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I know that I have not been loyal to this blog lately, but it is not entirely my fault. I blame Imperial for giving me so many assignments that I have no time to update this blog. Now that I’m back after a month, I think I will try to write something today rather than just leave this blog dead. Yesterday, or was it two days ago, I don’t remember and I just don’t even care to remember. I read the news about Proton, dropping its partnership talk with Volkswagen. The reason being Proton now is good enough that it does not need any help from anyone. Yeah right. Well, that’s not really the reason, the reason given by the management was that Proton is now so weak that they are at disadvantage with regards to the negotiation with Volkswagen. They were hoping that once Proton climbed back into better position, then the talk can somehow be resuscitated. Honestly, I think Proton would be better off if they had just went on with the strategic alliance with Volkswagen. But then again, what do I kn...

This is from the movie ONCE. So, what does it feel like to be in love?

I guess it’s time to tell everyone that I am already back in Wye. Third year has been so busy that I didn’t have time to write anything here since I got back. And I haven’t even called my family yet since I flew back to the UK last week. The only contact I had with them was an SMS saying that I had safely arrived at Wye. I guess I will give my family a call on Aidil Fitri this Saturday. Speaking of which, I’d like to wish everyone Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri of Eid-Ul-Fitr (whichever one is preferable to you). To be honest, I am not quite in a mood to celebrate Aidil Fitri this year. Don’t ask me why because I really don’t know and that’s why last night I came out with this idea of skipping Raya. Have you watched the movie Christmas With The Kranks? Yeah, in that movie the Kranks were planning to skip Christmas. So, can I actually skip Raya? I don’t think it will be possible since I already brought back with me from Malaysia two containers of tart and ingredients to cook Rendang and ...

According to The Star today, an Australian doctor left her family to attend to three sick passengers on a Malaysia Airlines flight to Kuala Lumpur. As a reward, she wanted an upgrade but MAS said no. Now, while I personally believe an upgrade would be a nice gesture from the airline to the doctor, I also believe that the airline has no duty to reward every doctor who came to help sick passengers on board. I mean, first of all, the real party who should be thankful to the doctors themselves are the family of the sick passengers. If there is a medical emergency, the airplane can always make an emergency landing some aircrafts are actually fitted with corpse locker e.g. Singapore Airlines A340-500. I applaud the doctor for helping but demanding reward after that is just not very doctor-ish. Maybe some of my future doctor friends can give their opinion on this.

When companies start to stretch the definition of Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR), that’s when you start to hear things like AirAsia’s latest press statement. According to The Edge, “AirAsia recently upgraded its fleet with the purchase of its firm 150 Airbus A320 plus 50 options as part of its continuous effort towards delivering sustainable value to society via its various corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes and practices”. OK, first of all, I have no problem with AirAsia buying A320 because personally I think A320 is a very good airplane. Secondly, I have no problem with them buying 150 airplanes to continue with their world domination plan because as long as it makes perfect business sense to do so, why not? However, I have problem with the reason why they have chosen the A320. I know that in terms of passenger comfort A320 wins hands down when compared with Boeing 737 but still, that doesn’t mean by choosing A320, the community will get the benefits. Yeah, the...

Nurin Jazlin Jazimin. She is certainly not the first victim that we heard being abducted, raped and killed. And I wonder whether she will be the last. I don’t have a daughter, so I cannot really say I understand what Nurin’s parents have to go through. I can only imagine how they must have felt to learn that their daughter who they have been searching for the past one month is now gone, forever. Every time these things happen, we all will join in rage condemning the rapist cum killer. We will all start to come up with Lots and lots of suggestion on how to prevent things like these from happening again. But after 2-3 months, we will all go back to our normal life as though these things never happened. Who’s fault is that? But then, is that even the right question? Should we spend time pointing our finger towards each other or should we work together and try to find the solution? But then, is there a unique solution to this problem? Saying there is no solution is wrong as much as saying ...

I just received my accommodation offer for the next academic year. And just like my exam results, I received the offer through e-mail. For some reasons, everything seems to be done electronically these days. I have no qualms about moving into this IT era but it is irritating when these electronic systems have minor glitches. Take my results for example, the email says, in order for me to retrieve my results, I have to log on to student service website. Sounds easy eh? Not quite. It took me almost half a day typing in my username and password over and over again before it finally let me to log in. While my other friends already flooding my facebook wall with their results, I was still trying to figure out how to log in. Same thing happened with my accommodation offer. Only this time, it took me half an hour to log into the accommodation website. Cannot wait to see which room I get this time, I click on the ‘view offer’ link and turns out that, they just gave me my hall and not my room n...