Broadening Perspectives....


Ok enough with the "deep" and serious introspection of how I rather love someone rather than simply f%*k them.

Let's blog about something else. I am inspired by the fun yet honest blog entries of cheekysmile and badass angel, and I know I can count on greybits and primadonnaz to provide food for though each time they write.

I've been too busy facebook-ing to concentrate on blogging, which is a shame because I really love writing. And yes, cheekysmile. It's nice to go back to your older stuff you wrote.

It's so nostalgic to read what I felt like in, say, December 27, 2004 "Hari Yang Gile".

But fastforward to January 2008, and what do I find? - nadda, zilch, zero- there's no blog entries because I've almost given up on blogging.

Dude. Let's get this party started...again.

I had a bad fever yesterday so I didn't go to work. The doctor said I had viral fever, and gave me a short course of antibiotics. I am used to the fever-sore throat-cough combination. This time it had been going off-and-on for the past week. But I finally feel better now. Hopefully, I can start jogging at the lovely Denai Larian Pengkalan Assam again. It's not a fancy jogging track, but it's just nice to surround yourself with lots of trees once in a while. And I love to walk and jog with my MP3 player on, no doubt I'd have all my Timbaland, John Cougar Mellencamp, Live and Goo Goo Dolls blasting in my earphones. Best giler.....

I took it easy yesterday. As my fever was getting better, I managed to get a lot of house chores done. I finally replaced my toilet seat- Dude, it broke when I stepped on it to open my toilet window. It ain't my fault, hommie. And I am glad I bought a blue seat ....(yes, I do realise I'm rambling about a toilet seat now. Oh, who cares?). The blue colour adds a bit of life to the boring-looking loo. Wah...gitu!

After bathroom refurbishment I watched Buletin Utama, which in my opinion is THE best source of local news during prime time. I saw the reporters waiting outside the PM's department in Putrajaya an I felt so angry at the power-that-be for not providing newsmen with a proper waiting room at jabatan perdana menteri. I know lah, as reporters, kita tak boleh nak complain bebanyak pasal menunggu masa PC start- and we can't complain about where we end up waiting - the Putrajaya reporters had to wait under the tree and outside the gate. Aiyo. I admit, I've never had to wait outside the old PM's office in KL. But was it like this dulu, guys? I mean in the old PM's office?

Come on, Pak Lah. At least allow the Press corp to wait at the lobby of something, jadi lah. I'm sure you can accommodate the media, despite it being a closed door meeting.

Anyway, kudos to the ever-brilliant and ever "gempak" Putrajaya Angels - I saw HA and DL on TV3 - you guys rock! Takpe lah, hang semua terpaksa tunggu bawah pokok, janji rock..and you all dapat story yang best.

A word on local news on TV. The country needs a reliable and good local news network. Sure, Bernama TV will soon go on air, but I hope that it'll be a start of a solid news network, which focuses on local issues and people. And yeah, I hope it follows in the footsteps of BBC news network, Al Jazeera (to certain extents lah), CNN (in small doses, but it's still quite reliable) and Bloomberg. This Local News Network should also look to Singapore's Channel News Asia, which I feel is a great name for a regional news network.

I lurve flipping through the channels before work in the morning. But it's so difficult to find local news. There's barely any channel devoted to local news and information on Astro. I end up switching on AlJazeera or BBC or CTV9, which is a China-based English news network.

I'm disappointed at Astro's Awani channel, which feeds us nothing but trash, sometimes. Awani would rather feature the New Year resolutions of famous Hollywood supertstars rather than do a feature on the search for Sharlinie Mohd Nashar. And Awani's breaking news snippets are all foreign stories. Di mana berita-berita Pilihanraya ke-12 Malaysia? Di mana berita isu inkuiri video V.K. Lingam? Oh, wait we have to wait for the 8'o clock news for those stories.
Look, I love trivial issues every now and then, but perlu ke aku tau pasal what Claire Danes wore during her new film premiere? And to have those people working for Awani translate all those wire stories, for what? It's fine , but in small amounts, please.

Malaysia needs a credible and dynamic news channel, which concentrates primarily on local stories. And that news channel needs to hire reporters who have worked in newspapers, or they need to get TV3 news reporters, who always have a nose for great stories.

I have watched Channel News Asia numerous times when balik kampung in JB, and I have seen them focus on very Asian-centric issues. They have correspondents in all the major Asean countries, which is cool. That's what we should aspire to be like.Let the wires agencies, CNN, and BBC dish out the world news and we, us Malaysians focus on our own backyard.

Now I got that off my chest, I can go eat some yummylicious Nasi Ganja (something like nasi kandar)....Ciao