Changes

I've made, yet again, a few changes to the blog. I changed the way the individual posts are displayed, so rather than loading all the posts written, you will now see 1 post per page. I'm not sure I like this just yet. This should make the blog load faster and I hope make it easier to navigate.

I've also added the Mobile formating, simply means that if you want to read posts from your mobile device, you can and the looks are slightly different, better? Not too sure just yet.

as always, if you have comments please feel free to flame me or whatever.

Cheers

The Internet Facts of Life as Explained by a 12-Year-Old

The following was stolen shamelessly, but I thought it was too funny not to post. there is a link at the end for the original page, I "Borrowed" it from. I removed the photo that came with the article because, well I just thought it was creepy having a picture of someone else's 12 year old daughter on my blog, so if you want to see the original you'll just have to go to the original article (link at bottom of post).

Being Homesick

OK the title pretty much sums things up, we have all been homesick. I miss a lot of things in Canada but most importantly, I miss my family, not always, I only miss them when I think about them and thats a lot of the time lately, but thats something for a different post. I really get homesick when I am missing things, stupid things, but things I can't get over here and really its surprisingly not a huge list.

Facebook

Social Networking sites are or have been very popular in Malaysia, there was MySpace, Friendster, Hotmail, Yahoo and more, that were at one time very popular here, these things tend to go in cycles. But FaceBook is by far the biggest Social Network in Malaysia and I honestly don't know a single person here that doesn't have a FaceBook account. There are billboards, posters and fliers all about FaceBook over here, I have never seen advertising for a Social Network before. My understand is that FaceBook is not by any stretch of the imagination an Asian "thing" it is a world wide phenomenon. Try and think of 5 people you know who don't have a FaceBook account? Bet you can't, lets leave the old folks out of it anyone over 60 doesn't count.

Something I thought was funny

Ok I take no responsibility for this, I didn't write it, but I thought it was funny, so am going to share it. This was written by Desmond Warzel, and the complete text can be found here.. If any of you use any forum you will see the humour in this, I think.

Perception, its all perception.

I have been painting a dark picture of Malaysian living, I want to be sure everyone knows that Malaysia is a great place to live and if I am comparing it to Canada thats only because Canada is what I know, understand and is my only frame of reference.

I lived in Canada for the first 40 years of my life and of course I will naturally make comparisons, that said, Canada is more "Socially" different than Malaysia in so many ways.

A few changes

I have made this blog open to anyone that wants to see it, if this becomes a problem then I will have to restrict viewers to those people I trust and send invites. This only works if they know the URL according to the blog host blogger.com. So search engines shouldn't see this so, with luck, opening up access should just make things easier for everyone.

Please leave comments if you think this is or isn't Ok, or if you think I should change it back.

Cheers

Malaysian Weather

Because Malaysia is located only a few degrees north of the Equator the climate is equatorial, the temperature is quite uniform throughout the year with the temperature ranging from 21 °C to 37 °C. The humidity is consistently 75% to 80% all year. The annual rainfall is around 200 cm (80in) to 300 cm (120 in). For you people that can't picture that, just think of the deep end of the swimming pool or lets just say there's a lot of rain.

Malaysian Drivers

I have been here in Malaysia for almost 7 years and the one thing I have had a hard time adjusting to are the drivers, I have never seen a more varied style of drivers in one place before. My perception was that Malaysians are insane, but it all works out somehow, then I looked up the numbers.

The statistics I found after a quick google:

I Just had to try this

Sorry, this won't interest you unless you have a smart phone.

The reason this little corner of the Internet is invite only

Ok, first of all if you are reading this then you have been invited, by me, so think of it as a great honour.

Or not.

Smoking

I haven't really mentioned it here or anywhere else for that matter, but I quit smoking in May and I wanted to share the process.

I decided to quit smoking one morning when I got up and started coughing, turns out I had a cold, but I did decide to quit. I quit once before and I did it using Zyban and this time I figured it worked once it should work again. The only problem is that they don't sell Zyban here in malaysia, but they do sell Champix*, so thats what I decided to try. The idea is the same with both, you keep smoking for 2 weeks while taking the medication and then you stop smoking but keep taking the meds for 3 months or so.
I smoked while taking the pills for about a week and then pretty much stopped completely, with the occasional cheats for a month or so. To be completely honest it was simple, as long as I took the pills I didn't want a cigarette, but if I missed a pill the next morning I wanted to smoke, but didn't. I still get the cravings, but not as frequent as before, and I haven't caved in to them since about June 15th at 5:07 am, not that I'm keeping track.