Eventful Malaysia Day

The Malaysia Day in the last few years had been a non-event. The same cannot be said this time around. Two major news items took place today.

First, the much-touted "Himpunan Maruah Melayu", a pro-Government gathering of mostly UMNO members to counter the Bersih rally from a couple of weeks back. They planned to right what was wrong, and show that people power could work both ways. I think I shall leave you guys to make up your mind about the ding-dong of what happened, but at least there were not much incident despite the efforts of certain organisers trying to incite both the public and the Police. The smoke grenade and water cannon went out but it was pretty mild compared to the previous rallies.

It was supposed to end at midnight, but it was fast becoming a fiasco with the less-than-expected turnout despite Rani Kulop turning up for comedic value. He didn't get the memo however as he came in lime green complete with a keris. The haze situation also eased up, but that wasn't enough to get the city dwellers going. Even Urbanscape had bigger turn-out than this!

Second was the discovery of Kevin Morais' body. Being a legal matter, I was sure the information would be updated soon as more facts about the case were made known. There would be some repercussion in the medical freternity as one of the suspect remanded was a Pathologist. The manner in which the body was found was the shocker. In an oil drum filled with concrete buried at the bottom of a river. If the imformant did not spill the beans, I doubt if the body would ever been found.

It would be an interesting few days when more revelations surfaced ....

Around the Corner

Father's Day would be coming in another couple of weeks time. It would be the first weekend after Ramadhan starts.

I was dropping hint that we should get an iftar night out on the evening. Hopefully somebody would be listening.

The main lobby at Bangsar Village todayBangsar Village had started decorating for that. Idlan was asking me earlier, why was is always that sailboats were used as symbol of Father's Day celebrations? I really got no answer to that one. Maybe it had something to do with sailors?

Mama Got a Brand New Glasses

Anita finally got her brand new glasses after a few sleepless nights.

Her old glasses were broken last year and I had been pestering her to get it replaced. She finally did it earlier in the week, but had to wait until today for it to be ready.

Time to pick them up - she actually ordered a couple of pairs. Happy days indeed!

That Magic Spot

I had some down time this afternoon. So, I took Anita to do her shopping and spent some time at my favourite spot. Specifically it was the Starbucks at Bangsar Village.

Latte time .... while going through some stuffAnita was done with her shoppingI made plenty of important decisions there along the years. Decided against doing my PhD. Decision about leaving UM for private practice. Nothing profound there today. Just a quick cup of coffee and enjoying watching people passing by while preparing for a couple of upcoming talks I have by the end of the month.

Tutup Kedai

I have always had a love-hate relationship - mostly hate - against Ben restaurant chain. Their food was never the best, but the attitude of their staffs which got to me. Arrogant would be an understatement. As if they were a bunch of connersier.

After a couple of bad experiences, I tended to stay away from them. It didn't make much difference as they were full most of the time.

What I finally got ... some really nice meet land, with tons of ajinomoto I was sureIndeed ....So, when I went to Bangsar Village earlier - not to Ben's but to Mahbub instead, I was surprised to see the branch there had packed up. Maybe it had something to do with GST but I very much doubted that. They still have plenty of branches around town. Anyhow, I still felt the branch at Bangsar Village was somewhat iconic and it would be missed. ‎In fact, they have an outlet on the other side of Bangsar Village on the same floor, with a slightly different concept ...