Thursday, 29 January 2009

Magic water!

Feeling ill? Headaches? Cure yourself with water from Ulu Yam! Not kidding. From The Star: Water with healing power:

ALTHOUGH there is no scientific evidence that water from a hill in Jalan Baru Selayang-Ulu Yam, about 10km from the Batu Dam in Selangor, contains minerals and has curative properties, people are making a beeline to the place with bottles and plastic containers to collect the so-called healing water.

Many people are seen almost daily squatting or sitting next to six PVC pipes on the side of the road, causing a traffic jam, especially on weekends.

Some come with bottles, plastic containers and mineral water bottles to collect what many swear is miracle water, which can cure sickness and restore health.

Regulars visitors to this natural spring claim that the water that trickles from the pipe has got more health giving nutrients and minerals and tastes better than the usual pipe water that has chlorine.

Stories of many sick people restored to health by drinking the water has spread by word of mouth.

Those who drink the water have claimed that it feels much more fresh, without the chlorine taste of the pipe water.

Some people also mentioned that many with diabetes, backaches, gout and other chronic diseases have been healed.

Housewife Nor Mazila Uzain, 32, who lives in Batang Kali, said she also collected the water after learning about the miracle liquid.

And while you're there getting miracle water from a pipe that has god knows what in it, you can drop by and buy me the world's best lemang.

How not to make a website

So I've been assigned the task of organising my department's CNY dinner, which means for the past couple of days I've been scouring websites for possible locations and phone numbers. And of course, what's been happening is I've been coming across more websites that are totally and utterly useless in providing information than usual, no names mentioned (SOHO KL).

Here's a few tips about what people don't want to see when they go to a website:

  1. If your text is almost the same color as your background and I can't read it, your website is crap.
  2. If I can't find the scroll function to scroll down the list of outlets, your website is crap.
  3. If I want to find your Store Directory and you call it "Outlet Preview", your website is crap.
  4. If your website takes too long to load, your website is crap.
  5. If my flash is v10.0.12 and you have popups appearing that say your website requires v9.0.115 or higher to function, your website is crap (Red FM).
  6. If I click 'Contact Us' and it doesn't go anywhere, your website is crap (Fly FM)
  7. If your business depends on your customers having your menu, and your website requires you signing up to download your .pdf menu, you fail at life (Room Service Deliveries).
  8. If I click anywhere on the page outside the text and it redirects to the top of the page, your website is crap (The Superficial).

This list may or may not get longer over time. Most likely, it may.

Sunday, 25 January 2009

Best and Worst of 2008

My best of 2008:

  1. Falling in love again
  2. Ringing in the new year at Sipadan
  3. Good times with my bitches
My worst of 2008:
  1. Losing the 2 non-related men who mattered the most to me
  2. Everything else
The best of 2008:
  1. The elections
  2. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes reclaiming the F1 crown
  3. The use of the Internet for people to make random acts of kindness worldwide
The worst of 2008:
  1. War
  2. Recession
  3. Natural disasters

Oh. Damn.

So it's 3 hours 25 minutes into the Year of the Ox, and I've decided that no, it wasn't the Year of the Rat that was the problem, nor was it 2008. It's just life being a bitch. Or it's just God making things even for all beings. I've had such an awesome 23 years that the following 23 have to be uber-shit just to make up for it.


Not to say that I haven't had an awesome 2 months hanging out with my girls, or that I'm not looking forward to the next 2 months hanging out with my girls, because it's been and will be super duper. It's just that I wish the rest of my life could be as good. It really helps that you're all here right now (or coming back soon). Love love.