Mischievous Advertising

Advertisements in Malaysia are confusing to a great extent. I have came across a few and just shrugged them off to bother commenting them in my blog. However, I can see similar tactics being used by many other companies, so much so they are as of making use of the 'legal' loop hole to better market their products.

Let me assure these advertiser this: You are not making any good to the company sales by using trickery on customers. The sole purpose of an ad is not merely to grab attention of the onlookers, the message it displays must be legit and should not instill false hope or ideas to the public that they had to actually spend time callng the call center of going to the premise to find out the real deal.

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Saiful Azlan's Blog?! ( Dont forget to read the comments that he got from his posts)

Apparently there are many counter-blogs and counter-counter-blogs sprouted after Saiful set up his own blog. Which is why you cant search for Saiful's blog just by typing keywords like "Saiful Azlan Blog". I regard these blogs which steal the lime light from Saiful's blog as mere traffic seekers.

Here is the link to Raja Petra's article that ticked Uncle Pet off titled The Malay Unity Sodomy Conspiracy

RPK suggests that Mumtaz Jaafar is Saiful's God-Mother. He also adds that uring the course of Anwar’s impending trial, Malaysians will be told of the link Saiful has with Mumtaz Jaafar. Malaysians will also be told who Mumtaz Jaafar is and what her ‘special’ links with Rosmah are. Further to that, Malaysians will be told about the relationship between Najib’s Special Officer, Khairul Anas, and Saiful. A blogger posted an entry titled Who is Saiful Bukhari’s “God Mother” Mumtaz Jaafar (click here to see it - im not so sure of this though)

I also noticed that Saiful mentioned in his blog about Mumtaz Jaafar (He implied something quite clearly and the reason for him to launch a personal attack on Mumtaz and her family is unknown to me)


Photo from thedandelions.wordpress.com (MJ is Mumtaz and RM is Rosmah)

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Randy Pausch is not dead!

Media is reporting Randy Pausch's death as of 25th of July 2008, Friday morning.

That is just sheer rubbish. How can a man who have moved the hearts of millions of people die? How can a man who have instilled and provoked great ideas in the minds of our sons and daughters, husbands, wives and everyone, can die? He is not dead; he is very much alive with us. He will always be remembered, his struggle to bring awareness of pancreatic cancer and many other types of cancer for that matter will go on. He is not dead.

He can’t be dead until the quest for this monstrous disease’s cure is found. His bold and strongly moving role will help the authorities to invoke the necessary steps required to save many other fathers and mothers out there who are battling with this grotesque disease. Many sons and daughters’ parents will be spared because of this man. So, you see, he can’t be dead, because he lives as mothers and fathers who will be saved in the future as a result of his agenda to instill understanding of the gravity of the situation.

There is only one Randy Pausch, however, who will remain timeless. Randy Pausch has transcended flesh and bones, so again, he can’t be dead. Randy Pausch is an idealogy; an idealogy on how we should live our lives. I am quite disappointed that the media is not highlighting what he has done and brought forwards to the mass as much as covering his demise.

Vector Armada and CIMB mastercard credit card

A few weeks ago I got myself CIMB's petronas credit card. I have not even used the card and it is just sitting in my wallet when i received a call from Vector Armada. The number is usually begins with 0162107XXX.

These salesperson will call and say you were among the 200 people selected for having good credit record. The ironic part is that I have posessed the card only for a day! How the hell did that make me eligible for such an offer and how does that make me have a 'good credit record'?
Something was fishy, so i kept on with the conversation and the person kept on talking and yalking non stop. I was not even sure if the promotions and offers were true or not.

The part that really ticked me off was when I requested for some time from the salesman before I make any decision for me to discuss about the matter with my family, she said I have to make the decision now because the offer ends today?! When i asked if the website is available for me to check all these offers, she answered something else to evade that question.

these are the details:-

1. Name of company: Vector Armada
2. The way they got my cell number: CIMB/mastercard (I am damn sure about this)
3. what they offer; A bunch of promotions
4. You have to pay RM 488 <-- this is supposedly after discounts and promotions 5. You can enjoy lifelong membership and privileges and perks that comes with it. 6. The salesperson said there are over 50000 members after the company have began operating 6 years ago. 7. CIMB says they have no affiliations with Vector Armada and maybe their marketting department did something to leak my info out.

If any of you out there who have received this call and made the commitment pay for the membership, please do comment here and tell me your experience.

I learned one thing, that is nothing is free in this world and no one is too nice to offer something that is too good for you which they would not take for themselves.

Randy Pausch's 'The Last Lecture'

Just for a change, let's look at something that is inspirational, put aside all these political crap that I have been posting here in this blog...

There is nothing like hearing stories and advices from a dying man. Randy Pausch , this guy here is real life 'Morrie' from Tuesdays with Morrie. I saw his lecture, The Last Lecture, from youtube today... I think you should too, here it is LINK to THE LAST LECTURE


image from moralhealth.com

This guy is 48 years old and his almost complete biodata is available in wikipedia.com. There is a health update page that gives information on his current health condition, which is available at this link

Be that as it may, for a dying man, he has an undying wit and sense of humor which makes the rest of us feel more and more fond of this man. He is one of a kind and I wholeheartedly hope that he can live a lot longer than the doctors' prediction.


image from cmu.edu

To Randy's kids Dylan, Logan, and Chloe; You are very much blessed for having a father like Randy. Start dreaming kids, dream of great things, of amazing and powerful things and become like your father in nailing them one by one. May you find yourselves facing brickwalls that make you wiser and more diligent in your efforts. Watch for the head fakes like your father did for every cloud has a silver lining.

HardTalk! Mahathir and Anwar in BBC.

There were complaints on slow page loading, so I removed the videos (most of it), and I believe it would be best if I just give the URL for you to download the videos. *The format is .ram so if you do not have an up to date Media player, try to play it using real player (free)

This is the link to Anwar's HardTalk Interview by BBC, Click on "Click here to Watch the Interview" on the BBc page and save the .ram file


This is the link to Mahathir's interview on HardTalk. Refer to the same instruction (above).

I believe these interviews summarizes Mahathir's and Anwar's political weaknesses as seen by each of them on their counterparts.

Mahathir's implementation of ISA, quota system, NEP and his sacking and humiliating Anwar...
Anwar's inability to walk his talk during the 16 year's of his political career within the ruling government on the many issues that he brought out after his dismissal from BN... or in short hyprocracy...

And Malaysia as the world sees it in general... All can be depicted from the 2 interviews.

What Mahathir Admited: He made a wrong decision in selecting his successor
What Mahathir does not admit/still steadfast at: His decision in sacking and wrongfully charging Anwar

What Anwar admits: He has been a 2 face due to the circumstances and the people will need to decide on his fate.
What Anwar does not admit: His true intentions of becoming the Prime Minister of Malaysia and his vengeful plans on crafting a pay-back attack on Mahathir...

These are what we can indirectly see and sense from the interview... Two powerful, tactful and wise politicians playing a very serious game in our country and we should not forget that our role are merely as pawns for these two grandmasters...

I wonder where would Pak Lah come in the equation...