’m amazed to see some of those high-flying and successful CEOs doing 20-hour days. They only need 4 hours of sleep and still be fresh in the morning. Man I wish I can do that.

Maybe I can? The key according to them, is eating well and exercising. Well I don’t either of these. So I think I may have to start.

It is after all the beginning of 2008. The time for new year resolutions.

And mine would be to eat well and exercise.

Oh and make my first million…

I got this in the mail today, and it is so hilarious, it deserves to be presented as a WTF?! post. Enjoy!

Number 10
Life is sexually transmitted.

Number 9
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Number 8
Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

Number 7
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they won’tbother you for weeks. 

Number 6
Some people are like a Slinky … not really good for anything, but you still can’t help but smile when you shovethem down the stairs. 

Number 5
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Number 4
All of us could take a lesson from the weather.  It pays no attention to criticism.

Number 3
Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200.00 and a substantial tax cut save you $0.30?

Number 2
In the ’60’s, people took acid to make the world weird.  Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

AND THE NUMBER 1 THOUGHT FOR 2007:
We know exactly where one cow with Mad-cow-disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in America, but we haven’t got a clue as to where thousands of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located.  Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of immigration.   

And the BONUS thought fortoday 

‘Life is like a jar of jalapeños .   What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow’. (Can you feel the burn CSL?)

Whiskers scanning for CCTV